• Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    This could be good, a lot of their stuff is but the look is so generic it could be any of the last 10 movies that came up from them

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    19 days ago

    Generic era. They ordered one medium-large magical teen combo and said, hold the sauce.

    There’s not even an oblique hook. No hint of a novel premise, setting, style, plot… anything. The name was picked from a hat. The logo fails to use the eclipse as the D. The tagline is a placeholder. Absolutely nothing of value is conveyed in this first impression. Yep, those sure are the trappings of a late-teens suburbanite. Fashion and name leaning gently against the gender binary, how daring. There’s not even enough here to make fun of a third thing.

    • athatet@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6·
      19 days ago

      How about the fact that her shoes are laced and tied two separate times with different laces?

      • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        19 days ago

        That’s… almost something? That’s a real thing people do; fancy lacing is a whole subculture. But I would bet against that pattern being a specific flag, and read it as generic co-opted punk sign-value. Like the square spike studs.

        Overall this is not a bad character design. But in the absence of worthwhile context she’s a DeviantArt OC - either for some teen girl desperately seeking a girlfriend, or some twentysomething guy who needs to watch I Saw The TV Glow. Any trite pitch deck would show this easily-scribbled outfit and hairstyle contrasted against her real life or the magical underworld or both. It should be innately interesting that she is dealing with that. At best we’ve got, like, her presumed bedroom resonating with her hair, and the generic vines resonating with her leggings, without knowing or caring one iota about either of those settings. Oooh, she’s drawn between worlds! No shit, that’s the ATU index.