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Published: 2013-05-07 22:44:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 31707; Favourites: 607; Downloads: 132
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Elise, the princess of a Venice-inspired city named Soleana and a vessel for a satanic fire creature named “Iblis” that will be released and flambé the planet should she cry.She has had the reputation of having an out of place character design neck deep in the uncanny valley as she was surrounded by cartoony animals, one of which the subject of her affection.
I found that there was surprisingly a lot about the character that is either not called attention to or is not communicated very well;
Her position of authority, her deep cultural heritage, the pressures of the enormous responsibility given to her, her limited magic powers that enable her to walk across quicksand supposedly, and the threat of her causing the apocalypse if she cries distancing her from other people.
In my mind said traits painted a picture of someone very strong willed, spoiled, and distant. A sorceress who is tough to crack with some sort of connection to forbidden magic.
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If SEGA remakes that game they should use a style of cartoon like Sonic unleashed
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They did say they wanted to make it realistic. I'm interested in seeing what the p06 reboot looks like
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This is actually a super cool concept! I always felt like her character could have been better if they went with something similar to this. Awesome job!
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You just made the most annoying and hated character look beautiful
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But Princess Elise has always look beautiful before.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!
F-ck no.
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Your joking right?
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May I repeat the last two words I said?
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Cuz I ain't joking.
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Her design in Sonic 2006 can't be that bad.
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Even in the HQ cinematics, she's ugly as hell
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Am i the only one thinking about her singing Hellfire?
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her design looks as if she was from a souls game, which it awesome owo
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Wow, that's amazing! This should have been the Elise in 06!
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The things that Sonic 06 failed upon was it had great ideas, but failed to meet the challenge. You have made the best Elise redesign I have ever known, or maybe the only Elise redesign I have ever known.
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Holy shit, this look freaking COOL! I love her design, she went from a little Princess Girl to a badassed Muzzerfucka that can wreck yo' shit. I would have loved to see Elise as this emotionless figure head that was feared but respected. Awesome design, simply awesome.
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I just was Frozen and one thing came to mind. Why couldn't Elise be like Elsa but have fire powers?
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The only thing I liked about 06 was its soundtrack as the character designs, at least for the humans anyway, and the game itself were....yeah. We all know.
One of the problems I had with the human designs was the fact that they didn't fit into a Sonic world. They looked like they were taken from another game and just INSERTED into A Sonic type world (I always tell my friends that Sonic 06 was SEGA's bad attempt to get a FF crowd to play their games since I was instantly reminded of those characters when I saw Elise)
I don't think humans in a Sonic world is bad or shouldn't be done. HELL, EGGMAN is human(ish) and everyone has no problem with him but the thing that made him work was that he was cartoony and his features are exaggerated to he looks like he's a natural part of the game world that Sonic and his friends live in. With this, we get that same type of feeling. Elise is human but her features are not SUPER REALISTIC; super big head, huge eyes, tiny thin neck on a stylized body draped in loads of robes. Also, her eyes and hair give off another worldly feel to her. Her look also gives off a wise but somewhat worn figure and given everything that was supposed to be about Soleana and her story, that makes sense; the too cute, bubbly tee-hee Elise was just annoying to watch and the forced romance was also grating because Elise, at least the way she was shown in the game, was so one note.
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The change to make her more moody looking and, too be honest, kinda aggressive was really good. The idea for having Elise cry in order for Iblis to be released was just bad, but this makes design and the characteristics that you've added make it more believable.
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Inretrospect, not a good idea of making a Human vessel out of a super emotional girl who's lament-filled tears brings forth doom's day. I'd have put that Iblis creature into a very strong magical box and then toss it into the nightosphere from the get-go!
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I think everyone agrees that this design is awesome. And I'm also in favor of what you said about her.
Like Mephiles, her problem wasn't her character but the story. Not counting the infamous kiss, There was so many miss opportunities with her. Like that friendship with Amy that dosn't go beyond one scene, powers that she had that were never explored, and a personal idea, have Iblis talking to her in her head and blaming her for all the misery that goes on in her life.
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Are you planning to redesign Eggman/Robotnik?
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I’ll get around to finishing it eventually, considering I find Eggman already has one of the best designs of the bunch and has already gone through several incarnations I probably wont come up with an earth shatteringly original interpretation of him.
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This... This fucking redesign.
Holy shit. I never thought I'd actually find Elise to be an interesting character, and I NEVER thought anyone would give enough of a damn to try and take a crack at redesigning /her/ of all people. Like you said, her character design was out of place when you look at how the character herself apparently has a lot more depth to her (even though it wasn't really touched upon in the game.} And what you did to mend that, as I see it, was two things:
One, you made the character feel more like how SEGA apparently wanted the players to perceive Elise, as in not just some generic damsel in distress and quite the whiner, but a princess who actually has a lot to bear on her shoulders. I saw her smiling, at least faintly, in the trailers quite a lot, which puzzled me because Sonic would insist she just smile. The stern look on her face gives more sense to that plea; he's not saying for her to smile for the hell of it. He's trying to get her to cheer up and not be this... zombie of a person.
Two, you gave her a design that not only fits with your style, but the style of the official games themselves! I cannot stress how out of place Sonic was in 06. They tried making Final Fantasy which is cool and all, in fact the CG looked fantastic, but then you see Sonic and you just scratch your hear wondering what a cartoon character is doing with a bunch humans. It didn't help that they kept his "geometric" design where he has a spherical head, oval/tapered rectangle torso and waist, giant hands on thin arms, and only 5 "quills." It was a literal cartoon drawing in the real world. Jarring, as I'm sure you know. This? This looks MUCH more like it'd fit in with the Sonic universe. Your design doesn't fear being mystic and mysterious, and that's fantastic. I love your direction of making her a sorceress; the smokey hair and melting staff look great and both look like they could be an allusion to tears, which she's forbidden from shedding. Speaking of, the robe is a fantastic touch. You keep the regal theme while also emphasizing just what she's guarding in the first place, the flames. The smokey hair also helps give an allusion to fire. That, and her skin tone also being similar to her robes... She literally looks like the embodiment of fire, something that never came across my mind in 06. Sure, they mention it a few times, but that never really sticks.
I know I'm just doing a huge art analysis and if you find that annoying, I'm sorry, but fffffffff this design is just so perfect to what they wanted this character to be that I can't help it! Great, great work!!
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YES YES YES!! The whole FF Sonic was what I said when I first saw the trailer back in 2006! I am so happy I'm not the only person who thought this!
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Thank you so much for the detailed analysis.
It’s not easy to know if all the weird ideas are communicated well. I think it’s easier to take liberties with unpopular characters as they tend not to have as high of expectations or an established pedigree.
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Hey, subtlety only makes design all the more interesting and mindblowing when people make connections.
And I think that's a pretty accurate statement. A lot of people want characters they like to stay 1:1 the way they remember them as. Just look at the backlash Modern Sonic's design gets /to this day/ by rabid fanboys who prefer his 90's design. It's insane x.x
Anyways, your welcome! I didn't know if my analysis would creep you out or anything but I'm glad you appreciate it :>
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Hair dissolving into dry ice/smoke mostly.
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I Really love these Sonic Redesigns you have been making.
They are absolutely amazing!
Also the fact that the characters seem to have more depth to them and how you learn a bit more things about there character then what is show for the charaters really broadens the overall personality is great.
If its okay with would it be alright if I were to draw you're redesigns of them? I'll give full credit for the designs to you.
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Thank you so much! You have my permission.^_^
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You're welcome, and thank you
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Huh.
I kind of expected a Sally more than an Elise. Which I'm wondering why with myself since you've been busy making the terrible cardboard cutouts into actual characters.
Your reimaginings are always fun to look at though! I still think that if Sega were to (and honestly should) do a reboot of the franchise, that your art and personality should be a standard to design it by.
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This is infinitely better than the 2006 version for so many gushy awesome reasons C: well done!!!
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This looks so much better than the actual design, honestly more like a Queen...which...wait a minute...both parents dead...SHE IS a queen! lol
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