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my ONE TESTAMENT NEG
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is I honestly really dislike a lot of their animations
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their default standing pose is already not my taste but I could forgive it. the knockkneed thing is hit or miss for me and by that I mean like 70% miss and higher than that in fighting contexts but it's not the WORST here. I actually kinda like this stance they go into for possession, it gives the same vibe as old Testament 
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but there are so many things where their body doesn't really move with the motion of the hit. like there are kinda two directions you can go in to make fighting movements look cool effectively, and it's either go hard into making things look REALLY FORCEFUL and like the character is putting their whole body into it,
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or conversely super casual like none of this takes any effort for them at all
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and there's stuff like this that makes me think maybe sometimes they were going for the latter with Testament 
cuz why else would you do this
cuz why else would you do this
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but it's not CONSISTENT
lotus 龙 wife
oh, this is a good writeup of their animations...
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GRAVEREAPER IS REAPING THAT GRAVE WITH THEIR WHOLE BODY
GRAVEREAPER IS REAPING THAT GRAVE WITH THEIR WHOLE BODY
lotus 龙 wife
I don't think I would have noticed even once I was able to play them bc quite honestly, I panic and button-mash, I don't notice animations -
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like a character who looks like they're putting no effort in can have special moves where they DO put force in and then that makes those moves feel weighty and cool! but Testament just kind of goes back and forth and there are too many forceful moves for them to feel noteworthy
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so it removes any automatic comprehension I have in them not having to put in force to do any of this, so then the things where their body kind of moves in two different directions instead just feels bad
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WHAT EVEN IS THIS
WHAT EVEN IS THIS
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heavensblessing: LMAO SAME THOUGH
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I WOULDN'T NOTICE WHILE I WAS ACTUALLY PLAYING EITHER.
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this is my least favorite. in one frame it cuts from this 
to this 
to this 
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what. what happened here. how did their arm get from there to there
lotus 龙 wife
gears are ridiculous but that is a little much
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it makes it feel flimsy to me 
lotus 龙 wife
yeah...
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and it doesn't feel like they did it easily either bc of the arched back and wide stance
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so what's so fuck then.
IT'S TONI ☂️
on a purely professional animator level though, that one frame thing is like 👌 to me. that's dope man.
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like obviously GG is not the pinnacle of realistic and consistent movement nor is it meant to be so nitpicking the last example too much on that grounds is like, well, if I went through other characters FRAME BY FRAME I would probably find other examples of like 'how did we get here though'. but the issue is it doesn't look cool,
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It really looks like Testament is voguing in the fight
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which doesn't feel right
eyjaberry 🐑(🦁)
one of their many hobbies includes photography (modeling)
eyjaberry 🐑(🦁)
(joke)
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and GG is the pinnacle of looking cool. that's the whole point of Guilty Gear
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eyjaberry 🐑(🦁)
: that's true.
IT'S TONI ☂️
I totally get what you mean about looking like the attacks have no effort put into the poses
IT'S TONI ☂️
but the one frame thing makes sense to me
IT'S TONI ☂️
obviously framecounts are super important for fighting game balance, so it's challenging to get smooth motion when the game designer is like 'this attack has to be 3 frames'
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IT'S TONI ☂️
: THE MOVEMENT OF THE SCYTHE IS GOOD IT'S JUST THEIR ARM GOING THROUGH IT THAT FUCKS ME UP
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cuz my brain can't automatically fill in the rest of the movement for how it got to their hat in that timeframe
IT'S TONI ☂️
honestly it's like. when shit moves that fast, you prioritize keyframes that look cool more than shit that makes sense.
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really I just want the ending pose to be different in many ways.
IT'S TONI ☂️
they definitely made Decisions about how they want Testament to look
IT'S TONI ☂️
that's technically not a mistake, more like an animation compromise
塔露拉·雅特利亞斯
tbh i was going to say that the vibe testament gives off is voguing and doing ballroom in their fights, which i personally dig because i can't think of another character that draws from ball culture to begin with and it's rad as hell to imagine the first one doing it being trans
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oh yeah I 100% did not think it was a mistake
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but i get why it feels Weird to look at
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GG is really good at animation and body language and looking cool overall though. the real reason Baiken is my favorite is not just because she has the best character design of all time but also because they committed to it so hard that literally everything she does looks like this 
Guilty Gear -Strive- Starter Guide - Baiken
IT'S TONI ☂️
baiken's so fucking cool i lover her
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: lacerata: this makes sense, I admit I didn't see it at first and just parsed it as 'the way a lot of jp properties think women stand and move for some reason'
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'how many gbf character portraits can I find with comparable poses'
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... winces
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as someone who hates looking at GBF art for that reason i sympathize, it is deeply unpleasant to look at when you can feel the artist is just Assuming Things
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Where the hell did he get that umbrella from?
speaking of 'sometimes realism doesn't matter' this is actually a combo tutorial/montage but I saw the title and lost it.