Pro Character Designer Breaks Down, Fixes Concord Character Designs

Concord is Sony's latest award winning, universally beloved Live Service 5v5 Hero Shooter. Developer Jerrel Dulay shares his analysis of the characters and explains in detail what is wrong with the designs and visual aspects from an artistic and character design perspective.

[MaxwellKasper]

POV: You are in a Zoom call with your graphic design instructor being live graded on an assignment the whole class failed.

[menvilvidot]

first character : "This is a nightmare"
second character : "This is a nightmare"
third character : "This is a nightmare"

[CC]

I think I've found a unifying theme across all these character designs: "janitor." Think industrial cleaning products, heavy duty rubber gloves, dirty plastic buckets, gray water, etc.

[Лави-нб]

So the design:
1. Don't tell you anything about character
2. Visually doesn't consent
3. Looks ugly

[star_spring]

5:35 Mistaking a main playable character in a hero shooter for a NPC is such an indictment.

[Kody]

I didn't think it was possible for characters to be so overdesigned, yet completely underdesigned at the same time. Props to Concord for pulling that off, I guess.

[holdenhodgdon]

This is so absurdly educational that I feel like I accidentally found course video that a professor accidentally didn't mark as private.

[demonboy]

Overwatch: You can play the hero!
Concord: You can play the sidekick...if you're lucky.

[Larry]

You're giving medication to a corpse here dude!!!

[deedoubs]

>I'm a normal human being

Guy comes out dressed as a blackjack dealer

[migl]

JUMPSCARE WARNING: There are Concord characters in this video

[RunsWithKniefs]

What struck me was that the overall design philosophy was also incoherent where 3/4 the cast is maintenence crew with guns and 1/4 being first year fashion students making the most out of 1 fabric
And "toad"

They call it a "hero shooter" but they show us "public works shooter"

Now im imagining a cartoony construction worker arena fighter game and that sounds more appealing.

[silver_stone]

"I don't really use Twitter and I do not care"

Holy fucking mega based

[RyanTheAccuser]

This was a murder. No malice, no obvious clowning, just subtle jabs and genuine critique that are made harsh solely by virtue of Concord's lack of quality.

[dycorty]

As a former fashion designer, these costumes pained me SO MUCH. DID THEY NOT CONSULT A N Y O N E ABOUT THESE FUCK-ASS LOOKS???? Almost NONE of the colors go well together, the silhouettes aren't interesting/unique, there's almost NO patterns (do they only have hobby lobby solids in that world??), the fabrics all drape with the same "weight", and worst of all they have absolutely nothing to say, a true nothingburger with a side of apathy 😭😭

[uta.]

When the problem repeats itself so often, it's not a problem with the artists, it's a problem with the art direction. I feel sorry for those who worked on this.

[Kanonamos]

The fact that every single character has the same flaws tells me that either they kept making the same mistakes over and over without knowing, or they knew but decided "this is my style" and ran with it. It's like a writing student creating an incoherent mess and going "you just don't get my writing style".

[warzone]

In fashion "it has to be interesting in either color, texture or shape" and so many of the characters miss all 3

[MrThirtyH]

This is like an art professor spending an entire lecture using YOUR work as an example of how disheartened he is that his students are STILL this bad.

[deyedrah]

You really hit the nail on the head about everything being flat. My art teacher has a great saying about this: "Value does all the work, color gets all the credit."