The Hazbin Hotel Redesign Problem: LavenderTowne

So recently i made a video talking about some of the hazbin hotel redesign drama that was happening over on youtube and tumblr. This whole situation had died down quite a lot until the other day when a youtuber by the name of lavendertowne made a video jumping in on the topic

#vivziepop #helluvaboss #hazbinhotel

[BigMBilly]

husk is mad because he isnt in the drawing

[TaliEpshtein]

She's taking all the criticism to heart & apologized gracefully. I'm glad she didn't throw a tantrum like what happens usually in situations like these. We're all human & capable of making mistakes. I sincerely hope she grows from this 💜

[AdventureTimeMVS]

I think many people fail to realize that artists have certain styles and personal ways of making things, just because something is very stylized doesn't mean it's necessarily "bad" it's just that person's style even if somewhat niche

[Catcatkittyq]

3:05 "And Alastor turned white"
IM CRYING THAT WAS SO UNNECESSARILY FUNNY WHAT 😭

[LoolooPotato]

The redesigns are shitty but idk why people are acting like lavendertowne commited a crime for doing this

[jackmadiaga]

For me I think the main reason why a lot of people hate redesigns so much is because most (not all, just a good chunk of them) do the redesigns without even knowing the story first. So when they show their new designs, a lot of the needed themes and references are just gone and the character would no longer make sense within the context of the story.

If we compare Alastor original to her redesign, you will not be able to tell he was the radio demon, losing his iconic mic and vintage aesthetic. He instead looks like a talk show host or reporter with a more modern or retro look. Not really fitting his "radio demon" title. Even more so, Alastor having deer antlers would mostly be a refrenced to him being a cannibal. Here being represented that hes a wendigo. A monster (usually with a deer theme) who eats people.

So her redesigns dont really sound like "I think would be better for the show" but more "I saw this in the internet and didnt like it, so heres a better version that I did" kind of thing.

[DaichiOkami]

3:00 vaggie being made chubbier is so ironically hilarious to me.

She's literally the ONE single character who by no means would be overweight in any way shape or form.
She's a soldier. A warrior. One whos specifically trained and worked under ADAM the biggest misogynistic crazy dude bro in the show.
He literally went out of his way to make his whole Exorcist army all slim women with nearly identical body types that he found attractive and also worked as the whole having the same silhouette thing so that they all look the same when in uniform.

She out of all character would be the least likely to be not slim as hell.

[PepperPepper]

It is okay to redesign the characters. It is never okay to be an obnoxious and saying that your redesign is way more preferable than the original canon design in a rude way. I made my redesign of characters from other shows. I’m not an obnoxious. I love doing redesign for fun. If it’s actually my style, I still do it for fun and not being obnoxious.

Note: I made this comment for everyone, including the people that are redesigners.

[alleosussquirt]

If she had said this is just a redesign I did for fun because I was bored, I'd of said "That's cute." But the way she framed it, THAT was the biggest issue.

[thatkingdomheartsguy]

I think redesigns are fine as a small exercise to do to test yourself and see how you can use your art style, but when you start acting like you somehow know better then person who actually drew them with their own vision and style in mind thats when its a problem.

[BelleDraws-id]

I liked lavendertowne's videos but when she made a comment saying she didn't know the point of Alastor's ears and she couldn't see that he resembled a deer or a wendigo made me mad like GURLLLL it's right there! Although props to her for admitting her mistake and apologizing for not doing much research. Her redesign of Angel Dust is so bland because he looks like just some dude. She removed all his sexual elements which takes away a lot of his character as a p0rn star

[frankiefrankenstein]

The fact she not only rushed the video but mistook fanart for official art is baffling considering the show has been out for a few months. She had plenty of time to watch it in full, and that would've absolutely helped her in redesigning the characters.
Like I'm not going to act like Vivzie's designs are 100% perfect but she clearly tries to be clear with what her inspirations for her character designs are and her silhouettes are distinct. There's more I can say about Vivzie's designs, good and mediocre, but I hope my point is clear.

[RipVanWinkleJr]

That Alastor redesign is genuinely awful

[kiplee-musicgirl]

Angel looks like a Gacha fem boy, Vaggie is just a generic human, Niffty looks like an opposite version, instead of looking cute on the outside being being deranged on the inside, she looks deranged but is actually a sweetie on the inside, and Alastor lost his personality to the Ink Machine. The only one that looks good is Charlie. She retains her personality and I like the addition of the horn crown, that’s clever

[Creatorsan]

I honestly think she shouldve watched the show before creating redesigns of the characters so she'd be able to redesign each character with their personality/distinct character features in mind.
And yeah the research would've helped too.

[doracosta]

It's quite weird how she removed ALL animal characteristics of the characters and she didn't even draw Husker

[lynnboartsdye]

I think what especially sucks about this whole thing is that redesigning characters from popular shows for fun is not new and the only reason this is such an upset is because of how controversial Hazbin and Vivzie are in general. I definitely think something was up behind the scenes on lavenders video just cuz this is the furthest thing from normal from her and her content in general, I’m glad she’s taking the time to handle this with grace and I look forward to her follow up video

[TacticOwlVA]

This video has done a really good job at explaining this situation, it's a shame that there was a lack of research in the redesign video, but hopefully this can be a learning experience and it will be improved with future videos. Nice Job with this one, I'll be sure to watch more videos in the future! 😁

[nightblom]

She actually redid her video, and redesigned them a second time and addressed most of the things people were mad about

[LostProxyNevermore]

It’s absolutely OK for people to give her criticism, but the people making fun of her art and telling her it’s terrible is like way too far. It’s honestly just super unnecessary. You can give criticism without being an absolute jerk.