Pro Artist fixes Concord Characters 

Thank you all for watching and commenting! It makes me really happy to see my silly little video do so well. I trully apreciate it. I may not interact with everyone but I've read everything. I'll use all of the feedback to provide better content to yall.

why the first two holding their weapons like grocery bags though 😭☠️

Concord's characters is literally a cleaning service guy

something i've noticed on the concord characters are half of them has this "sausage" aesthetic to them. doesn't matter if the character's fat, skinny or a robot. they all look like their armor has a hot dog aesthetic to them, like a long ass sausage has been draped over them.

This is the best redesign of concord creaters I have seen until now. You didn't completely overthrow the intention of the original artists, but rather expanded on it and executed it in the most interesting way possible. I would love to see you do this with all the characters!

this was fun to watch. Art schools should implement "redesing concord's shitty characters" as an exercise/assignment.

To try and summarize the problems with the original designs: - Trying to have high-fidelity photorealistic character models with the design sense of a cartoon. It just doesn't work, it just all looks like cheap Halloween costumes for a cartoon no one's ever seen. - No design is willing to go the extra step to try and grab you, they're all quite literally padded and soft so as to not offend _anyone._ Zero style or swag. - Almost all the designs tell you little to nothing about the characters' personalities or movesets. For video games, visuals not only have to attract, but also _inform._

As a game designer and 3D artist, Concord is a really fascinating case because I can practically feel the disconnect between the concept artists and character modellers. These 4 designs would work perfectly well as cartoony/stylized models à la Team Fortress 2, and just like with TF2's characters, they all look absolutely TERRIBLE when adapted to photorealistic visuals. Since Concord started development right around when Overwatch launched, they likely originally planned to use a similarly stylized aesthetic and initially designed the heroes with that in mind.

big brain of your part keep the OG design but improving on them with the brushes? thats cool

its honestly insane how your redesigns actually save these characters if concord didnt try doing a realistic artstyle it would have at least grabbed peoples attentions

The crystal guy is so good, it's so fucking badass

BEST CONCORD REDESIGNS ON RU-vid hands down bro, these are the best. You've got a real talent. I hope I see you in character design one day

I've seen a few Concord redesign videos now. I appreciate that your approach was to take the existing characters and alter them in a way that retains a lot of the original concept, because there are way too many of these redesign videos where the thought process is just "let's make everyone supermodel attractive."

To me, Concord's character designs look bad for the same reason most live-action anime adaptations look bad. They've taken designs that would work great in a campy sci-fi comic (like old Guardians of The Galaxy) and tried to make them photorealistic.

weird how they had 8 years to make their characters and you managed to do a much better job in almost no time. thank you for sharing. it was fun to watch.

The Emari redesign actually slaps. That suit of hers was awful

A character designs can have a missing eye, a scarred face, or maybe prosthetic limbs, but only a good character design will invoke a story behind it when people looked at it. I think that's the problem with the og design, people seeing the design would only be confused, the design just don't make sense.

Man, YOUR EMARI LOOKS AWESOME, just taking off the little flag and turning into some kind o roman helmet makes me want to play as her and her asymmetric arms with the big one having the shield and the less armoured being the one that's mainly carrying the gun JUST FROM A ROUGH SKETCH. Honestly, this make me look at the characters i draw and makes me think of whats missing from a storytelling point. Great video dude.

I really like your redesign for Emari. A lot of redesigns remove a lot of armor but I was cuious about a redesign that kept the armor.

Oooof, the third character's transformation is insane. I mean, all of them are nice, but the third one is especially so : ) For me, it literally went from total disgust to "I not only want to play this character, but I don't mind buying some skins" ^^

the official designers must have never heard of the silhouette test. 3 of the 4 in silhouette look identical and there suppose to be a robot, ork? , and discount space marine

I love it! You've shown us that we don't need sex appeal in order for people to want to play those characters. And I WANT to play these characters now. They all look so COOL!

had to say Daveers' redesign is SLAYING. if she looks like this I would totally play her

Finally someone who doesn’t “fix” the design by showing more skin. Thank you, I got tired of seeing it. Great video!

You are the first one who make a redesign that put female characters in fucking tight and revealing clothes, I respect that!

A bit overdesigned, and imo needs a bit of a details cleanup, but holy shit you improved them about x100 times. They all have something unique about them now and their design is communicative of what they are.

Your redesigns are very cool. I have to comment on one small thing that you did for each one of them that improved the design so dramatically that I was stunned. Making the robots 'eye' into a emote screen. Brilliant! Changing the little flag on the back of the power armor lady into a top knot on a knight style helmet. That adds so much character and would make for something visually interesting in game with that flying around. Increasing the length of the black gloves on the chemist lady. This one is shocking because once I saw it, it's so obvious that the chemist lady needs giant chemist gloves! How did they miss that one when they originally designed this character. And finally on Starchild, I have seen a couple other people tackle trying to make this character look better... and adding the red crystals on his chest is THE answer on how to make his red face actually fit with a design.

Bro went full on rage mode with that last one and I completely understand why one would be this angry 😂 Liked the Daveers rework best. Looks just great!

They thought they were so clever subverting the "male gaze", the normal conventions of characters designs, common sense, etc, that they went full concord, and everyone knows you never go full concord

you single handedly saved this games art direction, nice work bro! you are very very talented

Thanks for explaining the process, too. You can tell a lot of the original designs went through a committee except "no" or "back to the drawing board" weren't allowed to be said.

seeing different artists have a go at redesigning concord characters has been the best thing to watch since the game died

I like this, a lot of videos "fixing" the characters are just sexualizing them, yeah I like big booba too but they can do better than just showing more skin and say its a better design.

Finally, someone fixing Concord without making the characters into porn stars

Dude i kinda wanna see you do more characters. These went from dogshit and bland to actually kinda cool and interesting

out of all the redesigns i've seen this is the best executed all of them. Like I can believe that these could be real concept designs.

If the original character designs looked badass in the first place I feel like the “wokeness” message would’ve stuck more with people in a good way. Kinda like the original Metroid when people found out that Samus was a girl and not a guy. If the characters were cool then people would care more, but no, in Concord they all look completely ridiculous. It’s pretty hard to take whatever message they’re saying seriously when they all look super lame. Anyways, great job with your redesigns. They look amazing.

We have to thank Concord for giving character designers ideas for RU-vid videos. i hope you will continue with more characters

Feel like a good personality for Emari would be something like the Bulldozers from Payday. Instead of "I got you" said so lamely. Would have been way cooler if she leaned way more into her Tankyness with a bit more Ham. "You're up against the Wall, And I am the F***ing Wall!"

The first Concord redesigns that I've seen that are actually good and thoughtful!

Someone who understands the subtleties of character design. Incredible work!

Concord has opened my ideas regarding the "femininity" of female characters. Companies and projects like this seem to want to HIDE that their characters are women, as if they're ashamed somehow. Or, like you said, afraid of boobs XD. It's childish at best and sexist at worst, if you think about it.

emari changed into the whole Doomslayer vibe and I fucking love it

I really love your redesigns! You immediately added so much more personality to all the characters, especially Emari and Daveers! I haven't watched any cutscenes or trailers with the characters but I wouldn't be able to tell you how any of them acted in their original designs but yours actually gives me an idea of the characters's morals and personality and I love it!!!

The starchild redesign is so good

The one thing that I'm grateful for Concord is the amount of knowledge I've got about character design. Much appreciated, sony guys / gays! 👋

i loved how you turned the flag on emari into a plume on her helmet, really cool choice there

Finally someone who didn't use AI, and didn't give the chick's bikinis and make all the dudes the same CoD John Soldier Man.

They spent 8 years just to make a yellow trash can with less personality than Gold Lightan and he's a mega block with legs

And suddenly everyone on youtube is a design expert/ pro artist...

it is sad how the general public and hero shooter fans have more creativity than 90% of the AAA gaming industry.

Concord character is basically budget everything, except 1-off that's just walking trash bin that green armor character looks like budget Michelin rubber dude

I like that you turned Amari from the Michelin Man to something similar to Spartan soldier from Halo like Jorge.

Make more! I really like how you stay consist with the intended design of the character but also improve on it to appeal to the general audience. Hero shooters is just like fighting games and MOBA you have to sell the characters. You earn a subscriber.

Thank you for making a redesign manually and not just throwing the characters into an AI to see what it pukes out. And in fact, this is actually fixing the designs. It's keeping the core elements, of each. As your retouches show that it wasn't just a matter of making characters sexy, but straight up goofy while using photorealistic graphics. These two things do not mix at all. I am a full weeb, I play Nikke and Snowbreak, dumping way too much on both to admit. But your Emari design is so good! She looks like she came straigh out of WH40k.

At this point, it has become its own meme to redesign Concord characters. 😂

Emari & Daveers have to be the worst character designs in video game history, I lack words

I do like what you did with robot with vacuum but I would leave that "eye" small because it makes him look more armoured

When I was younger and more stupid than I'm now, I though, the more realistics a game has, the better their quality... Thankfully I've grown out of that phase years ago... Realistic grafics can totally ruin your game when you try to go for over the top design, while still trying to be grounded and naturalistic and fitting into your environment. As video game characters, they are way too boring. As movie characters, they are too goofy. There isnt much margin to maneuver if you try both... They aimed for gritty, realistic aestethics, the characters have blunt colors because they are covered in dust. They are battle worn adventurers and survivors, they are poor, they arent flashy. Their armor and clothes are designed for practicality only, they simply dont have the need or desire to wear something fancy - they are focused to that job done, and the next, and the next and so on, barey getting by... At least, I suppose the devs went with a scenerio similar to this. It makes for an interesting concept and certainly interesting stories... but it looks boring, its not appealing. People wont give it a try because its simply TOO realistic.

❤ this is very good re-design.... appealing to the eyes and flows well.... Love it!

Good job with the redesigns. If I may add my tweaks to your Daveers changes: She deals with toxic chemicals. Make her helmet cylindrical, like most A-level hazmat suits. Instead of a double-barrelled grenade launcher, think 2-part epoxy. Each barrel fires a chemical, when mixed becomes her toxic slime thing. Instant war-crime. This could also double as her FU death AoE, as her storage tanks rupture.

You can see the clear intention of the design was to stop the "Male Gaze", this word came from Jeff Grubb, the creator of God of War.

I believe they did ugly already thinking about selling beautiful skins in the future. The problem is that they made it too ugly.

I like that streamers are fixing these. Good stuff

they're wearing space suits instead of battle suits

Tupperware lesbian looks amazing in that redesign

You did in 30 minutes what they couldn't do in 8 years.

Your Emari looks like a mix of Samurai, Gladiator and high ranking Spacemarine from Warhammer

30:58 perfect

hoping to see you redesigning all Concord characters.

nah man, nothing could make concord good, it is what it is

Great job man, I really wish someone from Firewalk saw this and realized how easy it was to actually create cool characters.

I love this a lot. Very good art and entertaining video. I hope you will fix the remaining trash characters.

holy shit the channel's profile pic is Elder God tier👑🐾😂 Khajit Floppa ftw

28:50 you will know he got a diamond skin because of the Cinematics -probably the dev that is a talentless freak

I appreciate the tuba boss theme

You really can't feel the personality of the characters and you can't even tell what they do. What I see: - A yellow Tenga with limbs - Tetranodon armor set at home: (it's bad) - Terraria's Floret Protector vanity set but 3d (the pixel art is just better) or Lethal Company? - If blue hulk turned into red skull... also Star Child is just an awkward name for a full grown adult. The guy really looks like a typical DC bad guy but they're trying to dodge copyright infringement.

Love the redesigns mate. Keep up the great work!

Love the emari redesign. The robot redesign is also pretty good but I don’t really agree with the emoji face, I actually like the very inhuman head design of the original as a robot doesn’t need to follow the rules of human design or need to communicate emotions.

Now if anyone tries to redesign overwatch characters its going to be worse almost every time, with concord anything else is better, its insane

Much better!

I subscribed because of YOUR skills with design... 💯AAAA studios should hire people with talent like you. These days they hire you if you check their DEI boxes...

your redraws look like toys

If they overdesigned the characters they would still be better than what garbage they came out with.

All my youtube feed are art/game designers doing free redesigns for a dead game😂

Seriously, they should hire you for Concord 2 or smt) Also, i don't even play Overwatch, but yeah, Junker Queen is 🥵

Bruh, original Star child look's like walmart Thanos, or some cheep toy. And your Star child look's like a character, that i actually want to play on. Another problem is "Star child" is the most boring name I've ever heard. It's bad naming and bad design. Also i personally want him to be a melee fighter, like wtf, bro, you have DIAMOND SKIN. In game Paladins (also a hero shooter) there is a big guy made from rock with big damn axe and it's really scary, when he is running to you, like if mountain had a big damn axe and being able to run. Really good job bro, the best concord redesign I've seen so far!

Emari redesign go so hard

Wow u r si talented if their characters would look like this the game wouldn't die.❤ Pls do bazz. Daw. And teo next🙏💥

Finally not woke design

Not amazing redesigns but certainly are better than what they were.

You even tried to keep that stupid antenna-flag

we need gordon freeman dlc for pc

Man, I can tell you're french by the way you say word "weapon" 😂

You can't fix what is designed to be atrocious.

i would unironicly main the new daveers the new desighn looks sick

You know whats sad, I saw videos of people redesigning the Concord characters with A.I., though I dont know if they used generative or not. The A.I. somehow always made better characters. They still look off and bland though, but somehow at the same time, better. So you know its sad when the computer's version is better.

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All of these are really good, but I’m especially a fan of the Daveers, because in my opinion, her original design was the worst in the game. The new one was great though.

Was enjoying the vid, but had to subscribe for the Bloodborne Remastered rant 😂