Professional Comic Book Artist FIXES HORRIBLE Concord Character Design Part 8:VALE 

Braids are a nice touch Honestly without the Sniper Rifle, you'd think Vale was an engineer or something, with the large goggles looking more like Welding goggles

Honestly they should have just have hired you. They didn’t need a whole team because you would do the job of that entire team. Love your work.

I fully believe that the reason so many of the female characters had coats or other types of clothing that obscured the female figure is they were uncomfortable drawing it. Like they either couldn’t or wouldn’t design around the female form so they hid it

DEI portrays Diversity like a Gimmick.

Must be pretty embarrassing as a game designer who spent 8 years working on a colossal flop to be paraded like that in 15 minutes.

Oh wow, this character had robot legs? That really says something about their original design that such a unique feature was basically hidden away. Those new legs look absolutely amazing.

She does look a lot better, but, to me, she doesn’t look like a sniper. She looks like a Valley Girl that lost her legs before being dragged into going to Montana by her dad for a hunting trip. I’ve designed comic characters before, and personally, I’d have leaned more towards of a guillie suit or a cat suit with optical stealth. Maybe more of the Warhammer 40k Assassin look.

Lets look at snipers at other snipers: Sniper from tf2 is simple yet effective in his time period, a vest with pocket to hold his bullets so he can quickly reload his gun and a hat & tinned glasses to protect his eyes from the sun. It makes sense for him because in lore he is a professional with standards; be polite, be *efficiënt* and have a plan to kill everyone you meet. Widowmaker from Overwatch is clever; her colorpalet makes her invisible in the dark and also in heatvision since she has cold blood (hence her skin is blue). Ana from the same game is more a healer but she camouflaged for the desserts of homeland Egypt. Vantage from apex legends says a lot more survivor rather than assasin, since she lived on a enternal winter she higher bodyfat because she hunts for meat and thick clothing to keep warm. All four snipers above show area adaption: day, night, hot and cold. Concord did gave her an area adoption but forgot to give it style.

This is your best redesign so far. I love the brush used on the legs and rifle. It reminds me of Brian Stelfreeze. Black jacket is my favorite. A sniper should be in the darkest outfit possible to stay hidden.

What I like about your videos is that you give insight into why certain design choices are bad or just don't make sense as well as show why a design needs to do research and gain real world experience to help improve their designs. For example, you were talking about how you handled and carried a sniper rifle before so with that little bit of real world experience, it helped you approach that design aspect differently from someone who is designing a gun who never handled one in their life. So don't ever feel like your ranting or going off topic, those nuggets of knowledge is really helpful and shows why you're as experienced as you are. 10/10 on the redesign.

I have seen more of redesign videos from this channel than videos of the game itself. This really is an incentive to create beautiful art

This concord debacle has given all sorts of designers a chance to showcase their art and expertise and im here for it.

I will say my main issue with Vale's design was that she was wearing a baseball cap with braids. This would be uncomfortable as well as mess up the braids. Like if she had more of a baseball mechanic i would have let it slide, but she mainly jumps and snipes so the cap is needless flair. Im don't want to make any assumptions, but it's super clear whoever made or okay'd the design didn't even know somebody that had this hairstyle. Which is wild considering all the consulting that probably went into this

I gotta say, that from all the original Concord designs, this is the one I found the least hideous, but your re-design is better thou'

honestly, your videos inspire me to improve my own art! love how much more dynamic and interesting her silhouette looks and i think that the extra time you spent on tech definitely paid off, the details really make me want to study the character more, rather than just giving her a once over glance

Definitely blue on blue. That looks gorgeous. One thing I found weird about the original is that she has mechanical legs, but a huge ass. Did anyone else notice that, or is it just me.

I don't like the toes but the hair is nice. I wonder if this character ever had hidden blades in her legs that allowed her to stick to walls as she snipes.

MHGA, making heroes great again. Keep doing what you're doing you legend

A sniper is most effective when he or she is UNSEEN. To balance that against this character's need for distinctive traits to appeal to gamers, how about giving her a raincoat-like outfit that is transparent when she's in motion (so we can clearly see her figure and her clothes), but becomes opaque- changing color to match her surroundings, like a chameleon- when she's still? As she's already a cyborg, how about giving her bionic eyes that are oversized like an anime character's? Say they incorporate a monitor so she can nonverbally communicate with her teammates, so players can make her head look like emojis, e.g., little hearts as eyes, giant teardrops (she won't actually be able to cry), the letters X if she gets knocked out, or little skulls displayed when she makes a kill?

I have been watching these redesigns vids for a bit now, and I think this is my favorite one so far. The original blue color skin really popped. And I love that you think about design elements that 1) look good, 2) make sense, and 3) tell a story. I also draw and am former military that did time in Iraq and Afghanistan, and I might have gone with a subtle camo pattern on the rifle to differentiate it from the metallic legs, but that is a small quip. Keep up the good work, my friend!

I can tell you are getting into the flow. Your re-designs are getting stronger and stronger! Looking forward to your next one. Very informative!

Wow, you actually made her look like a character instead of a sweet baby revenge fantasy against Trump voters.

They should have paid you some of that 100M to do these characters. This looks astronomically better.

Your talent is wonderful; I've always wished I could draw, and seeing this, I envy it! In the original, there's cloth draped over moving metal parts, which is quite illogical when you think about it. Just imagine the cloth snagging in all the moving joints as soon as she walked, ran, or jumped. I wish your character was in a game, she looks so fun and lighthearted! Girls need role models just like men (Solid Snake/Batman/Wonder Woman/Lara Croft) and it's disgraceful how Dei deprives them of that.

Love the bionic legs. Makes the character really stand out in a "this is a badass cyborg" kind of way. Hadn't even HEARD of Concord before all of the controversy started up, and never even planned on making it my first hero shooter during the week or so it was up and running, but if there was a character like what you drew in redesigning the sniper or the big, bulky war droid, I might've been tempted. Yeah, yeah, yeah, aliens and such, those're cool, but I grew up on Gundam, Zoids, Ratchet and Clank, and Armored Core. If there is one thing I have come to consider the single most IRREVOCABLE facet of science fiction it is the TECH. There is nothing more fascinating for me than seeing machinery in action, especially the kinds of beyond our reach but still probable in the maybe not-so-far-away future machinery that you often get to see in Sci-fi stories.

The way I would have fixed her googles is by turning them into something that looks like VR or drone controller glasses. That and the scope on her rifle would have a completely different design than the rest of the character, showing that these are a separate set of her equipment.

The problem with the original is the robot legs aren't there to be cool robot legs, they're there to make her disabled to give her design 30 more points of Diversity (TM).

The original was one of the few designs that I would give a passing grade, but she's still an NPC - a named NPC, but an NPC nonetheless (and probably one that you have to escort and protect while she sets up to take out a high value target). The redesign, on the other hand, is a player character, one who wouldn't be out of place in the Star Craft universe.

Dat redesign of yours reminded me of a character from League of Legends named Camille, who's main point of attraction is also her mechanical legs. I really love these redesigns of yours & I think your take on Concord redesigns are some of the coolest I've seen, keep 'em coming man!

7:30 You're right, those 50 cal sniper rifles can weigh 35 pounds; I know they're way too heavy for me!

These are so fun to watch. It reminds me of when i use to watch kim jung gi draw.They have me inspired to start drawing again. The white and blue outfit is dope.

If you were talking about Sungrand, his redesign was intended to stick as closely to the original as possible. He said himself that if you were doing it for real, you'd want to redo the whole thing from the ground up. I found his discussion of tint be very helpful just by itself. Yes, yours is better by far overall, but it's not a fair comparison. Also, a lot of the reason why he's getting subs is because he's charismatic and likeable. That matters too.

Rules for improvement of anything in modern entertainment , media or life in general. : 1. Be body Positive (healthy, vital, slim, athletic) 2. Make attractive, 3. wear outfit that enhances 1 and 2. I am a genius lol

You probably could have added a couple tens of thousands of players or more to this game on the redesigns alone

Been redesigning Concords characters as a fun art challenge for myself. The sad part is pretty much all the characters i completely overhauled I at minimum kept there gender and skin color. I think the character I overhauled the least was It-Z (alien warper/speedster) and the major change I did was make her more feline (feline face paw like hands and feet, fluffier ears, an gerbil like tail)

This is really impressive. The could have just hired you instead that "art" team they employed.

you may not like the tech but your legs look really cool.

It is not a question of "can someone fix the design". It is always "do Sony & Firework want the designs to be changed"?

It became magnificent before you even got to drawing the rifle.

I love the retro "pleated" bionics! Overlapping plates make me think about McFarlane's designs. Always a cool look!

I find it quite astounding that they managed to make their characters both ugly AND boring 🤔

Incredible redesign. Good you took note about the colors now popping off more. Can't wait for the rest. I wish I had 5% of your talent, it's inspiring.

i do like the addition of the braids!.

I like the roughness of the orginal legs. I would have gone with a two layer with a basic inner leg with armor and parts bolted to them.

It really should be reinstated every time that there was a kernel of potential somewhere in that game. But due to "diverse" reasons, we got that mess of a game. Great redesign, the braids really make her stand out more.

Let's go, now we're fixing the most generic looking NPC character of all time

I'm a female and I only play female characters (they have cuter designs) I do think these designers thought we only like ugly fat characters or something :/ Like no we like pretty women who look like women!! Ps. This is one of my fav redesigns you did! (the only one I didn't really like was IT-Z, bc I didn't think it looked cute and made her look old- completely personal preference)

Good idea to have the straps almost act as a path to direct the person’s eyes to her robotic legs. I quite like the black clothes with the blue tinted legs. Although, the blue on blue version looks great too.

I really like your designs and you have some good commentary but the videos overall seem a bit off. I'd think I like it better if you kept the Original Design on screen at all times on the side so we can compare the changes as you work. I'd also allocate 30 to 60 seconds at the end to compare your final design to the original and recap your reasoning for the big changes. Those segments could become RU-vid Shorts and be easily shared on social media.

I'm a woman who likes to play as cute girls, draw pretty ladies (and dudes), and I'm fed UP with this shit.

Only one man would dare give me the raspberry!

Again we see the major flaw in the character design for a fast action pvp game. Take away the rifle, and you have no idea what the heck the character is supposed to do. On top of the flat color tones and uninteresting lines throughout. The only character you can tell what they are supposed to do in game is Big Bertha. She's to... large to be anything else and has a bunch of round armor all over her. They successfully conveyed a slow moving behemoth. There is no feminine or masculine shape to Emari. She's a human shaped blob. No woman will want to imagine themselves as her. No man will be drawn to her. It certainly is a bold choice to bet $100-200 million on a shapeless, pale green blob of a woman.

Great choice on the braids.

Keep doing what you do man, You got talent

So much better than the original as always. I liked the Original and the Purple and Green color schemes, but they honestly all looked great.

Concord is an interesting case, it took 8 years and $150 million dollars to make a game to chase a trend that people got sick of 3 years ago. On top of everything being so bland that it failed almost as bad the ET game, the game may not have caused a crash but it sold worse than a lot of underground indie games.

Blue on blue makes her pop. The earth tone hides the character. These redesigns look way better than the original. I think the character designers passed a drawing around and added what they wanted which made her look like winning a spelling bet against Billy Madison. Either that or their design director was a hack.

White/blue looked great! Amazing job on this. 👍

somehow she looks way older and more masculine than the original one. the body redesign was great tho.

Another master class on design.

Yes. Better. Not all over the place. Softer, even though intense job to perform. Customer has to want to play character. This works. Also, she looks more maneuverable, in a pinch. { Ps - Personally would give braided hair style, bound in back. Not the big thick plaits, .. soften her look even more. Strong assertive woman, does not have to look wild or ugly. No matter her personal preferences. We just have to like character. Want to know more about them. Back story}

fantastic work!! i guess they where filling DEI check boxes

I feel like there was no thought put into what the characters are meant to be and do. She's got bionic legs and she jumps so shouldn't the legs be thicker? Like hydraulic pistons propelling her in the air. So she would need thicker thighs and non human feet that would help stabilize her when she jumps and when she lands. The pistons would also be used to mitigate the impact from landing so maybe her legs could have tubes going around in which there's oil for the pistons I don't know. Also she could have a long coat like a sniper meant to drag on the floor and erase her footprints.

This is just excellent! The black outfit looks amazing

O would stick to her original hairstyle but you nailed it anyways.

This is great. The sad truth was Concord dev team was in denial or resentful why Final Fantasy IX, Overwatch, and League of Legends are three of the most played games that also have relatively impressive female percentages of players - its because they have cool and cute and well recieved female characters as part of their respective universes who also are damn capable and look it.

Nice, She looks like she could be put on xmen 👍😅

great job on this one, been watching all of your redesign vids, but haven't commented until now since I end up with walls of text every time. With this one though, I'd personally change the braids back to the smaller ones the original had, while I can see how that positively changes the silhouette, I'm not too fond of braids so thick that they don't move too much, also shrink the sash on her waist, to like, maybe around the size of a double belt (think of it like, it wraps twice around her then it drapes to the side) and the legs near her torso, bc as it is it's making me wonder, how does it look from the back. does she just have a metal ass? So maybe something showing or hinting that until her mid thighs or right above the knees she still has organic limbs and the mechanic part is just covering it. Sorry for the wall of text, I'm just into discussing design processes, throwing concepts around and all that kinda stuff, wanted to refrain from yapping too much. Hope you keep up the vids, and that you go through with what you suggested a few vids ago about redoing the characters from the ground up with your own ideas

Black top looked hella good

the only thing I can imagine as to why the bottom of her jacket is ripped is that she was wearing it when her legs got ripped off But I don't know why she would KEEP wearing it

Of the original Concord characters, I actually thought this one was . . . ok? I imagined her jumping up crazy high to get the perfect view for sniper shots. Or kicking opponents away. Redesign is really cool, too, I wasn't convinced of the new braids in the silhouette but seeing them fleshed out it looks good.

No! Me? First?

The devs there would probably reject your work since it's too attractive and hot for the modern audience. Lol!

IMHO, you made her legs too "normal", not tactical-futuristic enough. Would be cool to have them not resembling human legs too much, but be more streamlined and purposeful, designed for her role on the field.

Look online design looks pretty good although I think you could have kept the poncho because don't most snipers usually try to camouflage themselves and I'm not really feeling her hair. I feel that you could have done something like wood Kimberly from street fighter or master raven from the taken series

I'm not defending the games version but i "believe" the reason the bottom of her cloak is torn, is due to the said double jump. when i saw her use it, it seems to blast off like wimpy rocket puff. so maybe that is dealing damage to it over time. i like cloaks for snipers for camo reasons and i see what they wanted to do, but it feels like they didn't finish the design if that make sense?

Awesome Art. My YT Avatar is my own personal yellow cedar carving from a milenia old Native story. Your redition is a game character I'd enjoy playing as.

This is like the coolest thing. Mecha might take time but it's just so cool.

This redesign look much better. But I would have changed that jacket into an urban camo hoodie. Because a sniper needs stealth. Also that goggles could give her information of wind speed and range of the target. But I see you kind of put that in with the armband.

8:12 I think the word you're looking for is "singlet." Or at least that's what wrestlers/weight lifters wear.

I don't get the original design. This was suppose to be the sniper character but they that's not what they convey. The bland curtain rag thing looks more like generic background guard. enough that you know its a uniform but not detailed enough to look like anything in the background but brought to the foreground where it just looks odd.

Well, that's awesome, sir.

Looks good! 👍

I think i know who you are taking about. And he admitted the designs are a nightmare and terrible to work with. And he looked disappointed with his own redesigns. The original designs were so bad that changing colour did little improvement. I wish he did a complete redesigns.

Ngl watching this guy is depressing loll dude is soooo good it makes you feel like shit 🤣

This character definitely needed a veil, honestly.

Hello Mike. I design and program user interfaces for a living. I watched your concord redesign videos and saw that you definately have some skills and deep logical approach to character design. Also you mentioned 30+ years of experience as a comic book artist. That makes me wonder for what reason you chose to add that TV-like overlay thing on your videos. Because from my point it just takes useful screen space, on your videos roughly 20% to 50%. And more than that, It looks junky. Like something that was created by random teenager casually playing with sony vegas effects in 2007. And the color scheme. That saturated red&white contrast is one of if not the most attractive to human perception. Why use that on a background overlay? If I would create something like this, it would be minimal and futiristic simple lines or/and geometries with semi-saturated colors, transparent gradients and fading in&out at the video's most important breakpoints for example. Kinda like if the video itself had an interactive UI popped from time to time. So I want to know why you created this overlay and why it is like that.

Oh, here are the prostetics

Hate your designs... more tech plz hehe

Im trying to work on a Transformers show and want character designs. I wish I could hire you. Its set in a dark universe where the Decepticons woke up on earth and the Autobots never did until 40 years later where Earth is now controlled by the Decepitcons. wish i could hire you but have little moeny :(

do ya do drawing or painting tutorials?

wow you so talented good job

Is the next one the robot?

Your voice audio volume is too low on this one

You did something fun? That is offensive! People shouldn't be allowed to have fun. That should be illegal! 😂 Seriously, i would like to see their original concept art. You could probably pin point the year the infection really started.

You have concord more love than the developers did. It's not anything bomvastic but i think this is my favorite character design so far. I just love the hair and the jacket. This would be a hella fun cosplay. Youre gonna hate this but please do more robot element designs in the future. It's not even something I'm particularly interested in but yours looks SO GOOD

Amazing work as always