RANKING Ever After High Designs part 1 

One thing I love about Cerise's design is her silver accesories in all of her outfits. Werewolves' biggest weakness is silver, and her having it in all her clothes can be read as her trying to hide her wolf heritage (and most likely harming herself in the process cause of the silver), it's such a very small yet cool detail in her design

SPOILER AHEAD!! Though I agree that the fur in Daring Charming’s design makes him look top heavy, I like to think of it as a bit of foreshadowing that he is in fact destined to become the beast in Rosabella’s story.

Ever After High and Monster High were the main things that got me into art and character design. I love the nods a lot of them have to their stories. Thanks for reminding me of how good these designs are, I need to start using them as references again! I especially love the wonderland kids, when I was younger, I thought Maddie's teacup hat was so smart and to this day I love Lizzy's heart hair, since that was kinda my introduction to silhouette.

One of my favorite parts of Briar's design is that her skirt looks like an upside down rose

i loveee briar's colour palette, the pink, black & brown is so warm and sets her apart from every other vaguely rose inspired character IMO. but duchess has my favourite design hands down.

I always thought Sparrow was the most striking of the male designs despite not being prominent in the show for longer than a couple of episodes or gags.

As someone with glasses, I would like to hear your opinions on Ginger Breadhouse and Rosabella Beauty as they are the only two girls in the show to wear glasses. In fact, it's somewhat canon that Apple wears contacts instead of glasses because she thinks that would ruin her beauty. I just wanted a doll that was considered beautiful and wore glasses at the same time to break that stereotype of glasses = ugly, and I think these two, especially the latter, do so.

I love Maddie's voluminous hair. It's so eccentric when paired with those colours. I think Ashlynn and Cerise look better in the sketches on the wiki. Maybe you could over the collections with illustrations and rank them or just talk about the outfits you love

I think Darling deserved to be higher up just because I love her color palette so much and the dissonance of her knightly bits to her hyper feminine bits like the hair, spot on about Cinderella though my dad couldn't even tell it was her when he got me the doll ago years back I had to correct him he thought it was Jack and the bean stck, Peter Pan-ish or something

Jester girl looks like someone took a witch design from Madoka Magica and reversed it into a magical girl.

I think that Madeline Hatter's design is perfection. Her hair, dress, accessories, and color palette SCREAM wonderland. I absolutely love how they designed her hair. It's just as crazy as the Mad Hatter's hair style. Then again, Madeline is my favorite character out of the entire cast lol.

12:40 I kind of wish that Cupid has short hair so maybe the animators could’ve done more/have the wings stick out in the design more. Also because much as I love Ever After High the show has very few short haired characters and that could’ve been a fun difference to have Cupid stand out. Edit: also I know Cupid was in Monster High but just saying generally

You see, the flowers from Rapunsel’s hair are the reason she got her name to begin with, as in the OG fairytale her mother exchanged her for some of those flowers to eat during her pregnancy, giving her away to the witch that took her to the tower

Studying isn't as important than watching an EAH outfit ranking

don't forget that for true hearts day, as they're showing everyone getting ready, cedar is LITERALLY SANDING her face!!! i forgot she was made of wood and wondered if she was just putting on powder but in a recent rewatch, i realized shes literally using sandpaper on her face and that's why cerise sneezes from it-

9:00 honestly, I think it kind of works. It’s implied through her design that her natural hair color is brown (since that’s the color of her eyebrows) and I feel like it compliments her boots and her belts nicely enough.

Honestly Cupid🏹💘💖 Slayed in both universe she ate in Monster High🖤 and slayed in Ever After High💗💓💞

I always thought she wore that armor to protect herself from dragon fire. Considering how her family thought she'd be in a tower protected by a dragon, when she got older.

Most impressive things with the designs are how they are so busy and detailed but never distracting. When watching they are easily distinguishable and you usually get a good idea of their character but don’t notice the individual aspects until you pause when it doesn’t matter that you’re distracted and then can notice how much went into the designs

Redesigning ever after high characters is my favorite hobby. It’s so fun to take into account who they are. And Apple’s design is MY FAVORITE

Something I’m curious about is how you would compare the Decedents designs to these characters. Yeah I guess those designs were meant to evoke the specific Disney designs, but then that kind of slaps in the face of the whole “you’re not your parents” idea, an idea I think Ever After High did really well by comparison

12:55 Honestly, I wish they had kept Darings' fur. It would have better foreshadow his destiny as the beast from beauty and the beast. because I feel like in the show, it weirdly came out of nowhere. (at least as far as i can remember. It's been a while since i've watched it)

Damn Ever After High DOES have amazing shoes. I always skimp out on the shoes, I should definitely look for inspiration there

I do like darling thought. I like armored princesses aesthetics. it reminds me of saber from fate.

Part 2: Humphrey, Faybelle, Rosabella, Crystal, Ginger, Melody, Justine, Ramona, MeeShell, Farrah, Nina Thumbell, and Jillian Beanstalk. I wish there were more boys since the last chapter jam-packed a lot of newer girls.

One of the reasons I love the show more than MH is how many male characters they have, all of whom have unique looks, not a uniform or basic design.

Lizzie’s design has my entire heart

Oh my god, the idea of Cedar with a septum

YOU ARE SO RIGHT FOR PUTTING SPARROW IN PERFECTION. MY BOY DESERVES CREDIT WHERE CREDIT'S DUE

Humphrey dumpty was my favorite boy! Love that egg head. I'd like to hear your thoughts on some of the Legacy Day outfits.

Sparrow getting the recognize he deserves. He was my favorite male design when U first watched the show. It stands out a lot

I know they wanted to go with the more classic dorky look for dexter but it would have been cool if he had a similar white blonde hair color to darling, which also would have made him look a little bit more like daring as well

You and Negative Legend are carrying the fandom lmao

I would love love love love to see what you think of the Way Too Wonderland outfits because I really loved how they put a wonderland sort of spin on the non-wonderland characters, like adding different colors and enlarging the accessories and generally creating that out of this world crazy vibe

Real nice choices and I like how you go through explaining what you like, but also what could be done better for the designs. I think Briar, Apple, and Raven generally stand out a bit more to me when I think of the show for design and characters. Cerise is also one of my favorites with her simple and iconic design and usually who I think of when representing the show for its theme about Fairy Tales.

I have never watched 'Ever After High' but you really showed me a lot of awesome designs here. Stirs my creative juices something fierce. :D

Ashlyn never gave me Cinderella vibes but I do love how her crown is two birds like the birds that eat the step sisters eyes in the grim story

darling has that armor bc she’s the daughter of prince charming like her brothers😭

I loved this ranking. I would love to see you redesign the characters you didn't love design wise and see your take on it

Well the art design of the characters were REALLY for the DOLLS … while the show animators were given license by Mattel to change the design a bit… I believe the animators once mentioned that Apple and Raven, as main doll characters had to have their outfits most faithfully to their doll versions and if you look back and compare to a dozen outfits designed for Apple and Raven in the show they all were very much like their doll counterparts … it was a good show but unfortunately Mattel canceled the show right after it’s last doll character introduction and not much longer after the dolls were canceled as well, sadly

17:45 Just now realizing the similarities between my OC, Elroy Prince, and Hunter. It feels like Critter is critiquing my OC's design just as much as Hunter's. Judging by Hunter's placement in the rankings, my OC probably won't bode well in the challenge. ... Or it's all in my head, my previous self-critiques of the design bubbling back up to the surface. Well, I'm just glad I finished before the deadline. Hope everyone has a nice day.

omg cinderella… cinder… ashlynn… ash… Why did it take me this long to realize that?

Note to self, redesign rwby characters to look like ever after high characters

Some of my favorite character designs are Maddie, Cupid, Kitty, Lizzie, Briar, Darling, Duchess, Raven, and The Evil Queen. I love Maddie and Kitty's hair and hats, Lizzie and Raven for their color scheme, Darling and Duchess because I was into historical clothings at the time and their hair is very Rococo inspired, Briar and Cupid because I'm a sucker for pink. The Evil Queen has one of my favorite designs, she's perfection for me. Her gown, her headress, her armor in the battle scenes. She also has a version with her hair down, and I would've love to see that.

God. The idea that chase is built like the suit. Fucking hilarious idea, the one guy who is so off model compared to everyone else.

I’m so excited for this video! I tried to do a character ranking with my friend but he didn’t like any of the designs that much (like I understand not liking some but he didn’t like any) and so it was fun but not as fun because there were some designs I LOVE and thought were pretty great but he thought it was all too intricate and i just don’t think the very very detailed designs are his cup of tea. He also doesn’t love Genshin designs so I think that checks out. That’s his opinion and his style and of course I respect that but I’m excited to see a review with someone who does like some of the designs and will explain choices 😊 (I also know that you won’t like all of them either but it won’t be a general design dislike but particular outfits)

Hopefully part 2 comes out soon, I love hearing your opinions on their outfits

I think you did an excellent job, but it’s a crime that you forgot about Faybelle! She just screams villain to me, but not necessarily dark fairy (who I believe is Maleficent) as Maleficent’s colour palette is more green and purple while Faybelle is very turquoise/blue.

I cannot wait till the next part! Ever after high and monster high always had top tier designs!

17:50 "no one ever liked this hairstyle" ......remembers specifically got my hair cut like his when i got him cuz i loved it so much👀

great video! i'd love to see you talk about the spring unsprung or way too wonderland outfits! a bunch of them are really cool, and i'd like to hear your thoughts on them :D

Lilly Bo Peep is so cute fr😭😭 one of my faves especially during thronecoming

I agree with literally all of these. Could we get a ranking video on some of the parents?👀👀👀👀

SO happy to see lizzie in the perfect tier, as she's my favorite character

Something I like about Cedar Wood's design is that she actually has puppet joints like her father Pinocchio and the wood designs on her arms to her hands and legs. Also I agree about the nose, because of Pinocchio's nose growing whenever he lies, and the piercing I would give to her is the pointy one like the punk-rock design to just remind of how pointy her nose would be if her nose grows whenever she lie like her father. Also talk about her heels' soles?! IT'S AN ACORN LIKE SCALE DESIGN! Would love it too if the tip of her nose is a little bit pointy.

I didn't realize there was more episode than the ones on Netflix. Kinda cool I now get to watch more content online. :)

I for some reason just love Fae Bell's outfits and I don't know why. She's just such a cute interpretation of the dark fairy

You know, I think Daring having Red apple gems in his crown would indicate he’s Snow White Prince, in comparison to Dexter, who has no gems and no story. Then maybe Daring will change the apples to roses because he became Rosabella’s Prince.👑🍎🥀🌹

just binged ur entire EAH playlist. feeling good!

to me personally i always assumed cupid’s wings never moved because they weren’t real and it’s just bones under there

I would have love to hear your thoughts on Romana Badwolf design as she never get a doll which is kinda sad as her design in the show is amazing

Tbh I’m kinda shocked you had chase redford but not faybell, I just remember her more idk. The designs are one of my all time favorite aspects of ever after high, they’re just so fun. I’m so glad someone also appreciates cerise and Lizzie’s designs as much as I do they’re just stunning. I do find it funny how like most of the wonderland characters are put in really great

i would love you to cover mira shards!! great video as always 🩷

The Dragon Games outfits. All of them. I love them so much

You know, looking at Darling, it always bugged me how MUCH her hair just is. I mean, EAH hair in general is a lot, but with her it just looks like her head is elongated due to the hair in the show. Also, why couldn't her armor have been golden? I mean, gold is the whole thing of the palette of the Charmings...

"I don't know what to do for the shoes." that's the exact problem I trend to have when designing characters which is probably why the main character of my story doesn't wear shoes. ( well that is not the only reason there an actual story reason for it ) but my lack of shoe game probably contributes to that issue. To me Blondie registers more like the daughter of Alice then Alister does as her son. I brought a blondie doll all so I could redress her as hinaichigo from RozenMaiden because I had a outfit of her laying around. Rapunzel is german for lamb lettuce so I wish the O'Hair had more of a vegetable theme to their design. In the original fairytale when Rapunzel's mother was pregnant with her she had a lot of vegetable cravings so they could have used that as a factor when designing them to make them more interesting compared to the more floral themed princesses. Also it would have been neat that since the fairytale is Germanic German fashion could have played into the design for me. Again I think it would have helped their designs if they did this. Cinderella is a French fairytale so just like how Rapunzel is German they could have incorporated some French elements into Ashlynn design to improve it. For hopper I would have given his design a pond motif with varying shades of green, blue, and possibly a little bit of pink. I feel like Hunter design maybe should have been Camo or had Camo elements or simply could have leaned into him being a hunter a lot more. Give him a more athletics design.

I would have to disagree with not knowing Hopper is the frog prince. His crown is the frog prince. He's honestly one of the most recognizable characters for me. But also, if you didn't have The Frog Prince books I'd get not seeing it. Also, I love Darling's armor corset. I think she could reasonably get away with it and keep her secret identity. I mean, wearing a knitted sweater doesn't mean you knitted it.

Cerise looks like she’s made of wood in the cartoon, too. The texture is there, there are screws in her elbows, the cricket is there, heck, even her joints look like those of a puppet. It’s all the same.

THE JUDGMENTAL CRITTER... I hope you read this comment as I do not want the disinformation featured in this video to spread. *The artwork of characters you featured in this video (and other video(s) considering this is a part 1) is not concept art.* Based on my knowledge of the EAH not only as a cartoon seires but also as a brand, I can confidently say that all the "concept art" you have featured in this video is actually 1)official character renditions in one of the few art styles E.A.H. team has featured via products, promotional material and EAH's web services/games (One of the most prominent palces to find this type of art is on the back of the dolls' boxes) and 2) fan art that was made witht he effort to emulate the orginal offical art style ( I am specifically refering to Hopper Croakington II artwork here. I 100% remember it being a fan work I have seen either on Tumblr or Instagram. There may have been more fan art in this video I have not noticed but I doubt it). NOW, THERE IS OFFICIAL CONCEPT ART ON THE WEB AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING, but not a whole lot of it (with some images being poor quality in oreder to avoid any reprecutions from Mattel). Here is the link to an image from PInterest that features what is presumably concept art for 4 orginal characters (Briar, Raven Maddie and Apple): ru.pinterest.com/pin/298222806546201062/ In addition, here is the link to another image on Pinterest (with the artist's link) that features fanart and official concept art for C.A.Cupid's orginal doll design from the Birthday Ball doll line: pl.pinterest.com/pin/763571311817583007/ I also need to mention the following: 1) The available concept art is most likely offical doll designs (based on most of them looking similar to Birthday Ball doll design in terms of execution). 2) It is unknown to me what material (concept art, doll designs or somethign else) has been sent out to the animation company to work with when it comes to creating character models for the show. Maybe show designs were done in a collaborative effort with Mattel. However, they were for sure created independantly from the official character art (the one you refered to as "concept art" in this video). EAH doll designs tended to be more detailed comapred to the official art because the latter was often made based on the final products (in this case dolls), which underwent budget cuts and design changes. That is why, for example, Darling Charming has her official artwork look so different when comapred to the show design. It was based on the doll, not the cocnept art/doll design (from what I am aware of). 4) Show designs may include some artistic liberty, deviating from doll designs/concept art. Why do I say that? Well, there are also character spread sheets and show assets available on the web, among which I found a rendition of "Daughter of Rapunzel" that looks nothing like Holly or Poppy O'Hair. It is unknown if the character design in question was made based on anything (and during what time it was made) but it is sure very differnet from what we got and is said to be a "test design". 5) There are likely a lot of concept artworks/character designs that will never see the light of day. For isntance, there is the official EAH stop-motion short that looks nothing like what we have seen after the official EAH launch back in 2013 (In it the characters also look way different from what we are used to. It truly makes you wonder what EAH was originally planned to look like and what alternative looks were designed for the characters). Lastly, I just wnat to say that I hope this did not sound rude. If it did, I apologise cause I did not intend for it to be that way. Hope this information was found useful as well) P.S. I am not a native english speaker so excuse me for any mistakes in this comment.

I always assumed Bunny's skin tone was meant to be the color of a rabbits nose and paws the only skin you can see

WAIT DARLING AND DEXTER R SUPPOSE TO BE TWINS????

eah and mh accessories are always top tier lol

Late to this video, cupids design was so much more interesting in monster high. The bone wings, the heart lipstick, the colours. I wish they kept some one the spooky to show that she's not from eah in the first place. Woulda melded the two franchises together well

So this video did come into fruition, yes!! I needed this!

For sparrow, I always wondered if he had more moments of being kind of like Robin Hood as a hero? Did he ever stood up for someone unjustly accused of a crime? Does he ever give food to those hungry? Maybe he does charity work despite acting the way he does?

okay, when i was little my favorite design was Cerise Hood because of the tartan/checked pattern on her shirt and her awesome boots. now my favorite is tied between Dexter Charming and Allister. Allister: because i am a sucker for the blue clock design due to my love of Doctor Who. Dexter: because it turns out i'm transmasc and what i thought was Childhood Crush vibes were actually Man, I Wish I Was Him vibes

I just want to say that as someone who knows literally nothing about this show or the toys every design you said "you don't even need to know who this is supposed to be because the design is so obvious" I had literally no idea what they were until you said it. I thought goldilocks was another alice in wonder lands. I thought the swan princess was cruella. And then you said "idk if I'd immediately guess repunzel" and that was the only one I immediately recognized.

Ever after high designs are so beautiful and underrated omg

I loved cupids homecoming dress so much I got her doll. I also have the twins but I didn’t get to choose them but they are still pretty lol

This was really fun! Would love to see what characters you do next! I almost think the spin-off outfits should be tackled on there ownLike rank them or some of them on their own list. Hm but I guess it’s cool to compare with characters original outfits too? It’s hard to say. Either way excited to see those hopefully too

at the beginning I literally hated them cause they can't compare with my monster high💜but I always adored kitty,raven,madeline and also now faybelle and briar

Duchess Swan is by far the prettiest in my opinion she deserves to be in the top too

Can u do their thronecoming outfits pls.

Ngl I used Maddy’s Way Too Wonderland Design as inspiration at one point for Highschool Design lol

I love these kinds of videos

Raven Queen's design is perfection to me. She's a goth icon, like Alice (Alice: Madness Returns) and Skywarp (Transformers).

I might be late to the party but have you seen YRU making a line of Monster High shoes? I immediately thought of you when I saw them

I literally just found your last ever after high vid today and you’ve already uploaded a new one :D /pos

i think my favorite thing about cupid was her wings! they form a heart which i thought was kinda creative

9:14 you can see some small error towards Cerise, which I kinda wish her wolf ears grew close to her face, but she really has a cool concept characteristics.

I'm confused about your Cedar ranking to be honest cause everything about her screams marionette. From the outfit to the woodgrain paterns. Also it's not screws on her joints, its the hooks where the strings are supposed to attach. And her body also has woodgrain, and the limbs have lines to once again indicate that she's a puppet

the only thing i'd say that bugs me about a lot of the designs is that SO MANY characters have brown eyebrows when their hair isn't even brown at all. like.. what would be the problem giving them eyebrows that actually match their hair color??? its so distracting imo

14:36 Lol, I think I can trust your opinion on this matter. And not just because I like your taste generally.

I ADORE the character design in EAH! And just the art style in general really 😍

Just noticed Hunter gives off real strong Ken vibes.. like not the design, but the character itself

I like how Dexter’s look reflects “a nerd that’s casual, but still kind of cool”. While Daring is just your average, suave, self-absorbed jock. Though that cliche is pretty much how Daring seems initially. That is an interesting aspect to the show, one of them, that the characters aren’t quite what your thinking. Daughter of Red Riding Hood? Half wolf, but not as outgoing as you’d think. Daughter of the Mad Hatter? Crazy, yes, but can be empathetic, and sensible enough to voice concern when the world is threatened, like when reality ebbed away in Spring Unsprung. The fact that Raven wants to be good and not a villain, implies her dad, the Good King, rubbed off on her. I also like how, it’s split up between Royals-students that wish to follow in their parents’ footsteps, and Rebels-those who wish to write their own story. Rather than heroes vs villains.

17:45 for me personally, I don’t really like Hunter’s design because he literally just looks like a regular teen boy. In that, if the show did not tell me he was the son of a fairytale character, I would just assume he’s some random dude who isn’t affiliated with any fairytale characters.

I absolutely ADORE Courtley! One thing that I think made her 100x better that I was hoping you'd mention was how her mouth is longer and more prominent than the other characters. It makes her more expressive, and I think her facial design wouldn't work as well if she had the same mouth as the other girls

For me Darling's design is perfection. Way better in the show than the concept art, she is astonishing

When are you going to continue the eah review? I wanna see part two for this so bad