Re: See New Character Designs!
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 2:30 pm
The reason why I don't like Bino's appearance on this sketch is because I'm very emotionally attached to this character. To the point where I can't stop thinking about him even for one day.
Since I was a child, I always had a favorite character in a cartoon or game. I always followed this character's interactions the most, but they never fully entered into my imagination. But that unexpectedly changed when one day, following a link from DA, I entered into a webcomic. Housepets. And met him.
There was a dog who belonged to the secondary characters, but he was one of the shining ones. Mostly negatively. A jerk, greedy, spiteful, always causing trouble. yet, when I followed comic and tried to look at every aspect, in appearance and in dialogue. I already believed he was adorable in some way, but there were moments when he smiled and whole expression changed. Two things were proven to me. First, Bino had one of the most developed mimics, which I found all adorable. Even when he was angry, he looked cute. Second, Rick Griffin is the master of observation when it comes to someone's behavior. Smile can change you completely, even if it's just a moment.
The dog is mean spirited and always seeks trouble or wants to bully someone to prove that he's stronger and those who are weaker should step aside. But there was something I noticed. An inner struggle. Something that wants to come out, but yet he stays mean. Megalomaniac, obsessive, who perhaps is misjudged because no one really truly knows him.
But what I also loved in Bino was his appearance. Green eyes, long years I would love to pull, slim, which added to the famous HP legs was charming. And the neck... He was playing a tough guy who demands loyalty and respect from other dogs, but his appearance was showing that he was physically weak and he shouldn't behave like that. The way how he was narrowing his eyes, how he was posing... matched with his behavior, it made a perfect body language to me. Just by looking at him I could see he was someone mean, yet capable to be adorable in some way. Ideal combo.
For the first time in my life, I found a character I could totally relate to. I also can be rude, look upon others with superiority, egoistic, though I fight with that for years. but I'm also weak. And often underestimated. I found my ideal in a fictional world. A character I totally understood, even beyond in what was happening in the comic. It worked over my imagination so hard that it completely absorbed everything we call dreams. To the point where I just can't stop thinking about him. For two years since I follow this comic, I've been thinking about Bino every day. And I anxiously awaited to see him in a strip. I experienced everything what happened when he was taking a part in action, like I was there. And I always just loved to watch him. How he looks.
I'll confess that I'm a photographer with a wild imagination, which always led me to daydreaming. I'm sick and twisted. Unstable. But thanks to the dreaming of Bino, I managed to start building my life. For years I was thought that I should always be strict and not allow my mind to go too wild. Even today, my parents just hate the fact that I'm a street photographer, rather than someone after university. But the author of this comic, Mr. Griffin, and the character he created, Bino, showed me that I can be the person who I feel I should be. And not be ashamed. Thanks to looking upon Bino, I understood that I might be a sick weirdo, like all "normal" people think about artists, but I can use this as advantage and do wonderful things. And also by watching Bino, have strength to fight inside me things that are ugly.
I also waited for the sketches of V3 designs with anticipation. I was wondering how my favorite will look like. Maybe his fluffy ears will bet longer and the fur on them more bushy. Or perhaps his eyes will change for even better...
The second batch was posted and I opened it instantly. Looking at all characters, I saw my favorite one... as a fatso!
At this moment my muscles got limb. For 15 minutes I couldn't stop staring at the fat dog. I felt like my inner world started to crumble. It was not Bino I was looking at. It was someone totally else! Not the same dog I felt such strong sympathy!
Pudgy posture is completely off to me. The current design works perfectly with his personality, giving true authenticity to his language body. Seeing him with a gut totally crushes the charm I feel for him. It's not actually the so called ringleader who is wacky, but some lazy slob.
I totally cannot understand such change. The current design is really good. The sketched V3 is not making him go forward, as it is in terms of King and the ferrets, but backwards, pushing him aside from other characters. I cannot understand such change, it killrd the character I learned to feel so strong. I don't have the feeling that he's going to be changed because of author's sympathy, but more to promote King, who already is the most popular and loved by people character, by transforming Bino into ugly, pudgy spaniel like mutt. I can't understand either why he has to be so different from Joel. I liked the fact that they were almost similar to each other. They were sibling after all and at this point author proved again that he's the master of observation, as in real life such thing happens often.
The V3 sketch of Bino is really not Bino, but some other dog. I really don't want him to go this way because it destroys everything I love in this character. It should stay as it is now. Such sacrifice is really unnecessary. It pains me to see him like that so much.
Please, don't take it like I was trying to cause pain to the author of this wonderful webcomic. But my inner world might be turned by 360 degrees and at this moment in in a mode of a frightened child who defends his plushy toy from being torn apart.
Since I was a child, I always had a favorite character in a cartoon or game. I always followed this character's interactions the most, but they never fully entered into my imagination. But that unexpectedly changed when one day, following a link from DA, I entered into a webcomic. Housepets. And met him.
There was a dog who belonged to the secondary characters, but he was one of the shining ones. Mostly negatively. A jerk, greedy, spiteful, always causing trouble. yet, when I followed comic and tried to look at every aspect, in appearance and in dialogue. I already believed he was adorable in some way, but there were moments when he smiled and whole expression changed. Two things were proven to me. First, Bino had one of the most developed mimics, which I found all adorable. Even when he was angry, he looked cute. Second, Rick Griffin is the master of observation when it comes to someone's behavior. Smile can change you completely, even if it's just a moment.
The dog is mean spirited and always seeks trouble or wants to bully someone to prove that he's stronger and those who are weaker should step aside. But there was something I noticed. An inner struggle. Something that wants to come out, but yet he stays mean. Megalomaniac, obsessive, who perhaps is misjudged because no one really truly knows him.
But what I also loved in Bino was his appearance. Green eyes, long years I would love to pull, slim, which added to the famous HP legs was charming. And the neck... He was playing a tough guy who demands loyalty and respect from other dogs, but his appearance was showing that he was physically weak and he shouldn't behave like that. The way how he was narrowing his eyes, how he was posing... matched with his behavior, it made a perfect body language to me. Just by looking at him I could see he was someone mean, yet capable to be adorable in some way. Ideal combo.
For the first time in my life, I found a character I could totally relate to. I also can be rude, look upon others with superiority, egoistic, though I fight with that for years. but I'm also weak. And often underestimated. I found my ideal in a fictional world. A character I totally understood, even beyond in what was happening in the comic. It worked over my imagination so hard that it completely absorbed everything we call dreams. To the point where I just can't stop thinking about him. For two years since I follow this comic, I've been thinking about Bino every day. And I anxiously awaited to see him in a strip. I experienced everything what happened when he was taking a part in action, like I was there. And I always just loved to watch him. How he looks.
I'll confess that I'm a photographer with a wild imagination, which always led me to daydreaming. I'm sick and twisted. Unstable. But thanks to the dreaming of Bino, I managed to start building my life. For years I was thought that I should always be strict and not allow my mind to go too wild. Even today, my parents just hate the fact that I'm a street photographer, rather than someone after university. But the author of this comic, Mr. Griffin, and the character he created, Bino, showed me that I can be the person who I feel I should be. And not be ashamed. Thanks to looking upon Bino, I understood that I might be a sick weirdo, like all "normal" people think about artists, but I can use this as advantage and do wonderful things. And also by watching Bino, have strength to fight inside me things that are ugly.
I also waited for the sketches of V3 designs with anticipation. I was wondering how my favorite will look like. Maybe his fluffy ears will bet longer and the fur on them more bushy. Or perhaps his eyes will change for even better...
The second batch was posted and I opened it instantly. Looking at all characters, I saw my favorite one... as a fatso!
At this moment my muscles got limb. For 15 minutes I couldn't stop staring at the fat dog. I felt like my inner world started to crumble. It was not Bino I was looking at. It was someone totally else! Not the same dog I felt such strong sympathy!
Pudgy posture is completely off to me. The current design works perfectly with his personality, giving true authenticity to his language body. Seeing him with a gut totally crushes the charm I feel for him. It's not actually the so called ringleader who is wacky, but some lazy slob.
I totally cannot understand such change. The current design is really good. The sketched V3 is not making him go forward, as it is in terms of King and the ferrets, but backwards, pushing him aside from other characters. I cannot understand such change, it killrd the character I learned to feel so strong. I don't have the feeling that he's going to be changed because of author's sympathy, but more to promote King, who already is the most popular and loved by people character, by transforming Bino into ugly, pudgy spaniel like mutt. I can't understand either why he has to be so different from Joel. I liked the fact that they were almost similar to each other. They were sibling after all and at this point author proved again that he's the master of observation, as in real life such thing happens often.
The V3 sketch of Bino is really not Bino, but some other dog. I really don't want him to go this way because it destroys everything I love in this character. It should stay as it is now. Such sacrifice is really unnecessary. It pains me to see him like that so much.
Please, don't take it like I was trying to cause pain to the author of this wonderful webcomic. But my inner world might be turned by 360 degrees and at this moment in in a mode of a frightened child who defends his plushy toy from being torn apart.