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Lets Get To It! Rwby Ideas/discussion Thread

Accelerator said:
Does this look realistic?

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As with the Cinder and Blake pictures previously, it's basically the image of perfection by many Asian standards... Except for the eyes being too "wide," but that's made minor enough to not hit uncanny valley outright, at least for a still image.

Oh, there's also a "pit" at the inner edge of the left eye socket that's not mirrored to the other side and draws attention by standing out against literally the entire rest of the picture by being a hard edge without an apparent cause. There's also a bunch of details that I'm fairly sure are part of deciding to go for a blurred look outside the face and having weird contours for the blurring. The right edge of the neck, for example, stands out a lot by being surrounded by blurred "details" while having a hard edge in relation to the blurring.

These directions are in terms of the portrait's perspective, for clarity's sake, so left is the right side of the picture and vice versa.

The reason Anime does the large/wide eye thing is part tradition and part making facial expressions need less detail to make work. Also Moe traits, because Japanese consumerism replaces the Western action and gore with cute and porn.

As for your question, no, because it tries to make anime eyes realistic and that never pans out. As well as the seemingly literally glowing blue eyes and all the blurring. It's rather realistic, but is more like a portrait painting that tries to be both exaggerated and realistic than a picture or digital image trying to look like one.

The Blake and Cinder pictures both look photoshopped, in the sense of popping filters on to mess with lighting in a way that makes it uncanny. Essentially, they only mess up on lighting characteristics in a way that looks like image filters. The eyes, in particular, are less extreme that the Weiss image. The flame on the Cinder picture is rather unrealistic in a rather common fashion, but making realistic flame effects is nigh-impossible due to the lighting effects involved and people can't really get the color gradients and patterns in real flames correct most of the time. Blake's pic manages to get the cat ears to look realistic and blend in with the hair at the same time, which is quite impressive, though it uses the trick of not showing where the hair and ears meet to pull it off.

Basically, Weiss looks stylized while Blake and Cinder can only be improved by a goddamn master of photorealism because their flaws require practically perfect perspective and understanding of lighting to get right.
 
Accelerator said:
..... i don't really understand, but thank you anyway. I just wanted ro plop her in the north in asoiaf, at the wall.

Then have people freak out at the glowing blue eyes.
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Well, you asked about the realism of the picture. It looks rather realistic, but the ways it isn't realistic are all related to the blurring and using an anime character for the basis. Anime characters often have the general facial structure of Aisan women correct, with the exceptions being easily corrected exaggeration.

And said exaggerations were corrected in the Blake and Cinder pictures fully, leaving lighting issues and being goddamn perfect beauties as the only flaws in realism outside being the characters they are, while the Weiss image is face-only and blurred enough that the eyes are the only thing that really stand out as unrealistic due to going so close to the edge of the face. There's literally not enough room for proper eye sockets on that face. The eyes are just too large.

I suppose I went too deep into art critique there. And bringing up the Cinder and Blake pics from your earlier post might have thrown you off.
 
Morphic Tide said:
Well, you asked about the realism of the picture. It looks rather realistic, but the ways it isn't realistic are all related to the blurring and using an anime character for the basis. Anime characters often have the general facial structure of Aisan women correct, with the exceptions being easily corrected exaggeration.

And said exaggerations were corrected in the Blake and Cinder pictures fully, leaving lighting issues and being goddamn perfect beauties as the only flaws in realism outside being the characters they are, while the Weiss image is face-only and blurred enough that the eyes are the only thing that really stand out as unrealistic due to going so close to the edge of the face. There's literally not enough room for proper eye sockets on that face. The eyes are just too large.

I suppose I went too deep into art critique there. And bringing up the Cinder and Blake pics from your earlier post might have thrown you off.
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Well, if your only issue is the eyes, then thats fine.

I'll talk about it as adding to the uncanny valley
 
This reminds me of this fanfic idea I have where Ruby comes to our world, and someone who doesn't know RWBY mistakes her for the Grim Reaper, and keeps her at his house in the hopes that he doesn't get reaped, only to fall for her.
 
1. Why the fuck is it so hard to find this thread?

2. Where's the source that says the method Pyrrha awakened Jaune's aura dangerous?
 
Accelerator said:
Thanks.

How would hunters do in WW1?
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NP,

I'm not really an expert on such things, but it'd likely depend on the Hunter, Semblances, speed, skills, ETC.

We know they can bullet time to varying degrees even with fast things like machine guns, and can handle tanking strikes and bullets to varying degrees as well and would be incredibly hard to track or hit given their speed and acrobat skills.

Based on the fight with the Paladin, Yang vs Junior and Nora VS BRNZ, is also seems being in proximity to explosions does them little harm so for the chance to do any real damage one would likely need to hit them head on with something from a tank and even then (waves hand) succeeding in that would be absurdly hard and with many of them may not even do too much damage.

In comparison, Yang has shot gun gauntlets that can make genuine explosions and can shake the earth and sent out shock waves by jumping up and punching the ground, so there'd likely be little that could hold them back or slow them down.
 
Zam said:
NP,

I'm not really an expert on such things, but it'd likely depend on the Hunter, Semblances, speed, skills, ETC.

We know they can bullet time to varying degrees even with fast things like machine guns, and can handle tanking strikes and bullets to varying degrees as well and would be incredibly hard to track or hit given their speed and acrobat skills.

Based on the fight with the Paladin, Yang vs Junior and Nora VS BRNZ, is also seems being in proximity to explosions does them little harm so for the chance to do any real damage one would likely need to hit them head on with something from a tank and even then (waves hand) succeeding in that would be absurdly hard and with many of them may not even do too much damage.

In comparison, Yang has shot gun gauntlets that can make genuine explosions and can shake the earth and sent out shock waves by jumping up and punching the ground, so there'd likely be little that could hold them back or slow them down.
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Well, guy on althistory is making an isot of iwo jima to rwby. So they started talking about how rwby would be crushed by the horrors of ww1
 
Accelerator said:
isot of iwo jima
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I am very unfamiliar with this term sorry.

Accelerator said:
So they started talking about how rwby would be crushed by the horrors of ww1
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Do they mean RWBY the students or RWBY hunters in general? Either way I call BS, the stuff that caused RWBY to break up at the end of V3 was targeted life ruining by the various villains, Blake's abusive ex, Yang's sanity being left in question, her rep being destroyed and her partner leaving, Weiss's dad being an abusive A-hole who is also super influential ETC.

They didn't break cos of the stresses of combat but bad luck and very specific circumstances that targeted their specific issues or problems.

That's not to say seeing tons of dead or dying people suffering horrendously wouldn't be horrible but I doubt it'd affect them significantly more than many soldiers and they'd likely have some training to cope with it or life experience given they hurl WF mooks to their Grimmy deaths on the train.
 
Zam said:
I am very unfamiliar with this term sorry.


Do they mean RWBY the students or RWBY hunters in general? Either way I call BS, the stuff that caused RWBY to break up at the end of V3 was targeted life ruining by the various villains, Blake's abusive ex, Yang's sanity being left in question, her rep being destroyed and her partner leaving, Weiss's dad being an abusive A-hole who is also super influential ETC.

They didn't break cos of the stresses of combat but bad luck and very specific circumstances that targeted their specific issues or problems.

That's not to say seeing tons of dead or dying people suffering horrendously wouldn't be horrible but I doubt it'd affect them significantly more than many soldiers and they'd likely have some training to cope with it or life experience given they hurl WF mooks to their Grimmy deaths on the train.
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Rwby hunters
 
Accelerator said:
Its annoying how they nerf rwby and wank ww1.....
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Agreed, RWBY often gets the short end of the stick in 'realistic' crossovers, its grating.

Accelerator said:
Rwby hunters
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That makes even less sense, at least for RWBY they could argue (poorly) that they're students, but Hunters in general? yeah it'd probably be gruesome but that's kind of part of their job, these are people who literally come across destroyed villages as part of their work and fight monsters that eat people specifically to scare them!
 
Zam said:
Agreed, RWBY often gets the short end of the stick in 'realistic' crossovers, its grating.
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I think if it's a pattern, it's probably because the writers feel there's a certain emotion or tone not adequately expressed in canon. A dark plot doesn't necessarily mean everyone will feel that darkness.

Instead of worrying how crosses "nerf" the show, maybe we should look at what motivates these writers to make their decisions.
 
Barnaby said:
I think if it's a pattern, it's probably because the writers feel there's a certain emotion or tone not adequately expressed in canon. A dark plot doesn't necessarily mean everyone will feel that darkness.

Instead of worrying how crosses "nerf" the show, maybe we should look at what motivates these writers to make their decisions.
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People think dark = realism
 
Accelerator said:
People think dark = realism
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That's a bit reductive, don't you think? And besides, the opinion I was addressing suggested RWBY was plenty dark. So why, when crossed with so many different things, does there seem to be a trend wherein it "seems to always get the short end of the stick"?

I'm not trying to make an arguement one way or the other, just suggesting that maybe this is something worth examining a bit deeper
 
Barnaby said:
That's a bit reductive, don't you think? And besides, the opinion I was addressing suggested RWBY was plenty dark. So why, when crossed with so many different things, does there seem to be a trend wherein it "seems to always get the short end of the stick"?

I'm not trying to make an arguement one way or the other, just suggesting that maybe this is something worth examining a bit deeper
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Oh no, what i meant was.....

Look at rwby. Look at the tone. to the uneducated observer, this looks like a pretty, lighthearted schoolyard highschool adventure with superheroes and a horde of monsters. Oh yes, it might seem lighthearted, but those who look more closely know better.

Also, there's this tendency to..... basically, I think its a tough guy thing. Its like when people started writing about invasions of Equestria and genocide the ponies.
 
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