I am currently working on 3 designs for my take on Ghost of Yotei. It's still is up in the air but I am thinking of doing my take on the current design, a more historically and martially accurate take and to round it all off, a design of Atsu if she was designed by gooner Koreans.
Why not make a video to see the different Concepts of the characters in this game? ARTSTATION Instead of insulting the work of the developers Like you knew what was happening in Firewalk for 8 years
@criticalart_6459 I like your videos and I'm impressed by designs. Pls can you give me some advice or books to read that shows you how to improve on character design.
Didn't think I'd learn so much about suits in a Concord video, but this video holds more value than the actual game and it's 200 million dollar flop Masterful redesign
Thanks, Suits can be the nerdiest or the most badass thing you can wear. The rules are for everyone's own good. It can be the difference between looking like a putzy social worker or a boss.
Saaaaaaaame) PS its AT LEAST 400 mil, and all the way up to 800+ mil, if you count the right way PPS if you want another game, well, of Modern Bad Design I can name Dragon Age Feil, sorry not sorry, Veilguard -- you can do the new one's characters, but try and replace them with Lore Accurate versions based on old Good Ones. Kinda keeping the THEME they have, but try and look if you can find the alternative races and Backgrounds that would fill the same "party roles" WITHOUT making it look stupid like their absurdly skinny Kunari(the guy with horns). I think it'll be fun one cue the Possible Difficulty of successfully translating the idea of something THAT much different into source material
@@SergeyWaytov I am going to do a light video on Ghost of Yotei but Dragon Age is on the short list. I was thinking about making it over the top dark and use heroic proportions for everyone (instead of the cutesy big head disney proportions they have now)
Big difference between adding forced black characters, and adding Jah-bless who is absolutely hilarious. If the game had a single unique mechanic, and all the characters were as funny as Jah-bless and racist robot, this would have been a success.
If you thought that was funny, You should look up Frank Zappa's Montana. I wanted to use that version but I was not sure if I could use it on youtube without getting flagged.
Impressive how you can come up with better designs than actual professionals with their years in the industry and suite of programs. edit: If there is one thing I gotta thank Concord for, its that I found this channel.
I REALLY want to play as that Jamaican space pimp holy crap dude he just OOZES coolness! If you ever make an FPS game I'd DEF buy it especially since it wouldn't be soft or low T.
Word on the street for that Concord might be trying to stage a comeback… I doubt they’ll do it, but imagine if they decide to just copy your redesigns and call them their own for the relaunch?
Can you just make your own fps with these characters so I can play YOUR GAME instead?... please? I don't think they could sue you, there is no way Nintendo could ever touch Palworld even with their patents, I don't think Sony can touch you either.
Okay, all the designs and your art are amazing, but my dude, the roasts you gave the old designs had me laughing out loud. With Concord getting updates on Steam, I hope something happens with that game in the future so that you can make more content because this is gold.
The characters all look different but still maintain the overall team you were going for. This is amazing. Great work big man. My favorite been the space lesbian and the pimp on this
Dude if these were the designs of a real game or show I would be interested. I think it would be like a space western but more specifically like that one episode of Cowboy Bebop with the 70's aesthetic.
Jah-Bless gives me STRONG Saints Row vibes and I love him. He's a main, for sure. KYPS looks like a 1950s secretary, I dig it. The suit rant was justified, the artwork just pushes your knowledge more.
Not gonna lie, I got really excited when you compared Jabali’s design to Hellsing; Alucard’s silhouette and how his coat billowed whenever he jumped was sick. If Jah-Bless’s personality was like Alucard’s (from the abridged series, I never saw the original) or Bender’s from Futurama, it’d be perfect.
character 1 went from I want to smash it with a collapsing building to I'll smash that. character 2 I'll play Jah-bless for the lines he's going to say. character 3 lol that voice and the don't run you will only die tired was perfect.
Yes! I attribute all my success to the suit. I wear a different neck tie for work everyday (I got 850 ties and around 80 pocket squares) Even when I don't want to get out of bed, I look forward to pairing a tie and pocket square. Dressing well forces me to strive for better or I'll feel silly being a lazy slob.
Fun series. Super cool concept of videos. I can see why more artists don’t do this though even though I enjoyed it a lot. Probably a lot of effort for pretty low reward.
the robot is pretty funny, the spacewoman is pretty good, the pimp was excellent and the fixing of the suit was excellent, idk about the redesign being a legally distinct replicant lol, but it works
Even though I don't always like your redesigns, they're always way better than the crappy originals. I continue to watch these videos for the hilarious roasting. Keep it up ma suit man.
Nice Catch! Unfortunately no, I would have used the actual Montana song if I thought I wouldn't get flagged so I typed the lyrics in Suno until I got a good voice and then chopped up the results in acid pro until I had something that made sense.
Please fix Dustborn characters!!! 1:18 Also hot take, that hair style for women on the bottom left of that image doesn't HAVE to mean lesbian. I'm so sick of this trend of assuming someone is of a certain race or sexuality or "coded" that way based off of how the characters are drawn, clothing style, and any form of music that you'd Stereotypically associate with people that are non white or non straight. The Pixie haircut and Tomboys have been victims of this trend. This is especially sad because me (as a straight dude) am into women with Pixie haircuts.
If Concord ever comes back for some reason I hope somebody mods in all of the redesigns from these videos. Might actually be fun for a change. Yes, even the so-called "oversexualized" ones.
7:00 is literally the only bad design out of the entire series, which probably shows how incompetent the real character designers were that in the real game, all except one was bad.
Rumors are Concord is coming back free to play. Only way this takes up space on my PS5s limited memory is if they changed all the characters to look like your redesigns
"First up is the character Daveers. THEY/THEM" "She looks like a character from an alternative universe where..." I love how you immediately disregarded the superfluous de-genderification and your brain just assumed that was supposed to be a girl based on apperance, like it should.
you know, I watched the rest of these videos, but to be honest, what seemed like a joke before now seems like a really interesting concept. I would love to play a game with such characters, especially with the mushroom dude, are you by any chance doing this on a professional basis? you really have talent.
i hope Concord gets the same end like Paragon, and becomes something a bit more popular like Predecessor, but this time the team in charge becomes rich and loved by gamers
Hi. May I know what software you used for the 3D renders (including the past ones)? As for the video itself, very funny and good job as always. We're kinda sad to see your Concord series ending. But maybe not. The blockbuster game IS resurrecting, so artists/designers like you may yet get another crack at it, if and when they change anything. 🎃
I pose generic models in DAZ, photoshop clothes on them and then inpaint details in stable diffustion using a model built off of cg images to get the texture right. If Concord comes back I'll design "elite" skins for all my designs.
@@criticalart_64 Thanks for the answers! I'm a hobbyist myself (though definitely not as experienced as you; your sketches are top-notch), doing stuff for family/friends just for fun, so I kinda suspected as much. I use a very similar workflow, but I use CSP for the models/poses, not because it's better or worse (I actually think Daz is faster), but I'm just more used to its tools/features. (Though your fun work has given me reason to take another look at my Daz copy.) I also saw some "SD-ness" in your images, so I'm glad you confirmed that part. And though I find myself using Flux more these days (for rapid prototyping), SD/SDXL is certainly still a staple, especially with its gigantic pool of checkpoints, LoRAs, TIs, etc. Anyway, stay awesome mate, and yes, if it does happen, do ultra-lavish Ultimate skins of 'em, a la The First Descendant! We all wanna see their pearl-clutching Smithers faces. 😱 😁
Seeing how much you like character art you should totally try going to some aret course. Maybe character design or concept art. That would boost your creations to new levels. There are a bunch of free ones at artstation
I did all 4 of these designs in one sitting and only did 2 iterations, the sketch and the mock up render. A real design would take a lot more iterations and refining. I can elevate these designs if I so choose. I purposefully avoid artstation so that I look different than the other artists and I generally disagree with a lot of the general consensus around design. Everyone using the same design principles has led to the Overwatch-ification of modern game design.
"Don't chase a droid, replace a droid" "Bombaclaats always be tryin' to start fires in space" "If a droid don't have no instruction she's gonna be heading towards self destruction."
You try keeping a droid in line that has a 500 psi grip and can somersault over a man, snap his neck and continue running without breaking stride in high heels. You gotta be able speak in captchas, make your nueralink dance in python script and if all that fails you gotta pull out the squammy.
I am currently working on 3 designs for my take on Ghost of Yotei. It's still is up in the air but I am thinking of doing my take on the current design, a more historically and martially accurate take and to round it all off, a design of Atsu if she was designed by gooner Koreans.
Why not make a video to see the different Concepts of the characters in this game?
ARTSTATION
Instead of insulting the work of the developers
Like you knew what was happening in Firewalk for 8 years
@criticalart_6459 I like your videos and I'm impressed by designs. Pls can you give me some advice or books to read that shows you how to improve on character design.
Space pimp, genius
It's like George Clinton from parliament funkadelic. When he used to land in a space ship and pimp walk out to the song "mothership connection"
@@criticalart_64 Do assassin’s creed next the new one
A space pimp name slickback
Pimp'in aint E Z.
With optional Robo Space Hoes!
Didn't think I'd learn so much about suits in a Concord video, but this video holds more value than the actual game and it's 200 million dollar flop
Masterful redesign
Thanks, Suits can be the nerdiest or the most badass thing you can wear. The rules are for everyone's own good. It can be the difference between looking like a putzy social worker or a boss.
Saaaaaaaame)
PS its AT LEAST 400 mil, and all the way up to 800+ mil, if you count the right way
PPS if you want another game, well, of Modern Bad Design I can name Dragon Age Feil, sorry not sorry, Veilguard -- you can do the new one's characters, but try and replace them with Lore Accurate versions based on old Good Ones. Kinda keeping the THEME they have, but try and look if you can find the alternative races and Backgrounds that would fill the same "party roles" WITHOUT making it look stupid like their absurdly skinny Kunari(the guy with horns). I think it'll be fun one cue the Possible Difficulty of successfully translating the idea of something THAT much different into source material
@criticalart_6459
@@SergeyWaytov I am going to do a light video on Ghost of Yotei but Dragon Age is on the short list. I was thinking about making it over the top dark and use heroic proportions for everyone (instead of the cutesy big head disney proportions they have now)
@criticalart_6459 Please make videos explaining. Us young men need guidance.
Jah bless looks like a pimp named slickback
Has *not* hitting the bitch been working? I mean, scientifically speaking, has not hitting the bitch achieved the desired results?
NO IT'S A PIMP NAMED SLICKBACK YOU SAY THE WHOLE THING
Might as well name him Jobless
The external intestines look so gross and dumb. Plus two characters have them 🤮
it's a theme for a lot of the characters, for some reason
I guess they were like "wow, an unique design element no one uses!" without considering why humans would find it gross lol
Yeah the intestine thing is an odd choice. You wonder if it was the designers rebelling against the art direction they were getting
@@UnluckyFatGuyDude they were the ones that picked the design direction stop it with the “ThE pOoR pEoPlE aRe InOcCeNt” nonsense.
Big difference between adding forced black characters, and adding Jah-bless who is absolutely hilarious.
If the game had a single unique mechanic, and all the characters were as funny as Jah-bless and racist robot, this would have been a success.
You know they messed up when the walking stereotype is more appealing than what they made.
A pimp named Jah-Bless
Jobless
that looks suspiciously like a young snoop dog
Direct descendant of a Pimp named Slickback
Your roastings of the old design are always great. I really like your redesigns of Davers
dude i need a whole archive of your works here these are actually sick
You really knocked it out of the park with these redesigns, I especially love your take on One-off.
Now I need the full "Concord music AI".
I laughed so hard at the dental floss song
If you thought that was funny, You should look up Frank Zappa's Montana. I wanted to use that version but I was not sure if I could use it on youtube without getting flagged.
@@criticalart_64 You had me questioning whether Zappa was the original artist of Montana for a moment. I've never heard a cover before.
Jah-Bless is Slickback in Space. Good job.
Impressive how you can come up with better designs than actual professionals with their years in the industry and suite of programs.
edit: If there is one thing I gotta thank Concord for, its that I found this channel.
I REALLY want to play as that Jamaican space pimp holy crap dude he just OOZES coolness! If you ever make an FPS game I'd DEF buy it especially since it wouldn't be soft or low T.
7:28 imagine having that thing chasing you while yelling “I’m going to succ you” . He could’ve been an iconic character.
While he runs stiffly with his hinge like robot legs and hearing the clanks of his foot steps while you hear that would be absolutely hysterical.
@@criticalart_64 it’s like some futurama sh:t lol
Definitely vibing with the space pimp design. That looks sick!
Word on the street for that Concord might be trying to stage a comeback…
I doubt they’ll do it, but imagine if they decide to just copy your redesigns and call them their own for the relaunch?
Can you just make your own fps with these characters so I can play YOUR GAME instead?... please? I don't think they could sue you, there is no way Nintendo could ever touch Palworld even with their patents, I don't think Sony can touch you either.
Either that or someone could mod his version of the characters into the game. Assuming Concord ever comes back that is.
Okay, all the designs and your art are amazing, but my dude, the roasts you gave the old designs had me laughing out loud. With Concord getting updates on Steam, I hope something happens with that game in the future so that you can make more content because this is gold.
a nice ride its been my dude, i really do hope that if concord truly relaunches theyll use your redesigns one way or another❤
I don't think it has been said, but your descriptions of the original designs in Concord are hilarious
Bruh, you keeping it classy and way better than $400 000 000 game, ty
BTW sexist robot is nice idea for Futurama (-_-) like Bend-Rove-R
The characters all look different but still maintain the overall team you were going for. This is amazing. Great work big man. My favorite been the space lesbian and the pimp on this
Space Pimp design is so fucking genius dawggg wth
I mean with you we get art and comedy, redditors cant be helped.
So 1-up is basically a titanfall 2 worker robot
6:16 Duke's back, tell a friend
Another batch of lead turned into design gold. Bravo.
Dude you are living my dream, you are an extremely talented artist and wore suits on week days.
Dude if these were the designs of a real game or show I would be interested. I think it would be like a space western but more specifically like that one episode of Cowboy Bebop with the 70's aesthetic.
Jah-Bless gives me STRONG Saints Row vibes and I love him. He's a main, for sure.
KYPS looks like a 1950s secretary, I dig it. The suit rant was justified, the artwork just pushes your knowledge more.
Thank you for the suit pointers.
Excellent redesign, and now all of Concord redesigns are complete
Designs where pretty cool, as always, except the last one lol 😂.
I personally would like to see you do a video about Deadlock! I am curious on your perspective on the characters. Loved this series great work!
Not gonna lie, I got really excited when you compared Jabali’s design to Hellsing; Alucard’s silhouette and how his coat billowed whenever he jumped was sick.
If Jah-Bless’s personality was like Alucard’s (from the abridged series, I never saw the original) or Bender’s from Futurama, it’d be perfect.
1:55 - I cannot believe I am hearing a Frank Zappa reference.
I would have used that song if I was sure it wouldn't get flagged.
What a journey this has been XD
I look forward to whatever your next thing will be lol
Best episode. Thank you for the suit essay!
Bespoke or Broke was the segment I never knew I needed in my life.
Now see, this is wholesome way of thinking. Work on replacements! Great work, sir!
I'm so glad I found this channel such a gem
character 1 went from I want to smash it with a collapsing building to I'll smash that.
character 2 I'll play Jah-bless for the lines he's going to say.
character 3 lol that voice and the don't run you will only die tired was perfect.
I'm happy to become aware of the art of suits, i didn't know about it. That is nice and epic to be a thing
Yes! I attribute all my success to the suit. I wear a different neck tie for work everyday (I got 850 ties and around 80 pocket squares) Even when I don't want to get out of bed, I look forward to pairing a tie and pocket square. Dressing well forces me to strive for better or I'll feel silly being a lazy slob.
Fun series. Super cool concept of videos. I can see why more artists don’t do this though even though I enjoyed it a lot. Probably a lot of effort for pretty low reward.
I am well off already so I just do this for the people. If I just make enough from my channel to buy a tie here and there that is good enough for me.
Oneoff looks like is a scream canister from Monsters Inc. If it got hit with the TMNT mutagen.
Never thought I'd say this but dang I wish Concord had more characters.
the robot is pretty funny, the spacewoman is pretty good, the pimp was excellent and the fixing of the suit was excellent, idk about the redesign being a legally distinct replicant lol, but it works
Jables design i thought was pretty alright. But JAH-BLESS IS SOMETHING ELSE. ABSOLUTELY. 💯💯💯
I did not expect to learn about suits in this video. But here I am, taking notes. Wow.
Full proper suit wearing tutorial when?
Honestly, I was more interested in that than the character redesigns.
Lets goooooo king is back
Even though I don't always like your redesigns, they're always way better than the crappy originals.
I continue to watch these videos for the hilarious roasting.
Keep it up ma suit man.
If Jah-Bless was in game by your design, he will be totally voiced by Katt Williams
When can I buy a full game with Jah-Bless in it?
Oh damn that deep cut suit lore caught me br surprise.. love it haha
Jah bless is the best one I lost it hard.
Is there a full version of the Montana cover? It's the best cover of the song I've heard.
Nice Catch! Unfortunately no, I would have used the actual Montana song if I thought I wouldn't get flagged so I typed the lyrics in Suno until I got a good voice and then chopped up the results in acid pro until I had something that made sense.
@@criticalart_64 That's ok. What's there is already perfect. Nice to see another Zappa fan in the wild.
"they/them", immediately says she 😂
Jah-Bless OMG. As I watched the video, I wanted to play with this character. What a flash this character is. I love it.
I'm still going to suggest the commenter's suggestion from before to do "Concord versions" of famous video game characters like Mario and Lara Croft.
This man’s creativity must be studied
5:31 wow, this character looks so much better with just these small changes
Dude my mans here DOESN'T SLEEP
hazmat lady redesign makes me feel some kind of way😩
Please fix Dustborn characters!!!
1:18 Also hot take, that hair style for women on the bottom left of that image doesn't HAVE to mean lesbian. I'm so sick of this trend of assuming someone is of a certain race or sexuality or "coded" that way based off of how the characters are drawn, clothing style, and any form of music that you'd Stereotypically associate with people that are non white or non straight. The Pixie haircut and Tomboys have been victims of this trend. This is especially sad because me (as a straight dude) am into women with Pixie haircuts.
If Concord ever comes back for some reason I hope somebody mods in all of the redesigns from these videos. Might actually be fun for a change. Yes, even the so-called "oversexualized" ones.
A missed opportunity to make a supersize Eve for that Gatorade-cooler looking bot
I been checking back everyday, thank you!
7:00 is literally the only bad design out of the entire series, which probably shows how incompetent the real character designers were that in the real game, all except one was bad.
I didn't expect a detailed suit analysis good job 😂
The suit wearing robot seems to be the best designed character according to everyone redesigning these entities.
Everybody likes androids and suits are hard to mess up.
2:23 that's actually worse lmao 😭😭
2:29 SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY DA-DAY-DA-DAYYY
SMOKE-SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY
You really thought, this was the end, eh? Rumor has Sony will Morbius this game back to life.
Do dustborn next, or Suicide squad kill the justice league.
Holy shit! Jah-Bless looks fucking sweet!! From this batch he's the best looking.
2:40 Also damn, I would pay the friendship fee.
"Thanks to the sidewalks for keeping me off the streets"
This is the only redesign of this character that I actually like. I thought it's not possible 😂
My redesigns are the only ones that would come close to working in the toned down realism style the game is rendered in.
Rumors are Concord is coming back free to play. Only way this takes up space on my PS5s limited memory is if they changed all the characters to look like your redesigns
"First up is the character Daveers. THEY/THEM"
"She looks like a character from an alternative universe where..."
I love how you immediately disregarded the superfluous de-genderification and your brain just assumed that was supposed to be a girl based on apperance, like it should.
Thanks for teaching me about suits. I’m about to buy one and that was very helpful.
And 1-UP apparently likes Futurama.
I heard "Your shoes" and i instantly said, "WHAT ARE THOOOSE"
you know, I watched the rest of these videos, but to be honest, what seemed like a joke before now seems like a really interesting concept. I would love to play a game with such characters, especially with the mushroom dude, are you by any chance doing this on a professional basis? you really have talent.
i hope Concord gets the same end like Paragon, and becomes something a bit more popular like Predecessor, but this time the team in charge becomes rich and loved by gamers
Brutha I caught that jobless joke, you ain't slick😂
Jabali looks like an uninteresting See-er from Apex.
Hi. May I know what software you used for the 3D renders (including the past ones)?
As for the video itself, very funny and good job as always. We're kinda sad to see your Concord series ending. But maybe not. The blockbuster game IS resurrecting, so artists/designers like you may yet get another crack at it, if and when they change anything. 🎃
I pose generic models in DAZ, photoshop clothes on them and then inpaint details in stable diffustion using a model built off of cg images to get the texture right. If Concord comes back I'll design "elite" skins for all my designs.
@@criticalart_64 Thanks for the answers! I'm a hobbyist myself (though definitely not as experienced as you; your sketches are top-notch), doing stuff for family/friends just for fun, so I kinda suspected as much. I use a very similar workflow, but I use CSP for the models/poses, not because it's better or worse (I actually think Daz is faster), but I'm just more used to its tools/features. (Though your fun work has given me reason to take another look at my Daz copy.) I also saw some "SD-ness" in your images, so I'm glad you confirmed that part. And though I find myself using Flux more these days (for rapid prototyping), SD/SDXL is certainly still a staple, especially with its gigantic pool of checkpoints, LoRAs, TIs, etc.
Anyway, stay awesome mate, and yes, if it does happen, do ultra-lavish Ultimate skins of 'em, a la The First Descendant! We all wanna see their pearl-clutching Smithers faces. 😱 😁
You need to make a movie or series with the new characters. The foul mouth yellow robot is so funny.
Keep it up man love your work and styles
Seeing how much you like character art you should totally try going to some aret course. Maybe character design or concept art.
That would boost your creations to new levels. There are a bunch of free ones at artstation
I did all 4 of these designs in one sitting and only did 2 iterations, the sketch and the mock up render. A real design would take a lot more iterations and refining. I can elevate these designs if I so choose. I purposefully avoid artstation so that I look different than the other artists and I generally disagree with a lot of the general consensus around design. Everyone using the same design principles has led to the Overwatch-ification of modern game design.
The holy saga of character design
The robot assassin lady gives me strong No One Lives Forever vibes nice.
Please Redesign the overwatch cast. Some of them do need a redesign.
Space pimp is a clear upgrade, the rest still need work.
I would fucking main Jah-Bless just for the voice lines.
"Don't chase a droid, replace a droid" "Bombaclaats always be tryin' to start fires in space" "If a droid don't have no instruction she's gonna be heading towards self destruction."
A Space Pimp Named Slickback
Damn! Didn't knew pimping got so difficult for A pimp named Slickback that he gotta carry a gun now. futuristic hoe's are something else
You try keeping a droid in line that has a 500 psi grip and can somersault over a man, snap his neck and continue running without breaking stride in high heels. You gotta be able speak in captchas, make your nueralink dance in python script and if all that fails you gotta pull out the squammy.
Can you do a redesign for a game called dust born?