#2D pallet

[karolinedgmachinery]

75 95 square wave chips extruder making machine 2D pallet sun chips prod...

[stitchwraith-stingers]

someone else made a post like this but i rlly like this hc so i colorpicked my own flag from this image weeeeeeeeee

[bewdewd]

[cardo-de-comer]

I’ve been wondering, how do you get that kind of texture in your art (both 2D and 3D)? It looks fucking awesome and I want to emulate it in my own work. Your work really inspires me.

first of all thank you! means a lot :D I assume you mean this texture?

It's called dithering. So here's how i do it, i use photoshop and honestly not sure if other programs can do that let's say i have an image, it's all in one layer. My art is usually kinda big in dimensions (my normal canvas size is 4500x2500) so SOMETIMES i scale the image size (not the canvas size!) down to like 1000 or sth. more dithering is visible on a smaller image this is optional though!!

Now i go into the Image -> Mode -> Indexed Color. in pallete i choose "custom" and i have this pallete of 53 colors which i don't remember where i got it from so i uploaded it on google.drive and you should be able to load it in link to the pallete

in options i set "dither" to "pattern" now it has the texture! i press ok and set the image mode back to RGB. And if you scaled down the image size you gonna wanna scale it back up

Usually i put the textured version above the original and set the opacity lower because you can see how jarring on the eyes it is here lol and don't want it to be visible too much. But that's it i think. I do hope that it was clear and informative lol, i cannot explain things

[sillygoblinantics]

I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE

I’ve held my tongue for too long about my feelings on madhouse but fucking hell!

Unless by some fucking act of arceus or universe hands me the fucking concept art that went into this horrible webcomic- I got room to rip and tear!

This is:

Goblin’s Valid Autopsy of Lily Orchard’s PokéMadhouse

Before we go forward!

Hi. I’m Gobbo or Bri (pick ya poison), I’m a current student at Savannah College of Art and Design (as for campus I ain’t saying nothing) Im working on my bachelors in Animation and minoring in Creative Writing. My Concentration starting as 2d animation later switching it to Story and Concept in animation (back in 2021). I started in 2019 and it’s… 2024 now. Don’t judge me! I’ve been mentored by comic artist, storyboarders and many more in the industry! I’ve taken storyboarding and a plethora of writing classes to have enough qualifications under my belt to properly discuss the shit writing, lacking worldbuilding, disorganized plot hole ridden lore/arcs and horrible inconsistent art. So let’s not waste another moment and dive fucking in!

Story:

I’m not using Lily’s self review tvtropes to cover this. It’s disingenuous ego stroking at full blast.

We follow the highs and lows that are the “will they won’t they” relationship between the stated as sisters, Lily and her Gardevoir, G (yes that’s her fucking name). In a Sunday newspaper comic page esc structure. With bits and pieces of trivia and lore that rarely comes up if not to push and pull sympathy points for lilys self insert as she gets assaulted and violated in physical and mental ways. An arc being called “Violate” and later following the would be time span for gestation of a baby that would then become the labeled cryptid child.

I’m gonna be real there’s no point in reading it because the moment something big happens out of the blue there wasn’t a page missing to explain it which god fucking dammit Lily do I need to give you one of those brainframe sheets or outline templates if you decide to write a story? Because I’ll gladly provide them!

How do you consider yourself a fucking writer at all with your fundamental lack of care for lore and story like- for fucks sake woman it won’t kill you!

Characters

Lily

G

Mikayla

Marah

Bonnie

Mismagius

Other hardly seen or used Pokémon that get thrown away out of nowhere

Countless stolen ocs

And Dr Ponytail (yes that’s the fucking name of one of the “antagonists” and I’ve reread it so many times and found nothing!)

Lily has her “antagonists” being either ex friends or partners or someone who tries to call out bullshit! Fucking hell, the way Lily has g written it’s hard to not see HER AS ONE!

You have all these characters and you neglect so many of them to focus on making your favorite Dollies kiss and scissor or do nothing!

You don’t punish actual rapists either like legit what do you do when your Pokémon who’s been raised like a sister your whole life admits to mindfucking you in a weird soul bond type deal (that you wrote the explanation of yourself), then out of fear swaps dna of a Pokémon of her CRITICALLY ENDANGERED SPECIES can match with to save it with your own dna to baby lock you to staying together, what’s the thing you decide to write?

Case in point: stick an entire cactus up your urethra Lily.

I need a break from this… I’m moving on to the art misdirection.

Lily you are the one commissioning these panels from Mikayla. Meaning you are telling her how to draw these making you the literal art director of this shitty comic!

You want my advice?

USE MODEL SHEETS

Like holy shit. I need to copy paste my spiel about what it is one second:

Make a turnaround for your character(s)!

(Excluding front and back you need to make left and right versions of the rest!)

Front

Back

over-the-shoulder

3/4 view

profile

expression sheets

color pallet reference

(if it’s online/digital rgb if it’s for print it’s cmyk)

include the hexcodes for artists if it’s a small production!

lineup for height and scale for comparison to:

other characters

backgrounds

props

etc.

elements of the world + floor plan in small settings

action poses

hair guide (trust me it’s important)

these are the elements every artist who wants to tell a visual story be it animated or comic always needs:

✨A PITCH BIBLE✨

And Lily, if you’re making any story that is

A. Tied to an existing property

B. Has real world/geopolitical/historic relation

C. Needing a basic understanding to science

Do everyone and yourself a favor

AND DO YOUR FUCKING RESEARCH IN MLA FORMAT INSTEAD OF SOMEONE ELSES OPINIONS AND YOUR ASS OF HOLDING BULLSHIT!

Class

Dismissed

Your homework is to get these books:

[winxwannabe]

Winx Season 9/Reboot Leaks

Okay here's the tea: earlier today a twitter user by the name of Cataclysm_Power started posting a video they claimed was from the new Winx season/reboot. When pressed for further information, they linked to a telegram chat with what appeared to be assets from Rainbow (17 screenshots/2 videos). After some C-grade internet sleuthing, I am here to give my (worthless and possibly wrong) opinion on which ones I think are real and fake.

A note before we jump in: I'm not posting full images on my blog, because again I do think some of these are real and if the leaker is to be believed, they hacked Rainbow to get them. You can look yourself through the telegram link, or others who've posted them on the Winx Club tag. I also think the leaker themselves is scammy because they've tried charging for Miraculous leaks before. Do NOT give them any money if they ask.

Real: Bloom, Stella, and Icy's asset sheets, Bloom Full Body Pose

A lot of these leaks are 3d modelling assets, and these 3 are the ones I'm totally convinced are real.

The biggest clue of their validity is the bottom banner. All 3 sheets have them, along with the same episode code and notes in Italian. They're all also linked to the same person: Pasqualino Masciulli is Rainbow's 3D modelling supervisor, and has been with the company for at least 9 years. He's done videos on Rainbow's youtube channel as well, using his shortened first name Lino. My main point is that's way too niche for someone to fake just to make some convincing leaks, and it would make sense for the assets to be tied to him.

Likewise, there's a full-body frame post of Bloom with fucking ugliest denim leg warmers credited to a g.riccobono. This is likely Giulio Riccobono, who is listed on Linkedin Italy as a Rainbow employee.

Probably Real: Tecna's asset sheet, Bloom's detailed asset sheet

Both of these are likely real but have weird things about them that make me pause. Bloom's more detailed asset sheet is missing the name, date and episode reference on it, and the notes are in English. Tecna's is missing the bottom banner entirely, and there's some weird cutting around her head that makes it look like someone hastily made a png and stuck it on there.

Unsure: Computer File Tab, MD Concept Photos, Videos

There's a screenshot of a folder with both 2D and 3D assets of all the girls. in the files. I'm not sure if this is from a computer at Rainbow or the hacker's personal folder, so it goes in unsure. I do think most of the assets in it are real - it's low res but the eyes on the 2D sketches are so similar to the ones on Rainbow's newer images of the girls I think they have to be connected.

There are also some full body concept photos for Bloom, Aisha, and Stella. They all look pretty legit (as they're updated version of images we've already seen) but Stella's has other images for 'possible pallets' included. She's the only one with it and the images look like they came from a flash dress-up game, and it gives me pause.

Lastly, the teaser videos of Bloom are probably real based on the outfit, animation and that stupid fucking Bloom shelf being in the background, but I'm placing it in 'unsure' because of the bandicam.com logo burned into the top. If it really came from Rainbow and everything else was downloaded, there was no reason for the hacker to not get the raw file. I think it's real, but I don't know if it came from Rainbow.

Something Ain't Right: Group Shot

What gives me pause in the fully-rendered group shot (even though its shown in the computer file tab) is it shows transformation we haven't seen teased and has a 'Lorem Ipsum' placeholder text. Aisha's hair also looks like it was done with AI - the back of her wings clip through the hair, and parts of it look copy-pasted. I'm stupid, it's the end of her braids. The 'Lorem Ipsum' thing still stands, but I'm re-filing this under 'unsure.'

Probably Fake: Darcy and Damien's asset sheets

I'm showing things from here on out because I'm so convinced it's fake please let me be right. Unlike the other character sheets, the ones for Darcy and 'new character' Damien have no bottom banner, are marked as 'Winx Club Season 9' with an outdated Winx logo, and have notes written completely in English. Darcy's has a bit of 3D modelling, but it's too different from Icy's. Maybe they're super early concepts for Darcy, but Damien...go home, buddy.

You're in the Wrong Place: Rainbow Pants Girl

I'm convinced this girl is from a different show and was saved to the 'Winx Club' folder by accident. Different clothing, hair, and shading. May you end up somewhere better than this reboot, Mystery Girl.

[personalized-chaos]

Finally finished drawing of Ballister as one of the Green Knight posters since they have such a nice colour pallet and quite a matching theme :D

Image description: 2D digital drawing of Ballister from the movie Nimona. He is shown from chest up, is a young man with dark hair and mustache and goatee. He also has a scar across his right eye. He is wearing a dark grey armor with many geometrical shapes and a cape over his shoulders, both the cape and armor are tinted blue in this image. He also has a golden crown on his head with an ornate circle going from the back of it, which is similar to a halo. The background is bright read and so it the text written over his chest which says 'Ballister Boldheart' in bold upper case letter. On each side of his head the phrase 'Face thy destiny' is written in yellow ornate letters. /End of image description

[devondespresso]

Get to know me tag game 🎉✨🌈

tagged by @hbyrde36 !!! thanks dude 💕

Favourite Color: uhhhhhhhhhhhhh i don't really have one? i like colors like in general

Last Song: i think Rocket Man by good ol Elton John

Currently Reading: off the top of my head, the wips im keeping up with rn are: @jaytriesstrangerthings 's The Hand That Feeds, @evillittleguy 's werewolf Steve and lonely-ass Eddie au, @morganski-19 's Dustin and Wayne centric post s4 fic Chills Right To The Marrow, and @eddiethebrave 's secret admirer steddie fic

Currently Watching: i am once again rewatching Arcane (this time so my sibling can see it!!) this is i think my fourth? watch, i love it so much. also been enjoying drawfee again lately

Currently Craving: the energy to do everything i want to do in the day (maybe chocolate?)

Coffee or Tea? both, coffee more often rn because daily caffeine

A Hobby You Would Like To Try: ive been debating trying watercolor or something for this steddie idea, i dont think i can fit it on my plate tho. i have started sculpting recently which i find so much easier than 2d art oh my GOD

An AU you're working on/have thought of: the steddie au idea mentioned above, i think a swan lake steddie comic would be SO BEAUTIFUL honestly idk if itd be swan lake or just vaguely A Prince Who Turns Into A Swan au, the point is 1000000% the vibes, the aesthetic, steve getting to be pretty and regal and otherworldly and also fall in love. if youve seen the 2003 hit Barbie of Swan Lake, THAT is the color pallet, the flavor of deep teals pastel fantasy im picturing. unfortunately i don't think id have the time or skill or energy, ive got a lot of wips i wanna work on and im barely managing that so 🤷

tagging (no pressure)💕: @marvel-ous-m @pearynice @momotonescreaming @werepuppy-steve @lightoftheseraph

@little-annie @imfinereallyy @lets-try-to-be-normal-otakus @gleek4twd @stellarspecter

@queenie-ofthe-void @carolperkinsexgirlfriend @sunflowerharrington @solarmorrigan @sourw0lfs

@soaringornithopter @klausinamarink @just-my-latest-hyperfixation @tinytalkingtina @hairstevington

[afranticsonicperson]

Tails and Maria parallels.

I decided to gather up a bunch of stuff tails and maria share in common. why? well, I just think it’s neat considering shadow and tails’s growing bond (maybe shadow could have flashbacks due to it?) and how fucking SIMILAR this fox is to maria.

before we start, I am NOT trying to prove that tails and maria are related in any sort of way. no “tails and maria are siblings”! shtick here whatsoever, aight? just wanted to clarify.

1) Appearance:

now this one’s probably the most obvious when you look at the two.

tails has golden/yellow(ish?) fur with vibrant blue eyes (leaning into cyan)

(mostly gathered 2D official art here so lighting won’t clash with anything!)

as you can see, mostly a blue/white/yellow colour pallet for the fox!

..now who also has a blue/white/yellow colour pallet?

maria robotnik.

tails and maria’s colour pallet, and not to mention looks (notice how they both have doe, innocent eyes?), is SCARILY similar to eachother, to the point where you could probably convince someone who knows little to nothing about sonic that maria was the “human version” of tails.

2) Personality:

now, this one’s probably the most abundant cause holy SHIT

tails (mostly described) is very sweet, selfless, gold-hearted and resourceful, and can be gentle when he needs to. and especially in tmosth, very optimistic and empathetic, aswell compassionate and curious.

…these traits are also very similar to maria’s, especially in the shadow and sa2 game.

comparison:

notice the eerily similar traits?

both are cheerful, optimistic and show kindness and see the good in (most) people, all while maintaining a strong spirit.

3) Mannerisms:

ohh boy do these two have paralleling mannerisms

tails is noticeably very smiley, laughy while pointing and waving a lot!

examples! :

as you can see, his mannerisms and attitude has that optimistic and energetic yet gentle kid-like quality to it.

and maria’s.. is practically the same!

see how she smiles, points and waves a lot? her gestures have that same quality.

they both have that approachable, friendly gestures attitude, additionally, they both maintain very child-like and cheerful mannerisms. kinda “saccharine”, y’know?

So, overall?

these two’s personalities, looks and attitudes are eerily similar, yet it could make sense in a way. tails’s parallels to her could and most probably give shadow MAJOR flashbacks with the fox’s bright positivity, curiousness and general kindness. it’d be interesting to see in action! maybe tails would be the one to get shadow to finally warm up to his friends, and see the good in him after so long? it could genuinely be a concept taken to canon! (paramount, c’mon, give us the parallels and shadow & tails bonding in the 3rd movie im BEGGING)

tails, in the end, is his own person though, and his unique qualities should be appreciated as much as the major ones!

man, it was fun to make this. thanks for reading!

[whirligig-girl]

Followup to this painting: [Oh You Poor Thing]

The Prodigy kids are so interesting to learn to draw. They have quite complicated color pallettes and designs that don't trivially translate to a 2D cartoon, and figuring out where to simply things without them being unrecognizable was an interesting challenge. I went for something close to the Lower Decks style this time (i.e., my usual Guzcomic style) to complete the crossover. If I ever made more Prodigy-focused comics I think I would first spend a lot of time coming up with a better simplification of their designs and color palletes. If there's one thing that the Prodigy kids absolutely have going for them, it's strong shape language in their silhouettes.

I really hope Prodigy gets picked up. I've been rewatching it and it's just so much fun.

Image ID: Digital art webcomic in a Star Trek Lower Decks like art style.

Panel 1: The alien kids from Star Trek Prodigy are wandering together in a crowd. Dal and Gwyn are calling out Murf's name. Gwyn has turned her liquid metal sword into a bullhorn. Zero says "Come out, come out, wherever you are!" Rok-Tahk says "Where are you..." Jankom, frustrated, says "Come on guys, it's no use. He's gone forever."

Panel 2: Eaurp Guz, a green slimegirl in a yellow starfleet engineering uniform, is running through the crowd with something wrapped up against her chest, holding it like a baby.

Guz: "Hello? Have you seen a--" Stranger 1: "No." Guz: "Have you seen a group of Mellan--" Stranger 2: "No thanks." Guz: "GRR! You'd think another Mellanoid Slime would stand out in the crowd." Guz: "Hello? Have you seen--" Stranger 3: "BEGONE FOUL THING!" Guz: "Ugh."

Panel 3: Guz continues. "Oh! you kids! Have you seen a Mellanoid Slime? Kinda like me. Gooey, sparkly, probably humanoid and bluish?

The Prodigy kids are gathered in a group and look at Guz, a little clueless. "Like Murf?" Dal says. "Who?" Guz says. The viewer can see Murf, the bluish-purple Mellanoid Slime Worm, being cradled by Guz, but the kids can't see him.

Panel 4 & 5: Close-up of the wrapped up Murf, who turns around, a little teary-eyed, and makes a chirp sound.

Panel 6: Murf leaps out of the wrapped blanket towards the kids, smiling, splashing some blue slime onto Guz's face, and she closes her eyes and braces for the goo to hit her. The kids look ecstatic. "MURF!" they all shout at once. Rok-Tahk goes on and says "I missed you." Jankom says, "Hah. Jankom never doubted a thing."

End Image ID.

extra:

Guz: so. you're. this slime worm's communal family.

Jankom: what of it, ya bag of snot?

Guz: do. do you even know how to raise a slime worm?

Dal: Yes! Well. Maybe. I mean he's basically indestructible, how hard could it be?

Rok-Tahk: Yeah! He once survived eating a live photon grenade.

Guz: What.

Dal: Yeah you know it was probably all the time he spent enslaved in the chimerium mines; hardened him up to it.

Guz: WHAT?

Gwyn: It's a long story.

Guz: wait. hey aren't you those wanted fugitives?

Jankom: Desperately, desperately wanted!

Zero: I can't read her thoughts but I do not think that's the kind of wanted she means.

Dal: Gotta blast!

[sunfloo-wers]

four for the character questions?

OK OK OK OK FOUR

(I'm so tempted to make this about the Colors too, and do like 5 different ones (one for Four, one for each Color, but we'll see how it goes)

favorite thing about them

I can't pick between character design and personality sooooo

I really like the tunic, I know it's a color pallet nightmare and shouldn't work, but it makes him visually stand out against the greens and blues of most of the chain, which I think is fun! (also pretty colors) (and smol)

From a personality/characteristics view point, I really like the complexities with his character! It's really difficult to see him as a 2d character, because of the Colors, which I think is really fun! Stick four different, but still somewhat flat sometimes (as is their point kinda), characters together and you get the real humanity of a fully fleshed out person unavoidable in the character!

least favorite thing about them

Hmmmmm, this is difficult because I love the little guy, but I'd have to sayyyyyyyy... drawing the bangs/headband thingey? from a purely selfish point of view, because I do like how they look, and it's a fun way to differentiate character designs, they're just so hard to drawwwww

favorite line

Not really a line, but when he just fucking cackles in Dawn pt4 when Wars says "I think you ought to practice some teamwork. It could use some improvement."

brOTP

hmmmmmm, I'm very fond of Four and Dot's platonic relationship, but I'll get into that more in a later section soooooooo

In the chain at least I think Four and Wind are cool because of the underestimation bondings be it because of age, or babyface/height, or just being the small ones! Although, Four and Sky is also a really nice dynamic... AND the Four and Legend one is real fun, both because their personalities work very well together, and the whole Palace of the Four Sword angst potential >:3

Honestly I could speak towards any sort of within the chain relationship and can't pick just one :(((((

OTP

Four and Shadow, I am nothing if not predictable (more specifically Vidow because of the manga, but BlackSmith (or whatever the Four and Shadow ship name is) is fun too!). They're just adorable and horrible okie? :3

nOTP

I'm just generally not a big fan of romantic Four and Dot, no disrespect to people who do like it, but I think they're better as besties! Like, I think MC!Link at least was very young (and FS(A)!Link was also fairly young I think, but more of an early-middle teen than like 8 or 9), so romance was probably the last thing on his mind, just "I gotta save my best friend!"

And! They've known each other since they were children because their parents were friends and Hyrule Town is a fairly small town, no? This could be argued towards a friends-to-lovers plot line technically, but I just automatically file "known each other as kids" under "a subsection of siblings" because of my own experiences (and the aroaceness) sooooooooooo... yeah...

random headcanon

Colors: I think Red and Blue bake stuff together a lot and give it out to the rest of the people of Hyrule Town for fun, or maybe they open a bakery! (this is all after the events of lu, or before I guess)

Four specifically: I really like the idea that he keeps a journal/diary. Writes down everything type journal. This is a fairly popular head cannon I think (maybe????) so for an out of left field one have... uhhhh...

He goes crazy for raspberries. Sure why not, that feels like it weirdly works for some reason

unpopular opinion

I don't think I really have that many unpopular opinions (unless something else here is that) buuuuuuut, maybe something about him being at least a little morally grey? Like, I get heros and all that jazz, but like... let him be at least a little morally grey hmmm?

I guess that's not really unpopular, I just see "hero character is good' and think, how about no, not exactly, and for him it works!

song i associate with them

Okay, I don't have one for Four, couldn't find one in the "all o' it" playlist, but I did find one for Vidow so I hope this suffices:

Little Soldiers by The Crane Wives

(I am nothing if not a puppet for the Little Soldiers Renchantyn propaganda, and it has only made me realise it kinda works for these two as well)

favorite picture of them

As you've probably assumed by now, I cannot pick just one sooooo:

He's so little, so very smol, and the overhead pov just makes It so much more apparent hehhe (also angy little guy)

This one is just hilarious due to the context, another iteration of little guy

and these two because they are new and we all love them :P

(all art credit to Jojo over at @/linkeduniverse of course)

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This was really fun thank you so much for sending it in! :D

[karolinedgmachinery]

400-600kg/h 2D 3D snacks pallet extruder machine papad fryums food produ...

[ell-arts]

If you need a pallet cleanser...here's a little animatic I made of a mouse cleaning her face :)

I'm learning how to use a new 2D animation program for work. This mouse is just for practice, next step is to refine the sketch and start animating.

[oheck-trainwreck]

Late breaking update on my AP art portfolio (which I decided to work on right before the QSMP exploded in fire), I got a 5! (Which, for any non-americans, is the highest score you can get)

The theme of my portfolio was 'The process of creating an animation,' and it explored character design, lipsyncing, and various methods that I used to tell a story through animation.

The characters and story I used was the events of Badboyhalo's egg streams, and specifically Dapper and Pomme, set to 'Will the Sun Ever Shine Again' from Home on the Range.

I never finished the animation, since i got very burnt out with the sheer volume of projects I was working on (I was in theater and also robotics, and several other AP classes), plus all the QSMP drama at the time. I think i'd like to finish it at some point, as a tribute to a phenomenal arc and the incredible acting from Lumi and Shade, but now is not the time. For now, please enjoy all of the pieces gathered together:

Storyboard

This is a scene-by-scene breakdown of the song, focusing on compositions, with little notes for movement and stuff.

2. Character Sketches

This was me figuring out the style I wanted to go for. I decided on something more cartoony than I'd normally use, so I needed to figure out how elements of their designs would translate.

3. Pomme's Reference Sheet

4. Dapper's Reference Sheet

5. Expressions Practice

Practice with the expressions that the babies would have throughout the animation (so they're all sad), + some poses to show the size comparison

6. Color Palette Experiments

Various possible color palletes, including monocromatic, dicromatic, and a fully colored version

7. Thumbnail

'Lineless style, vignette. Portrays isolation and mourning. Characters only have each other.' (-The description that I sent to the AP people for this piece)

8. Thumbnail sketches of all backgrounds

9. Lineart and Coloring Experiments

I couldn't submit gifs, so the AP people just got a png. L.

10. Lipsync tests

For a part of the song when Pomme would say the song lyrics out loud.

11. 3d House to help me draw backgrounds

This was technically a 2d portfolio, but backgrounds are hard so i made a version of the house to help me.

12. Practice using the reference in #11

This piece actually has a title: 'The Last Good Day' (okay im gonna go throw up now-)

13. 1 type of animation (Zoom Out)

14. 1 type of animation (Full body movement)

15. 1 type of animation (Smaller expressive movement)

...

I miss this project. I hope I can finish it someday.

[dailyharuka]

Day 118

Ai no material slaps I don’t care if you disagree cuz ur wrong

First one is ai no material 2d mv

The second one was from colorful pallet staff apparently

My tummy hurts again 🙁

-💧

[adobe-outdesign]

taking you to jail for not doing braviary as you said in my ask /j

(I screwed up and forgot to do this one so we'll do it now)

The U.S. Region obviously needed a bald eagle Pokemon, and we got one in the form of the (all-male for some strange reason) Rufflet line.

Rufflet itself is much more adorable in the 2D artwork than it actually ever looks in the games—something about the little face and fluffiness gives it a silly quality. However, beyond that, it's fairly generic. The colors are nice and the design works well enough, but lack of a real theme at this stage drags it down a bit. The only hint we have is the single feather on the head and the surrounding white fluff, which leads into...

Braviary, which is much more bald eagle-ish than its pre-evo. According to some interviews, it seems like this bonnet is intentionally based off of indigenous headdresses. On the one hand, it's kind of under-emphasized for the most important part of the design... but on the other hand, they also said in that interview that it colors are based off the U.S. flag, and considering colonization it's probably best if they don't lean into any indigenous visuals.

Outside of that, it's pretty straightforward; bald eagle, flag colors, done. It's not bad or anything, but it doesn't stand out nearly as much as its counterpart the Vullaby line, which had much stronger concepts and visuals with their bone motifs.

Thankfully, Hisuian Braviary is honestly better across the board. First, no awkward mixing of indigenous imagery and with U.S.A. iconography—the headdress is now a pair of psychic-energy eyes, which gives it a distinct theme, and the flag colors have become a simple black and white monotone.

In fact, it's not even a bald eagle anymore. The white head still makes its connection to Braviary obvious, but the overall patterns and pallet now resemble a Steller's sea eagle. This is a nice touch that further differentiates it from the original design.

My only complaint is that the head feathers feel just a little too fluffy without the longer feathers there; it might have helped if the fluff around the legs was white too, or if the tail was fluffier. Otherwise, this design is a solid improvement.

Also, I don't normally mention shinies in these reviews, but I have to give a special shout out to Hisuian Braviary's shiny. I'm lucky enough to have one in PLA, and it is stunningly gorgeous. The monotone black body allows the all-blue psychic eyes to pop compared to the white head feathers, and the black color also reduces unnecessary detail from the markings. It's also a nice biology reference, as Steller's sea eagles have a very rarely concurring dark morph.

Anyway, as a whole: this line is decent. Rufflet's very cute but a bit lacking in concept, and while Braviary has a bit more going on with it, it's ultimately beaten out by its Hisuian variant, which is the strongest of the three designs.