#on the one hand WT is definitely responsible for pushing their creators to such an extent they have to take the low effort way out

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About LO backgrounds isn't blending well and looking very 3D, while you're correct I honestly think LO is more tame case if you look to Webtoons like Midnight Poppy Land and Let's play for example; at least RS oversaturate the backgrounds with colors so it won't be very noticeable and doesn't make it hard (at least for me) to read the comic, I can't same the same for the aforementioned two! (sorry if my English was weird)

oh yeah no, LO's backgrounds aren't even half as bad as Let's Play and MPL, both of those comics have their anime characters literally just floating on top of Google SketchUp and Acon3D backgrounds and it's so brutal. LO's backgrounds are definitely more "bad when you squint", though the tradeoff is that unlike in MPL and LP, the character art is WAY worse and so half the time you don't even look past the noodle limbs and brick shithouse bodies and bug-eyed faces to notice just how dull and empty the backgrounds are. Frankly I think the models they use would be fine, if they put more effort into actually coloring them instead of just washing them out with a single color that doesn't tell you anything about the setting (especially when those single colors make the foreground characters look even worse with the color disparity.)

Case in point, we sometimes use 3D models for buildings and furniture in Rekindled and I don't think people even notice half the time lmao LO's 3D backgrounds aren't blending well because they feel like they shouldn't even be there when they're just using void backgrounds anyways, vs. LP and MPL which are overusing 3D backgrounds with no effort put into blending them to make them look natural.