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t3chborb · 3 months

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I don't consider Ramattra difficult to draw, just very time consuming due to all the details.

... Excluding his ELBOWS, of all things.

Try extending your own arm and twisting your wrist and then entire arm. How in God's name do those kinds of motions (or in my case, poses) translate to a robot arm without a ball joint at the elbow???? I swear whenever I pose my arms to get a better idea on where the elbow itself points, which side of the hand has the the thumb, etc etc, then translate the information onto him, 99% of the time he ends up with dislocated elbows...

#Borb's Garbage Dump #Overwatch #Ramattra #there's a lot of weird jank going on with the robots in this game #like this guy visibly BREATHES #which on paper is cute but nonsensical with his design in practice besides the obvious robots don't need oxygen thing #you could easily make the excuse the black material between the ribs is flexible #but the ribs themselves are supposed to be ARMOR... sturdy and inflexible to protect “vital organs”#how the hell are those solid metal bars able to extend and contract to show breathing???#how are his legs attached to the pelvis when there's literally nothing but air between the pelvis and each leg???#listen i get it ow character designers and animators are not like #robotics engineers that create irl machinery so they can get away with cartoon physics #but trying to draw his arms accurately to the concept art/in-game model with all the lil bits and pieces being properly aligned...#... relative to each other WITHOUT straight up twisting hard metal or messing up his elbows is damn near impossible #and i tear my hair out every time i try to make sense of them #yeah his hands are also a nightmare but spoiler alert all hands are annoying #there's no bloody reason for something as unassuming as ARMS to be this difficult to deal with anatomically #can you tell i get frustrated whenever i have to pose his arms and am currently venting lmao

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