winzler:

Gallium City, huh. I need, need to see Bismuth City now. Tell me it exists.

So, these are various colour & landscape guidelines for Uprising. The cartoon is beautiful and I will challenge any naysayer to an art theory duel. But there is one thing about the ‘toon that bothers me to hell and back, and it’s nothing to do with the plot or characterisation.

This is the art team. See if you can find a single chick in it. See if you can find a single woman in the entire major sixteen-strong writing & art crew. Now I love what these guys have done look-wise - and I am patient and open-minded with regards to the writing - but I cannot believe that among the million people in conceptart.org who could have created things just as pretty as what we see here there was not one, not one artist who was also not a dude.

I wouldn’t be linefacing as hard as I am if this kind of shit did not happen time and time again - or this would not be necessary. And god I wish I could be uncynical enough to wonder if the bonanza of testosterone going on here hasn’t got to do with the whole bullshit idea of marketing Uprising and all of XD specifically to boys.

So, you know. I love the cartoon and will continue to do so but man does this boil my piss.

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