In The Autumn of Our Discontent

[mark_asphodel]

After a weird winter, spring and summer, the vagaries of weather are falling in sync with the calendar this autumn.  The first true autumnal chill blew in right on September 1st, and come November 1st I found the first sheen of frost on my car.  I guess we can schedule that first true snow for December 1st, right?

Serenes Forest has some FE12 art now, and some honest-to-Pete FE1 art, at last.

FE1!Midia.  Awww.  And here's FE BS Midia for comparison-- gives a totally different sense of the character, no?

FE1!Linda.  Something is lacking, methinks.

FE1!Nina.  This is what I mean about old-school Nina being an adult while new!Nyna looks like a girl dressed up in adult clothes.  

I love the FE12 art-- not the character designs so much (though I do like many of them), but the CGs and such.  They are beautiful and evocative and, to me, communicate a great deal.

This breaks my heart.  It's called "Acension."

So does this, but for entirely different reasons.  He's so damned pretty... what wasted potential.

 Haven't touched 'fic in many days.  Too much garbage going on.

Comments

[samuraiter.livejournal.com]

Oh, my. The FE1 versions look like chibis of the characters I already know. (Why am I suddenly so thankful that FE11 Linda really, uh, babed out? Hmm.)

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

Why am I suddenly so thankful that FE11 Linda really, uh, babed out? Hmm

We ALL are.

IMO, the FE1 designs feel more "cartoony," but clearly they owe a lot to late-70s/80s anime. Whereas the FE3 designs are more in sync with mid-90s aesthetics.