Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Lauront]

tldr: Yes, square works hard. but lets not handle them with kid gloves and pretend that they're not literally rolling in the millions they make off of us a year.

It's a mutually beneficial transaction, but yes the fawning adulation is as bad as the people sniping at them, IMO, and loses focus on what the nature of the transaction is at the end of the day. I also think it's silly to think it's incumbent upon us to crowdfund this. Likewise with the graphics/texture upgrades. It could eventually get to the point where if I don't see the budget being directed towards it, I might reassess whether the game is value for money, for me.

My point was, rather, that they are passionate about their product, and it often shines through, but I think the budgetary constraints imposed on the game sometimes make it difficult to deliver it as fully as they would prefer to - it's a for-profit venture, in the end, so that's understandable as it must be kept financially viable, however I think it's now at the point where it could do with greater reinvestment. Especially since that will extend its longevity.

[Mochamonarch]

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Yeah, I know SE is passionate about their game, by "passion project" I didn't mean to imply that they aren't passionate, I meant that usually a passion project implies that it's somebody's brain child that they are constructing without the motivation of money or sales. Something like Mounty Oum's Dead Fantasy or Scott Cawthon's FNAF (the first one.) would be considered passion projects. Final Fantasy is not a passion project, it is a franchise that has had countless games under its belt. Again, this doesn't imply that their employees don't love the game and put their heart into it.

Also, if Square REALLY wanted to update their graphics while cutting corners, and wanted their customers to share the workload, they could just rip an HD mod from somebody in the community and simply use that. bam, free HD texture. This could be said for any of the custom mods people make. But they won't do this for glaringlyobvious reasons.

But In all honesty, my personal sympathy with Square is rather limited when it comes to their work load on the missing genders, as they really did bring it upon themselves. They simply got too ambitious and overestimated the horsepower of their staff and they thought they could handle building 2 races from scratch. They can't.

They should have stuck with making one complete race at a time, and then saved the other for another expansion, especially since this is going to be their last race; it would have made more sense logically to spread out their hype across multiple expansions, as more people would have been exited for 2 complete races. However, square thought that 2 halves would equal a whole, which they don't. People asked for Viera, and people asked for a beastly race, yes. However I don't think anybody expected both to happen at the same time; that was SE's flub up.

imo they bit off way more than they could chew, and now they're paying for it, as both of their races are half-done and don't feel complete. missing genders asside, releasing a race with limited assets , limited customization and promising to fix them later is like (bringing it back to the restaurant analogy) like getting only half of your food with the promise the chef will prepare the rest some other time. This is a HUGE oversight that I believe someone up the development ladder should have seen coming.

Yeah, I used one youtube tutorial to draw this. I'm not an artist, you know?

Such a handsome bunny man! He looks great! I think you did fine enough, the angle of the face is lovely, gives him a masculine look while still being able to look more vulnerable should the situation call for it. The detail on the ears gives the picture a nice texture that helps establish more realism. I also like how you drew the eyes. I think some colour would really help make the picture pop more. I also recommend to try adding a visible adam's apple as another que to signal that this character is indeed male.

[Adamantini]

Such a handsome bunny man! He looks great! I think you did fine enough, the angle of the face is lovely, gives him a masculine look while still being able to look more vulnerable should the situation call for it. The detail on the ears gives the picture a nice texture that helps establish more realism. I also like how you drew the eyes. I think some colour would really help make the picture pop more. I also recommend to try adding a visible adam's apple as another que to signal that this character is indeed male.

thank you! I will try to do the adam's apple next time. For the color I need to confess... I'm very bad in colouring things =/ (but I can try)

[CoolDad]

thank you! I will try to do the adam's apple next time. For the color I need to confess... I'm very bad in colouring things =/ (but I can try)

If you have a program for digital art you can paste this picture onto it, make a new layer underneath it, and set the original drawing's layer mode to "multiply". Then you can color it on the bottom layer and the original drawing will work like lineart and your coloring won't interfere with the lines (and it'll have a nice paper texture from the photo). Good luck! Your drawing and character are both lovely.

[Adamantini]

If you have a program for digital art you can paste this picture onto it, make a new layer underneath it, and set the original drawing's layer mode to "multiply". Then you can color it on the bottom layer and the original drawing will work like lineart and your coloring won't interfere with the lines (and it'll have a nice paper texture from the photo). Good luck! Your drawing and character are both lovely.

Thanks! I will try to use Photoshop to give some colour to this one.