TT Request: Better Artwork

[Manifesto]

I don't really have much comment on TT itself, I like everything about it.

Except the artwork. All of the cards look like a rushed Photoshop job to me -- a mixture of screen captures or clipped promo art from other games. Most of the card templates also just look kind of shoddy, but that might be the screenshots causing it. It'd be nice if the cards were designed to actually look like, well, cards.

Not saying everything would need to be custom drawn just for TT; they could use any existing concept art for the characters even. Or, if SE did want to be fancy, each update when they add new cards could feature an artist 'series' that highlights the uniqueness of the particular artist's talents, and somewhat commemorate when the cards were added to the game.

On the whole, it'd just be nice if the cards were held to some kind of artistic standard. The aesthetic of this game generally has such an attention to detail that it's weird these cards don't. Does anyone else have this issue?

[Konigs]

I agree. I love the Dissidia artwork for the Legendaries, and it's a shame to restrict artwork only to those fellas. There should be tons of artwork floating around the FFXIV offices and would be easy to implement.

[randysquirrel]

+1.
some of the cards look ok, but some of them I can't even tell wtf it's supposed to be

[NaliaBrown]

+1.
some of the cards look ok, but some of them I can't even tell wtf it's supposed to be

Blue Dragon. What the heck is the picture on that card? It sure isn't a dragon.

[Welsper59]

I agree. I love the Dissidia artwork for the Legendaries, and it's a shame to restrict artwork only to those fellas. There should be tons of artwork floating around the FFXIV offices and would be easy to implement.

Besides concept model sketches and maybe some VERY rough environment sketches with characters/monsters in it (untouched hand sketched quality), I doubt they'd have anything but 3D model images (which is what we got).

Blue Dragon. What the heck is the picture on that card? It sure isn't a dragon.

I was about to point out the same thing with that one. Behemoth also just looks like the common brown skinned Ifrit to me.

[randysquirrel]

Blue Dragon is certainly up there as one of the worse offenders, but for me Amalj'aa still holds the crown

[Manifesto]

Blue Dragon is certainly up there as one of the worse offenders, but for me Amalj'aa still holds the crown

Blue Dragon, Ultros & Typhon, most of the NPC cards remind me of DMV photos. The simple cutout with drop shadow behind it... the fact it's a picture of a polygon model put on the card just bugs me. There isn't consistency between the FF14 and Dissidia artwork. Just do illustrations across the board!

[PotatoTree]

+1 The art looks horrible. I mean at least add some filters or pose them with a background or something. They don't have to be super-high quality art like from MTG or something, just something different to look at would be nice. Right now the cards look like something I get from a McDonald's happy meal.

[Tsukino]

To be fair, this matches with how cards looked in the game in FFVIII. Monsters, bosses, and summons all were just pictures of the in-game models. The most powerful cards were of main characters from the game, and used their portrait artwork instead of 3D models.

Though I would like to see unique art for them, this style very much matches its roots.

[jazo]

yeah, artwork for everything!!! commission me SE if you don't have artist =P


wait... OH GOSH!!! what if they do an art contest and the winners get their art in new TT cards!!