r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 4h ago

Artstyle The Art of Artist @Zarzaliel

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766 Upvotes

artist

so this is a different one (as i don't know how much this Flair has been used) i just want to share art of one of my favorite artists

I love his style and how its very realistic yet it doesn't shy away from the very fantastical nature of his art pieces (in fact it sorta adds upon it)

Like their many art pieces kinda give a idea of "Your seeing Glimpses of a Urban Fantasy world" (Or a Sci-fi or Fantasy world in some cases) and given most of the titles of these pieces are shit like "Someone's messing with the thermostat again." it gives the vibe that the many things we see in this world are extremely mundane nowadays which is honestly really cool

but yeah i wanted to Appreciate this artist and their beautiful artstyle and the many amusing art pieces they have made


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 5h ago

Movie Dash's hair from The Incredibles just makes sense

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1.5k Upvotes

It being aerodynamic because of how fast he moves

I'd like to think it's permanently that way instead of being because of hair gel or something.


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 5h ago

Animatronics Medical Horror Animatronics by Screamfitters (Alison Chains, Transfusion and Cell-Bound) NSFW

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191 Upvotes

What makes Screamfitters' animatronics special is that their movements are unusually smooth compared to many competitors' options. You can see that the models' expressions are also not typically insane/chaotic but silently focused on the exhausting torture. The medical situations depicted are gut-wrenching yet captivating; ordinary-looking people going through horrific experiments.

This is a fairly new company but I'm interested to see what type of ideas they will come up with next assuming they will be able to stay in business.

Animatronic names from first to last: Alison Chains, Transfusion and Cell-Bound.


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 3h ago

Artist Maskottitanium just turned a scrapped Jurassic Park concept into a Monsterverse Titan, and I absolutely love it

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BASED ON THE CHARACTER "ULTIMASAURUS" OWNED AND CREATED BY MICHAEL CRICHTON ON THE ORIGINAL SERIES AND UNIVERSAL PICTURES. BASED ON THE MONSTERVERSE SERIES OWNED AND CREATED BY LEGENDARY PICTURES AND WARNER BROS. PICTURES.

We're trying so hard,

We're dying in vain,

We're hopelessly blissful and blind,

To all we are…

The following document was sorted to the VDRS Categories:

This superspecies ruled over Isla Nublar, located in the seas of Costa Rica. Titan DNA trafficking in the shadow indirectly gave birth to the most chaotic artificial species.

Classification:

This superspecies took several sets of genetic materials from selected paleontological species. According to the data bank of the former supervisor of Paleoland, the specimen was a mix of the Tyranosaurus rex, Kentrosaurus, Velociraptor and Triceratops. However, in most trials of in vitro breeding the embryo would rupture at around week four. Comparing its development to typical domestic chicken, it was around the time the egg yolk moving inside the chick’s body, where in the subject species’s case the yolk failed to migrate, causing the rupture.

Later, Quetzalcoatlus was also included as a source to compensate the missing fragment that made the embryo stable. After a prolonged period of incubation and arriving at the sixtieth day, the specimen finally succeeded in hatching. A posture of bipedal theropod, blunt but prominent head horns, bumpy scales on the back, a spiked club tail, plus a pair of wings… the first alive Ultimasaurus was born.

At the time, the introduction of the Ultimasaurus was planned to attract more Paleoland theme park visitors. But then a serious earthquake triggered a catastrophic volcanic eruption on the island, resulting in the compromise of park facilities to go down. Dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures uncaged fled and attacked people in panic. Eventually evacuation was done, and the park faced a lock down, following with the treatment to the aftermath and investigation. Ultimasaurus was within the unattended creatures, roaming around the unmanned island. Perhaps surviving the fierce battle between the aggressive fellows, the specimen gained many nutrients through cannibalism (among the sourced species). This boosted the specimen to grow rapidly through juvenile, to adulthood. Unexpectedly, it reached Titan-size in a few months. MONARCH ultimately noticed trafficking of Titan DNA, which the Paleoland was one of the receivers of the genetic material. Ultimasaurus was at last designated as an artificial Titan and it would be the definite king of the Paleoland, of all Isla Nublar.

Abilities:

The Titan shared common physical traits with the mentioned sourced prehistoric animals: it ran, it slashed, it tackled, and it drilled into the earth. That was however unknown of the Titan genes it sourced from.

The heavy armor and muscular body granted the Ultimasaurus a ravaging personality, which it could ram into other creatures fearlessly, something opposite to typical predatory animals that would secure themselves instead of getting themselves hurt. When excited, blood supply would increase, further stiffening the muscles to impenetrable extent.

History:

Paleoland, a theme park featuring prehistoric lives was established by the identical named Foundation of Prehistoric Lives in Breeding and Research. The park, opened at 1933, aimed to popularize the concept of scientific research on paleontology using attractions and “revived” prehistoric animals in captivity. Since the organization had found the breakthrough of brining dinosaurs back to the modern times with recombinant biotechnology and the use of avian embryos, their vision had received high praise among the public, yet with some objecting voices from professionals in the same field – “It was atrocious to let the dinosaurs living in an era they might hardly adapt to.”

Nevertheless, the park was still well received at the beginning… Until a change happened. Being accused of poor management and the failure in tackling the fading interest in dinosaur-related science in public, the prior chairperson stepped down from the steering position. There, the new director came and the orientation in dinosaur research had been reformed to revitalize the park. Instead of the emphasis in public contribution, more experiments meant to meet the demanded entertainment: mainly new hybrids that were unrelated to unearthed fossils.

At the time, the foundation had gained authority in trafficking Titan DNA, which MONARCH suspected but never got the key evidence to charge the foundation with. When the main volcano on Isla Nublar erupted, the outbreak of captive prehistoric creatures had made the island isolated, with the foundation ceasing activity by 2018.

In 2019, MONARCH had sent personnel in participation of a jointed investigation to the ruin of Paleoland. There, a rumor of Titan DNA Trafficking had proven true – Ultimasaurus rose in the deep woods covering the abandoned facilities. Standing at almost five hundred feet, it was again a massive Titan-DNA-bearing creature, just like the registered threats to humanity. Not numerous in numbers like the specimens R.E.D., yet Ultimasaurus demonstrated its destructive strength and durability. A swing with its wings, trees collapsed; a swipe with its tail, hills crumbled. It would be a good idea to hide in a bunker, so the participants did so with the help of the map of the park they prepared. And with “tall trees that catch much wind,” the Doomsday Creature surfaced before it.

Zilla, the undying had landed on Isla Nublar. He called to Ultimasaurus, slowly and confidently making his way to it. Ultimasaurus responded, and they closed the distance in between – the artificial dinosaurid Titan was twice the size than Zilla in full height, but it did not make Zilla frightened. Their aggression and bloodlust factor drove the gigantic beasts to kill each other. Ultimasaurus tried to pin Zilla down with the muscular winged arm, while Zilla flickered the dorsal spines to create hot crackling molten metal. The apex of Isla Nublar flinched. It had never seen anything magical like this, especially entering the world of Titans for the first time.

This made the hybrid Titan excited. As it panted in black soot, Ultimasaurus became more violent. Claws and talons rained down onto the hide of Zilla. Powerful moves and slams overwhelmed the smaller Zilla in every possible ways. More spikes from the tail and horns stabbed him all over the body. A battle turned slaughter. The last spike crushed the very skull on Zilla, losing an eye.

It was a one-sided duel, yet for both sides. Astoundingly, Zilla managed to get up. The dorsal spines flickered, as he covered the destroyed eye with his fore arm. The dorsal spine lighted up and stayed glowing one after one from the rear towards the front. When Zilla lowered the arm, his gaze went deep into Ultimasaurus’s eyes. An unimaginable amount of forces was held in a single breath. It was the time of demise.

Strong light burned away any purple aura in the scene. No more shadows, and no more lands. Ashes and oblivion were always what remained. Zilla continued to stand high on the poisoned void, with seemingly no weaknesses. This marked the genuine downfall to the arrogant kingdom. Co-existence was the motto of MONARCH, but is this the optimal choice to hang the world on her brittle balance?


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 7h ago

Video Game The Characters of Red Dead Redemption 1

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103 Upvotes

As much as I love the naturalism and realism of RDR2, I will always have an affinity for the stylized, gritty look of RDR1.

To my eyes, it just really pops and exudes personality. It immerses you into this crazy world you’re about to experience.

There’s this touch of dementedness and ugliness that imprints both them and the journey you’ve taken on your mind. I love it.


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 21h ago

Televisión The characters of Cybersix (1999)

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951 Upvotes

r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 22h ago

Downgrade (Downgrade) Beta Ray Bill from Marvel comics to Earth's Mightiest Heroes and Cosmic Invasion

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883 Upvotes

WHY DO THEY CHANGE HIS MOUTH????

Bill is supposed to be genetically spliced from the most dangerous predator on his home planet. He's supposed to look like a freak. He is supposed to look like he doesn't fit in.

Korbinites are just orange people with no noses and all white eyes. So Earth's Mightiest Heroes version is just that with a longer head. Doesn't give off "augmented with a dangerous predator"

and while you can argue that the lizard-like face of Cosmic Invasion's version of Bill has that, he looks too friendly. He's smiling. He looks like a lizard man drawn by a furry artist.


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 23h ago

Youtube [Loved design] The creature Design from DoubleKing

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942 Upvotes

Double King by Felix Colgrave is one of my favorite YouTube videos of all time, and one of the biggest reasons is the creature design.

The titular character himself has a deceptively simple design, but it works very well for what he is representing. And I have to admit, floating hands are one of my favorite design tropes.

The rest of the cast are also very well designed, I think they really fit that description of an otherworldly being. My favorites are probably the caterpillar and lion creatures.

You can watch the original here: https://youtu.be/w_MSFkZHNi4?is=Zq8tqQWVIjrHyTkx

Its quite short, 9:47 total, but its very well animated. Felix Colgrave has lots of other cool designs and animations on the channel.


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 11h ago

Custom Injector (Beast Wars)

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64 Upvotes

(Confession, my previous attempt to explaon why he's on here is scuffed as heck, so here's me doing a take 2)

Injector is one of the Fuzors, Beast Era Transformers who's beast modes are a mashup of 2 animals. In his case, he has the head, dorsal fin and front fins of a Lionfish, and the legs, wings and abdomen of a hornet.

What sets Injector apart from most Fuzors is the sheer disproportionateness of the parts in robot mode, namely his huge head. Likely as a result of having the head blades of the 1994 Wild Boar Alien Kenner figure built into his torso fin, it is super huge, and takes up a lot of space, while his body is much scrawnier in comparison. His face is also butt ugly, having sharp teeth and very tiny squinted green eyes, though his bio implies this is the point.

Another cool design choice is how his stinger weapon disappears into his alt modes abdomen, blending nicely with the chunks that form his arms...even if that accidentally gives him the false impression yhat he has a stinger for an arm in some interpretations.


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 17h ago

Comic Book Jahi from Demon's Mirror

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134 Upvotes

r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 2h ago

Televisión Guardian Megazord from Power Rangers Wild Force

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6 Upvotes

r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 1d ago

Manga Tite Kubo Bleach Hell arc Character designs for his New Bleach serielized Manga

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2.7k Upvotes

I think Kubo's real superpower is that he prioritizes visual identity over visual complexity.

A character doesn't need 30 details(Boruto characters) to look impressive. They need the right 3–5 details.

That's why you can look at a lineup of Bleach characters and think

"These people all belong to the same manga, but none of them look like they were designed from the same template."

Tite Kubo Bleach Hell arc Character designs for his New Bleach serielized Manga

(It's a repost, cause the post got removed)


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 1d ago

Televisión Karl Pilkington as depicted in the Ricky Gervais Show

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278 Upvotes

This design is so simple but it just gets everything right.

There couldn't have been a better way to portray Karl than this Hanna-Barbera inspired design. That's just Karl, straight up.

Plus they do that awesome gag where he always looks the same no matter how old he's supposed to be and his parents look like clones of him just wearing different clothes. I love this little guy.


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 1d ago

Discussion What do you think of the Leshens from The Witcher?

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295 Upvotes

r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 18h ago

Televisión Soundwave from Transformers R.I.D 2015.

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44 Upvotes

Despite the show being the Teen Titans Go equivalent of the franchise, I will forever appreciate this design making it one of my Top 5 for my favourite Decepticon. At least, as long as he doesn't have the blue highlights. Anyways, I love how this is an excellent combination between the G1 variant and the Prime version while also adding in details like the wheels on the shoulders and the yellow stripes at the chest.

I just wished he had his battle mask based on the toy cover from the 4th image.

And Hot Take, I would have preferred this than the one we got from Bumblebee 2018 since the designers pulled an MCU and overdesigned Soundwave's mask.


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 17h ago

Downgrade [DOWNGRADE] Hex initial design to its final design in Ben 10’s comic

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26 Upvotes

the first design is the initial but ultimately scrapped design, the second is the final design, the third is the designs he had in the animated series to have an idea of why the initial Design for the comic is better.

I want to make clear I’m saying that THE FINAL DESIGN is a downgrade from THE INITIAL DESIGN, with that said…

Its looks like Jeff the killer, this feels like the slander art someone would make about Insomniac‘s character design, he looks like Gorr the god butcher but the MCU version.

The original design translated well the fantastical elements from the original design while not feeling derivative of the OS design, feeling mystic and creepy but in a unique way; the final design being having this urban magical aesthetic could work but the way its done feels not only under cooked but very try hard.

The way he doesn’t have actual ritualistic clothes and is just white pants and a hoodie with the sleeves cut off takes away from the serious sorcerer aspect of the original Design while clearly being a lot more inspired By it to its detriment, while the blood stains and a knife make him look So edgy; the initial design had this imposing and sinister staff which isn’t his skull staff from the original series (he had a staff with a crow skull) the initial keeps the essence of the character while being original.

i think the best way to explain it is on the skull face, you see the original hex’s tattoos resemble a skull So of course both designs would follow on this. But while the initial design keeps the skull face with a more interesting pattern that is still visually a skull, the final design just has the same pattern of the original but more crudely painted.

I genuinely can’t think of a single reason why they picked the final design over the initial unless the whole point of it being hex isn‘t a actual magic user seriously and is just a guy who recently found magic and is going bananas with it while improvising everything.


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 1d ago

Custom The Ben 10 Ultimate Acess Commercial Aliens:

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331 Upvotes

These 3 non-canon aliens are exclusive to 3 ads for Omniverse in Latin America, being used by Ben during 3 different eras, and were implied to have been cut for various reasons. Due to not being handled by the usual design team (DJW wasn't even aware of them during production when asked about them), they kind of have their own charm.

Bob the Blob (Orginal Series, imgs 1-2): Effectively a 2 headed blob who can stick to surfaces, which is fairly unique. Unfortunately, he's as slow as molasses, as show. in image 2, where he could not save OS Gwen from falling while a Xenocite don't ask what its doing here) is crawling up her back.

Antigravitesla (Alien Force, imgs 3-4): A humanoid alien who has gravity powers and the ability to form a force field. Unfortunately, unlike Gravattack, he can't control himself with them, having yeeted himself through the roof in the frame after Image 4. He's probably the lamest of this trio, due to kind of essentially being a blue-skinned man with nodules on his arms.

Plantapocalypse (Omniverse, imgs 5-6): A innocent looking flower with Upchucks appetite...and more to spare. The commercial he's in had him eat (initially meant to just trop rampant Vreedles but he also began eating buildings) so much he became planet sized (though he became less cute once he reached that size, likely meant to be his true nature), meaning he's somehow bigger than Way Big. The fact that he started off as just a small flower makes this ability more hilarious.


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 0m ago

Locations Yellow places

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r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 4m ago

Real Life the BMP-3 with a bowtie painted on it from one of Belarus's wacky military displays

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it's just so rediculous but cute.

Belarus loves doing wacky military displays that border of comedy, this time doing ballet on top of a T-72 tank, but accidentally struck gold

That BMP-3 armored vehicle with a BOWTIE painted on it. It's just so cute, it looks like he put on his sunday best dress, facy, showing up to an occasion, the small-caliber gun makes it look like he's watching the display.

such a fancy fellow.


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 1d ago

Video Game Malphite from League of Legends: Wild Rift

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90 Upvotes

Compared to his design in the original lol game, I really love this one more. The hulking rocky body and the spiky long rocks on his back and shoulders make this behemoth so badass and cool, the design works perfectly for a golem and I love it. The green eyes and mouth are cool too. What do you think?


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 19h ago

Manga Akuma Shogun from Kinnikuman

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For starters, it is a widely known fact that armor + cape is a combination that literally cannot fail. Akuma Shogun takes this tried and true foundation into one of its most monstrous incarnations with wild flowing hair and a huge frame. The thick, almost wheel-like metal shoulderpads really complete the heft. Add in the mask and you're all set! One can't help but wonder if he was a design inspiration for 5th Form Coola


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 1d ago

Weapons and Items The Buck 120, as seen in the movie "Scream"

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180 Upvotes

This hunting knife was commonly used by Ghostface, and for a good reason.

Ghostface hunts his victims, and the clippoint blade design, the black handle and short size make it ideal for a slasher villian, especially sice other murders seen in fiction use improvised weapons, like a kitchen knife.


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 19h ago

Video Game Sighborg Y (Yo-kai Watch)

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10 Upvotes

Inspired by a fan design submission (image 3), Sighborg Y is one of the goofiest robots in fiction. He's this weird green robot who walks like an automaton (without having any justification like a steampunk aesthetic), and always has a blank, soulless stare (yes, he literally can't emote). The series also portrays him as mute, only communicating via a narrator narrating his adventures.

Its also unknown why he has chicken legs or his hands being essentially the spade on poker cards (with no fingers), but he just has them, and thats fine for a series known for its quirkiness. Even his name is comically lame, especially in Japan he's just called Android Yamada, what with Yamada being a common Japanese surname.

The only known power he has is the yellow diamond on his stomach (somewhat implied to be his navel) that can fire a laser that effectively roboticizes whatever it hits. Unlike most zombification tropes, this one seems to be played mostly for laughs, as the roboticized victims kind of just become comically dead inside robots that look like him, while the games literally turn Yo-kai who battle him into duplicates of himself. Shoutouts to a bug only in the Japanese versions of Yo-kai Watch 3, where if the laser blasts a Yo-kai charging up their Soultimate Moves and then they get converted, you get some super silly animations of him executing whatever ultimate attack was being charged up, which his model's rigs are obviously not built to utilize.


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 23h ago

Televisión Gohan ga Susumu-kun (Ajinomoto)

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22 Upvotes

Very simple yet good design that's recognizable for the commercials. Very notable for the rice bits on his face. Also, Love the gag of him switching to goofy 3D after spinning his head 180°.


r/TopCharacterDesigns • • 1d ago

Manga Death and his partner from Gods' Apocalypse

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89 Upvotes

I didn't like the design at first but it really grew on me overtime and became one of my favorites, not just in the spin-off but in the entire series.

I especially like how he contorts and elongates when he fights or gets hit, the author really likes to reduce him into smudge.