Topic: Castlevania Animated Series to be on Netflix?!

[Shiroi Koumori]

Oooh! I like plot's castle too!

I agree that the original reminds me of shovel knight too.

[Foffy]

Also liked your concept. I went and did my own, too:



Of course, it looks like a hack job and you can see the repeating texture everywhere. The point though was to show what I meant: Bulkier base, MANY less floating towers, keeping only one: Dracula's (like, the original appears to have SIX) and a more "compressed", shorter appearance. Also made the stairway to Dracula shorter, bringing his tower more next to the main tower. Kept the overly long bridges, though I'd still remove one of them maybe (the front one).

Doing this I realized that part of my issue with the original poster is that the castle looks too much like a "tower", too tall and too slim, with too much negative space, and not much like a fortress. All the hanging towers and excess of bridges contribute to enhancing the "obviously evil" look.

This is not a genius job, this reflects MY OPINION only, and my intention is just to illustrate better what I mean, and not "do better than the person doing this".

Why do you have a Midas touch? I love that edit more than the weird spiraling design we actually have.

[JR]

The Castle needs more Castle.

I agree. It looks more like interconnected towers than a castle. And it also feels like Oprah came in and said, "every section of the castle gets a floating throooone roooooom!!" 

Eh, I don't know...it seems pretty consistent with the image Shankar has been trying to convey of this whole thing, so it's not surprising. At this point, I hope the show is just entertaining on its own merit.

[zangetsu468]

Do you know what the original poster passingly reminds me of? This:



But with a great deal more hanging towers.

Man I love me some Shovel Knight

[TheTextGuy]

Man I love me some Shovel Knight

I dig Shovel Knight too.

Also, didn't mind the castle at first, but now I do think it looks like something you'd see in a more fantastical, supernatural type dimension, more like the one in the final boss of CV64 and less like the actual reality that the majority of CV64 (and the most of the rest of the games) take place in.  I think their idea of subtle is taking the one thing that's off about the castle normally from the outside (the hanging keep) and banging it over your head with it.  Still gonna keep on looking out for updates, but more for curiosity.

[Lumi Kløvstad]

I admit, the poster actually gave me the first good feeling about this project I've felt since they announced it was being made. Plot's castle is better, but still.

Also, as for it looking unreal, I must le shrug as I have a bunch of memories of the Inverted Castle and that didn't exactly obey physics either.

[Briraka]

good lord all this complaining over the castle's new design. i'd hate to have been around when the adventure came out.

"what even is this shit? it looks like someone threw together some turds and gave it bridges that don't even go anywhere!"

[zangetsu468]

good lord all this complaining over the castle's new design. i'd hate to have been around when the adventure came out.

"what even is this shit? it looks like someone threw together some turds and gave it bridges that don't even go anywhere!"

You now prossess Dracula's Treehouse..

[Nagumo]

Just because an old castle design looks bad doesn't mean the design from this series is above critism. Besides, I actually like that design. It reminds me of Vampire Hunter D's castle.

[Dracula9]

Just because an old castle design looks bad doesn't mean the design from this series is above critism. Besides, I actually like that design. It reminds me of Vampire Hunter D's castle.

Which one, though?

I'm assuming Lee's, since that's the OG one. I don't remember if Demon Deathchase Bloodlust featured any castles, though, and I can't recall either how far along the manga adaptation is.

[Briraka]

Just because an old castle design looks bad doesn't mean the design from this series is above critism.

never actually said anything about that, but ok then if that's how one takes satire over said criticisms.

[TatteredSeraph]

Which one, though?

I'm assuming Lee's, since that's the OG one. I don't remember if Demon Deathchase Bloodlust featured any castles, though, and I can't recall either how far along the manga adaptation is.

Bloodlust featured Carmilla's castle of Chaythe, while the novel instead had the ending take place at a spaceport.  You don't see all of Chaythe (aside for while it's collapsing), but it's huge, and its design has lots of lots of towers and flying buttresses. 

[Nagumo]

never actually said anything about that, but ok then if that's how one takes satire over said criticisms.

You didn't outright say so in your post but you were definitely using a whataboutism in order to deflect criticism. Even if you were just joking, that's the underling impression your post gave me.

[Briraka]

You didn't outright say so in your post but you were definitely using a whataboutism in order to deflect criticism. Even if you were just joking, that's the underling impression your post gave me.

fair enough, and in retrospect, yeah it's... idk i wasn't intending to deflect criticism, just disagreeing in a joking, sarcastic manner. i do understand the issues people would have with the castle's design from an old cannon nut perspective and/or how animated adaptions miss the mark almost always when it comes to portraying it's source material. but i'm a fan of making things over the top insane, so a metal-tastic demon castle with floating towers is right up my alley and so i wouldn't think dracula living in something like that wouldn't be outside the realm of possibility.

[affinity]

good lord all this complaining over the castle's new design. i'd hate to have been around when the adventure came out.

"what even is this shit? it looks like someone threw together some turds and gave it bridges that don't even go anywhere!"

LOOOOOL lolololol    I would be more hypercritical in whatever character designs and art direction, and script they have for this so called series.

the synopsis doesn't sound like it's Leon or Sonia.     though I'm sick of the usual "one hunter vs every enemy" sort of thing.  a band of hunters, a family of hunters, that hunt and fight enemies together would be way more interesting, and even give a "Aliens" feel to the series with people guessing which hunter is gonna get devoured next.

if it's just the usual one guy tearing up beasties alone, people might as well watch Berserk.  the lone hunter schtick doesn't really hold interest long compared to group of hunters.

even Trevor required assistance from at least 3 others (Alucard, Grant, Sypha) to win.