Topic: Chronicles Simon

[beingthehero]

Still, it's pretty fascinating to see Simon's design transition.







The second one was always a little wtf for me. It's good, but seems more Juste-ish than Simon. Maybe that's where Juste was inspired. Strange to see him with white hair and a rapier instead of the usual bastard sword.

I always found it interesting how much her initial Simon sketch had in common with Simon's original appearance.

[thernz]

He uses a budget Konami has granted to him. And what remains unused, is still Konami's money.

So, why would he do that? Seriously, that sounds incredibly stupid.

iga is stifling funds to buy conditioner for his wife shanoa
obviously

[A-Yty]

I hear he hoards the money in a huge treasure chest deep inside a volcano..and Konami hasn't noticed anything.

[crisis]

[Mooning Freddy]

So its entirely possible he has no idea what "fashion" is during 2035 and just wears what he feels comfortable in.

Meh, 2035 is not that long from now and I don't suppose Soma and Julius should be wearing plastic space suits. It's not that far off in the future lol...

there was always this eeriness in the older work, be it the symmetry or colors that are lacking in the new ones.

Like the extremely disproportioned heads in CoD I suppose? 

[thernz]

no that was just bad

[Sumac]

My favorite works of Kojima are her LOI and DXC arts. And her HD artworks is nice too, except for Richter who looks like he has a severe case of backache.
I think this theory was mentioned somewhere on this forum, that she used digital coloring for the arts in HD, hence why they look so different from her usual style.

Original Simon treatment of hers, looks so much better than the final result. Make his hair a bit darker and change his leather shorts for...something, and that would be a very nice design.

[beingthehero]

Successor and I were talking about that earlier today. He said that the original sketch probably would have won everyone over.

But I bet that Konami asked Kojima to come up with a very different and striking design, because the sprite reflecting the original sketch would have been probably too similar to CVX68k's original sprite for Simon. Hence, she then went with a white-haired, shredded-blue-nobleman's-clothes-Simon with a silver rapier before settling on something that was a compromise between the two extremes. Also, it does strongly remind me of CV2's Simon. :]

Some of those old sketches from that art book are really something, like the original black-haired Alucard and brown-haired Juste Belmont.

[Flame]

[beingthehero]

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[A-Yty]

This is the most acceptable out of those.

Knight Leon is her best original design, IMO.



..and this isn't completely terrible either:

[Dremn]

Absolutely hate it. He looks like a BDSM star.

Classic Simon forever.

[TheouAegis]

Simon trägt stilvolle Lederhosen, ja.

Maybe Kojima hates the English and preferred some Germanic clothing. Although the physique sure ain't.

[JayDominus]

It's... horrible. In every sense of the word.
The color scheme is too bright, the overdose of leather, that fur... thing over his shoulder, the kojimaface, the slender build that makes him look even LESS masculine than other Kojima men and well. It's not Simon, it's BDSimon. There's only one good thing about the Chronicles design - at least it's not as bad as Judgment one.

I'm glad that when NECA made Castlevania figures, they based Simon figure off classic design instead of this. Simon for me is the ultimate badass vampire hunter. Yeah, he wore leather and carried a whip around, but he was so badass he made me overlook those facts. Chronicles version on the other hand digs himself deeper.
The original blonde version of Chronicles design was a little more acceptable, but still not that good.
(Yeah, yeah, posts bordering on necro full of negative are not the best way to introdouche yourself to the forums, but well, I just hate this design so much).

[Munchy]

Still, it's pretty fascinating to see Simon's design transition.

Outside of the whole "half an armor" deal I quite like this design. It's mostly faithful to how he looks in the game.

Not to say I don't like Chronicles Simon, but I like the classic approach of the unused one.