So here's the new plant:
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The response to it from those I know has been somewhere between: "When are they going to start singing and dancing" to "It looks like projectiles should be shooting out of them into incoming zombies."
I can't help but notice its not at
quite the right perspective.
OK. I'm gonna have to be
that guy again.
The amaryllis clashes with the classic art style and looks like it's growing in a tub of brown dye. It's also HUGE in relation to a character--an amaryllis is a bulb flower often used as a small decorative houseplant, not a massive jungle fern.
Between the continued abuse of perspective and the abandonment of the classic art style for cartoony stuff that sticks out like a sore thumb, I've been pretty disappointed with a lot of the new art, particularly the potted plants--and I LOVE the old potted plants. The artists nearly two decades ago were able to create a cohesive style for the world. While it's unrealistic to expect all new art to mesh perfectly with it, I think that it's not unreasonable to ask for better than this.
Interestingly, this flower would have worked better as a painting, where the lack of detail and definition works reasonably well once skewed into perspective:
At least they didn't make the top of the pot a full circle. That's progress I guess.
Mesanna stated in a recent meet and greet that all the dev team played UO except the artist. I think that the artist and his/her work would benefit from some quality time in the game, particularly the old lands, to get a better feel for the style.
All that said, the new tinker statues aren't bad, and I look forward to a tiny gypsy wagon (while I continue to await a full sized one!). But the huge mutant plants... and the circle tops... just... no. Please. No.
