UBON'S PROFILE

my name chose me

sometimes a word comes to you out of nowhere and sticks. "mawk" has no origin, and means nothing

the same word was used for a couple of things in more archaic English and gave rise to the term "mawkish" (meaning disgustingly sentimental), but those were all things I learned after assuming the name

post-avatar synchronicity

I like these guys a bit better:

Dragon Quest's whole tone is pretty refreshing. I think if I ever really got into it I'd want to do it in Japanese, though -- the puns in English are super-terrible and I am constantly just all ":I" at my DS when I'm playing 9.

the monster design is really cheerful and playful, though, and I like that. they're not monsters you can look at and say "oh, I understand what this creature is doing here and why", but they have tons of charm. I think of them as the sort of things a kid would draw, and I don't mean that in a bad way.

author=meisam
btw mawk as soon as i noticed what type of monster you like i was going to show you gogmagog from ff13-2, you just have a different preference.

this is totally true. I like things that look like they have a lot of pent-up energy, or are exploding somehow, and things that are "cute, but with teeth" as someone once put it. a lot of designs in 13 and 13-2 seem as if SE decided they'd go back to the weird, complex designs they had a lot of back in the 2D Amano days, and in a few cases (Gogmagog, Cie'th) that whole idea translates really well to 3D.

I tend way more toward "cute, but with teeth" in my own work, but as I get better at making things look kinetic I hope to branch out to that other large area of enthusiasm.

how to evade criticism without fail: pretend to be an idiot who doesn't understand anything anyone said