CardboardMoon

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You are absolutely right that his new design sucks ass, and now I’m going to tell you why his design sucks ass.

This post is ignoring the fact that adult yugo has an entirely different face structure and looks like a different character. We’re focusing on his wimp cloak here.

So in the first three seasons Yugo has a clear triangle motif. This goes back to the basics of character design: keep it simple! Give them a clear silhouette! So the Qilby flashback/future description of yugo works here because it continues with the triangle motif. And honestly he definitely seems like a guy who’d rock the poncho look

Another thing is this design allows you to see what he’s doing!! Ignoring my bad sketch but even though he’s wearing a big coat you can still tell what kind of pose he’s doing! Despite the loads of fabric there are enough breaks that the eye can quickly read the details. He moves! He’s free!

Which is the reason why this is so disappointing.

I can’t tell what his shape is supposed to be. A square? A triangle? An amorphous blob eating people in the Arctic?

The dark bodysuit/cape combo is making his poses hard to read. There’s no negative/positive space contrast to lead the eyes. Heck even without the cape it’s hard to tell what’s going on.

Here I made this screencap greyscale. Blurr your eyes. Can you really tell what’s going on here? Maybe vaguely but in an animated medium vagueness is murder. His new design makes it difficult to clearly see the gestures. The bodysuit and cape are also similar values, so unless you’re really focusing it’s hard to separate. In this design you can’t tell what he’s doing.

And then there’s the form follows function debate and idk what kind of function this thing is even trying to serve. If he’s teleporting or fighting that thing is gonna get in the way. His OG poncho is fire because it’s good protection against air resistance and the elements. There’s no cape to obstruct anything. It reinforces his silhouette. And everything in the earlier seasons has this cool handmade feel. This cloak/bodysuit monstrosity? What’s it made of. How was it made. What’s the use of this thing. Man idk. Maybe it’s for fanservce but I don’t think that’s it because it’s hideous.

Coco it is obvious what you’re supposed to do