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✨ Happy Star Wars Day Week everyone! (a bit late to posting this here 😅) ✨

Time to finally give you some updates on the Tukk Tales project and introduce one of its new characters:

Commander Faust of the Coruscant Guard.

More on him soon, but for now I'll let this animation speak for itself. 🫡👀

But why new characters? And where's the short film??

First of all I'm sorry I haven't been great with keeping you all updated in the past! Juggling the project with my freelance work and private life hasn't been easy and I wanted to wait until things have developed further until I make any new announcements, but here's basically what happened:

Hey, I wanted to bring up a topic here today. While Infinite Darkness premiered five years ago, it's still a series that generates a lot of discussion, like all Resident Evil material that fills those gaps between releases. Unfortunately, there hasn't been any further news about a second season, as many of us hoped, but Capcom is good at making us suffer 💔

Now, to revisit this topic, let's analyze the series poster, since many people haven't noticed some details.

In the world of design, nothing is superfluous; every element in a composition has a purpose. When we talk about posters for series, movies, or video games, there's a harmony based on various things (the plot, the characters, and their relationships). Color psychology plays a fundamental role, as do lighting, typography, poses, outfits, and everything else in the image, creating an ideal balance that seeks to convey a message. Capcom always uses the "foreshadowing" method and the famous "show, don't tell" principle for its compositions.

What does this mean? There's a coded language that combines all these elements to convey meaning. A common example is an anime opening, where, between highly visual images and clues, the entire plot and its events are ultimately subtly revealed, and it's not until we've seen all the episodes that we realize it; pure intelligence and artistry.

Focusing on the main poster for ID, we see Leon and Claire, the series' protagonists, in two different poses that, at first glance, seem normal, until you look at them more closely:

Leon is sitting on a slanted sofa, holding a weapon. He's wearing a suit, as he's a high-ranking agent of the American government. He's in the dark, with a serious expression; behind him is a blood-stained wall. There's a halo of light coming from his right side, illuminating his silhouette.

And what else is on that right side? Claire Redfield.

Claire, unlike Leon, keeps her red jacket, something characteristic of her, as well as her ponytail. She holds a weapon in a slightly more relaxed posture, because she is not part of the firefight; she is only caught up in the twists of fate. Her body is illuminated by the light on her right, and the wall behind her silhouette is not stained with blood.

In this other poster version, the image is similar, but Claire is now behind Leon, the blood is gone, and the light continues to illuminate her and to one side of him. Same message, different pose.

What we can analyze is a message throughout the entire series; the title itself is, in fact, "Infinite Darkness", because the government has dark and murky secrets, and Leon is caught up in them. However, the poster not only speaks to the government plot and bioterrorism, but also to the relationship between Leon and Claire.

En los posters de personajes, nuevamente el mismo mensaje.

Clearly, the blood represents the world of horrors they face: All the enemies, biological weapons, and innocents suffering, all on Leon's shoulders. Weapons are the element of combat, as our protagonists are the ones who confront this. Leon's suit represents the government's power over him, while Claire's clothes and ponytail are proof that she remains unscathed, despite everything; different paths, as Leon mentions in Re:Degeneration (one year before the events of ID), but the same relevance. However, another important element is the light, which is, in itself, the most powerful message of their relationship:

The light comes from Claire, who can be considered one of the hearts of the main group in the saga, thanks to her activism, charisma, fun-loving aura, and pure, selfless kindness; there is no corruption in her, of any kind. Claire is the one who illuminates Leon, because she is synonymous with hope, and she is the one who tries to keep Kennedy on the side he belongs on. Of course, it's not all that easy, because the government has Leon tied down, and he knows a lot.

In the series, we all suffer through the final scene between the two of them, since the chip with all the information needed to bring down the government is in Leon's hands, and he doesn't hand it over to Claire when she asks for it. I will analyze this scene in more detail in another post; for now, it's necessary to say that Leon didn't hand over the chip because it contained very disturbing information that would destabilize the world and, moreover, put Claire in grave danger. Of course, he's also afraid, since he's the one with the chip, but we know that Leon isn't afraid of dying himself, but of seeing others die without being able to do anything, especially if it's his loved ones. In short:

Leon preferred that Claire leave upset at that moment because he chose to walk in the darkness so that her light wouldn't be extinguished.

I think this represents their relationship very well because the bond formed by fate, the same one that united them in Raccoon City, is incredibly deep.

Continuing the analysis, Claire mentions Leon's suit when she leaves (when the chip incident occurs) because she mistakenly thought he was protecting the government, when that wasn't the case. I highlight this again because, in this series, the suit (the same one from the poster) is an important analogy for Leon.

Finally, there's this other version of the poster, where Claire holds a flashlight while Leon fights.

In the character posters, the same message is conveyed again.

Without further ado, Capcom does an excellent job telling stories through visually rich and meaningful elements, something we, as fans, greatly appreciate ♥️