This avatar has a few key successes, but they are not enough to temper out a handful of glaring flaws. The sonata hat and dandruff coat are a successful pair, but it is neither brilliant nor groundbreaking. The facial details and hairstyle are strong, but are little more than the basic one-up you know you'll get from using equippable eyes and mouths. Par for the game in this day and age. The matching blacks are nothing special as well, and the lack of leggings subtracts from the theme.
So as far as the core avatar goes, we have basic, basic, basic. Then, comes the background.
The background sets a ridiculous mood that neither fits theme nor pushes the limit of background layering. The tree is far too surreal to suggest a 1930's detective movie - frankly, a tree of any type would rob from this effect. The blanket, emulating snow in a sub par manner, suggests open area, further robbing from the sensation of urban landscaping. To top it all off, we're thrown into the bowels of space. I'm just not buying it.
This background succeeds in the suspension of disbelief like a rope of play-doh succeeds in suspending a bridge.
Verdict: without background - 5/10, with - 2/10.
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2. Looking for Angels, part 4 of 5
The intricacy of this avatar deserves applause, but I can't help but pinpoint a set of minute matching discrepancies. The great percentage of reds in this avatar, and undoubtedly all the reds in the upper region are bright and inky, but as we proceed down this devotion is lost. The socks and cincher carry a more chalky texture that does not match the upper portion. Further, the focus of gray at the bottom (the skirt, directly leading into the gray of the stockings + the stripe of the letter) overpowers that of the top. A gray skin equip could have been an easy fix to this. However, these details are lost to the over-all strong distribution of shades and textures.
...On a completely personal level, I bloody hate when people put hair clips on top of other hair clips.
Verdict: 7/10.
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3. Zaila of the Glade
I find two details of this avatar very pleasant. The facial layering, used to conceal the multiple eyes, leaving only two, and the dress/will-o-wisp combo. However, beyond that, I find little to catch my eye. The avatar is very dress-centric, with the heavy arm and head layering doing little too complement. The heavy layering of the arms begins to create a pattern of uneven stripes, which throws off the unison of the items thereupon. The head layering is uniquely cluttered compared to the rest of the avatar, and not necessarily in a professional way. The accessories simply do not complement the base of the avatar.
Flanked by unpleasant layering on sides and top, I find my little solace in examining the dress, which, in and of itself, is worthy of no applause.
Verdict: 3/10.
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4. Zombies!!
I had to double check to make sure I had the right number of exclamation marks.
This is yet another example of an avatar failing to make anything more out of an item that takes up the majority of the clothing layers. This is really just avataring by numbers. Select your pamphlet and pepperpot the avatar with accoutrements fitting the theme. Outside of the body equip, the avatar is nothing more than gunsgunsguns, accessories complementing guns, and an environment particularly inviting to guns. The facial details are unimpressive if not slightly goofy. and I should perhaps say, that on top of robbing the avatar of any unique clothing selections, the pietro body equip doesn't necessarily fit the bill for suggesting the kind of action intended here.
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, one must always make time for the mambo.
Verdict: 2/10.
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5. Wasteland Warrior
This avatar exhibits the sort of dank and ominous mood "demonic" avatars could only hope to achieve. The color scheme is fresh and unique and theme just leaves me in shivers.
Sure, the top portion of this avatar could benefit from a dash of the cream color found in the foot wraps, and the bottom requires a white item, with a striated texture like that of his top and "helmet." I would have liked silver anklets. On a personal level, I'm not entirely sold on the bow.
Granted, these are but the most miniscule details one could possibly regard. This avatar is just lovely.
Verdict: 9/10
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6. Reflection of Imperfection
This avatar is very novel, but that's about as far as it impresses me. The eyes are far too pronounced and exhibit a thick black outline which is counterproductive to his goal. A black striped item is adorned at the neck, a careless mistake that adds nothing visually, while subtracting from his goal even further. Opting out of emulating the pinkness of the hand with a
It's a good effort, but its cut short with glaring mistakes.
It's a good effort, but it is cut short with glaring mistakes.
Verdict: 5/10
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7. ღ My Valentine ღ
There is no background that will ever make the concept of an avatar playing the piano exciting, and with the limit layers available to dress the body, no outfit that will either. It deserves come credit for the pleasant matching of the dress to the background, but beyond that there is no quality to this. It's just another piano player.
Verdict: 3/10
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8. MEOW
Regardless of theme this is a red/black/white matching avatar at heart, at the most introductory level. Items are added based upon a monotonous formula of input x amount of color in y slot ad infinitum. There is very little character to this beyond the cat parts. There is nothing novel about the zombie elements. Gouged eye, decrepit skin, the zombie arm. We've seen it a million times. Honestly, bandages don't even make sense on a zombie itself. Even if they had the consciousness to provide suitable medical treatment, they're wounds don't need to be treated. They're dead!
The reds of the top exhibit of pepperpot pattern of white dots, that the reds of the bottom do not match. The top exhibits the highest quantity of white, from the headband, an amount that putters out as it goes down. Its buffered by a factor of cuteness the love affair we nerds have for zombies. beyond that, little stands out as impressive.
Verdict: 3/10.
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9. How to Remain a Myth
The cash shop items come together in a very obvious motif, yet ultimately fail to guise the chintziness of the witch's dress. No two articles of clothing could be selected and considered a novel pairing. The boots exhibit an ugly texture and awkward shape, especially against the highly complex patterns of the rest of the outfit. The story is deservingly cute, but the avatar fails to provide a suitably impressive medium for telling it.
She has two feathers. I thought she was a loch lover, not an ordentaphiliac.
Verdict: 4/10.
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10. The Cubed Root
I'm hung on this one. The goal was ambitious, but not perfectly executed. It certainly does not have a proficient matching scheme, yet is not necessarily unpleasing to the eye. The inproficiency of the execution lends to my greatest concern: certain colors act as accents in some sections and focal points in the other.
Regardless of the ambition, changing the hair color to purple and the ribbon to red would have solved this, allowing purple to serve as a base color in all sections and red, moreso as an accent.
The face is inexcusable dull in comparison to the rest of the avatar. I feel a skin equip and a face more facial details could have incorporated it better into the motif.
Ultimately, I have to rely on my gut feeling. It's just not entirely satisfying.
Verdict: 6/10.
