Someone on SMR sort of summed up my thoughts about the thread. I have only now just realized what was rubbing me the wrong way about it.
Instead of going 'hey, lets get dragons that look like this!' and showing off dragons based off of animals/creatures (or just showing art from around the internet that look like they want), they are redesigning existing dragons, and some of them are doing so in a way that is making it seem like the art itself is bad or how the FR Artist(s) conceptualized the dragon is wrong.
Like, sure a particular dragon that is based off of a particular creature could have had this particular feature, but that doesn't mean it *has* to (like the 'digging/burrowing creatures should have shovel noses' discussion).
I do understand the frustration when something is *almost* to your tastes but there are a couple of things you would do differently (I hate the feet of runes, I hate the face of filigree, and I hate the line across the legs of contour. Other than those, I love those particular genes). But, a lot of them are coming across, to me at least, as having an 'this dragon doesn't fit exactly what I want, therefore it is trash' attitude.
Re: FR Art Direction thread
Instead of going 'hey, lets get dragons that look like this!' and showing off dragons based off of animals/creatures (or just showing art from around the internet that look like they want), they are redesigning existing dragons, and some of them are doing so in a way that is making it seem like the art itself is bad or how the FR Artist(s) conceptualized the dragon is wrong.
Like, sure a particular dragon that is based off of a particular creature could have had this particular feature, but that doesn't mean it *has* to (like the 'digging/burrowing creatures should have shovel noses' discussion).
I do understand the frustration when something is *almost* to your tastes but there are a couple of things you would do differently (I hate the feet of runes, I hate the face of filigree, and I hate the line across the legs of contour. Other than those, I love those particular genes). But, a lot of them are coming across, to me at least, as having an 'this dragon doesn't fit exactly what I want, therefore it is trash' attitude.