No.1638
No one ever really speaks about how Shirow was really quite good at using super deformed depictions of his characters seamlessly in his comics for comedic impact.
Post and discuss Shirow's SD examples and other smol gals here.
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No.1639
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No.1640
>>1638
he's pretty good indeed, only thing I would say against his smols is that they usually have big feet and tiny legs
>>1639
how vain!
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No.1641
>>1640
I don't see that being too negative; they do look a bit cartoony but it's in the thing's favour overall I'd say. Look at this Deunan for example.
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No.1642
>>1641
yes but compare her to this tiny Moka
isn't that better?
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No.1643
>>1639
how like Motoko to send chibi pictures of her to her teammates reminding them that she's the beautiful one and they're a bunch of ugly dorks
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No.1644
>>1642
I dunno. I do like the way Shirow does those little boot legged gremlin bodies and it does actually give his versions a more unique look. So many others do their SD that way, such as pic related. That is a very nice Moka though.
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No.1645
oddly enough, going full chibi for a whole comic seems to work a little less well. Phantom of the Audience, while nice, makes the smol stuff look a bit less impactful since it's normal
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No.1646
>>1645
Yeah; it's best used for effect sparingly; I noticed that Shirow in a lot of his comics tends to save it for either certain specific comedic moments or for punchlines at the end of chapters.
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No.1647
Let's say you're a hong-kong director tasked with adapting GitS in 1992
How would you translate Motoko suddenly turning into an angry, bitey little ball of floof in live-action?
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No.1648
>>1647
Well, that's a rather hard thing to do. The initial idea that comes to mind is to go animation, a'la Rodger Rabbit, have them shrink down, etc and go 2D for the moment. However that would clash a bit and unless done properly, it would look weird, and more importantly, it would be incredibly expensive to pull off. So unlikely to actually be done.
The second idea is to have an SD puppet costume which the actress would 'wear', putting her head into it while it's being manipulated, as you'd just use it for simple SD expressions and movements. It's a cheap option, and it could work but you lack the SD proportions of the face and the movement would be very limited due to how you'd have to work the prop/costume. That said it would have the actual actresses head.
The third option is to have a midget play the SD form, with either a mask or face covering helmet with a fake face on it and a costume to make the actor/tress look less like a dwarf and more SD. The pros of this is a wider range of movement and ability to do stunts, action stuff, etc while SD and you can have the face be the right SD proportions; the downside is that you would likely be stuck to single expressions and it would look weird if you did animatronics (plus more expensive).
Most likely a balance of the three would bring the best results, with the second two most likely (with the face being hidden with the small actor/actress if you want action or movement).
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No.1649
>>1648
That'd be a bit extreme; I'd suggest going for something less literal; simply have her hair puff out, film her with a bit of a fisheye effect and from a high angle, while she goes all mad atcha; that way you get the gremlin effect without it being too surreal.
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No.1650
>>1649
True but it may not work as well as the others and you'd be limited to the higher angles.
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No.1651
>>1649
Though actually thinking about it, you could use a combination of the methods to really sell the effect.
So yeah, hypothetically this could be done.
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No.1652
>>1651
yeah but I'm not convinced by a literal approach, the midget or mask idea sounds like what they did with the live-action Gunnm
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No.1653
>>1652
Yeah, I'm thinking that any midget shots would be done with the face obscured and from the back. Any SD shot should only be for about five to ten seconds at most in extremis anyway. Enough for a reaction and maybe a line.
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No.1654
Motoko may be a gremlin but she's a smart 'un
she picked a sidearm that she can still use as a chibi!
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No.1655
>>1654
What a small shooter.
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No.1656
Once I get some free time I'm going to go through everything I can find and screencap all of Shirow's SD stuff
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No.1657
>>1656
that's a lot of Smol Dorks to screencap
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No.1658
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No.1659
>>1658
Appreciated! What a plump smol.
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No.1660
Alright, I'm missing a few volumes and these scans are bad and spanish for the most part. I want to get a bit of book 1 and 2 and also the last one (I forget the name of the volume, the one which has the first part of volume 5 as I know that has a lot of SD stuff in it…). But here we go for SD Shirow in Appleseed.
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No.1661
Ah I took some stuff for the landscape thread too. Forgive that.
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No.1662
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No.1663
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No.1664
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No.1665
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No.1666
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No.1667
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No.1668
And there we go. I'll see if I can find the final volume scanned and some good scans of the volumes I missed (I think the last bit of three was also corrupted in the scans I torrented.) But there's a good chunk of SD sweetness here.
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No.1669
>>1668
Oh and next up I'll do Black Magic and Orion. But gonna wait a bit.
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No.1690
>>1647
Easy:
Her avatar in cyberbrain communications would be a chibi 2D animated version of herself.
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No.1691
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No.1692
>>1691
Comfy summer squid.
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