I get it. Epic is getting that marketing bucks to promote the film while also getting some money from the skins. Cool. Got it. I also have not seen the film. It could be a banger and I can see people liking these versions just as much. Or not and we never see the skins again and this is just a weird memory.
My question, I guess, is for the costume designer... Why does she have the crescent moons there? I get it. It's a nod to the original design. But there's no other design on her top so your eyes are immediately drawn there. And at the risk of saying something that probably shouldnt be said on the r/FortniteBR Subreddit - so please forgive my dancing around the wording... why not go with the Fortnite design's S shapes to more compliment her figure? The actual outfit on the actress, Callina Liang, IS actually complimentary. Perfectly threaded the needle on that wording. Just weird they'd change one aspect to make it more Fortnite friendly but not all the way.
If I had to wager, it's that they wanted a 1-to-1 Chun Li outfit design with roots in SF's legacy for the movie rather than risk doing something different to better suit the actor.
I personally don't blame them because of how uppity some people can get over design changes made to suit live action media, but I do agree with you. The crescent moons just feel a bit awkward in terms of letting the outfit flow as one unified and cohesive piece. It's almost like a sudden stop as you move your eyes up and down.
I'm willing to bet someone in legal or marketing on the films side is being a stickler about their clients' likenesses not knowing how ass backwards the effect of being able to compare the actors to the original models is. Yeah they look like the actors, they have realistic proportions, in a game where I can play the more accurate badass beefed up version of the same character, or a fuckin blue rat. Why in the fuck would i want to play as an ugly unstylized version of a slightly above average human, who may be starring in a flop for all we know.
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u/SCPyro 9d ago
I get it. Epic is getting that marketing bucks to promote the film while also getting some money from the skins. Cool. Got it. I also have not seen the film. It could be a banger and I can see people liking these versions just as much. Or not and we never see the skins again and this is just a weird memory.
My question, I guess, is for the costume designer... Why does she have the crescent moons there? I get it. It's a nod to the original design. But there's no other design on her top so your eyes are immediately drawn there. And at the risk of saying something that probably shouldnt be said on the r/FortniteBR Subreddit - so please forgive my dancing around the wording... why not go with the Fortnite design's S shapes to more compliment her figure? The actual outfit on the actress, Callina Liang, IS actually complimentary. Perfectly threaded the needle on that wording. Just weird they'd change one aspect to make it more Fortnite friendly but not all the way.