Steven Universe

[FelRes]

^Garnet is best girl

3 donuts and a hot dog lol

This show could be pretty good, though I'm admittedly not a huge fan of the character designs

[Wagomu]

Not bad at all. I always dig it when garnet gets some street cred. January birth stone, represent!

And any show that can turn comebacks into an ultimate power gets my support.

[Hiroy]

Steven is adorable. Like Adventure Time and Bravest Warriors, I love the whole theme of being open the the possibility of serious consequences and just dealing with it when some waked up shit happens.

[Silver R. Bolt]

Does anyone have a link to the other shorts? I can't find Steven nor the other shorts on Cartoon Network's website anymore.

[taboo]

[Wagomu]

I watched it again and noticed an interesting detail. The Crystal Gem statue-shaped house has five gems on it. Not only that, but they're in places corresponding to where each Gem has theirs (a Pearl on the forehead, Amethyst on the sternum, Garnet on the right hand and what I guess is Ruby on the belly). There's a fifth blue one (sapphire?), though, on the left hand that doesn't correspond to any characters in the cast. Was there a scrapped Gem or a character that will show up as the show progresses? Either way, it's a cool little detail for a background thing in a pilot.

If we want to take this a step further into guessing, the house statue had its eyes closed and the electric skulls had green gems (presumably emeralds) in their eyes.The connection here is a bit more tenuous, but I still think there's a possibility that the green corresponds to a bigger antagonistic force.

[taboo]

the 5th is probably their mom

[pyromonki]

Hmmm... not to sure. I like some things about it, but man are those powers lame.

Pretty funny though.

[valiantt]

Going to be honest, not a huge fan of steven's voice. I imaged something considerably different from the promotional picture.

[Pochipochi]

The promo poster didn't make it apparent that he was a little kid is all

I like his voice because it's all huggable

[valiantt]

Yeah thats probably it. His design isnt really indicitive of his age. Cute voice but the design completely threw me off. Probably will get used to it though.

I was totally expecting a bumbling fat guy voice.

[RollingStone]

Me too. This is actually better than what I expected.

[Hiroy]

Did I mention how Steven is so fucking adorable? I did? I'll mention it a again for second measure. So adorable!

[andre]

I'm looking forward to this so much. The characters are awesome, the animation is awesome, the music is awesome, I have no complaints.

[andre]

And now, the designs changed and they're not nearly as good as they were...

[Silence]

Where can we see these new designs?

[Silver R. Bolt]

Let's take a ride on the Steven universe art direction train, choo choo.

Original Concept by Rebecca Sugar:


The Pilot with a Budget version:



The current version on Facebook;




Its defiantly streamlined, probably for budgetary reasons.

Now, I'm going to reserve judgement til I see an animated clip.

[Wagomu]

Are we sure that's an actual overall style change and not just one of those "let's draw our characters differently to make a neat advertisement" things?

I hope it is just a fakeout, since some of those changes (what the fuck happened to Pearl?) are a bit odd. I understand the budget thing and know it's gong to be just as good writing-wise, but I really dug the original style of each character. I suppose it's because we were exposed to one style earlier, but still.

[Hiroy]

...



This is why you jumped to that conclusion?

[andre]

Are we sure that's an actual overall style change and not just one of those "let's draw our characters differently to make a neat advertisement" things?

I hope it is just a fakeout, since some of those changes (what the fuck happened to Pearl?) are a bit odd. I understand the budget thing and know it's gong to be just as good writing-wise, but I really dug the original style of each character. I suppose it's because we were exposed to one style earlier, but still.

Yeah, that's what the characters are going to look like and the style the show is going to be in. This guy mcburnett, who is a writer for the show said it on his twitter.