Re: Code Lyoko News Discussion

[TechnoSam]

My thoughts:

Biggest disappointment would be Aelita's outfit, I don't like the darker colors. Everybody else except William looks fine.

Yumi's Staff. Cool idea. What if it's kinda like Ulrich's sword, insofar as it glows upon contact with an enemy or laser? So when you thrust the end of it into an enemy, that end of the stick turns to laser and penetrates the armor. I think that could be what will happen.

New vehicle... Has anyone noticed the SIZE of that thing?! It's huge! Could it be for exploring the Cortex?

Speaking of which, I think that's an awesome idea. It's like Alan Meyers personal Replika!And I'm cool with the Star Wars likeness there.

I, too, feel the Scanner dock would need an explanation. I'm not against the idea - I rather like it - but I can't stand stuff just appearing like that.

Overall, I feel pretty confident. The main worry now is how good the special effects will be on earth. We haven't seen anything for that yet. But it looks like I could actually be impressed with CLE! I sure hope so!

--EDIT--

Just wanted to add a note about the Towers... Can they seriously even change the Towers that much? That image looks like they spent 30 seconds applying a new layer... It's waaaaaaay to Tron-like for Code Lyoko. Plus, it's in the Desert Sector. The environments of Lyoko are designed to be organic in appearance, Sector 5 excepted. The only way I would accept this kind of Tower is if XANA did something to massively change the way Lyoko works... in that picture, it looks awful. Very out of place, an absolute no from me.
But I hate to end on a bad note, so I'll say this: While I dislike the Tower thing now, I'm almost positive that it will be addressed in the show and/or changed to something befitting Lyoko better.

[Eilorae]

Mistake! They had everyone in their S-4 gear! Odd is in his S1-3 gear because you can clearly see that he doesn't have his ears.

I'm still not a big fan of seeing all the darker colors.

[A_QueenOfFairys]

I wouldn't go saying that they're in either S1-3 or S4 outfits. They're new ones for Evolution, more similar to the S4 ones than anything else, but still not the same. So saying Odd's is more similar to his S1-3 one because he doesn't have cat ears is like saying Yumi's is more similar to her S1-3 one because she only has one fan.

The ears didn't turn out as well as they could've, so I'm somewhat glad they got rid of them instead of continuing with the poorly rendered ones :/

The dark colours look better than the lighter ones imo. Nice contrast.

[Stella Luce 333]

Darkr colrs also won't stnd out as much if they have to destry Replkas by snekng arond areas contrlld by a govrnmnt & physclly destryng the Replka's supr comptr...

[Atlas]

Am I the only one that thought the green ninjas in jumpsuits was a really bad idea?

Also yeah, the Pod is absolutely massive. Skid 2.0?

[Tsunamix]

Am I the only one that thought the green ninjas in jumpsuits was a really bad idea?

Also yeah, the Pod is absolutely massive. Skid 2.0?

Nah, I think Argent didn't like the idea too much either.

[A_QueenOfFairys]

With regards to the new magazine page, I'm guessing they're earlier, unfinished designs. Moonscoop wouldn't publish incomplete stuff in their own PDF. I do like the lack of yellow on Odd though.

edit: augh the actors are playing laser tag and stuff together...that's so cool ;a;

[Stella Luce 333]

With any luck, we'll find out some more stuff once they strt filmng...

[Atlas]

Christopher Walken as Jim Morales.

Great idea?

Or the greatest?

[Soul Jelly]

Christopher Walken as Jim Morales.

Great idea?

Or the greatest?

I personally vote for Jack Black. But in the even that he can't make it: YES.

[TechnoSam]

edit: augh the actors are playing laser tag and stuff together...that's so cool ;a;

How'd you find that out?

Oh, and George has the pictures posted from the Facebook contest he won. That stuff is amazing I really wish I could have won it...
But I'm happy for George. I sure hope MoonScoop releases the poster and t-shirt for purchase... I'd pay a lot for those.

[Tsunamix]

edit: augh the actors are playing laser tag and stuff together...that's so cool ;a;

How'd you find that out?

Oh, and George has the pictures posted from the Facebook contest he won. That stuff is amazing I really wish I could have won it...
But I'm happy for George. I sure hope MoonScoop releases the poster and t-shirt for purchase... I'd pay a lot for those.

It's in a news article I posted in the main news topic. Unfortunately, I doesn't say much about the cast other than that.

[A_QueenOfFairys]

I bet he won more than I did from the art contest. And I think they're going to make them into actual designs, it would be silly not to.

And as for the actors for Jim...do they speak French? Cus that's kinda important for the role :U

[cya6]

Alright, I'll ask it. Am I the only one who doesn't like the new outfits? Since they changed in season 4, they've only been losing the creativity that made me love them in the first place.

[Lyokofelinae]

Alright, I'll ask it. Am I the only one who doesn't like the new outfits? Since they changed in season 4, they've only been losing the creativity that made me love them in the first place.

I kinda of agree with you, the outfit looks like colour customise tron outfits, i really wanted to see more creativity of the outfits. It okay but it kinda of remind me of tron

[cya6]

Yeah, I agree. I mean, Aelita's elf theme is almost gone, just pointy ears. No fantasty outfit, no green earing, no skirt...

Yumi's yellow bow is gone.

Odd's ears are gone.

Doesn't it feel that they've become uniforms, and each person gets their own colors? No one gets their own outfits, just their own colors for a pre-determined outfit.

And why is William still evil?

[Lyokofelinae]

I don't know why! blame moonscoop.

I really wish moonscoop make the character cool on their own way

[A_QueenOfFairys]

To be fair about Odd's ears, he didn't have them in the first place P:

I freaked out a little when the earlier art showed Aelita without a skirt, so I'm glad she (and Yumi) has one now. But yeah, Ulrich too has lost a lot of his original design.

[Soul Jelly]

Yeah, I agree. I mean, Aelita's elf theme is almost gone, just pointy ears. No fantasty outfit, no green earing, no skirt...

Yumi's yellow bow is gone.

Odd's ears are gone.

Doesn't it feel that they've become uniforms, and each person gets their own colors? No one gets their own outfits, just their own colors for a pre-determined outfit.

And why is William still evil?

YES.

I can live with the S4 outfits, but I still lament the loss of the S1-3 outfits. They were so much more unique and interesting, and the whole "your Lyoko avatar draws on your subconcious" thing was a really neat idea that was pretty much lost with the redesigns.

As for why William is still evil; I've no idea but I'm really interested to see what role he's to play in Evolution.

[cya6]

I had a theory (theory being way to sophisticated a word here) on why they've probably changed the outfits for CLE.

1: I think they've already stated that they're trying to make the LWs look older and more mature. Ergo, less costumey outfits.

2: A good majority of animated-to-live action outfits look really bad. Like, super cartoony. Most of the time, the characters lookd like they're wearing halloween costumes. Consider the fact that, even though Lyoko scenes will be CGI, they will still look different then they do now. I mean, what if the actor who plays Ulrich is taller than Yumi? Or if hairstyles are off? It would be reasonable to believe that the characters will look different than they do now, even on Lyoko. With that being said, it will look bizarrely costumey and fake to do any outfit directly from the show.

Picture Odd's outfit, only on a real person. Or Aelita's crazy short skirts. Or Ulrich's weird all green vest thing. These aren't gonna translate to well into live action. Plus, live action usually remedies the "one outfit only" problem many animated shows have. It would be safe to assume that Earth outfits will look nothing like what they are in the show (except maybe drawing certain prefrences: Odd likes purple, Ulrich likes green, ect...)

But on Lyoko, even the costumes from the PDFs are gonna look different when actually filmed/drawn/programmed (whatever you do to CGI scenes)

Those are just my opinions.

Plus, it really will be interesting to see William, because on casting call comercials, it shows him as a good guy, but here he's a bad guy...

[Stella Luce 333]

Mabye he's a good guy, but he's markd by XANA in some way? Like how some times an injry can leve a scar...?

[Atlas]

To the earlier outfit point i think I might have mentioned this before, but the term I used for designing when they go for the same outfit with different colors is Power-Rangeritis. It's a contagious design disease.

In that way yeah, I'm kind of disappointed, though now as much as I probably should be. At least the template design is pretty good, and probably easy to manufacture.

As for William, I don't know what they'll do with his character.

[cya6]

Oh my gosh, the new video! I am so excited! All previous thoughts of keeping my expectations down have all foolishly vanished. I know it still will probalby be bad, but I'm just excited!

Any thoughts on what we saw? I, for one, think that they look pretty good, from what we saw. I like what they did with Odd's hair, and I wish we had seen more of Yumi. She looks like she could be decent, but I couldn't tell how tall she was, and one part of Yumi's character her height.

[cya6]

'kay, so I've been rewatching the thing, and you can see some of their faces. Just not on their clip. You can see (who I think it) Jeremie, at :36. You can see Aelita in the background at :44.

Can anyone find any more faces?

[cya6]

Wait, you can just barely see a very blurred Odd at :33-:34.

Am I too excited about this?

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