Hey, I can bitch about this HERE because it's my blog and only one person reads it, right? Anyway, I was going through a list of supposed 'top level,' 'hot' character designers from animation, games and comics. Each had a page with representative images from their blogs, portfolios and published works. I didn't get a third of the way through it and I nearly wanted to puke. So many of them are filled with the same old pin up girl T+A crap. Haven't we gone further than this? Why is this kind of thing still lauded and expressed? It's just so awful. And some of the artists, I'm sure, think they're making "strong women characters" by having the usual nude or bikini-clad girlie carry a gun or sword, though she still has kissy-lips, a pout or is adopting a pose that's nearly physically impossible. This is a rant, indeed. It's just so ridiculous to see this kind of crap still being produced and people still being proud of it. The male characters aren't much better in that they have to be these gigantic, muscle-bound morons. It's like there can't be but one kind of each sex. I don't know. Maybe I expect too much.