Exploring the PRISM magic system! (Lore galore)

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super nice to scroll around and see all the details love that I'm having fun with it and 115 million other Global downloaders seem to be having come with it too check the link in the description below or scan the QR code on the screen now so you can play two dots today and now on with the video howdy hey I'm Ray flash dress-up games were pretty formative to me growing up on deviantart's homepage I used to see all these little flash doll maker games made by other amateur artists like me at the time which felt so cool to see because those are all people I saw as peers making such intricate and interactive things things that felt so far beyond my ability stuff like that hugely inspired me to think of the things that I might be capable of someday I loved playing those things unfortunately I don't really have footage to show with this backstory though because the death of flash decimated countless flash files some of my own art is forever Lost online now because of it it's kind of really a huge shame but before it went I had this one night to myself I went to Doll Divine found all of the working magical girl games that I could and hit the random button a bunch of times while recording my screen and afterwards now I had the foundation of a video for a rainy day where I could take some randomized magical girls and make some characters out of them for my story prism lovely viewers today is that rainy day I'll be taking some of these randomized designs and turning them into prison magical girls but to start us off I should get the three basic design rules out of the way one magical girls within prism can have Main and accent colors the number of colors they have directly correlates to their strength as a magical Soldier most magical girls only have one main and one accent color additionally the more frequently the accent color appears on the outfit that is another indicator of how strong their magic is number two the hair color however of a magical girl has little to no impact on her strength the hair could maybe correlate to one of the Mainer accent colors or it could be a completely different color the hair is basically a freebie and number three each magical girl's outfit has a specific theme and her weapon has a specific theme as well these themes can correlate but that is optional the theme between weapon and outfit can be completely separate so those are the rules we're going with and then a disclaimer that the designs I work on today aren't guaranteed to be prism Canon all of the girls at best are potential characters this is just me doing a challenge while still being in pre-production mode with this story maybe some of them will end up in the actual show maybe parts of their ideas or designs or names will live on in a different character who knows it's all a work in progress I'm not making any firm decisions at this time now is the time for experimenting so with all that in mind let's get drawing I started with this one by Bonnie games and the design I picked to draw from all the results was this one looking at her color scheme it's pretty obviously red and white and blue and it's got stars and stripes and she sure reminds me of something but boy I I don't want to make an American flag magical girl by any stretch of the imagination so I got some second opinions and I landed on the idea of giving her a priestess theme with a nice big full skirt because of the way that colors work in prism I immediately decided that I was going to be tossing out the red and keeping the blue as our main color and the yellow as her accent to keep her power level in check cause like I mentioned it's pretty rare for any magical girl to have more than one main and slash or accent color you can see me using a couple different shades of blue here though and that's because the rule at this point in time a subject to change but right now the rule is that if I take a different shade or a slightly different Hue of a given color for a design I'll still have it count as the main color so like there's a little room for variety but we want to try and keep them generally close to each other this is for the sake of a design being harmonious but not monotonous that makes sense if that makes sense like this shade of ultramarine can have all these different values within its Hue and these are all free game and if I want to cheat the colors a little bit I can like shift it slightly towards green to make it make it a little more vibrant or I could shift it slightly towards purple as long as it's still like majorly the same blue or like not this is as long as it's still majorly mostly the same blue I will count it as the same color but if I go in and add like a bright teal I'm going to count that as a separate color uh so we're not adding teal we're just doing slight variations of blue and then black and white are free colors in prism lore these technically count as colorless black and white in the hair they're all freebies I wanted to keep the strap sleeves that she had in this original randomizer because I thought those were unique but in general I think because I haven't settled on how I want to design magical girls she's not going to end up where I want her to be and that's okay I just I've got a lot of studying still to do I've got a lot of practice still to do I'm still trying to make up my mind as to how I want this design convention to look but something I'm trying to keep in mind as I work on these is to make these themes look like a magical girl inspired by X instead of a fancy version of X in this case a priestess so I want like a magical girl that sort of looks like a priestess and not a a fancy Priestess a lot of my first drafts just ended up being exploration finalizing and coming up with all the extra magical girly details like extra layers and Ruffles and stuff without getting too extra that those were my second drafts and I feel like those pulled me more towards more towards that wanting to be inspired by look instead of being straight up all in all I think she could look more like a magical girl after I've gotten in some practice but for now she's good enough here is Peyton her weapon is a big wand that can cast invisible light Shields it's very straightforward second from Rin Maru games I picked this one holding the rose because the Ruffles on the skirt reminded me me of bushes and that gave me an idea I went with the red Queen's Garden for the theme across both her outfit and her weapon it's a little out there as far as themes go but I'm experimenting with how specific the themes can get and I really like this one I'd like to do more like this because the the prisms themselves you know the creatures not the military the prisms are kind of quirky funny little guys they're very dramatic and Theatrical they're very stubborn each prism has its own identity it individually knows how it wants its host transformed outfit to look how their weapon will work they know what they like and [ __ ] you if you don't like it you just gotta deal with it when you transform with a prism you are basically at their Mercy as to what you will look like and how you can fight prisms can hardly be reasoned within this regard and that is at least partially due to the fact that most prisms do not speak human language with any fluency and even though a prism will have a sort of psychic link with their host while they're transformed it's just so that they can work together the host still has to operate inside of the prism's rules and figure out you know what those rules are how much they can bend them so on and so forth it's a very individual process and since each prism is different it's hard to tell if these rules are brought on by actual physical limitations of the prisms or if they're just like uh like like societal rules that are taken like super seriously by them you know like can you physically not give me a different outfit or is it the principle of the matter we as humans just don't know the first drafts for Peyton and for this girl felt very on the nose to me with their colors and Design Elements like I put literal leaves and literal flower petals on this dress for rose bushes in a queen's Garden the weapon is literally just a giant paintbrush that's something else I want to study I want to get into item designing these weapons is not fun it's mostly difficult I need to get better at it weapons in prism work a little strangely because they can look a million different ways so long as if follows a theme but the weapons are just solid light so even with a paintbrush for a weapon it's not that she's magically summoning paint to use it is solid light that looks like paint so in her case I think she would use the paint from her brush more like a whip like using the hanging Globs to to smack people around more than she actually like paints things into the final draft I wanted to bring the green back to the right Ruffles make it more like a dress and less like a bush and I changed up the paintbrush to be more like a pretty wrought iron fence here's Italy she's a pretty good example of my not being sure how much an accent color will correlate to a magical girl's power level because I think later girls I designed in this video have similar amounts of accent colors but I gave them more power I I don't know it's in an exact science I'll get it ironed out one day and then I'll redesign everyone accordingly this third one here is the magical hero Creator by Miss Angus games I settled on this one but honestly I had a real hard time making out anything to do with it but between the uh armored legs and this sort of horned winged staff she has she's kind of serving Beetle Vibes and there was no real prevailing color so I had the freedom to just choose pink which of course I would so I took the the pink and the the Beetle Bug Vibes to come to an orchid mantis idea except I generally try to lean away from animals and insects for themes so I don't crowd katsumi's Team theme too much since her team is like pack you know but it's made up of like strange not necessarily pack animals so I I pulled back a little bit with the idea I just went with Orchid and I figured that Orchid umbrella is over Orchid mantis so I could still use like inspired things from the Mantis but still call the theme Orchid I think I accounts yes when I started I had this vision of a short form-fitting dress but getting a detail was tricky magical girls are so detailed it's really hard to find a balance between looking detailed enough to sell the magical girl Vibe TM and not being super hell to animate I kept their colors pretty simple I honestly there's not a lot to say about this one because when she's finalized it's just a prettied up version of the draft so I'm gonna let the speed paint roll and I'm gonna talk about the prism some more because I want to the prisms themselves in their active forms the ones that look kind of like animals they all have the same body type but they all have unique headpieces and Tails and those unique features usually reflect something relevant to their theme or their dormant forms the ones that look like just a shape they do have little facets on their animal bodies they got fasted on both their bodies and while the dormant form takes the color of their main color the animal bodies will look almost clear with their eyes glowing the same main color that they have and the dormant shape of their prism uh sort of set inside their head that's kind of the rules of what prisms look like the selection process for a prism is pretty hard to define the whole deal is that a prism will choose its host and they'll only transform with someone that they've personally picked you can't force a prism to transform with you but sometimes they can get really sassy about it some prisms will act all put upon to have to be around the person they've paired up with like for example azumi's prism actively does not like her but it still chose her so no one really knows if there's sort of like an invisible bond drawing these pairs together or if it is the prism's choice and they just choose weirdly they're quirky and mysterious they work in weird ways they're supposed to feel very sort of alien to us all prisms have their own personalities though no two prisms are alike and every relationship between a host and their prism is unique in fact depending on how much the host is willing to try and quote unquote socialize their prism they could teach them to say a few words sort of like a bird otherwise prisms make sort of like uh gentle glass clinking together sounds when they sort of speak here's our final girl use a Momo and her little Orchid prism her outfit has the flowers adjusted to be more like stylized orchids to match her prism shape and her weapon is a sword that acts like a sword our fourth one is glitter cure I got super excited when I saw this design because I feel like it's the strongest of the randomized picks it just it screamed like a Chinese dragon to me the vision was present it was felt but I was not happy with my first draft the dress came out pretty generic it feels too much like a cheap pow which is a really commodified style and I didn't want to do that but it was just the first draft to get ideas out now I can weed out the bad ideas and carve out the good ones the dragon puppet as the weapon I think has to be the most interesting one so far even though I don't like how it looks in this draft I think conceptually it's fun her prism's weapon functions like a wand but it presents as this puppet so she can trap any singular entity into a solid light bodysuit to essentially like imprison them and turn them into a puppet so long as their target is within her little hand dragon's direct line of sight I believe it would work I think that might be good for balancing and I think this is another good example to sort of talk about how these weapons work you know it it functions like a wand it doesn't need to look like a puppet the puppet part is kind of arbitrary but it is how that particular prism likes or wants to or has to present its weapon so that's what we have to work with magical girls are able to still get creative with how their weapon is used though so even though this is a puppet she can still manipulate it in other ways as long as she has enough Magic available to be able to sort of utilize it differently for example in close combat she could use the puppet like a gauntlet or increase its size to deliver a much stronger blow when she brings it down on someone's head or like suddenly making it super long and extending out in front of her to knock an opponent backwards stuff like that maybe the teeth could also gnaw on people if it was big enough I don't know but the weapons can be manipulated in a ways like changing their size or like modifying parts of them even some magical girls if they have enough magic they can duplicate their weapons nineko for example her weapons are bowling pins but she can make basically as many of those as she would like to she's got the power for it this prism's dormant form is also a good example of uh how funky their shapes can get it and something I kind of struggle with myself each dormant form of a prism is supposed to have like its own unique shape no two prisms look the same but it's a pretty simple shape and it's supposed to reflect something in the outfit so I tried to make it look kind of like the festival lamp she has in her hair but sometimes I find myself like once I have the prism design sorted out I'll try and just put that a small version of a gem that looks like their dormant prism on the outfit and that's a little too close to soul gems for me that's not what I want I don't know why I keep doing it when I'm not thinking I have to remind myself to stop it like for kitsumi and use prisms their dormant shapes are different shapes of bows that are reflected in the shapes on their outfits like the kind of bows that they have on their outfit or their hair or the petals that they have over their skirts or use Cape even but neither of them actually has like the literal prism anywhere on their outfit and I'm trying to keep it that way you know the dormant forms just reflect the outfit it shouldn't be on the outfit probably I don't I'm still sorting things out pre-production man anyway uh the final look here I changed up the dress to be more inspired by a hanfu I took some liberties with that to make it more uh ethereal magical girly sort of feeling and this is our final Dai Lou I really like her design uh I don't think this is a theme I would typically go for if I what I don't think I would be doing a theme that was based on a holiday if I didn't have this challenge but I like how she turned out I still don't love the puppet visually but oh well and the last girl for today was made with the keepers of The Elements by maker I ended up going with this one and she ended up giving me more trouble than I anticipated because what made the design I started with so appealing in the first place was the color combinations but this is way too many colors for the average present magical girl so essentially I couldn't use the best thing about the outfit in my version of the design going off of the screenshot I could have easily gone with a valkyrie or a phoenix theme but I decided to try something less specific this time to play around with more abstract representation I wanted to focus more on the outfit just looking like a magical girl so her theme is simply fire and a lot of it is represented in the colors and since I set the precedent with the Orchid mantis girl that it could Encompass similar things to the base theme I've included some vague inspiration from Phoenix's using the shape of their wings on her headband and on the orange sort of bodice thingy corset sorta I tried to style it to hopefully look like feathery Flames I again wasn't happy with my first draft the dress felt kind of aimless and since the Fire theme is so vague I was really struggling with how to incorporate its look to be like natural and also good it's it's a weird dress not to mention the colors I miss the original colors simplifying color palettes is hard so finalizing her was a task I added some more witchy magician looking elements to her to make her feel more magical and I most importantly changed her hair color this is an excellent example of why I said earlier that the hair color doesn't count towards power level sometimes you just need a little extra pop of color and I I need what I need I need a freebie somewhere I think her hair looks really nice being this sort of dark blue I kept her outfit pretty vibrant to reflect her being a strong magical girl but another fun fact for you since we're almost done vibrancy does also account for strength but more like a phone battery see the longer a magical girl is active and the longer she fights her magical drain and her outfit will show that it's draining by becoming more and more desaturated until she's totally lost all of her colors at which point she is completely out of magic for the day she will won't be able to maintain her transformation and her prism will have to go dormant they're not hurt or anything they just need to recharge in the sunlight and get their magic back before they're able to transform and fight again and now here she is here's the final Hotel Ruby her weapon is two wands that act like a reticule so she has to overlap both of them onto a single Target before she can fire her fire granted that fire isn't really fire it's solid light made to look like fire so being hit by an attack from her is more akin to having a building thrown at you than it is to the torture of searing burning flesh and that brings me to the end of all my randomized flash game desired magical girl designs I had fun with these it was some good practice thank you so much for joining me 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Length: 27min 28sec (1648 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 07 2023