>>11312778I haven't seen the Viking or Spartan ones, but there is obviously an utterly gigantic gap between how much
>>11306632 resembles some actual European plate armor vs how
>>11306605 and the other snake figures resemble stuff in Mesoamerica: the jade necklace and some of the shields are fine but the rest of the armor and weapons don't vaugely look like anything that existed there
The issues
>>11311021 had before the fixes, are, relative to the figure, way more minor (tho I'd argue outfits at least were still outright bad), the point of me posting it wasn't to bitch about media depictions but to give an example of a major project acting on feedback given by some of my friends who also do autistic infodumping
Here are the differences:
1. In the "before" version of the culture art, the buildings have visible brickwork. This wouldn't have been the case historically, smooth plaster/stucco was put over the bricks (which in turn covered the rubble/mortar fill that made up the inner structure)
2. the "before" version's a red-green-white paint used over the bricks was changed to red-blue-yellow-black-white schemed paint (correctly applied over the stucco), matching the paint schemes we know Tenochtitlan's central precinct had from excavations (see pic, tho this uses freshly painted replicas or diagrams for the artifacts/ruins which have especially faded paint)
3. the "before" version lacks any sort of detailed painted accents or murals for most of the structures. The revisions add the repeating circle and marching-warrior motifs found in the House of the Eagles and Red Temple from excavations of the precinct, as well as some step fret designs which are a pretty pan-mesoamerican thing, though they used Zapotec versions (which is iffy but not a big deal). There's also geometric bar designs on the slopes of the ballcourt now which are also found in some precinct structures though I forget which
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