Ladybug’s Outfit Needs HELP | Miraculous Ladybug

BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO COMMENT: I HAVE MADE MODIFICATIONS TO THE DESIGN. So before you comment a critique or even a compliment, I encourage you to see the newest design. I made a Short about it, the link is in the description, posted it in a recent community post, as well as in the Announcements channel on my Discord. So please check it out! Thank you!

This has been a HUGE issue for me. It doesn't look good for a mc, when the side characters have a more interesting outfit

This looks leagues better than the canon design! The creature concept in particular is fascinating and makes for a super interesting design.

I always felt like the animal asthetic was kinda wasted on some characters. I think you perfectly showed the potential that more animal inspired designs have. Love it!

Honestly, turning the ponytails into antennas and the glowing yellow eyes is such a nice relief. Amazing vid as always, Aloe!!

You know, for someone who isn't confident about design outfits, Alou is REALLY good at it

Looks really good! Compared to the original I think adding something into the design to resemble wings really does work, like how Scarabella had that skirt overhang that resembled wings.

Why does everyone have better fashion sense than the main character? 😅

Maybe the cape could become stiff so that she could glide short distances.

Your redesign is fantastic!! One of my personal favorites! It amazes me how fans and non-fans are better at designing, writing and world-building for this show than the actual creator (I can think of a few reasons why this is, but it’s still weird, and as a creative myself it kinda makes me sad for him, even tho he’s a very not nice person).

I think it’s so nice of Zoe how she took Marinette‘s spot as the ugliest Superhero as soon as she got the cat miraculous!

the outfit that ladybug has in the show may be cute but they could so much a better job with designing her hero costume. Since Marinette is half chinese half french then they could mix the ladybug aspect with some chinese or french fashion while making it still a western superhero outfit or something qwq

I really like your redesign! So much better than the original. I do know that in the Ladybug PV, there were alternate ladybug designs for PV Marinette because the animators didn't want to animate so many spots, but Thomas Astruc was so set on the whole red and black spots so the animators only did the black spots to the waist up. They even gave PV Marinette a golden chain for her yoyo, which it's a nice touch and callback for Sailor Venus.

Catnoir 's desgin can be considered "bland" or simple but it fits and is pleasing to look at unlike ladybug 's And also it hides his identity well

I was never a fan of simplistic designs (though I admit they work well for some heroes who have short-range powers or no powers at all), so seeing a more stylized approach is appreciated. I hope you do Chat Noir next! The black cat look is overdone.

I absolutely love this redesign! I really think you did her jusitce. But my only problem with it is the overly long exaggerated antennas. This could be a huge issue during fight scenes because the villains could just pull her antenna as an advantage.

Honestly, the biggest mistake Thomas made with this costume (aside from designing it this way in the first place) was telling the audience that wielders could change their costumes. If he hadn't added that for two plots that both didn't really matter and that no one really cares about, he could have left us with 'oh well, when Mari first transformed she wasn't ready and didn't know what this all meant so now she's stuck with this design forever' but now that we know she isn't stuck with it, it's awful that it never changes. A costume that changes depending on who the wearer is and becomes is a great way to signify growth or even regression (and I'm gonna use it in my rewrite because it's such a brilliant concept) but as we know, Thomas is as allergic to good ideas as I am to 🐂💩

I Think that the real miss oportunity here, is that the main reason why ladybug's outfit is like that is because the show is in a 3D animation render and is done in a industrial process so this makes the models become more simpler, but that is no excuse because the show was supossed to be 2d but the main thing that made the show become 3d was ladybug's pattern who was easier to work with in 3D render, and on that note i say... WHY NOT MAKE LADYBUG CHANGE THE PATTERNS OF HER OUTFIT ?! this would be such a simple change who would make more doll possibilities, more marketing ideas, and still a thing that makes sense, ladybug possibly wants a outfit who would be comfortable for fighiting so i dont mind the spandex, but my god, there are orange ladybugs, there is also possible patterns who focus more in the black or others who would even include white so i think that the biggest miss oportunity is be creative with the thing that is easy to change, the pattern, EVEN ALYA DID THIS for rena furtive.... i really dislike the idea that both gabriel and marinette are fashion designers and they can't think of creative like... in the words of miranda presley "Red and Black dots for ladybug ? how original".

I think another problem with the Ladybug suit is that there is no real point of focus. A lot of the videos i've seen discussing character design say it's important to design the character in a way that directs the audience to the character's face or chest. Because Ladybug's costume is just one pattern we can't really focus on anything. Other costumes that favor simplicity achieve this. For example, Ben Reilly's Scarlet Spider costume was designed to be functional with a light blue hoodie over a red fullbody suit and our eyes lock on to the hoodie.

This design is so cute! I love how the red of her suit looks like a little jacket, and the cape immediately makes her look so buggy (making it shorter in the final version was a great idea, keeps her looking sporty) However, there’s two issues I can see, only in the coloring. The inside of the cape is the same color as her arms and torso, which makes them blend together and will hurt readability. Also, having her suit’s main color be black means that both main characters wear entirely or mainly black skintight bodysuits… It wouldn’t be an issue if she was a side character or they weren’t superheroes, but as characters that will share action scenes, they need distinct colors. Recognizability is key with superheroes. If I were to recolor her, I’d move the black to the inside of the cape. Ladybug wings are black with a really cool texture so incorporating that texture could be a neat idea! Then, I’d either extend her red past her cape to look like a romper (cape might be too long for that, though) or change the black to something else (maybe a dull teal?) or but I’d definitely keep her feet as black (as boots or a gradient like her hands, since the white spots are really buggy and I’d want to keep them) But that’s just my design habits. I’m totally biased because I also have a ladybug based secret identity character design but she’s a fantasy alien drag queen so maybe a bit different…