Del Walker is a personality artist presently working at Naughty Canine, although he additionally beforehand labored on Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League and designed Deadshot.
Talking with Kinda Humorous’s Blessing Adeoye Jr. in a current interview, Walker makes the purpose that at present’s builders “don’t have an excuse” to be placing in-authentic Black hair on characters.
“The benefit now could be you don’t have an excuse, as a result of the tech can help what you want. Now it’s nearly having the information and utilizing the sources of Black folks to ask ‘is that this proper?’”
Walker is correct to level this out, although many standard franchises nonetheless fail to satisfy what ought to already be a fundamental normal.
Adeoye’s considerate video goes into element as to the significance of hairstyles in Black historical past and tradition, and names titles like Elden Ring and Animal Crossing as huge sellers with current releases that also fail to authentically characterize Black hair.
In distinction to that, Walker and Adeoye undergo video games that do a greater job of representing Black hair, like Avenue Fighter 6 and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales.
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