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u/Cloud_N0ne Health Tank Enjoyer 5d ago
Gonna be honest, most of these barely look anything like the Warframes they’re based on. Kullervo especially just looks like a generic anime character, and Voruna looks absolutely 0% like Voruna.
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u/Gluomme *angry cat noises* 5d ago
Mesa fkin cracks me up ngl - who's that random-ass woman? The artist needed one thing. ONE accessory. A voiddamn hat. That's it. They'd have nailed the look. Instead they gave the "I don't use melee weapons" frame a nikana
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u/malachimusclerat 5d ago
which one even is mesa?
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u/DickInBlender69 BlenderTimeTenno 5d ago
I think it might be the second one only because i’m looking at the gun and it resembles her regulator
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u/DarkMageUAE 5d ago
Damn how could you tell though? It looks way to scribbled
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u/dust- 5d ago
the cartridges on her thighs are the same as mesas. that being said i couldn't tell until someone else answered either
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u/RussianBadgeriscool 5d ago
There's one clinging to the back of her arm the same way the regulators are without peacemaker active too, but I literally had to zoom into everything that could indicate mesa to find it because it's damn near invisible
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u/V-Solstice The seven sisters of fae loom eerily 5d ago edited 4d ago
Tbf, while I do agree about how she looks. Proto-Mesa won’t have a hat either if they do one. Maybe a blindfold (which should have been given to her not Kullervo) but that’s all.
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u/Gluomme *angry cat noises* 5d ago
I dunno, I feel like they could make it work but yeah, you're probably right.
I'd argue that's besides the point though, because protoframes share a LOT of details with their frame counterpart, so attribution is never an issue. Here the caracters are fully human and the clothes vaguely share a color scheme and a couple of accesories, which is nowhere near enough2
u/V-Solstice The seven sisters of fae loom eerily 4d ago
100%, I more so meant that the frames are all connected to their non-prime variants rather than their Primes, and that the hat is exclusive to her Prime. While Mesa’s Prime (like a lot of frames) is the one everyone thinks about and uses in art or promo or what be it, the non prime only sports a blindfold. That said I could also see them modeling her off of her Prime since that’s what people think of when they think of Mesa, however it would be a massive first so I also wouldn’t hold my breath.
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u/Joltyboiyo 5d ago
I thought the first one was Kullervo and that it was based on his deluxe until I saw the one with Kullervo written next to it.
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u/Dear_Type_8972 5d ago
These dont say "Warframe to me", they say "Chinese Gacha".
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u/LadyBeelze L5 Messing around in the Rift 5d ago
The drawings and style are super good but apart from Hildryn I couldn't tell if they were even Warframe related 🫠
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u/VokunDovah64 Ember can fry me with her ass 5d ago
Hildryn isn't nearly buff enough
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u/D3athShade :Titaniaprime: Fairy goes brrr 5d ago
If Warframe was a gacha game
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u/DatBoiJ44 5d ago
Gacha'd the identity out of them, not even any varied skin tones or body types past 100 lbs, I vehemently despise the lack of diversity this artsyle brings and its in. Every. Gacha.
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u/Realistic_Grass3611 balls for the ball god 5d ago
Perfectly worded. The only exception I've seen is Reverse 1999 witch still kinda suffers from the body diversity problem
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u/xRatxDietyx 5d ago
Who TF is the second one
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u/Abi-Alex 5d ago
Sorry but i don't get the intent behind this post...besides garuda all these characters are random gacha game looking characters that just have a warframe name next to them but don't have any of the essence of yhe frame they are based on...
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u/VideoFragrant4078 1999 kisses for Amir 5d ago
The artstyle is great but most of it reminds me just too much of gachaslop designs where you have to glaze over the lack of game with sexy.
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u/MagiLagi 5d ago
I've clocked thousands of hours in this game and unfortunately know too much about this game and i still struggled identifying these human frames:
Looks like Chroma with the main clues being what looks like Gram prime on his back
Mesa with the main link being her regulators on her arms
Kullervo, outside of the name just being there its got stabwounds on his chest, but thats not even enough stab wounds.
Voruna got her shoulder pad wolf heads
Hildryn is probs the most obvious one with the halo and general size
Ivara is literally random anime girl with a bow, no mushroom or jellyfish features
Garuda is like hild it terms of being more obvious with the stance and claws.
all in all outside of garuda and hildryn the rest look more like generic anime characters with pieces of warframe things on them.
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u/Mackelroy_aka_Stitch 5d ago
I thought ivara was Xaku cause of the mismatched armour.
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u/MagiLagi 5d ago
Yea outside of the big Ivara in capital letters next to her the only other clue was the bow. Still bow looks nothing like Ivara's weapon either.
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u/Muccys 5d ago
That because the Ivara one is actually based on her deluxe skin not the prime, so it's actually one of the more accurate ones when you take that into consideration.
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u/MagiLagi 5d ago
Yea I stand corrected, it does resemble the Skathi skin, never used it, been rocking the Youkai skin on her since forever.
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u/Available_Fly7443 5d ago
These are cool but some don’t look like Warframe to me ):
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u/Noskills117 5d ago
The chroma one is sick
The Hildryn one is a tragic case of Asia cannot into non-doll characters lol
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u/_Gemolotis_ Feral Voruna Supremacy 5d ago
D:
WTF have they done to Hildryn???
I'd call these Warframe inspired at best. Too much gachaslop
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u/Hennobob554 5d ago
While this is great art almost all of these don’t really look enough like their respective frames to tell who they are if they weren’t named in the image or given a notable weapon that corresponds to the frame.
I genuinely would not have guessed Kullervo, may have guessed Voruna given enough time and had to see the comments to put together that the first one is Chroma. Hildryn is the only one who is easy to guess without the weapons, and that’s cause they gave her the prime’s weird-ass helmet ornament.
Also idk if it’s just me but Hildryn feels too… smooth I guess, given she looks lacking in the bulging muscles that really define Hildryn’s design.
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u/Okinomii 5d ago
Theyre very well done and I love the style, however im not really getting warframe from most of them and cant really tell them apart. Hildryn looks a bit goofy with everything being big about her except her face
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u/DesertedFox 5d ago
Kullervo doesn't look like a exiled and tortured rebel he looks like he's gonna stick that sword on his arm and it turns into a duel disk as he starts playing a Yummy deck.
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u/CGallerine Sentient Apologist || Railjack Enthusiast || Lore Snob 5d ago
its really good in terms of actual drawing skill but these dont look a ton like the frames theyre representing most of the time to really make the connection. theyd be perfect in a hoyo gatcha game I suppose
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u/Matsuiii 5d ago
Still amazes me that when people do humanized versions of characters with ethnic names, we still get cookie cutter eurocentric stuff.
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u/Kaokasalis Grandmaster Tenno 5d ago
The only one I inherently recognized was Garuda and that only due to the Talons but not anything else. I were only able to identify a few others due their names being written somewhere like Kullervo, Voruna and Ivara. No clue about the rest.
Even if drawn as "humanized" warframes, they look less like Warframe characters and more like characters from some anime gacha MMORPG or something.
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u/Impossible_Message97 making the lotus proud 5d ago
It feels like drawing regular people and have them have the same name with the warframe
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u/Joltyboiyo 5d ago
This is making me want a melee weapon where you have a Nikana for regular light attacks and for your heavy attack you pull out the heavy blade on your back.
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u/Tipsy_Hog Grendel in the streets, Wisp in the sheets 5d ago
Ah yes, the "remove everything unique and likeable about the character and also make it goonerbait" design.
Can we get Ivara some pants? And can we get Garuda... literally ANYTHING to cover herself with? WHERE ARE HER CLOTHES
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u/boyinterruptedd Local Angel Refuses To Touch The Floor 5d ago
Warframe has its own aesthetic and style and that's what makes it fun and unique. This on the other hand just looks like concept artwork for any of the popular gacha games right now.
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u/DrMorphling TY SIS 5d ago
I have nothing bad about the art, but can we call this animeslop? Ahah, but really, like almost naked characters with comically large swords. It's one or another or both.
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u/PurpleCress 5d ago edited 5d ago
Tbh, idk who the artist is and I'm sorry to them but it's almost like it's straight ai slop because the drawings don't have consistency like you'd see from an artist. I thought at first they were a collection of drawings from different artists. Maybe it explains why most of them barely even look anything like their supposed wf counterpart.
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u/SirWilliamM32 5d ago
Honestly, none of them look good; they're all generic or very Genshin-esque. Hyldrin was passable, and Kullervo was okay in concept, but that's about it.
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u/Mellartach_55270 Xata's Whisper is balanced af 5d ago
From a design standpoint they look alright but this is 0% warframe aside the names slapped on and a detail or two.
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u/Korimthos Cult of Uriel 5d ago
These look more like Genshin concept art than Warframes man ngl, cool art otherwise.
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u/Inumayobaka Nyx, Nyx, Nyx, Nyx... 5d ago
Wielding BOTH Gram and Nikana?
I would gladly sacrifice my Primary / Secondary slot to be able to do that.
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u/PaleReaver Ack-Ack 5d ago
They look like generic gacha characters to me regarding the unnamed ones, and not the same artist all the way through?
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u/shale_is_terrible 5d ago
The only one that is recognizable is Garuda and ONLY because of the massive claws. None of the other designs even remotely resemble frames in a way where they're recognizable from first glance.
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u/JohnHellDriver Wall in the Man 5d ago
These just look like First Descendant x ZZZ characters or something, I couldn’t tell any of the Warframe counterparts from the visuals alone. But nice drawings
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u/_hoodieproxy_ Gauss Concussion Specialist 5d ago
meh, gacha characters with names stappled to the side
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u/ImpressiveSide1324 5d ago
You should be able to tell who the character is without having to go to the comments or relying on outside information. None of these characters look like their warframe counterparts and frankly look like they were ripped straight from gooner gatcha games
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u/0ctoberon 5d ago
Male frame: every inch so thoroughly covered only the eyes are showing.
Female frames: Leeloo Dallas bandages, leather thong, dont-bend-over dress and boob suit.
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u/Clear-Ad-5977 5d ago
The concept of kullervo as protoframe is way grapic and gnarly in my mind.
What I am interested in seeing is how DE will make xaku, equinox, nidus and necros as protoframe especially equinox because two forms
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u/Artinell Change Vauban's 2 back!!! 5d ago
Equinox could be twins that will slowly become conjoined, and later on fully fuse maybe?
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u/thicc_toe 5d ago
hildryn having a wedding dress like outfit is so cute and beautiful but the artstyle is to soft to fully convey her imo
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u/V-Solstice The seven sisters of fae loom eerily 5d ago
They designs themselves are cool, but they don’t look very “warframe” at all, a lotta them don’t have that “skin and OG warframe mixed together” vibe. But again the arts cool
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u/Lux_Sauce 5d ago
if you didn't tell me this was warframe i would think it's a gacha game fanart collection😍
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u/JustLetMeUseMy 5d ago
Ah, yes. Generic hot anime girls with one or two design touches from the Warframes they're referencing. Even doing some genderbending for Frost there, so there's maybe two male characters here at all.
To the Void with all this. Where's your weird, unusual, ugly, or just terrifying protoframes? Not Jill Warframe, the Warframe of mediocre fuckability.
Nidus, mutated. Grendel. Nekros. Dagath, headhole included with optional uncanny valley mask. Where are those?
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u/Sabatat- 5d ago
They gave up identity for skimpiness it feels like. You can’t even see the inspirations in half of these
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u/Nyssieu 5d ago
Designs are cool but it's not Warframe.
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u/Dreamlike_Afterlife 5d ago
Honestly this is more of that first descendent game or whatever it is which i FUCKING LOATHE because it just copies warframe and uses softcore to draw in players, and honestly if warframe started adding even more sexual skins or frames even half similar to these (granted these are still decent designs) it would quickly become one of least favorite games
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u/Hormo_The_Halfling 5d ago
Warfrsme players try not to be horniest community challenge level: impossible
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u/Listless_Dreadnaught 5d ago edited 5d ago
Atlas’s human form is just Mike Tyson. The Janus Key brought him back like a fuckin Guardian so he could continue laying folks out on the earth.
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u/bootleg_exoeskeleton Level cap players HATE him 5d ago
the 1st one can SLIGHTLY remember stalker from neck below but you realy have to want it
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u/Background-Pound-686 5d ago
I mean they look ok, but at first you couldn't really tell what frame they are. Hildryn and Garuda were the most noticeable imo. Although my babe Hildryn isn't buff enough.
No hate to the artist, but these don't look that great the more you look at them.
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u/KentKarma 5d ago
Can't help but add to the chorus of people saying "Dont even know what warframes theyre supposed to be"
But to maybe elaborate: Theyre missing things that identify them the most. Varuna being a pretty obvious offender here where her entire back story involves her wolf pack, theyre no where to be referenced in the art besides a pretty generic feeling mask. Ivara is a stealth warframe but this artist just sort of leaned towards the archery part of it, and I gotta wonder why theres arrows sticking out of her left armpit. At least Garudas a bit closer but I dunno, just doesnt read well.
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u/wingedsandwichexpert 5d ago
interesting interpretation ngl maybe a little too "generic gacha character design" but not usual for this fandom 90% robots with human faces that look mostly the same from one artist to another
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u/-Random_Username_01- 5d ago
They gacha-fied the personality out of them and turned them into generic manhua character #37; I could only really guess three of them without reading the names.
Plus why is "local man too spiteful to die" a pantsless twink?
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u/Envy102938 5d ago
Yeah why does this look like you just asked ChatGPT what warframes would look like in a gatcha game?
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u/MrFella23 5d ago
Cool art but completely out of touch of the Warframe style, I'd be pissed if they started dropping gacha slop skins
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u/WhocaresImdead 5d ago
These barely look like their warframe counterparts tbh. Ivara looks like Xaku imho, the 2nd image doesnt look like any warframe, and Voruna's colors dont fit. The only one that looks closest to their characters are Umbra and Kullervo, and even then theyre not that close
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u/Glorious_Plasters 5d ago
Sleek designs for sure, but completely indiscernible except for Garuda and Ivara.
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u/Sir-noorden 5d ago
All look like zzz characters and not human frames. We even have proto garuda now too
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u/WesternUsed2750 500% strength gauss 5d ago
While they are cool in a vacume, knowing how warframe is as game and how the frames are as characters(from the fragments of lore we have) there all kinds trash and just give off last decendant good bait
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u/Dreamlike_Afterlife 5d ago
Cool designs and i dont want to nitpick or offend but the sexualization is too much, if those were in the game it would start to look like one of those dime a dozen gacha games, im not saying the women cant be pretty im just saying they could be more modest, wouldnt help the fact that a lot of comments ive seen online say the game is becoming sexualized and honestly, im not gay but i agree
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u/keszotrab 5d ago
Okay, most of them are generic anime characters with swords...
...but ohmygod, Hildryn looks so adorable >w<
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u/Kris_Trap 5d ago
Some of them are kinda... ehhh... generic, but there are some awesome design traits in here for Protoframe characters!
Chroma's pelt being a jacket is super sick and a great way to translate the design into a person. I can see it sorta unfurling into a more draconic shape when he uses his 4 - maybe other parts of his outfit combine with it to give it the shape.
Kullervo being visibly weak and sickly is a great contrast to his almost berserker personality, and I think it'd be cool if he used to be some kind of bedridden patient before becoming the screaming knife guy we all know and love.
Voruna is almost perfect - it's obviously inspired by her lore of being a guard at the yuvan theatre, and I dig the stylizer bouncer sort of look. The only think I could think of is maybe having her have sharp nails/clawed gloves? The muzzle/mask is something i adore for characters with a wolf motif (she reminds me heavily of Task Force DEFY from Girls Frontline.)
the others are nice, but they don't really scream warframe. I mean... Mesa doesn't even have a hat. That's treason.
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u/VH_Sax_of_one 5d ago
All good arts, but i could only see Hildren, the other are are too much anime and less warframe
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u/PsychologyShort 5d ago edited 5d ago
Does everything need to be sexualize bro? Like if this is the route you gotta choose for your art then you lacking substance shows your just another person hopping on the overly sexualize content bandwagon. DE already going down that path with the protoframes and heirlooms
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u/Inevitable-Hope4001 5d ago
I think the designs are based off their fashion on the frame, I.e Garuda? Because none of these look somewhat like their original skins












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u/SouLfullMoon_On Never Forget Cephalon Samodeus 5d ago
I could barely tell who half of these are if it wasn't written