Chara Violet

Thank you! :D

now that we've seen the original Pink Pearl do you think you'll remake the image and add her in it?

don't you mean far left? i honestly thought that was CG Pearl because of the placement of the colors. would you mind if i borrowed one of the images to make a forth Pearl for this image?

i didn't feel like editing the hair so i placed the gem underneth it.

Well, with all the others I just swapped the colors around to match the gem, since both Pearl and PP are pink pearls, I figured they'd both have the same color schemes

what do you think of the one i made? i tried to pic a color scheme you hadn't used with the other pearls.

i briefly tried using a light gray coloring for the dress but it didn't look that appealing to me.

Also you have great art

It's not canon. It's not the mural from the show.

Dude what

the colors are fan-made and it isn't in the "color outside the lines" style.

Oh.

To bad, because it's a nice pic.

They color Lapis's gemstone with a single solid color all the time.

It's called an animation error.

Here are some examples xoxo

Fair point, but it's consistently colored that way throughout Malachite's appearance in "Super Watermelon Island". It's even on her model sheet from "Jail Break".

Except her model sheet only shows the lower half of her gem, which is the same color as the one in the image provided.

Furthermore, Lapis's gem was also consistently shown as a single color in every episode she's in beside Change Your Mind, in which she got a new design with a new model sheet. If we didn't have her most recent model sheet, the same argument could be used to say Lapis's gemstone should be altered to be plain.

Furthermore, we have never seen a gemstone lose details in fusion, so it's very unlikely that the change in pattern is intentional.

Yes, but just because that part is obscured doesn't mean we should believe something is there.

Except we have. While they are small, Obsidian's gemstones are very clearly lacking the detail present on her components, most noticeably the shading on Pearl's gemstone being absent.

If the shape is so minute, hardly any detail will be placed on it. It'll be just a solid color, which is exacerbated here due to the sheer sizes of the fusions. It's borderline sloppy but it really doesn't detract much from the scene it's in. Be that as it may, there's literally no reason why a gemstone can defy light and shading after a fusion.

As Ludexkoo said, Obsidian's gems changing aren't due to her actual gemstones changing in detail, they're because she's so massive that drawing her gemstones in detail in every scene would be a hassle.

Again, fair point...

Though, going through Lapis' gallery myself, I'm starting to believe her gem not having a highlight pre-"Change Your Mind" is intentional. All shots of her back have the gem with no shading, even when it's front and center. That's way too many times for it to just be an animator goof up.

And before you debunk me on this, a similar thing happened with Amethyst; her gemstone was a deep purple originally, and the colors became lighter and brighter following her final regeneration in "Reformed", and stayed that way ever since.

Addendum; also, while Obsidian's gemstones may just be drawn that way for simplicity's sake, that's still how they're presented within the wiki. Why should Malachite's gems be treated any differently?

See my point about Amethyst. In fact, when Lapis regenerates, the shading disappears and the light and dark sides are instead separated by the crack.

That's usually how Cabochon gems are. They're literally just a single color, it's the shading and lighting that gives them their different color. Pearl's gem isn't slightly pink with a small band of slightly darker pink on the bottom, it's entirely slight Pink but the lighting choice causes the gem to have shading. It's just a matter of whether or not you want to add shading.

Also, a model sheet from Change Your Mind

Yes, Koo, we agree that Lapis's gem is currently not a single solid color, but what Crossover Enthusiast is trying to imply is that this was a decision only made for  the new Lapis design, and as such Malachite's gemstone doesn't have it due to it being made from Lapis's old design.

Exactly. And, um...

By this logic, Malachite's gem should be reverted anyway because it was never shown with shading or highlighting.

But Lapis's has, and their gems are the same gemstone but simply with a different color.

Counterpoint; Pearl's gemstone on Opal contains a pink highlight that only appears on Opal. If details like that can be added in a Fusion, then they can certainly be removed.

Lapis' gem on Malachite didn't have any features that were added or removed, outside of color. It's just that the artists didn't add shading to it when animating Malachite. Shading is just a fundamental phenomenon that occurs with light. And unless Lapis' gemstone on Malachite is perpetually emitting light, there's no reason why it cannot have shading on it.

Yeah, but in that same vein, why would we portray it as having shading (or in the case of the current render, highlighting) when it has never been shown that way? Sugilite and Alexandrite are just as big as Malachite is, and they at least have multiple shots where their gems are fully detailed. Malachite has no such thing.

All of the scenes where we see Lapis's gem on Malachite its unshaded because it was just left unshaded due to being a fast scene or not much focus is supposed to be on that area. Even Lapis herself has multiple scenes where her gem is unshaded. Using the shaded or unshaded versions of the gem is just a matter of preference in the wiki. And I'd rather we use the shaded version because it looks more appealing.

There was a slight difference with Lapis' gem. Her gem has a ring when she's poofed but in Mirror Gem, it does not.

But when Steven removed it, it did not.

Hunny do you not know what an animation error is?

Gotta agree with Chara on this one. It most likely was just an error.

Right... Going back to my old point of Lapis' gem pre her "Change Your Mind" regeneration not having shading while she's formed, a model sheet from "Ocean Gem".

Perhaps you should redirect your vision to the portion of that model sheet that describes her gemstone as "glowing", which directly indicates that her gemstone is not being shown in its correct coloration.

I believe that's just a holdover from this model sheet, what with it being the same palette and everything.

...That model sheet also describes her gemstone as glowing

Yes hun if they're both glowing they're both gonna have the trait of the gem glowing. 

I meant that they just didn't remove that line from the model sheet when they made the new models.

...They didn't remove the line because her gemstone is still glowing. 

ok sure

I'm already making one. :)

sure 

thanks