The fact they had to put "Tigerstar (Tigerclaw)" is actually really funny xD

I’ve never been a fan of the new cover designs, mainly because of the harsh lighting, incorrect colors (milk mustache Violetshine, brown tabby Sol), the bad cat selfies for The New Prophecy (I do NOT need a close up of Leafpool’s cat lips, thank you) and the samey posing (Mistystar on the cover of River leaping at the camera is a breath of fresh air) but was hoping this could be a chance for Richardson to stretch his legs. But it seems to just be more of the same. And if someone told me that Rock’s art was AI generated I’d probably believe them

I'm not saying that Owen's art is bad or good (I love his backgrounds), it's just he can't draw cats. The art doesn't look lazy to me, just rushed. HarperCollins just should've hired someone who knows how to draw cats and REALLY paid attention to errors in their book. (I hope I explained everything right)

I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if they used an AI algorithm to put this book together; between the incorrect color selections and the various errors littered throughout the book, if there WERE people in charge of it, they clearly didn't put any care into it. It's kind of sad that they didn't even write custom new bios for the characters and instead carried over random information from the 10 year old version. This is a HUGE franchise and the fact they can't even do their "Ultimate Guide" correctly is an insult to the long-standing fandom they have.

It peeves me off to no end how the Warriors team just cannot be consistent with the designs of their own characters. Seriously, what number is this for alternate Firestar colors???? They really need to make model sheets of some kind.

Skystar being allowed in starclan is a crime... no offense to the Skystar fans, but he kinda messed his redemption up after DoTC in the moth flight, riverside super editions, and Shadowstar's novella. I know it was the writers fault forgetting about his redemption, but skystar seemed a bit... I dunno... two faced in my opinion?

Something I noticed was that while a lot of cats' bios went largely unchanged from the 10th anniversary guide to the 20th anniversary guide (which made sense in most cases, as for cats like bluestar and tallstar, not a whole lot was added in the interim), a few cats who are currently still alive or died in AVOS or TBC were still left largely untouched. Cloudtail and Brightheart, Jayfeather, and Cinderheart. None of them got any updates from the 10th anniversary guide aside from some minor rewordings that don't change the meanings.

James Al Barry should have done the artwork for this Ultimate Guide

Gonna make my own ultimate guide smh That would be kinda fun tho

They actually used Mothwing’s new art, the one for Mothwings novella, for the website/app so I think it’s a mistake and they mixed Tree and Mothwing up.

11:13 I’m pretty sure it’s laziness. If one cat had this problem than it would be an error, but since so many cats have this problem, it’s laziness. Man, I’m so glad I did not buy this.

Also, I'm pretty sure Mapleshade's Clan being listed as RiverClan isn't something new. It was like that before either in the last guide or on an old version of the app/website

Incase your curious I just rented the Ebook version of the guide from my library and the off colars are there so I don't think it was a printing error it was probably laziness and or some intern who was given his lunch break to get the colars dimmonds in order. And they didn't knoe anything about Warriors. Lol

Honestly the whole book just feels rushed. With how frequently old art is reused and flipped/traced it feels like they either tried to go a cheaper route or the artist wasn't given a reasonable enough time to create whole new pieces. Which is also probably why there's a lot of portrait shots.

I hate how messed up this guide is for the reasons stated, but the art that is actually AMAZING I appreciate, like the Rootspring section

are you the rabbit that got longtail

Ngl i was really excited for this book, but the reused art, hidden disabilities and the pelts/apprentances being wrong imidiatly turned me away from it. Unless all that is fixed i wont be buying it at all and ill just use a pdf i found

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How did they fuck this up so badly lol. I'll be skipping this one.

My issue with the newer covers and character art is this. Does the art look NICE? Barring a few weird eye placements, yeah, it overall looks nice. However, it also looks very… generic. It's visually quite boring and flat, even with the cool lighting. It looks like the artist was instructed to “draw a cat,” and granted, they did a fine job in that regard, but they just look like normal, non-sapient domestic cats, with very little discernible emotion or personality, and the scenes are completely devoid of action. These are supposed to be fantasy novels! And most regrettably, I could not tell you which cat any of this new art is supposed to depict if you took their names off of the pictures. (I think that’s one of the reasons people sometimes say that the cover art “looks AI generated.” Where’s the HEART?) One thing I REALLY love about the warriors fandom is the fans’ ability to depict the characters in ways that make them instantly recognizable, even when everyone has their own interpretation of what they look like. Put Mothwing and Leopardstar (both cats described in the books as “dappled golden tabby she-cat with amber eyes”) next to each other, and it’s extremely clear who is who. Meanwhile, we aren’t even SURE if the people who put the ultimate guide together accidentally swapped Tree and Mothwing’s portraits on their respective pages, because the artist made them look practically identical! From a character design standpoint, that is completely unacceptable. Good character art should give you an idea of at least some of their personality traits, and the cover of a book should make you want to know more about what’s happening, or find out what relevance the art has to the story. The official art utterly fails on both of those fronts, and it’s a damn shame, because the artist is clearly skilled in drawing cats in a realistic style, and I believe they COULD have given us something great, IF they had better direction. And if not, there are SO many artists in this fandom who could have drawn much more interesting covers/portraits with their eyes closed. It would not have been hard to find an artist more suitable.

They probably didn’t do the disabilities that the cats have in the pictures possibly due to it being hard,though I do feel like they could have done brighthearts better,the others probably would have been harder due to the art style they were using.

I’ve never bought WC books cuz money, but the mistakes just show how the Erins don’t care about quality anymore. I stopped reading after Last Hope because everything felt too different.

I’m pretty sure that on the characters section of the Warriors website Tree’s photo in the short-haired one and Mothwing’s is the long-haired one. I think that’s where it comes from. Maybe they’ve changed it now.

Or just put there pattern in the diamond color things. I kinda want to get even tho the colors are messed up.

Tbh when I read littleclouds and runningnoses part I believed that they mixed up the art.

14:10 WHHHAAAT? That’s Sol? I thought that was Lionblaze? 14:13 also, isn’t that Pebble Heart? Didn’t Moth Flight discover the moonstone?

11:27 i dont think its just a printing error because the ebook has the fucked up colors too though maybe that doesn't count idk

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I heard that there was a mistake with hawkfrost's design, apparently he's like a simesese in his appearance? Edit, I don't have the book, so iam just speculating from what iam told, I'm well aware hawkfrost isn't a color point, although I really think it's a better design for him.

BlueStar is “white”😂😭💀

I understand that comparing artists work to AI is kinda bad but I always thought the art here looked heavily AI generated. I know it’s probably because the artist can’t draw cats, or was extremely rushed and had to put some slightly unfinished art in the book but goodness just hire someone who can actually draw cats please. The faces look so off-

Hard no for me. It’s very dangerous for the horses, one injury is life threatening and most horses have to be put down afterwards.

The reason the art looks so offputting is because it's AI. It can't accurately represent the characters because the input image selection they have isn't diverse enough to do so, which is also why a lot of the images end up having weird dopplegangers. Because the AI used the same base image to form the details around. It can't accurately represent the disabilities because there are no/very few images that SHOW that disability, so the ai doesn't have a lot to work off of. The lighting is weird because the images used as input are mostly photography, but the prompts they use are made to look "epic" and the AI doesn't know how to make something look epic unless it's given enough inputs to get an idea of what that's *supposed* to look like

I am quite disappointed with this book. The book felt lazy and lacking of several things. They definitely could’ve done better. Honestly I think that they just need to redo most of the book.

God the new art is so ugly I'm sorry why didn't they just hire someone who could draw cats. Not only is there no personality in the new art it is also just ugly

I don't think Skystar was a bad cat. I think he made bad decisions that were driven by fear from things he went through in life. We act like he should have been smarter/known better etc, but I think most ppl forget that most of the events of DoTC happen when Skystar is 1-2 yrs old. He's still really young, driven by irrationality and emotions and is basically at the cat age of an idiotic college aged kid. A lot of his decision with enforcing the borders to ensure his cats had a steady place to hunt for food without worry of sharing it with other cats is driven by how he watched cats starve to death - including his sister - so I don't blame him for being extremely protective over hunting rights. Yeah, abandoning Thunder was a bad move - but trying to hoist fatherhood on someone after telling them that their mate AND his other children just died and now you HAVE to take this while dude hasn't even had time to grieve was ridiculous. Should he have pulled it together and acted like a good father sooner? Maybe. But I also have to consider the fact he didn't have a father figure it seems, because we never SEE their father so I assume he likely was a victim of starvation as well at some point before Jagged Peak and Fluttering Bird were born. The fear of starving and losing cats he cared for to it again is also a huge part of what drove him to try and keep more territory than his group really needed to survive. It's an understandable fear but executed poorly. Another of Skystar's flaws, to me, was that he cared too much about the opinions of cats he had just met rather than keeping strong bonds with his family and friends who had known him all his life. This desire to be liked and seen as someone who could be relied by these strangers I think only added more pressure to him to do what he believed those cats wanted - which was strict borders, no close friendships with the other groups, and for cats from each group to stick with their own. And yes, stealing his son's girlfriend was an asshole move - but did he even know Thunder was into Star Flower? It's been awhile since I read DOTC but the way Star Flower was with Thunder always struck me as manipulative on her part while how she was with Skystar seemed more genuine. Plus her no nonsense attitude just made her seem like a better fit for Clear Sky than for Thunder. I started DOTC liking Clear Sky, went to hating him, and ended the series feeling neutral about him once I gave actual thought to what was driving him - fear. Though Micah's death WAS his fault, and I am still mad at him over it.

This book absolutely has to be AI generated.

Warriors cats has the worst editors ever, never noticing mistakes

The new art style really looks AI-generated... The old art had its issues but it at least had a style and some charm. Even if the new depictions aren't AI, they're a serious downgrade