In Yellowfang's book, she takes pride in having her mother's squashed muzzle. The redesign throws that completely out the window.

I find it weird how Yellowfang in the rising storm cover changes DRASTICALLY in Yellowfang’s secret, guess her secret was that she found hair conditioner

Art style aside, the major thing that makes me upset about the redesigns is that they’ve made the series that much more confusing for the target audience, children. It’s already hard to remember which book is which with all of the generic and kinda similar names, now when they switch out the more iconic and distinct art for very generic, similar covers it makes it that much harder for kids to tell or remember which book is which. No more “my favorite book is the one with the cats crossing the stream” because all the covers for the first 4 arcs are basically the same. You need more obvious identifiers for some kids to know which book is which.

I hate that they completely changed all the covers right after the original creator of them died. I feel like if you wanted to go on and make new covers since he can’t make them anymore, sure. But I wish they kept the old ones he had made also because the new ones are super ugly and none of them are better then the original imo 💀

To me, the redesigns are great *illustrations* but not *book covers* The old ones are not only iconic, they actually look like book covers. Just realized, the redesigns really don’t have anything to do with the story. They’re just cat headshots

these redesigns for the super edition look REALLY uncanny, i cant tell why though

I honestly thought the A Dangerous Path redesign cat was Whitestorm, but turns out it's supposed to be Bluestar.

What makes me most angry is what they did to the super edition covers… with the hardcovers, they always had such beautiful art when you pulled off the dust jacket, with the character actually interacting with the environment. Bluestar’s was especially iconic. Now it’s just a bust shot of a cat pasted onto the background.

The thing that gets to me about the redesigns is how the cats are drawn. It’s like the artist never really drew cats before being handed this job. Sometimes the cats look fine like in the first arc but as the series goes on we get more weird angles, awkward body positions, and horrific compositions (just look at TBC. Those covers are atrocious). Sometimes the cats’ muzzles look squashed, their bodies are stiff, their ears are sometimes angled in weird ways making them look like sticks, and sometimes the fur looks too floaty like it’s not really attached to their bodies. The cats’s eyes are uncanny in most of them. Sometimes the eyes are too far apart and I don’t like how, past the second arc, there are a bunch of covers with cats scowling. It doesn’t look right. Rootspring’s portrait in The Broken Code (I forget which book) is downright hideous. His face is stretched, his eyes are too far apart, he’s scowling in a way that doesn’t feel cat-like, I really hate how garish and dark his blue eyes are… it’s bad. Perhaps the artist isn’t given enough time to make these covers actually look appealing. They’re not a bad artist at all! They just need more time it seems to really iron their compositions and designs out.

My biggest problem with the new Super Edition covers is that every one of them has the ears/head and the rest of the face slightly offset from each other, like the ears are slightly turned to the side while the face is dead center looking straight ahead or rotated. If you draw a line from between the ears down to the neck and then another one from between the eyes down to the nose/chin, you can tell how wildly off it is. It's strange because I believe they are digital art and you'd literally just have to rotate the face layers and center them to the direction the head/ears are facing.

The person who does the new book covers has other amazing art but for some reason, his art for warriors just doesn’t do it for me. He’s great for other art he does but for Warriors it's… wonky? Lol. And does he give the she-cats eyelashes? I feel like he does that sometimes. It could be the lighting. There isn’t much nature or other colors. It’s often one color for the background and I guess that’s what annoys me. And it’s the way the cats look sometimes, lol. Wayne did a perfect job at showing nature and I love his art for every book because of that. He makes amazing landscapes! The covers in Poland also look amazing, along with the ones in China that are drawn! And the ones in Russia, I absolutely love those ones!

From an artist perspective, I can appreciate the effort of the redesigned covers for going for a different approach and not copying the original covers, especially with the realism, which can be hard to pull off at times. That said, the approach of the redesigns doesn't work very well. Yes, some of the original covers were overcrowded and sometimes messy, but they were distinct enough to where someone can tell which book is which. With the resdeigns not only is it difficult to tell which cat is which at times, some of the colours blend together too well and don't make them distinct from one another. Not to mention, the awkward cat angles are generally unappealing to look at at times. The original covers had a simple style to the cats, as it relied mostly on the colours and composition, each of the original covers seemed to try to allude to what was going to happen in the books without giving away too much. While the redesign focuses too much on detail and making it look complex, which doesn't really work all that well. Sometimes simplicity is the way to go, especially when it comes to warrior cats, you wanna convey as much information as possible, while also keeping the reader guessing one what's going to happen in each book. One of the reasons the original covers stuck out so much is because it had the small focus of one or two characters in the middle that focused on the character in the book, and had something small (most of the time) in the background to convey other things that were to happen within the book. The redesigns didn't do this, relying mostly on the realism more than anything else, which can be detrimental to people wanting to get into the books, most of them don't really stick out, the most notable ones being from the earlier series. I'm not saying that Richardson has to copy McLoughlin's work, but I just don't think his art is the best portrayal of what Warriors is. While some of the redesigned covers do go all out at times (Dark River, Sign of The Moon, The Forgotten Warrior, etc ), most of the time it's not really doing anything special. I will say, Richardson's art gets more expressive (?) as time goes on, he goes away from the close up faces of the cats and gives more variety in terms of what's going on, it's nice to see more, almost, full body shots of the characters instead of just their faces. I especially like the Forgotten Warrior since it's very clever to put Holly Leaves in the foreground and Hollyleaf behind them, alluding to her return. They're nice touches and i do appreciate the effort that goes into the later cover that Richardson does :) I'm not even gonna talk about the super editions, there's just something off about the redesigned covers (THEY MASSACRED MY GIRL YELLOWFANG!!!!) sorry this is so long-

I really like the Last Hope redesign for a different reason: The pose Firestar is in is almost the same as the one he was in as Rusty on the redesigned cover of Into the Wild. Like it's come full circle. Which is very cool imo.

I'm pretty sure a cat can be born with cloudy eyes- it's more to do with /why/ the blindness is occurring.. this would imply either his eyes were infected upon birth, or did not form correctly- which is notable because it means that the brain itself isn't causing the blindness

Leafstar is supposed to be a brown tabby with cream, not ginger

Dangerous path's cat is Bluestar, Darkest Hour's cat is Firestar.

Nah the real crime here is putting JAYFEATHER on a book called THE SIGHT💀💀💀

Stop giving the female characters mascara for the super editions

22:58 I find it slightly comical that the majority of the other cats are heavily lighted and contrasted and saturated to the point of looking like they're on fire or glowing, but firestar who was named after "your pelt looks like a brand of fire in the sunlight" that very same firestar is typically the one with the most tame, shadowy, and slightly underwhelming lighting possible, at least in comparison to the other cover art. don't get me wrong, the technical skills are beyond breathtaking. I just think the direction could've used a bit more time and perhaps for a select few, a touch more passion

Bro the Polish versions of the book covers are fucking fire. Look them up if you haven’t already

I prefer the original covers because they look like they were made with oil paints, and that fits the nature of the books better than the digital art on the new covers. Digital art can look nice if executed well, and the digital covers look nice, but they don't fit the vibe the books give off imo.

moonrise's cover was the reason that i started reading these books. it remains my favorite book cover with, probably, a forest divided from dawn of the clans as a second favorite due to similar appear. omen of the stars' resign of night whispers and sign of the moon are two that i think are really stong, just like dark river. while a starless clan has some lack luster covers with three or four characters standing around, it's better than the close ups. i wish that a vision of shadows found a better balance of the headshots and the action shots. one thing that made the original feel more solid was a good balance of headshots and action shots. i actually really like a lot of the broken code's action shots, but the headshot takes up way too much space and is incredibly distacting. if they had removed the headshots and just did more background, then mwah perfect. maybe it's much more preferrable to action scenes as covers, but getting rid of the headshots was a pretty good direction to go.

I love Eclipse's re-design, the red and orange blending in with sol's colors is just incredible, also i love the ring the sun forms as the moon passes trough it

Honestly it kinda feels like some of thease new ones feel like publishers tampering with The artistic design. Like he showed the first book and the publishers loved it so they wanted to keep the close solos then he finally was able to zoom out. But couldn’t move out from the single cat images. :/

As soon as the original "A Dangerous Path" cover showed up, I could hear the old intro to the Warriors website/app. It's odd I was annoyed by it as a kid but now I miss it whenever I pop on the website every once and a while.

I really think that if the new artist would just zoom out the cats and do like at least 50% landscape for each cover it would be amazing! I love every cover where you can see the nature but the others are just meh. Also I love red for Crookedstar's promise because of red being Mapleshade's color.

the original cover of The Sight is by far the most iconic to me simply because it was the first one i picked up (i was 10 and had no sense of chronology in books). WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO MY BABY.

6:17 i literally live in another state and i still see the midnight book (translated) in every bookstore, market and thrift store, i guess everyone really likes it lol

11:11 I’ve actually seen copies of the original the sight where all the eyes are amber. In my middle school library they had 2 copies. One with the correct eye colors, and one with all yellow for some reason.

the rising storm with cloudpaw is my favorite cover it's so cute

i saw someone swap bluestar and yellowfang’s eyes on the reprinted super edition and it looks more convincing as them.. also, i love eclipse and the reprinted cover. the first warriors book i picked up. however, i think somewhere its said that it’s sol on the cover?? also! i’d love to see you review the foreign covers (polish, russian, and chinese especially) and the avos/tbc covers!!

I adore the original cover of Dawn! Always thought it was clever that the bottom half looks like cats sitting under the stars, but it is only once you look up that you see the sky reflected in the waters of the lake and the unexplored territory beyond. Kinda like a split between night and day - or as if StarClan was traveling ahead of them, happy to find this new place and pausing just a moment for the Clans to come home with them, too.

fading echoes i kinda like!! it shows that field that ivypool meets hawk in! i think it's really clever

The art of the new covers would be really good if he used his skills right like honestly I feel like Erin didn’t pay the new artist enough or something because he could’ve done so much more with his skill 😭

Graystripe and the piss river

The Bluestar one is so bad 😫. Shes gray instead of blue, they gave her eyelashes and it looks so weird??, plus she also looks really old?? Like if i was shown that picture of Bluestar i probably would've guessed Mistystar moments before her death lol. 💀

I love the old art from your guys warrior cats. I’m from Norway and our books has real cat’s on the cover. I find them still pretty stunning, but would love to have art on them.

5:27 it's the scene in the book where Firestar looks at himself in the puddle and is like "oh shit I look like I went through hell" You can tell by the ripples

I’m proud to say, I have the original warrior cat book covers!

All cats in the front cover new Into the wild: Firestar Fire and Ice: Togerclaw Forest of secrets: Silverstrem Rising Strom: Yellowfang The dangerous path: Bluestar Darkest hour: ? Midnight: Brambleclaw Moonrise: Stromfur Dawn: Squirrelflight Starlight: Crowfeather? Twilight: Leafpool, Brambleclaw or Tigerclaw Sunset: Firestar The sight: Jayfeather Dark river: Lion blaze Outcast: Hollyleaf Eclipse: Sol? Long Shadows: Ashfur Sunrise: Leafpool The fourth apprentice: Dovewing Fading echoes: Icypool Night whispers: Lionblaze? Sign of the moon: ??? The forgotten warrior: Hollyleaf The last hope: Firestar The sun trail: Gray Wing Thunder rising: Thunder The first battle: Cloud Sky (is it sky?) The blazing star: Star Flower A forest divided: Could it be Jaggedpeak??? Path of stars: ??? Skyclan's destiny: Leafstar

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The old designs and redesigns also suffer from design inconsistencies. Like bluestar having green eyes on the A Dangerous Path cover redesign. That’s so.. dumb. Or the new bluestar and yellowfang super edition covers, which?? You can easily swap the drawings, change the colors, and you have significantly more correct depictions of both cats. Absolutely nuts. Umm i know there’s ones on the old covers but i don’t know as much about them.

i much prefer the old covers...they were so magical when i was younger, and it felt like a peek into their world. the new ones are just so close up and don't really spark my imagination in the same way. the art for the new ones is pretty nice though.

I'd love to see you cover some of the other cover designs, I googled the russian and polish cover designs and there super cool

I'd LOVE to see you go over the Polish and Russian art! This was a great video, I love how you give credit to the newer covers when deserved too. I do like some of them but I wish they werent so samey and had a bit more personality to them. The most difference they get is the level of zoom and some of the background elements. Which can work well depending on the book but I feel its overused at this point.

sol is supposed to be the cat on the eclipse redesign cover i believe

You learn something new every day😅 in midnight this whole time I thought it was crowfeather😅😅😅😅

I have the first 4 arcs with their OG art, since I got them when I was in highschool during 2009-2013. Now arc 5-8 is ones I just got recently.

I didn’t become a fan of the warriors series until about between 6 months to a year ago, so I’ve only ever known the new covers and quite like them. The only book I have in the original cover is Yellowfang’s secret and one of the novella books with 3 of them put together because I got them ordered online. I only have up to and including power of three, along with Firestar’s quest, Yellowfang’s secret, and all of the novella books. Personally, I think the redesigns are quite nice, but I also with I was able to get the original designs because they also look nice.

One thing, the cat on the cover of The Darkest Hour is actually Firestar.

Id love to see your thoughts on covers from different languages!

Great video, but I’m not sure how you were confused about the two redesign cats for the last two books of the first arc. I’m fairly certain The Dangerous Path is Bluestar and The Darkest Hour is Firestar.

AHH YOUR CAT IS SO FLUFFYYY

Sol is on the Eclipse redesign cover, though? I'm pretty sure, anyways.

Btw Sol is on eclipse. And it's bluestar on a dangerous path, and firestar is on the darkest hour

Firestar is darkest hour, and bluestar is a dangerous path

The Moonrise cover is what got me into Warriors. I remember I was in 5th or 6th grade and I saw it on the shelf at the school bookfair and it was so pretty it caught my eye and I ended up buying the first 3 books of the new prophecy and I was hooked.

so in the book a dangeros path i think the cat on the cover of the redesign is blue'star and in the darkest hour i think the cat on the redisign is fire'heart/star so yh

The cat on the redesign cover of Eclipse IS SOL

I love this content and I would like to see you checking out Warrior Cats book covers from other countries, especially russian and polish ones

i went to the thrift store about a week ago and saw at least 5 copys of starlight (og cover vers) - but they were all different colors. im guessing that a few mightve been sun faded? im not sure but it was surprising to see so much of them

12:13 Bombastic side Eye 16:36 Bombastic side eye

That bluestar one is a crime against warriors

It’s so funny as a kid midnight was the first book I read of the series and my mom did in fact nab it from a second hand book store It’s not my favorite cover art but it’s special to me visually because of being my first book and I’ll be sad if I never see a print of that cover again

13:33 Sol is actually the cat on the reprinted cover of eclipse. No I couldn’t tell either I only knew because someone else told me.

I think it's the difference between whether the book focuses on a cat vs a moment

The Dangerous Path cover is Bluestar and the darkest hour cover is Firestar looking into the Water and Forest of Secrets is Graystripe

At the redesign of darkest hour that is Firestar 😊

Nah bruv your underated as hell

And the super editions! Omg… I really hate how slapped together they look! The cats are just cut out from their full art and are plastered onto a cover with colors that do not match the cat or their lighting. Like Graystripe is strangely blue on his awful cover because in the full art, he is in a dark blue environment. But instead of making the cover art blue, they made it orange and white which clashes heavily with the dramatic blue lighting that’s on him. Leafstar has the same problem! She has an orange highlight around her so why in the world would you make her background a dark blue!? It’s ugly! All of the covers have his problem. The old ones didn’t because the cats themselves didn’t have such harsh colored lighting in their full art backgrounds and the actual covers have colors that match and compliment the cats’ fur color. Bluestar’s cover is silver, Yellowfang’s is orange and teal which matches her orange eyes and the yellow highlight that’s in her fur from the full art. It frustrates me to no end.

We had different covers in my country, so I only stumbled upon the original ones later. I personally never liked the format. To me it always looked like the smaller picture in the middle was out of place and crashing with the rest of the cover. An awkward add on. (Note that in the covers here in Finland the upper half of the covers was always a face of a cat, and it sorta merged with a different picture at the bottom.) Though some of the new ones are weirdly cropped/unclear, I like how they’re more uniform and the colors pop out more. Probably going to catch the eye better online and in bookstores. They look almost like movie posters. Imo many of the older ones just had too much going on.

After watching the video, I think I've realized why I had a somewhat positive opinion of the new covers for a long time. Arc 3&4 were my favorite for a long time, and several of the original covers really weren't great, while several of the new covers are some of the best ever done by the artist.

The redesign art overs would’ve been better if they didn’t make the cat so up close

I actually don't like the into the wild redesign. They could have tried way harder. Maybe rusty walking into the woods? Or I don't know it's just unsatisfying to me. I don't really like any of the first arc redesigns except for rising storm though not saying that one couldn't have been better. I have a problem with the old midnight. One of the only old covers I don't like. And the reasons are the cat on the cover and the background. Who is the cat? Why isn't there really any background? It's just ehhh. I don't like any of the 2nd arc redesigns. Besides dawn. Leafpool I think is one the starlight cover. Never noticed the badger. I love the new dark river. Old long shadows is horrible. They are walking in green. Sol is supposed to be on the new eclipse. I know shocking. It's supposed to be him. I love all the new dawn of the clans covers. They are just so pretty. Not saying the old ones are bad. I like most but love the first battle. Redesigns for all the super editions makes me want to smack my head off a wall. Crookedstar and tallstar ones are fine though. Redesigned brambs is crispy firestar. And firestar is spicy bramble man.

Isn't it Firestar on the remade cover of The Darkest Hour? Still not a huge fan of it though Also I hate that they moved Feathertail from Moonrise's cover to Starlight. Why would they do that?? She DIES in Moonrise

I just found ur videos and the seem so cool waaah!!

I’m glad that someone shares my opinion for the old twilight cover, it’s overstimulating AF

Sorry for leaving three comments on one of your videos again, but one thing I dislike about Wayne's covers is that the cats outside the boxes are just random cats, not the cats from the clans that are fighting. Like, I could go through and pick out who these are but that'd just be me making stuff up yk?

I always felt a bit off about the redesigns. Partially because I grew up with the originals and the reason for the redesigns felt almost disrespectful to me, but also I feel the redesigns lose all the charm. I remember always trying to imagine which cat was which and what scene was being displayed on the cover of the originals and it's much harder to do that with the redesigns. They aren't that fun to be honest, not super colorful and I find the harsh lighting unpleasant to look at. IDK, I just have a huge preference to the OGs and I hope they're not forgotten by younger readers

The Cat’s names in the redesigned Covers if you don’t know what they are: TPB: Into the Wild: Firepaw (Star) Fire and Ice: Tigerclaw (Star) Forest of Secrets: Graystripe Rising Storm: Yellowfang The Dangerous Path: Bluestar The Darkest Hour: Firestar (He looks golden tho) TNP: Midnight: Brambleclaw (Star) Moonrise: Stormfur Dawn: Squirrelpaw (Flight) Starlight: Mistyfoot (Star) Twilight: Leafpool Sunset: Firestar POT: The Sight: Jaypaw (Feather) Dark River: Lionpaw (Blaze) Outcast: Breezepaw (Pelt) Eclipse: Sol (Guys, I just had a Total Solar Eclipse today and I mentioned Sol to my family 😭) Long Shadows: Ashfur Sunrise: Hollyleaf OOTS: The Fourth Apprentince: Dovepaw (Wing) Fading Echoes: Ivypaw (Pool) Night Whipsers: Flametail Sign Of The Moon: Stoneteller (The Stoneteller before Crag) The Forgotten Warrior: Hollyleaf The Last Hope: Firestar AVOS: The Apprentice’s Quest: Alderpaw (Heart) and Needlepaw (Tail) Thunder and Shadow: Twigpaw (Branch) and Violetpaw (Shine) Shattered Sky: Darktail and Needletail Darkest Night: Bramblestar and Hawkwing River of Fire: Rowanclaw (Star) and Leafstar The Raging Storm: Twigbranch and Violetshine TBC: Lost Stars: Shadowpaw (Sight) The Silent Thaw: Rootpaw (Spring) Veil of Shadows: Bristlefrost (Even tho it kinda doesn’t look like her) Darkness Within: Squirrelflight The Place Of No Stars: Ashfur A Light In The Mist: Bramblestar TSC: River: Mistystar, Frostpaw, Flamepaw (Nightheart), Sunbeam Sky: Nightheart, Fidgetflake, Sunbeam Shadow: Frostpaw, Tigerstar (Heart), Leafstar Thunder: Sunbeam, Finchlight, Sparkpelt Wind: Splashtail, Frostpaw, Whistlepaw Star (Upcoming): Frostpaw, Mistystar, Reedwhisker DOTC: The Sun Trail: Gray Wing Thunder Rising: Thunder (Star) The First Battle: Tall Shadow (Shadowstar) The Blazing Star: Star Flower A Forest Divided: Clear Sky (Skystar) Path of Stars: Wind Runner (Windstar) Hope this helped u!

Content of the video aside, I feel like a video like this- where the vast majority of it is just you giving your opinions on different pieces, would be greatly helped with a script of some sort. I feel like a lot of your thoughts and feelings weren't explained very well or touched upon with much depth, and there was a lot of mumbling and stuttering throughout. Things that I think could be easily fixed with a written script, even a simple one. Just something to consider, I still enjoyed it!

I've been absent in the WCUE fandom for a bit and this is how I found out about the redesigns 😭 maybe I'm dramatic but wow im heartbroken.. absolutely does look like someone struggling to find a good camera angle of cats, simultaneously I find the inconsistency of random amazing art so confusing? I wonder who approved of them, it's just a bit bizarre to me.

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Ironically, around the time they made the decision for the redesign was the same time i had decided to stop reading Warriors. Im so glad i kept all of my books (i was almost convinced to give them away even though they were a big part of my life). Most of them are not in the best condition, and it shows that they were deeply enjoyed. Some of them were library editions; I'm personally surprised I was even able to thrift most of them growing up.

Idk if someone already told you, but sol is supposed to be the cat on the eclipse cover for the redesign. Really bad missed opportunity there could have been one of the best wc covers

I thought the redesign of A Rising storm was Tigerclaw A dangerous path is Bluestar I think (the redeighn) Dakrest hour Firestar(the redesign)

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but I was under the impression Jayfeather was blinded, not born blind. I read that in a free short story, so tell me if that contradicted something in the main books and is seen as non-cannon.

25:04 calling this dark burgundy color magenta...i know what you are lmao Also to the people saying jayf wasnt born blind, i have no idea where this sentiment comes from but in Leafpool's Wish he is directly shown to have been born blind.

i litteraly pay MORE $ just to get the old art hardbacks

I feel like I’m the only person who actually really likes the redesigns lmaooo I mean some of them I agree are just not good or the original was better, but I actually like the “uncanny close ups” in the new prophecy they’re insanely pretty and lovely to look at- He suffers a bit with same face syndrome but tbh I’m simple af and just love how beautiful they look, I like the harsh lighting, it invokes so much-

In the darkest hour. Bro. It's FIRESTAR

the cat in the dangerous path's redesign is meant to be bluestar. when I first saw it i thought it was whitestorm because there is not a hint of blue on her fur or in her eyes

Flame tail looks so pretty

I think out of all the cover design bluestars prophecy was probably the worst of all of them but yellow fang’s secret was a close second to worst but tallstar did look weird

The first warriors book I read was Bluestars Prophecy and I have a deep affinity for the original cover. The new one doesnt feel like Bluestar to me.

In The Darkest Hour redisign I've never realised it was the water on the cover until I saw this video (I had the book with the original design). The water is so dark I though it was like smth black that's around Firestar and represents smth dark like the dark prophecy 😭

I prefer the new covers art style better but I agree that I am sick of close up headshot cat covers.

Also in parts you don't like try to zoom in. For effect.

2 last things. 1) New omen of stars actually looked great! Old DOTC... Eeehhhh... Had a couple great 1s. 2) xwx the underside of (some) super editions are like the holy grail of warriors art! The front covers were just... Basic.

OKAY SO UHHH CATS ON THE COVERS IN ARC 1: 1: obviously firestar 2: tigerstar in ze dark forest 3: graystripe 4: yellowfang (my baby :((( ) 5: DAS BLUESTAR IN STARCLAN SMELLY 6: ALOS FIRESTAR!!!!!!!!!!1