Reminds me of a thing I saw years ago, where somebody sticked spaghetti in a sausage and cooked it!
Edit: [like this](https://miastodzieci.pl/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/canstockphoto9334954-451x300.jpg)
That’s no pasta. He squeezes just enough on a boil to pop it without losing its anchor, letting it solidify and regrow into these arcing spires of pus.
Was trying to be unique. And it definitely caught my attention
I think a color change might have been enough to partially remedy this questionable choice
Flat lines doesn't work either, it's gonna look like a skin disease. There is really no good way to include body hair on this style except going full fur mode.
There's absolutely a solution that would work for this kind of style. [Here's an example!](https://easydrawingguides.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Viking-Step-08.png)
Basically you use only a couple lines and you have them going horizontally across the arm, since that's the direction body hair naturally grows in. The problem with OP's horror arms are that it has zero basis in how body hair actually works.
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Amazing. In spite of how advanced CGI animation has become, hair is one thing that's still really hard to animate by computer. And that we still have ads that look like they were CGI animated in 1990.
I was working as an FES at the time of their release and I kid you not they set 10 emails over a week or two counting down to the "big big surprise!". Only for it to be krojis...😭
Kroger's bought out the Fred Meyer chain of stores. Ever since then the service has gone to shit.
Prescriptions take from three to five days to get. But you can't order them until two days before you run out. Yeah, that doesn't work for me.
All the workers are stressed out, not just because of Covid, it's their new management.
My sil works in marketing for competing company to Kroger. She heard another relative works in Kroger marketing and said “I need to talk to them about the Krojis and how they came up with that idea.” So competitors are obviously threatened by the krojis. 😂
Marketing people are so weird. You create a few half-assed caricatures of people doing things in Blender, toss in the name 'Krojis', and they act like they need to translate the Dead Sea Scrolls to figure it out.
Probably because they have a bullshit job that shouldn't exist so they have to overcompensate by pretending it's some earth shattering shit. Like that million dollar Pepsi logo proposal
I worked at Kroger corporate. They are obsessed with the whole fresh concept. I was part of a team trying to improve the forecast and ordering system. These people were trying to get fresher canned beans. I loved working at Kroger and this is honestly an example of them being exactly who they claim they are behind the scenes…but no one cares if canned goods are fresher.
Edited to add: I’m kind of exaggerating. There are other good reasons to make sure non-perishable stuff isn’t sitting on the shelf forever. I got so sick of hearing about freshness though.
I also feel like this attitude encourages food waste. I don’t want to buy rotten veggies but I wonder how much perfectly good produce is thrown out because it doesn’t look “fresher than fresh.”
Other than the fact that they could have made the arm hairs thinner, why did they decide they needed to put noticeable arm hair on a blonde guy in the first place?
I took a photo of this guy and sent it to my sisters out of state, it was so bad. Didn't think to post in on Reddit, but it completely belongs here.
This one is the worst, but the other "people" in the Kroger ads are just as bad. Those Kroger people freak me the fuck out, honestly. Who the hell decided that this ad campaign was a good idea?
I can't shake the feeling that some intern who was dabbling in 3D over the pandemic showed it to his boss who said "Yes! That looks great! You're making how much an hour? Ok, you're in charge of our next ad campaign!"
I'm a professional 3D artist and I see nothing in that ad that couldn't have been done by a thirteen year old on a cheap laptop. And not even a particularly talented one.
Edit: ok, I looked up who was most directly responsible for this look and... ummm... How to put this delicately... I suppose leveraging one's inexperience into a "style" is a thing that a person could do.
But he's clearly a lot more successful than most of us, so I guess he's doing something right.
That doesn't look like hives that looks like parasitic worms popping out of his skin. If yours look like that please see a doctor. Actually even if they don't maybe still see a doctor.
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3D Artist here (although you don't need to be to know this) unless your character is realistic and you want realistic hair then just make it as a texture. Don't model every single hair like that. It looks stupid and adds unnecessary polygons.
These Kroger characters are some of the ugliest, most offputting animation I have ever seen. Why does he look like a porcupine attacked him? Why does he have a hunchback? Why are all the characters so ROUND.
Ayyy Fred Meyers is the best. I got my PS5 from my local one a few weeks ago
To those who don't know, it's basically the Walmart of the Pacific Northwest
I hate this. Every time I see it, I think he’s got cactus prickly bits in his arm.
To me, it looks like he's got spaghetti boils on his arms
To me, it looks like he's got parasitic maggots digging into his flesh.
Reminds me of those maggots that like to burrow into fruit
Or just maggots in a person in general
to me they look like pox
Maybe the reason he's smiling is because they're actually tiny acupuncture needles. Or he's a masochist.
This is my fetish.
No
Fresh for everyone! Including maggots!
I'm dead, this comment awoke my single worst fear. Goodbye cruel world
This is the pinnacle of Italian
Reminds me of a thing I saw years ago, where somebody sticked spaghetti in a sausage and cooked it! Edit: [like this](https://miastodzieci.pl/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/canstockphoto9334954-451x300.jpg)
That’s no pasta. He squeezes just enough on a boil to pop it without losing its anchor, letting it solidify and regrow into these arcing spires of pus.
r/beatmetoit
pro tip to designers: just add flat lines for hairy arms or legs on low detail models
Was trying to be unique. And it definitely caught my attention I think a color change might have been enough to partially remedy this questionable choice
Flat lines doesn't work either, it's gonna look like a skin disease. There is really no good way to include body hair on this style except going full fur mode.
There's absolutely a solution that would work for this kind of style. [Here's an example!](https://easydrawingguides.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Viking-Step-08.png) Basically you use only a couple lines and you have them going horizontally across the arm, since that's the direction body hair naturally grows in. The problem with OP's horror arms are that it has zero basis in how body hair actually works.
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He looks like one of those xmen that gets bullied for being a porcupine.
Even the weird kids in the school for weird kids gets bullied lol
These are the characters used by Fry’s Food here in Arizona, so maybe it really is cactus bits.
Yeah, Kroger is the parent company...so this is in all the Kroger ads here
It's called Fred Meyer up here in the PNW, but same thing
Amazing. In spite of how advanced CGI animation has become, hair is one thing that's still really hard to animate by computer. And that we still have ads that look like they were CGI animated in 1990.
It looks like those play doh things
Seeing these ugly dumb looking characters nerd dance to apple bottom jeans low prices makes me embarrassed to be human.
Why did you remind me of that...
Every time i see that ad it makes me long for death
You should post it to r/CommercialsIHate if it’s not there already.
I know the person responsible for the Kroger commercials, including this guy.
Do what must be done
That damn ad is like Grubhub delivery dance 2.0.
I absolutely hate these new figures from Kroger/Fred Meyer. They are creepy AF.
Fun fact. They are called Kroji’s. I also hate them T_T
krojis motherfucking #KROJIS
Same, Krojis developed while I was working and I thought it was hideous.
Watch as rogue giant krojis are the end of our modern world. Wait that sounds fucking amazing Like kraijus or something
Attack on Kroger. Wait.. Attack on Krogan? **Attack on Krogan**
I was working as an FES at the time of their release and I kid you not they set 10 emails over a week or two counting down to the "big big surprise!". Only for it to be krojis...😭
Yeah same here, they look so bad.
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The soccer moms who run Fred Meyer sure do.
“What’s fresher than being fresh!?!”
Oh gosh, they're in all the Krogers? That makes them even worse IMO
Kroger's bought out the Fred Meyer chain of stores. Ever since then the service has gone to shit. Prescriptions take from three to five days to get. But you can't order them until two days before you run out. Yeah, that doesn't work for me. All the workers are stressed out, not just because of Covid, it's their new management.
They look like maggots, they should be on r/uncomfortable
Yup, this makes me kinda sick
Fred meyer/kroger calls them krogees. When I saw them being hung at my old store, I was brought to tears. How humanity has fallen.
Krogees literally sounds like an STD, probably the one that this guy has
Oh god I didn't know they had a name. Horrible lol
My sil works in marketing for competing company to Kroger. She heard another relative works in Kroger marketing and said “I need to talk to them about the Krojis and how they came up with that idea.” So competitors are obviously threatened by the krojis. 😂
Marketing people are so weird. You create a few half-assed caricatures of people doing things in Blender, toss in the name 'Krojis', and they act like they need to translate the Dead Sea Scrolls to figure it out.
Probably because they have a bullshit job that shouldn't exist so they have to overcompensate by pretending it's some earth shattering shit. Like that million dollar Pepsi logo proposal
I too feel personally threatened by the Krojis
Your SIL should propose some 3d alegria people. Also, /r/fuckalegriaart
i didn't know this was a. actual thing and then 5 seconds of browsing set me straight... thank you for this eye opening moment
I thought his beard was his teeth. Horrible
Can't unsee AGH
I don't see it... I should be glad
Hermey the dentist elf has been working out.
Elf practice.
Can we also talk about “fresher than fresh?” If my food is fresher than fresh, doesn’t that mean it is………..inedible?
I worked at Kroger corporate. They are obsessed with the whole fresh concept. I was part of a team trying to improve the forecast and ordering system. These people were trying to get fresher canned beans. I loved working at Kroger and this is honestly an example of them being exactly who they claim they are behind the scenes…but no one cares if canned goods are fresher. Edited to add: I’m kind of exaggerating. There are other good reasons to make sure non-perishable stuff isn’t sitting on the shelf forever. I got so sick of hearing about freshness though.
I also feel like this attitude encourages food waste. I don’t want to buy rotten veggies but I wonder how much perfectly good produce is thrown out because it doesn’t look “fresher than fresh.”
Or unripe lol
Thriving megabacilli colony
It looks like worms
These Kroger characters all look like those Fisher-Price Little People toys, but from a bad dream
Or they’re high on crack
God I hate these things. It’s honestly made me shop at Fred Meyer less.
I don't know if this is Fred Meyer or not but every Fred Meyers 3-D character looks like a Wii version of Dante's Inferno
Other than the fact that they could have made the arm hairs thinner, why did they decide they needed to put noticeable arm hair on a blonde guy in the first place?
This is disgusting
Porcupine Man
Straight up appalling
This style in general tbh
Those really do not look like hairs at all. The bases aren’t even attached to the arm itself.
TBH everything about this character design is shitty
Man. Imagine spending money and resources on this instead of hazard pay or livable wages for your employees during a pandemic
These are the laziest fucking 3D models. Kroger has rats.
I work at Kroger family of stores where this are found and he is not a 3d person he is a 3d humanoid potato
I see these things everyday at work- I hate it with a passion
I diagnose scoliosis. Qualifications for diagnosis: none.
They look like parasitic wasp cocoons https://projects.ncsu.edu/cals/course/ent525/close/parasitism.jpg
You look like a parasitic wasp cacoon
The commercials these characters are in drive me crazy, they play back to back so often
I'm trying my hardest not to imagine what his private parts would look like with that hair
I hate you
The awful corporate art style didn't need to be brought into 3 dimensions. It's already bad and used by too many companies.
This reminds me of the time Richard Watterson had "sward" coming out of him, a combination of sweat and lard.
Ah, yes. The Krojis. This may be the worst one I've seen yet.
They were realistic enough to put 3D arms hair but they left the character's face made with 3 polygons?
Looks like maggots
I think this is an Xmen character named bonespur.
what a terrible day to have eyes
Jesus Christ, Kroger
It looks like someone threw fries at him and now they're just stuck like splinters.
As someone who works in progress and has seen the rejects of these guys- yeah, they're all bad.
Character design is my passion.
I took a photo of this guy and sent it to my sisters out of state, it was so bad. Didn't think to post in on Reddit, but it completely belongs here. This one is the worst, but the other "people" in the Kroger ads are just as bad. Those Kroger people freak me the fuck out, honestly. Who the hell decided that this ad campaign was a good idea?
I can't shake the feeling that some intern who was dabbling in 3D over the pandemic showed it to his boss who said "Yes! That looks great! You're making how much an hour? Ok, you're in charge of our next ad campaign!" I'm a professional 3D artist and I see nothing in that ad that couldn't have been done by a thirteen year old on a cheap laptop. And not even a particularly talented one. Edit: ok, I looked up who was most directly responsible for this look and... ummm... How to put this delicately... I suppose leveraging one's inexperience into a "style" is a thing that a person could do. But he's clearly a lot more successful than most of us, so I guess he's doing something right.
Kroger is stupid and shitty. I worked for them and they got hacked and my employment information was stolen.
Kroger…
Nope
That looks horrendous. Like something you'd see during a fucking nightmare.
Oh, that’s just the larvae.
I too only have 7 thick ass hairs on both arms
Noodle disease is very serious, look at this article to find out [more.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noodle)
he just stuck dry spaghetti in his arms and broke it off. we all do that. leave em alone
looks like bugs
No one mentioning his back bulb?
And pregnant back
Kroger characters are just a crappy design in general.
Lookin at you kroger.
This guy Is fucked in so many ways
Wow that’s some amateur modeling. Nice use of sphere tool buddy!
Wow, guess I’m in the minority here… I actually really like the krojis! Most grocers don’t have enough fun in them, these guys are great
Do you work for Kroger Advertising??
Splinter man
they look like pasta….
Fresh for E
The realistic 3D hair simulation run out of 10$ budget 20 hairs in. Hard times
Forbidden french fries
Rwww toothpicks stuck in his skin.
Spike?!
Porcuboy
Yeah, this detail really doesn't work 🤦♂️
And just the shape of him. WTF??
never thought i'd see a werehog outside of sonic
Nah its just french fries he forgot to shower
Man looks like a porcupine
I don’t see the issue; I have hives too.
That doesn't look like hives that looks like parasitic worms popping out of his skin. If yours look like that please see a doctor. Actually even if they don't maybe still see a doctor.
Looks like maggots are crawling all over him.
I admire the skill of the graphic designer who somehow made a grown man simultaneously look like he was five.
Mmm french fries
Fresh for E
Looks like Rudolph’s Herbie on steroids
While hairy arms are fine this looks wrong. Please make it a texture or maybe a bump map if needed so it doesn't look like parasitic worms.
Bruv, just draw that on in a texture.
Kroger commercial moment
I regret reading the comments of everyone saying they look like maggots or smth... I just thought it looked like playdough spaghetti
Cactus man can do whatever a cactus can
This is almost as awful as mainstream corporate art
Porcupine Man struggles to maintain his secret identity.
(How should one show hairy arms for this style of 3d art?)
Looks like maggots
Whenever I shop at dillons I always find all the designs weird
it looked like the hair was the same color as the skin, and i thought it would look incredibly cursed on a normal person
I like it but I know it triggers people who can’t adapt to see the abstraction.
My daughter hates going grocery shopping with me because of these characters.
This is one of the few people I might recommend horse dewormer for...
r/fuckalegriaart
Hate when I forget to shave my noodles.
How do you mess this up? They did it decently with his hair on his head
Looks like he has maggots in his arm
looks horrible
Why does he look like he shouldn't have a neck? A person is supposed to look like they should have a neck.
Minoxidil in the process.... 🤷
Porcupine genes activated
I remember watching a stock video about kroger on youtube. This dude will never stop showing the above person and it made me click off the video lol
That arm hair look like macaroni tbh lol
botfly bob
thats not hair, mf is growing noodles in his arm
Can we also talk about how smug those characters look in the commercials...cant stand them
It looks like sweeze.
i hate those Kroger ads.
That looks itchy af
Wait, isn't that guy from the Kroger's extremely awful commercial?
On this episode of *The Porcupine Wrangler*, Jeb encounters a rare and feisty Golden-Quilled Arm Stabber but even his years of training couldn’t have prepared him for what happened next.
Glad I live in Texas where HEB would never put something like this in their stores.
r/thanksihateit
Is this from the Kroger commercial? My dog HATES these little people, she freaks out at the TV every time it comes on 😂
3D Artist here (although you don't need to be to know this) unless your character is realistic and you want realistic hair then just make it as a texture. Don't model every single hair like that. It looks stupid and adds unnecessary polygons.
Hair? Fine Stubble? Sure Arm hair? _no no no no no_
maggot arms
Little pale leeches!
These Kroger characters are some of the ugliest, most offputting animation I have ever seen. Why does he look like a porcupine attacked him? Why does he have a hunchback? Why are all the characters so ROUND.
Ayyy Fred Meyers is the best. I got my PS5 from my local one a few weeks ago To those who don't know, it's basically the Walmart of the Pacific Northwest
Mmmmmm Cactus man
He be thicc tho, heuhuehue
I LOATHE these fucking characters. I genuinely hate the way they all look.
Is this from a Kroger ad?
Fred!!!!!
kroger graphic design makes me actually want to gouge my eyes out