Talk:Ilia Amitola/@comment-28246649-20180821095829/@comment-4010415-20180821164906

It's kinda hard to accurately show age when you're using an anime style, so Ilia may be younger than she looks in the short (especially since they may have just not felt like making a brand new model for her just for the few shots she was in).

Typically, when you're using anime style, you show age by


 * Giving a character really, really large eyes, like they did for Oscar, to make them look like a kid. This doesn't always apply, though, since some older characters are given large eyes to make them look cute and/or innocent, especially in moe anime. I recall an anime where the characters are in high school but look like children because of the art style.


 * Giving a character wrinkles to show that they're older. RWBY finally started doing this around Volume 3, when they gave Port wrinkles, and we've seen that they have given characters like Kali age lines under their eyes.


 * Giving a character white/gray hair to show that they're an old person, like they did with Port. This also doesn't always apply, considering... well... characters like the Schnee family, who are born with white hair. Plenty of anime characters have naturally white hair without being old people.

In my opinion, Sienna somehow looks younger in the Adam short, but maybe that's just because I was comparing her to Ghira, who definitely looks younger. Sienna and Ghira were probably in their late 20s or something.

Anyway, Ilia already has really big eyes to make her look cute and feminine, so it's hard to tell how old she's supposed to be, both in the series and in the Adam short.

It's also hard to tell how young Blake was in the Adam short, though something made me feel like she kinda looked younger too, but I could've been imagining it just because it was a flashback.