#kirby map

my favorite place has always been the district of my favorite character!! when i think of kirby, i think of super star ultra, my childhood, when i think SSU, i think revenge of meta knight, and when i think RoMK, aside from the Halberd, Orange Ocean is always the place i jump to!

"looks like kirby was blown into the ocean" *banger starts playing*

im unsure if this will show up very well to any dear travelers, but a couple months ago I compiled all planets and stars from every Kirby game into a semi-comprehensible solar system. Star Lavadom/Hotbeat are twin suns that orbit each other and give most planets warmth and life. The further away from the twin suns, the colder and more desolate the planet. Complete with Halcandra and temporary planets!

It’s been on my bucket list to join a MAP project, and I heard about the awesome opportunity to not only join a MAP, but a Kirby Reanimated MAP!  As a kid I loved Kirby - the video games and the anime - and was excited for the opportunity to join in!  What I have here is close to the final draft, along with some of the earlier versions of the video to show my progress.

So the character I’m working with is the NME Salesman, who was pretty challenging to draw!  My version looks a bit younger I think, at least right now without shadows.

Notably, I started off with him poking his finger at the screen originally, but decided later that I wanted to keep him holding the abicus like in the original shot, and do something silly like shave his legs or pick his nose - the picking his nose seemed more do-able with the type and length of the shot.

The last things I want to add are some tweaks to the abicus, shadows on the salesguy, a goober on his finger that he flicks off, mess around with the background a bit more and add some lines on his face to age him up a bit.