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Kirbopher15 — The Big Trio
Published: 2011-05-24 05:01:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 64998; Favourites: 1616; Downloads: 0
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This was something I felt like doing on a whim yesterday when I came across one of my bigger sketchbooks and felt like sketching out some of these characters. The concept is based on something I thought of as a kid, after the first Smash Bros on Nintendo 64 had come out: what if they had a multi-platform fighting game with characters represented by Nintendo, SeGa and Sony games? At the time, it was a struggle for me to find characters from SeGa and Sony other than their mascots, since I was primarily a Nintendo kid. Now, it's MUCH easier to pick 'em out, so I went with five for each. We have:.:Nintendo:.
Mario (Super Mario Bros.)
DK (Donkey Kong Country)
Kirby (Kirby's Dream Land)
Link (Legend of Zelda)
Pikachu (Pokemon)
.:SeGa:.
Sonic (Sonic the Hedgehog)
NiGHTs (NiGHTs into Dreams)
AiAi (Super Monkey Ball)
Ulala (Space Channel 5)
Billy Hatcher (Billy Hatcher)
.:Sony:.
Crash (Crash Bandicoot)
Sly (Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus)
Spyro (Spyro the Dragon)
Ratchet (Ratchet & Clank)
Jak (Jak & Daxter)
I made the stupid mistake of not rounding-out the bottoms of the character line-ups so I could make the final art piece into a giant circle, but I think what I came out with in the end turned out alright. I knew that stock photograph of the sky I took a while back would come in handy someday.
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Why not add Rare to the mix?
Banjo (Banjo-Kazooie)
Conker (Conker's Bad Fur Day)
Sabreman (Sabre Wulf)
Joanna Dark (Perfect Dark)
Mr. Pants (Hey it's Mr. Pants)
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Wow, I never realized how similar most of them are.
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This would make a great Super Smash Bros roster!!
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awesome...just epically awesome
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Ok. SEGA, Nintendo, Isomaniac, Naughty Dog, and Sucker Punch.
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Respect as in the Video Games though, of course.
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its funny, when you put everyone together the sony mascots look really hardcore whilst the sega ones are all a little fruity lookin
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god damn fucking beautiful!
my lust for crossovers has been quenched.
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Dude this is sooooooo going to be added to my favourites, this looks SOOOOO EPIC!!!!!!
Congrats on this man, it looks fantastic.
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I myself would have also added Samus, Spike, and Sparkster. (Metroid, Ape Escape, and Rocket Knight Adventures respectively)
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Damn! Thats freaking awesome dude! um... where can I get a preorder?
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Mario looks like he's saying nintendos number one which is 100%correct lol
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Even though I fucking love Sony, I don't think they could go toe to toe with Nintendo...
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this is amazing, you pick all of each company biggest stars, i wish Ristar would have been in there too
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awesome,but theres something off with pikachus eyes.
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I can't help but wish that Ray Man, Pac Man and Banjo man were there.
Still awexome nonetheless.
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Yay! Three of my favorite childhood games in one amazing drawing! This is awesome.
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The Awesome: A picture all about the collision of signature franchises? This is always one of of those fantastic ideas that is truly meant for the fans. Yah, the sometimes we get official crossovers and some of them are actually quite good. However I always believed that ideas such as these can only be realized by the ones who appreciate them the most~ This piece being a prime example of such.
And what an impressive piece it is. Your layout/composition is a prime example of unique design set against the open sky BG. Almost each character emotes a unique personality, very specific to their respective genre's, creating great individuality among each character while again maintaining excellent unity. Line art is clean and usage of a unified color scheme seems evident.
The Bad: While I mentioned the color scheme is unified, your lighting work is somewhat odd for this piece, particularly in relation to your BG and intended light source. The BG suggests the light source is behind them, while the characters/actual lighting suggests they're staring up and trying to sort of 'reach' for the sky. My big gripe with this set up is in relation to the BG, it seems like a much more dynamic lighting situation should be set up with greater contrasts of what's in shadow/light, and MUCH more gradation. As is, this lighting situation just seems sort of plain/generic, and doesn't really add anything to the piece in what could have a much greater 'pull' for the viewer in getting sucked in. The plus side of this (again in your overall excellent execution) is that this doesn't really detract from anything either. The shading does what it likely was originally intended for and that is that. Again I wanna stress though that I feel so much more could be added with just a slight tweak of the shading.
The Nit Picky: Sony doesn't own Crash or Spyro. They've both been created by outside companies and hosted on numerous competitors consoles, granted Sony is making a MUCH stronger effort to show their support of the Ratchet/Sly/Jax properties, but it still doesn't change that they never created these properties nor do they own them even today. To boot I feel like the inclusion of Sony characters retroactively neglects the rising properties of Microsoft. These are all just my own little rants, but for me I feel these relationships are skewed greatly especially when considered the much deeper relationship Nintendo and Sega hold~
All in all this really is a great idea, and a well executed piece, but what I feel are cracks in the structure really hold back a great piece from becoming a timeless/flawless work~
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Always love your art Kirb, keep it up!
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Sly Cooper was probably my favorite game of all time.
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This just pointed out something to me... All the sony characters you listed were my favorite games of all time. I'm a sony fanboy and i didn't even know it. X.x
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did you know that the sony game characters you have there were created by the american game studios belonging to sony?
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Oh no... I only know two of the Sega characters. I FAIL.
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Pretty good altogether, although Sonic's legs look like they're getting stretched too much. The main mascots of each team are also more prominent in the piece, which is a nice touch.
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I love this huge crossover. Loved all of those games.
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Oh my god. O_o; I remember playing Billy Hatcher when I was in 5th or 6th grade. Brings back memories. ..
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Neat composition. Especially like who Sly Cooper turned out under your pen.
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I wanna see that. Crash & Ratchet vs Sonic & Billy Hatcher xP
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