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That does look much better! But now you'll have to do the red/orange feathers to match so he doesn't look like he has fingers.

Yeah, the feathers look a bit odd. Maybe stick to a smooth surface until you've got the dimensions figured out.

Looking at the official model, I'd say try shortening his beak a tad and making his bottom "lip" a bit thicker. Then make the eyelid a straight line all the way around the eye. As-is, your model has his eyes bulging out a bit.

Maybe a feathery texture will help?

I think the electric wires would be good for the steel girder/scaffolding stages too. Maybe make some telephone poles to go with the theme, haha.

I like your clay model conversion, but I'm having some trouble reading what it's supposed to be. It's very tiny. The Duck float is a great touch though.

I love the idea of a tire factory. Loads of conveyor belts (does any game have those?) and those lava pits from the factory stages in DKC3. There could be a new kind of enemy that is a Knocka or Klobber in a stack of tires who bounces you around and can't be killed.

A few ideas: -Levels that require you to use certain Kongs. For example, a scale is at the beginning of the stage with a respawning DK barrel. Only when you've selected the right Kongs (DK and Kiddy, for example) will the weight be enough to allow you to enter the stage. This could also be done with...

Kong-grats, guys! (hehe)

That Zinger is gorgeous. Amazing work!

Just saw the videos of the first few areas on Youtube, and while they're mostly impressive, they strike me as having a really steep learning curve. Some of those puzzles and obstacles should be reserved for much later worlds, not the first few levels. The method for getting the bonuses is a little b...

You should do a version where the fur looks like the SNES renders. Maybe we can use it to make sprites.

DK is looking great. That face is spot-on!

He's not gaining enough ground for how much his legs are moving.
Aside from that, I can't really tell how the running animation looks because the video is so short. If you could just have him running in place for 30 seconds or something we could probably give you a better critique.

Mattrizzle is like some kind of fangaming Batman. He shows up everywhere, helps out, and then disappears without making a big deal. What a cool guy.

We sure do! If some of the awesome modelers here would submit we'd be more than happy to accept!

My idea for a model is a lava-based Kremling (Think Blarrg from Mario World). I'm trying to think of new enemies, so maybe I'll add to this list later.

I'd like to second the DK64 Kongs and Expresso.

The bottom two look pretty good, but the top two aren't quite there yet. They look like a stretched sprite and a sprite that used to be 8-bit. Is there any other art you can adapt to it?

Have you guys given much thought to themeing the worlds? For example, in the first game, the world themes were: Jungle, Caves, Forest, Ice, Caves In 2, it was clearer: Pirate ship, Volcano, Swamp, Theme Park, Haunted, Castle This doesn't mean you can't mix it up by throwing in other themed levels. F...

Whoo! That sounds great!

Definitely digging it! Well done!

You know, maybe it's a notch from a support beam.

A level where weight is involved wold be fun, too. Either by using DK/Kiddy to hold something down, or using Diddy/Dixie so something doesn't fall.

Yeah, the wood cross is definitely just leaning against the house. I have no idea what that speaker thing is supposed to be.

Oh. Duh. I knew that. >.>

Kiddy is looking amazing. Can't wait for the fur.

Hahaha, he's so happy! Here's a weird question: Have you considered doing DK? There are a lot of later sprites that DK doesn't have because he wasn't in the games that use them. A DK model would make it much easier.

I love your work so much!

These are just amazing. Are you going to do the tire swing outside DK's house?
I can't wait for more!

Looking good!

Really enjoying this topic. Amazing work.

I just thought of a fun object; Tire Swing. It's a tire attached to a vine that swings back and forth. If it hits the Kongs or enemies, they are bounced away in the opposite direction. The Tire Swing could swing back and forth over pits or near spikes.

Wow! This is fantastic!

This makes me think that there should be at least one level where there is a time trial. Diddy would be the ideal choice.

What if while Diddy rides DK, hidden items are unearthed (As if you were using DK's ground slap) and with Kiddy, you can skip over water?

That's a great idea! To make it more unique, you should think about letting him to that with Dixie too.
And that's great about Winky. That should make him a little more useful.

Ah, ok. Awesome!

Aside from making him the speediest, I'm not really sure what else would work...
That reminds me though, did you give any though to a "Super"jump for Winky that would go over long horizontal gaps?

This is coming along incredibly well! My only suggestion (though it may be too late now...) would be to make his socks longer. His feet are the right size, but if you look at his sprites, the "sock" part goes on for a bit. He even plays with it in his idle.

I like that Kiddy sits around. It makes him look more like a dopey impervious character. It's funny.

English doubt : Have things that confuse me in English, the word "light" if it is a noun, means LIGHT (brightness). But if it is an adjective, means LIGHT (weight). How to tell the difference, depends on the context in a sentence? I will not mind if someone thinks "St...

Yikes. Poor you, Phyre. I should really look into getting the tiles arranged and up. :/

I eagerly await it.

Leo, I know that English is not your first language, and while I can understand what the text in the game means, it's not quite perfect (Like the difference between "The Kongs Return" and "The Kongs Returns"). If you'd like, I could edit the script for you (Cranky's rants and stu...

Totally respectable. I'll be watching your progress. It's amazing so far!

This is not me plugging this time, but we have a great modeler at TSR named Peardian. He did these "Brawl Style" characters; http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/5255/axemteaser.png http://img805.imageshack.us/img805/4445/yaridovichteaser.png Which you can download here; http://www.models-reso...

Looking better with each update. The overworld map is really coming together. Nice work!

What an amazing job! It looks just like him! Do you plan to texture him?

I feel like I have to plug http://www.models-resource.com/ here. This is just quite fantastic.

"A delayed game is eventually good; a bad game is bad forever."
-Shigeru Miyamoto

I don't think that's what we're doing, unless we were willing to make the whole game Egyptian themed, like #2 was Pirate themed, and #3 was technology-themed. Phyre was just having fun.

You could also do one made of the girders from the opening to the first game.

Wow, these are awesome. Some kind of mobile cactus could be a fun enemy.
Hehe, you should attempt a K. Rool pharaoh. That would be a neat theme for a game. King, Pirate, Scientist, Pharaoh.
K. Ruin? K. Ramesses?

Great plan!

Hmm, you might want to make them separate sprites so they can be put in different orders in the scrolling bg?