#came up with dark meta knight's redesign on the fly just for this

[dokidokitsuna]

Knight Quartet Rebellion! So for a while now I’ve been thinking about a potential sequel series to Magical Friends (as all overly-ambitious artists do…) and recently I thought it might be fun to follow a completely different cast of characters and work with the Knight Quartet. ^^

Basically: while Morpho is busy managing the aftermath of MF’s finale, Galacta Knight somehow comes back from the ‘dead’ and plots his revenge…in his own silly, airheaded way. :9 He recruits Dark Meta Knight first, thinking he’s MK (did he go to the wrong planet…?) and then the two of them arrive in Dream Land to seek out the OG Meta Knight as a third ally (i.e. wreak so much havoc that he’s forced to join up with them just to put a stop to the destruction). Meta Knight is the primary POV, along for the ride on GK’s adventure, and over the course of the story he gets to know him better and starts to befriend him (kind of like Gryll vis-a-vis Magolor in MF).

Of course, this idea is a long way away from production. ^^; I haven’t even drafted a script yet, and I feel like I need more time to get used to drawing the knights and to work out their body language…just drawing these scenes was a lot harder than I thought it would be. For one thing, it feels like I may need to play around with different eye shapes to make them emote clearly…

Something you actually ARE likely to see in the nearer future is a series of test animations with these boys. ^^ Like, I envision KQR as a very battle-heavy series (honestly, it kind of has to be) and it’s about time I started practicing choreography. And designing movesets for these guys is gonna be a trip…in case you haven’t noticed, because they lack articulate arms and legs, a lot of the poses and graceful movements you usually use for swordsmen don’t actually work for them… 9w9 In the games, a lot of their maneuvers are either very silly (like the common ‘swish sword around super fast’ move) or very unrealistic (like how Morpho kinda just summons their swords repeatedly rather than actually manipulating them…the ‘double giant sword summon’ in particular is hardly swordplay; it functions more like a hammer swing)

All of ^that works for the type of series that Kirby is-- cute, goofy, abstract-- but personally I’d like for their movements to be either more grounded or more stylized, so you can actually take the fights seriously in a non-interactive medium. So I think I’ll start by studying their in-game movesets and re-interpreting them, and every time I get up to ~20 seconds of test animation I’ll upload it as a video. ^^ If nothing else it’ll be something to keep me animating on a regular basis, as per my New Years’ resolution~

#came up with dark meta knight's redesign on the fly just for this #and it came out amazing #something about evil characters just resonates with me #kirby #meta knight #Dark Meta Knight #galacta knight #knight quartet rebellion

[berrymi1k]

more less known Kirby characters for the star guardian AU!

more info about their roles under the cut :)

Gryll is just an occasional helper to the main gang (aka Kirby, Escargoon, Dedede, Bandee, Dark Matter Swordsman, Tiff and Tuff), since she actually came to Popstar to research the Star Rod, but not take it. So she just built a hut and watches them and their adventures and help when things get a bit too tough :)

the Meta-Knights were originally meant to be anti heroes who were admirers of Meta Knight trying to track him down, but I rethought some of their lore and I figured that they should be Star Warriors instead. Redesigned Axe Knight to be more of a shy boi and Javelin Knight is now a guy that got turned into a robot and he can morph into his form from the games to fly. The Meta-Knights went to Popstar themselves and constantly look throughout the planet to find Meta.

Time for da fluff boy >:) I got this idea from @cosmicwhoreo so PLEASE check them out their art style is so pretty and they are very big brain

Dedede has to go to an intergalactic meeting because ✨king stuff✨ and brings Kirby with him as a plus one to make things more fun, and they meet the other rulers of their planets like Queen Ripple, Claycia (and before you ask yes she’s a ruler in this AU cuz KATRC isn’t mentioned enough), and of course, Prince Fluff. He and Kirby don’t like each other at first due to contrasting personalities, but when they have to team up to save everyone from the Followers of Nightmare, who attack them, they get along well.

(And Fluff may or may not have a teeny tiny crush on him after that-)

#kirby star guardian au #kirby right back at ya #kirby of the stars #hoshi no kirby #gryll #gryll kirby #meta knights #axe knight #javelin knight #prince fluff #kirby’s epic yarn #kirby star stacker #kirby au #kirby #king dedede #mentioned at least #queen ripple #claycia #dark matter swordsman