Paper Mario animations

[E-Man]

I'm very sorry if I unintentionally made you my scapegoat, Virt. I was trying to explain and defend your design decisions you made when Fillerthefreak was pointing them out.

Anyway, in regards to drawing these puppets, I'm not exactly aiming for 100% accuracy. While I'll still try to match the style if I can help it and I'll take suggestions and critiques as long as I'm able to reasonably pull them off, I mostly want to do what actually looks good to me. In other words, I want this to be my take on the Paper Mario style and overall avoid getting accused of tracing the existing artwork. You're okay with this decision and you wouldn't mind if some things look a bit "off-model," right?

Speaking of mostly doing what looks good to me, there's actually two changes in total that I want to do for Luigi and the Koopa. For Luigi, I want to shrink his noes down since it looks a bit bulbous compared to Mario's. As for the Koopa, I want to keep the beak as it is, but I want to include the inward curved version as an expression change. The other parts you described (concerning Luigi's eyes and the Koopa nostrils) don't look terribly bad compared to the ones seen on the actual versions, but I might end up changing them if you really want me to.

Before I end this off, I made the first few sketches of another character who will appear in the first short: Kent C. Koopa.



I'll sketch out the glasses once I finalize which sketch to use in case you're wondering about that. I'm cool with both designs, but feel free to choose which one you want. The one on the left is how I would do him (including removing his legs to make him more like how the characters in the Thousand Year Door walk), while the one on the right is more accurate to how he appears in Paper Mario.