Paper Mario animations

[E-Man]

On the MFGG forum, two other members mentioned that the lump should stay; however, one of those two members also added this to the decision.

"The one with the lump seems a bit angrier, but the one with no lump looks cuter, though."

The only reason why I'd even consider removing it is due to how it looks a little distracting to me. I might just leave the lump in anyway if more people want it on there, but a part of me wants to remove it for the sake of a more appealing design. Still, if anyone has a suggestion on how to make the lump look better (an illustration is helpful), then I'm open to it.


Now then, let's move onto the new progress, shall we?



Those red parts of the feet are the soles. I only made them red to highlight them. If the shapes of the soles need any correction, I'll see what I can do about that.

By the way, since I don't intend to have the Big Lantern Ghost appear in a lot of scenes throughout this project, I'm not exactly up for making a back pose of him. I might consider it if there's either a bigger role for him to play or there's a demand for those parts; however, as far as I'm concerned, I'm done making new parts for him and all that's left is to shade him.


Of course, that's not all I have in store today. I also mapped out the shading for some Koopa parts.



Now, I don't want this to sound like I'm being lazy, but I'm questioning if these shading maps are actually all that practical. Since I didn't get any thanks, comments, or critiques on the last shading map I created, I have no means to judge how successful that technique is. Since I feel like that these shading maps are good representations of how I shade things normally and nobody has mentioned anything about these maps, I feel like I'm wasting time that may as well been used to actually shade these parts instead. I might make one more shading map after this one to see if I'll get feedback then, but I'm leaning towards the option of discontinuing this practice.

Speaking of shading, though, I'm also bringing up this previous bit of work on the Koopas. I want to make sure that the rest of these parts have at least decent shading before I can fully move on with working with the Koopas. As far as Neweegee and I are concerned, the beaks are good now and everything else seems to be in order. Still, if something looks off, just let me know and possibly give me a suggestion on how to correct that. Please refrain from just saying that the lighting looks weird everywhere because that honestly tells me nothing.