Over the past couple of weeks, we've been sharing galleries of fan-made art a little more frequently than usual and the response from you lovely lot has been nothing but wonderfully positive. Continuing this current trend, we've stumbled across a project encompassing every character from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - and there are some rather brilliant entries to behold.
J. Marme, a storyboard artist and huge Nintendo fan, has taken to Instagram to share artworks of every single character to grace our Smashing screens so far - not unlike God of War art director Raf Grassetti's current project. The project began just over a year ago - starting with Mario, of course - and ended just a couple of days ago with Joker.
The entire set has a consistent style to it, although we feel J. Marme's work gets steadily stronger and stronger over the weeks and months. It's interesting to see how the project came together, and we're really digging the style, too. Here's a small selection:
In a nice touch, J. Marme has now added each and every one of the designs into a banner, just like the famous Smash mural used as promotional art for the game. You can see this and the entire set of drawings over at @j.marme.
What do you think? Are you a fan of the art style? We're looking forward to seeing new pieces for the upcoming DLC characters, too!
[source instagram.com]
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Cute. Now use this please in a new platform/adventure game. Let that guy from pikmin and mario work together. (i forgot his name, but let him by magic land in Mario world) En let them combine power to remove thread in mushroom kingdom. LOL. and only 2D please just like Mario Paper 2D up to gamecube era
Well, they definitely look better than that GoW artist pictures.
@locky-mavo I was going to post exactly that. These are a lot more vibrant and there's more character and movement in them.
Wow. Awesome job. Wish the artist the best of luck in their future projects.
These are lovely, just lovely!
You should do this @Anti-Matter then NL can run an article about you.
But don't take a year, take a weekend, show'em what you got.
Make an article about Smashified, they just did Crono:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Rbam9oJJY
They still have the rest of their lives to draw all the spirits.
This looks amazing to be honest. Hope he does the final dlc characters as well
Nice artwork, my favorite of this bunch is Ludwig.
Love it! Always nice to see fan art like this. Artists get exposure they might not have gotten, and we get to see art with might not have found ourselves win-win!
And from what sounds more like a real fan and not some industry type.
@TossedLlama @rjejr
I don't play Smash Bros games....
@Anti-Matter Yeah, I can see where that would be a problem.
They look great. No they look awesome.
@Anti-Matter @TossedLlama @rjejr I third this
I dont get how fan art is fine with Nintendo and fan games aren't. Pretty much the same deal but fan artist get money from commissions.
@Ardisan You can't play drawings, for starters.
It looks like the toon-ification you see from yugioh cards.
Though I didn't like the looks on their faces for most of them, and the Sonic one is straight up inaccurate, not sure how they ended up thinking none-blue legs would look good? He's also missing the green eyes but meh.
Awesome!!! I’ve tried drawing every character before and I always get hung up on the more humanoid ones, haha. People are hard to draw!!
Now that's some real nice artwork, kinda reminds me of the japanese boxart of Smash Bros 64, wouldn't mind seeing more of this.
@Starcakes Yes, but, as said, artists often get money from commissions when somebody directly asks them to draw 'the thing'. You can't play a drawing but in these (not uncommon) circumstances they're literally making money from somebody elses IP.
Fan games are most often passion projects done for free. Sometimes you can donate (usually quite far into development) but it's rare you'll ever see a fan game actually charging money for it.
Draw Lucario, then we'll talk.
@Tao isn't that the issue? They are offering a completely free alternatives to the products Nintendo is trying to sell.
Another Metroid 2 remake comes to mind, which was good enough to give the actual official remake a run for it's money.
Ditto with Pokemon, they probably don't want fans attempting wild and new creative ideas because then people are either gonna start demanding new things from game freak or will just give them and their by the numbers sequels the cold shoulder.
Just to finally drive the point home, I absolutely adore brutal Doom, breathes completely new life to a classic I already loved anyways. If they sold the original Doom duology on PS4/Switch etc, I would not even entertain the thought of getting it because it wouldn't be brutal Doom, and it's worth noting, if I had never played brutal Doom, I would have bought them in a heartbeat.
It sucks, but I think it makes sense from the perspective of the companies peddling their software.
@Tao of course, there is also the option of letting fans do the work for you.
Worked wonders for Capcom and Sega after all.
@Ardisan In the courtroom it isn't fine. The sole reason the art would sell is because of the IP. In reality, limiting the creation and sale of art to wholly original ideas would be a catastrophe.
I assume if someone sold 100,000's of prints a month with Nintendo characters then yea they would shut that down asap though.
They look amazing.
This guy needs to print them on t-shirts and sell them.
I i'd buy a few of them.
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