Look at it! Look at it! LOOK AT IT!
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This is the first redesign of Bowser, then this came:ルイージ said:Mister Wu said:Mcmadness said:
Nice those eagles in a shell, by the way.
O-oh. Oh my god. Is. Is Bowser okay??
And then this:
Please note that the color of the eyebrows and of the hair is pretty much unchanged, while the color of the skin and of the eyes was changed. It is fascinating to see how Bowser's design changed so much in the early years.
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It's also fascinating to see Bowser in a really weird outfit that you don't really see anywhere else, right?
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It seems like the cape thing was some sort of prototype, but the artwork was already drawn, so Nintendo was "screw it".
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Well, the cape never had its chance...
Well,
I'm quite surpsrised that another artwork of SMB3 caped Bowser actually existed! This one even showed the whole Koopa and the eye-like front ring of the neck's cuff! The more I see it, the more I would like to give this Bowser design a chance!
I'm quite surpsrised that another artwork of SMB3 caped Bowser actually existed! This one even showed the whole Koopa and the eye-like front ring of the neck's cuff! The more I see it, the more I would like to give this Bowser design a chance!
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Bowser's design took a loong way to become what it is right now , from what i see...
Since some of the pictures are quite "interesting", and allow us to return on topic, here's a brief visual history of Bowser's design:Swiftie_Luma said:
I still somewhat think that the second image (from the SMB players' guide) is quite wrong...
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I definitely agree! It's interesting also because along with it there's this peculiar buckle on the neck's cuff. The designers probably wanted him to look more like a king in Super Mario Bros. 3, but then this idea was definitely abandoned shortly after the game's release (or maybe even before it, when it became clear that a cape would have been quite difficult to add with the limitations of the NES hardware...).
I think that Super Mario Galaxy's intro with this outfit would have been amazing!
Well, unless you badly want Bowser to be like Mario, with black moustache and eyebrows but brown hair, I don't see a particular reason to want both black eyebrows and yellow hair together...Mcmadness said:
Ironically, the more I see Bowser's early SMB3 design the more I find similarities with Mario's design: blue eyes, black eyebrows but fair hair... almost like a counterpart!
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the more i LOOK AT IT , the more i think that Bowser was more Ludwig's father rather than Bowser Jr's...
The resemblance with those colors and a blue cape is a bit close.
The resemblance with those colors and a blue cape is a bit close.
I don't think that's surprising, I think Bowser Jr.'s design was inspired by Baby Bowser's, while the Koopalings could only be inspired by Bowser's design.Swiftie_Luma said:
I'd say that Ludwig was designed to be similar to Bowser because he was the second in command and Bowser's first son and, as a consequence, the enemy to be fought before Bowser. He had to be an enemy that reminded Bowser and also was somewhat more menacing than the other siblings.
Still, there are many differences between Bowser and Ludwig: for example the color of the eyes, the large blue hair, the lack of horns, the single protruding tooth.
I'd also add that in the image Bowser has an expression of self-confidence that reminds Ludwig.
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Well that's just a shitty render, all things considered, with its normals with the eyes are not even fixed. With the right settings, you can make any farts look at least passable.
and there's these models, also from the same game
Looks high-res only because of the render settings I used.
I admit, these aren't my best model renders and their low-res textures are still fairly jarring, but tweaking around lights and stuff makes a huge difference.
and there's these models, also from the same game
Looks high-res only because of the render settings I used.
I admit, these aren't my best model renders and their low-res textures are still fairly jarring, but tweaking around lights and stuff makes a huge difference.
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That's because he's not in most Yoshi games. All sprites and models you see are unused models, despite what MarioWiki and other lying blithering idiots at Nintendo told you. They're there unused so data-miners can inform me and then piss me off how he's not used, and then Nintendo can continue laughing at me while I go into fetal position and suck my thumb.