Mario pictures

[Sweet Snow]

 

[Moldomré]

Looks like the rebellious teenage era has gone a bit too far in some areas.

 

[Mister Wu]

And now for an oddity I talked about on Discord:

around in 2015, Nintendo for some reason decided to silently update Yoshi's design, changing some features. This updated design didn't even end up in 3D models, so far. And after all, you can see by looking at the changes appllied why they didn't bother implementing it yet:

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What are the features of this new design? Here are the ones I found in all their marginality:

1. more defined nostrils
2. actual eyelids instead of that brow thing
3. more prominent protrusion behind the eyes
4. smaller white part on the cheeks
5. the crest spikes are nearer one another and all point downward

And why even bother with these features? Well, let's have a look at the original Yoshi and...

Yup, the "new" features come from the original design!
As if that wasn't enough, the brand new artwork featuring this updated design was often involved in a SNES posture renaissance:

But it was the Mario Kart LINE stickers that definitely clarified what this design is aimed at, when compared to Super Mario Kart art:

SUPER MARIO KART

MARIO KART LINE STICKERS

SUPER MARIO KART

MARIO KART LINE STICKERS

basically, the new design is so far used exclusively in artwork to go back a little to the SNES design feeling while still keeping the modern crest, shell (since it's now confirmed to be a shelled turtle) and, most importantly, hands.

Spoiler

Or not?
2020

SNES-era

Man, if they reintroduce dino-hands-and-posture Yoshi I'll almost end up flutter jumping out of contentness, I soooo liked that!

 

[Ray Trace]

it just confirms to me that modern yoshi's design is an abject failure

 

[Mcmadness]

I prefer his modern design personally.

 

[Ten]

I like the older modern design. More cute imo.

 

[Blhte]

Spoiler: Bowser illustrations drawn by Yoichi Kotabe

Spoiler: Banner of "Bowser's New Year's resolutions" poll from Play Nintendo

I found the second one recently.

 

[Doc von Schmeltwick]

I like the movie design

 

[Mister Wu]

I like the movie design

As a fan of dinosaurs, I can't argue against that...
#mostdinoYoshievah

 

[Sweet Snow]

Speaking of the movie

 

[Ten]

That's kinda cute tbh. If someone were to redraw it as actual Mario that would be awesome~

 

[LeftyGreenMario]

Calls to mind this

 

[Mcmadness]

You know what's a nice touch I like?

Paper Bowser is still orange like Bowser was during his N64 days, and when the 2 fuse together to become ShinyRoboBowser:

The armor parts are also orange

 

[zel]

i was on models resource and found this gobblegut statue model from mk8dx, appearing in dragon palace i think

its pretty interesting cause it has a slightly more realistically proportioned chunkier body and limbs instead of just being spaghetti. i like that!

 

[Vivian]

May be the wrong hand but it's good art and a cool idea

 

[Doc von Schmeltwick]

Bowser was orange in-game in the very early days for the simple reason that the NES cannot make a "true" yellow and uses tan or orange, and that kinda stuck around until Sunshine. I prefer the orange myself.

 

[Mister Wu]

i was on models resource and found this gobblegut statue model from mk8dx, appearing in dragon palace i think

its pretty interesting cause it has a slightly more realistically proportioned chunkier body and limbs instead of just being spaghetti. i like that!

I actually like that a lot too, even more than the original! It's a "short & chunky" Chinese dragon version of Gobblegut and it turned out very well in my opinion!

 

[Ten]

Front facing DiC Luigi is rare so I love this.

 

[Ray Trace]

this is so invaluable for making a 3D model out of them really thanks for sharing!

 

[Cocoa]

this is so invaluable for making a 3D model out of them really thanks for sharing!

I got a good feeling about this

 

[LeftyGreenMario]

I still think the most jarring thing about Super Mario Bros. 3 is the Tanooki Mario that's flying. He looks so different from the "normal" Mario, like they just copy-pasted the original art and didn't really adapt it?

 

[Ten]

Only thing really changed was the head, and even that's a stretch.

 

[Mcmadness]

Those are better drawn then what actually appeared in the show itself.

 

[Ray Trace]

Well animation does that.

 

[Mcmadness]

even then some of the animation stills are terrible.