Coronation Day - KRtDL Magolor Soul animation

After the positive reception on my Kirby mods on other Youtube channels I decided to make my own and show you guys what I do in my offtime. Primarily I make Blender stuff, music and Kirby mods. And say hi to Luna, the mascot of the channel!

I've been using Blender for a while now, and I decided to put my skills to the test with an animation tribute to Kirby's Return to Dream Land! This was supposed to come out on the anniversary but oh well. There's always next year ;)
The whole project took me just over a month to finish and three days to render. After numerous test renders I can finally say I'm proud of this result. Though there still are a LOT of things that I'd like to change.

Regarding the video itself, in the beginning I couldn't manage to replicate the firey effect of the original animation, so I went with something more solid. I wanted to express Magolor's internal struggle between himself and the Master Crown, with certain aspects of his own body being manipulated to keep the crown in place (E.G. the spikes, which I consider to be part of Magolor's own body), and the rune-like rings, handcuffing him to do the crown's bidding.
Despite popular belief, I do think that Dark Matter had something to do with this as well, so I tried to make it as if Dark Matter was trying to make Magolor just stand still, waiting for the crown to possess him, while watching Kirby and his friends in hope to finally defeat them. (I think it was it who manipulated Magolor into seeking unlimited power. Otherwise the red eye and the 02-like Killer Needles would be such a red herring. Hopefully we'll get more clues in the remake. )
Also I think the idea of Magolor's eyes being just as hollow as his mouth make him more of a hollow husk for the crown and Drak Matter. And the eye inception looks cool af imo.
And I included the fabled Magolor jumpscare bc of course i did.

Btw I'm planning to make a full version of the CROWNED rearrangement I used in this video, so stay tuned for that. Cheers!