Designing my own Kirby Ability

With the number of abilities that Kirby can copy from his enemies, it’s kinda hard to think of something that hasn’t already been done - but today I’m gonna try to come up with my own Kirby Copy Ability concept and share the pixel art creation along the way!

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0:00 Introduction
0:37 Sprite Analysis: KATAM
1:58 Kirby Sprite Timelapse
3:58 Ability Brainstorming
6:20 Animation Prep
7:26 Animation Rendering
9:23 Enemy Sprite Design
10:05 Final Artwork
10:44 CRT Time
11:19 VID OVER
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Check out my art here:
  / brandonjamesgreer  
  / bjgpixel  
► SHOP: https://rdbl.co/bjgpixel

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Software used: Adobe Photoshop (CS6)
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Title sequence theme music by Failpositive:
http://www.failpositive.bandcamp.com/
  / failpositiv  

Other music featured throughout this video was obtained from the Youtube Audio Library.