I’ve been playing Smash Brothers Ultimate a lot lately on my Switch, so I wanted to draw something from it. I like kirby a lot, but I like playing Ganondorf the most, so I’m drawing kirby with his Ganondorf hat. : )

Section 1- Sketches

I started by sketching to try to figure out how to draw kirby in the first place, and I eventually made it to one I liked.

Section 2- Rough Frames

Next to bring it to the computer and figure out the keyframes for the animation.

I made the blink, arms swaying, and body squishing at different times to make all the motion not happening all at the same time, if you’re interested this is how the frames line up in my timeline:

face- full loop

body/headband- 3 loops

front arm/back arm- 2 loops

Section 3- Clean Frames

I made Kirby’s body squish more, and went over all the other frames to make sure all the lines are clean.

Section 4- Color

Only thing left is to give this color and export the final animation.

(I colored the lines so you can’t see the lines anymore)