King K.Rool

A 3D fanart of King K.Rool. Donkey Kong Country being one of the first game I have owned and the whole series being my favourite platformers, I’m a big fan of this guy.

I choose to create my own design by merging his Rareware and his more recent Paon one. I wanted him to be scaly and muscular like in the old games but also keep the fat and more modern aspect of the most recent games.

Since he change his costume in every game, I thought it would also be interesting to recreate his different personas using this mesh as a basis so I created two UV sets (one for the body and another half-sized one for clothes only) and kept some unnecessary geometry hidden under clothes. My aim was to have a model of around 20 000 tris, a number which seems pretty common for important characters in HD games. The final polycount of the King is 19 360 tris (15 510 tris for the body + 3 850 tris for the accessories).