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"Under the Spell of Marionette"

This is my entry to 's Darkstalkers Tribute Book (see more details here and it's on Amazon here). It features Huitzil, the Aztec mecha, under the command of an aggressive, and slightly crazy-looking, Marionette (a secret bonus character in DS3).

I wanted to produce a piece that didn't feature one of the main cast from DS (I figured Udon would have been inundated with hundreds of entries for those) and was intrigued by Marionette. Although she doesn't have any moves of her own (in fact she has ONE sprite with NO animation!!!) she takes over the body of another character (or, to be more precise, a replica of the character she's fighting..!).

Finding no official art of the character, I thought it would be fun to bring her to life and, since I had just drawn some Transformers covers at the time, Huitzil seemed a natural choice as the character she would be controlling. I suppose I also wanted to echo the Bumblebee & Michaela pic I had done earlier...

This drawing isn't really accurate as to what happens in the game, more like a concept piece, but I thought it would make for a good image. (Hey, if I get some spare time in the future, and feel inspired, I may do a couple more pieces of Marionette taking control of other characters -but who...?).

Amazingly, this was the only instance of Marionette that appears in the entire book so I'm kinda glad I picked her otherwise she would've missed out on the party!

I can honestly say that it's a great honour to be part of this book, sharing it's pages with so many awesome artists from around the world (including some very big names such as Adam Hughes, J.Scott Campbell, Yasuhiro Nightow, Mark Brooks and Sean Galloway), and there are some astounding and beautiful images to be found here. If you love Darkstalkers / Capcom, and if you love art then this book is for you!

I'm also very happy to contribute something to the Darkstalkers universe, so thanks again to the kind folk at Udon for picking my entry and to everyone who supported the book!

Darkstalkers © Capcom
Artwork © Jason Cardy, Udon Entertainment

Description
"Under the Spell of Marionette"

This is my entry to 's Darkstalkers Tribute Book (see more details here and it's on Amazon here). It features Huitzil, the Aztec mecha, under the command of an aggressive, and slightly crazy-looking, Marionette (a secret bonus character in DS3).

I wanted to produce a piece that didn't feature one of the main cast from DS (I figured Udon would have been inundated with hundreds of entries for those) and was intrigued by Marionette. Although she doesn't have any moves of her own (in fact she has ONE sprite with NO animation!!!) she takes over the body of another character (or, to be more precise, a replica of the character she's fighting..!).

Finding no official art of the character, I thought it would be fun to bring her to life and, since I had just drawn some Transformers covers at the time, Huitzil seemed a natural choice as the character she would be controlling. I suppose I also wanted to echo the Bumblebee & Michaela pic I had done earlier...

This drawing isn't really accurate as to what happens in the game, more like a concept piece, but I thought it would make for a good image. (Hey, if I get some spare time in the future, and feel inspired, I may do a couple more pieces of Marionette taking control of other characters -but who...?).

Amazingly, this was the only instance of Marionette that appears in the entire book so I'm kinda glad I picked her otherwise she would've missed out on the party!

I can honestly say that it's a great honour to be part of this book, sharing it's pages with so many awesome artists from around the world (including some very big names such as Adam Hughes, J.Scott Campbell, Yasuhiro Nightow, Mark Brooks and Sean Galloway), and there are some astounding and beautiful images to be found here. If you love Darkstalkers / Capcom, and if you love art then this book is for you!

I'm also very happy to contribute something to the Darkstalkers universe, so thanks again to the kind folk at Udon for picking my entry and to everyone who supported the book!

Darkstalkers © Capcom
Artwork © Jason Cardy, Udon Entertainment