[Redesign Icon] Kiki the Cyber Squirrel

[Christopher]

Hello @Alayan and @Sven

Over the past month, I've been remaking Kiki's icon again, and this time she looks like the real Kiki. It still isn't fully finished, I need to finish adding all the shadows across her head, fix some out of place sections of her hair, and adjust the sizes and colour. She is based on the official Kiki reference sheet, but she looks different from the version currently in the game. The original reference sheet, along with my icon, features black behind her hair, swapped blue and pink colour on the top of her hair flowers, as well as a different eye style and hair strokes. Is Kiki's model going to be updated in STK Evolution to match the official design, or is she going to stay the same, meaning my icon won't match? Also, is there anything else I need to add?

[C4mil011]

Took a peek, and, to be honest, this one looks genuinely good.

Obviously the OG Kiki icon was never made for the 1.2 Kiki (which, despite having eye/mouth animations, still needs a redesign). Meanwhile, your redesign actually seems to be way more suitable for the current model, and I doubt it wouldn't be for STKE either.

Regarding the general icon style, try some slightly thicker outlines to make it more suitable.

[Sven]

Nice work

It does look pretty good, as you said it doesn't match 100% with STK's current design of Kiki.

For STK Evolution there will most likely not be a big redesign of Kiki so I'd suggest to change a few things to resemble more STK's look.

The swapped blue and pink is fine we can switch these colors for the kart.

I would suggest to:
- make the "hair flowers" a bit smaller.
- slightly change the shape of the hair strands left and right of the middle strand. It should fall down more straight.
- you already mentioned adding shadows I would say adding some highlights would also be good for nice shading, you can take a look at Godette's icon to see what I mean.
- remove the black part in the "hair flowers", although this isn't as important.
- slightly change the shape of the eyebrows (this is optional since it's such a small detail that is almost not noticable)

Overall this is much better than the current icon already, even without the suggested changes

Regarding the general icon style, try some slightly thicker outlines to make it more suitable.

I wouldn't say that it needs thicker outlines. You can try how it looks, but it certainly shouldn't have the thick outline the very old icons have