It took a little bit to prepare, but the public release of the Krystal Joins the Fight Artbook is finally ready! You can download and print your own copy right now, today! Most of the files included are slightly higher resolution than the original print. The file names have been organized for your convenience. One additional piece that didn't make it into the original version, as well as a credits page, are included in the download.

Download Artbook Files

110MB

Contributor Credits and Artwork Links

• Front and Back Cover - GeroVort
• Page 1 - Atticus-Kotch
• Page 2 - Nadoelix
• Page 3 - Bluhr
• Page 4 - Kaylii
• Page 5 - Kadath
• Page 6 - codym512s
• Page 7 - FaulksMccloud
• Page 8 - MissMcCloud
• Page 9 - SkyHunter95
• Page 10 - VemiVelleity
• Page 11 - AdmiralN30
• Page 12 - Anti-Ho0f
• Page 13 - Inari-Fox
• Page 14 - Videogamelover66
• Page 15 - JV_NERDSON
• Page 16 - Alain Jullien
• Page 17 - V-TAL
• Page 18 - StarDogSmasher
• Page 19 - FlippantFox
• Page 20 - angelasamshi
• Page 21 - Grinn3r
• Page 22 - josharaujo1115
• Page 23 - ChristenL33
• Page 24 - Commander Douche
• Page 25 - Angelfoxdreamer

Read more for instructions on printing your own copy.

Photo by NaredoPhoto.

In a video I made about two weeks ago, I noticed that there were two Krystals at Montréal ComicCon in July 2019. This other Krystal turned out to be Technicolor Cosplay's first appearance as Krystal in a new, custom-made Kigurumi costume.

Heavily inspired by Ayano's work, Technicolor Cosplay 3D printed the mask, created the Assault suit from scratch, and constructed the wig from other wigs. The tail was custom work too.

Technicolor Cosplay and Moonllita at the same convention.

This was Technicolor Cosplay's first time making a cosplay mask and probably some of the other costume parts. The mask is getting upgrades in the future, as is the jumpsuit. Check out the credits for the cosplay. Hope to see further improvements as time goes on.

Technicolor Cosplay's next Krystal appearance will be at Edmonton Expo (September 20-22, 2019). You can follow the progress and get tons of WIP and photoshoot photos at the official Facebook page.

Zygart uploaded some behind-the-scenes footage from the animation and motion capture experiments for Starlink, featuring multi-talented animator, actor, and artist Rundeep Khaira. I love this WIP stuff!

Here's some initial footage for Fox's character intro posted by Rundeep Khaira himself.

He seems to have done a lot of mo-cap for the game, even for the human characters. Also, check out his ArtStation gallery, where he posted tons of renders!

Nightcast, a member of the Krystal Archive Discord server, has been slowly working on a mod for Star Fox Adventures to get Krystal playable, the Holy Grail of Star Fox mods for a long time! He's managed to put Krystal in several places she wasn't supposed to be, with backpack and staff, which is more than what the previous ActionReplay codes could do.

He's still blocked by some complexities related to how the files are stored and manipulated in the game data. Something about being able to put the Krystal information in the right place in such a way that nothing crashes. But rest assured, as soon as he can get it working, we'll do a deep dive of it.

On that note, if there's anyone out there with experience deconstructing games or reverse engineering data formats, Nightcast would love some assistance. Comment below or email me if you want to help out.

SikDrift created a custom Krystal decal for his racing car back in March! This is "itasha", a car decorated with images of fictional characters of anime, manga, or video games.

He actually raced using the custom hood, and later showed it off at the Car-Nvl showcase. The hood, which appears to be carbon fiber, now hangs proudly on his wall when not at races or car shows.

He posted the original sketch on Twitter, and you can see the final version of the fanart on DeviantArt.

More Photos

• Looking fine in the rain
• Fueling Up
• Staged at the car show
• Sitting there, looking awesome

Two fan voice actors perform the scales confrontation scene from the beginning of Star Fox Adventures, with KestinTheVoice as General Scales and AegisHikaru as Krystal. I think they did a great job, especially where they fixed one of the errors in the original Saurian.

This is one of the coolest Minecraft builds I've ever seen. YouTube user Viggzplashfilms went to the trouble to recreate the entire CloudRunner Fortress in Minecraft. Not only is the entire thing there, he even took the time to build the boss room, which is a cavern racing track, using two sets of powered minecart tracks. Be sure to watch the second video just to see the amazing boss room track.

This is probably old news to Dinosaur Planet researchers, but I recently came across this recording of press materials from the European Computer Trade Show in 2000, uploaded by AIiskola from what is clearly a VHS tape. In it, there's a complete trailer for Dinosaur Planet, with footage of Krystal, of course. Very cool. You never know when you'll run across something you've never seen before, you know?

VixenVotaries was inspired by a group of Ridley fans called Ridley Revolution who got together to push for Ridley in Smash Bros. One of the things they did was create a book about Ridley to show their support for Ridley. Knowing of the similar passion that we Krystal fans have for our beloved blue vixen, VixenVoltaries got to work recruiting artists for the project: to create a Krystal art book to send to Nintendo. The title line of "Each image is a vote for Krystal to be a playable fighter." is a good summary of the core idea.

After about 4 months of work, the art has been gathered and the book has been printed. In the next few days, the book will be sent to Nintendo, along with a huge letter explaining the project and fan support. There are about 25 unique artworks created for this project, including masterful cover art by GeroVort. They're hoping that this will be just one more way to show Nintendo how much support Krystal has to be included as a playable fighter in Super Smash Bros.

Back Cover

If you want to see the artwork from the book, you can see all of the pages at this imgur gallery, and you can see which pages are included in this Twitter discussion.

The book's spine is very insistent.

I'm still compiling information and talking to artists, but once that's done, we will be releasing the files, post links, and instructions here so that you too can print a copy of your very own! I ask for your patience. Getting this together is why I missed yesterday's post. Sorry about that.

Many of you have probably seen this, but back in June, CaptainKnight808 posted his amazing work of building a Star Fox Adventures-like experience in Dreams for PS4. For those who don't know, Dreams is a creative engine where you can make theoretically anything inside it, including other 3D games.

In the video demo, CaptainKnight808 explains that he was experimenting with 3rd person gameplay and recreated Krystal from Star Fox Adventures, one of the first games he played in childhood. Krystal can do all the stuff she can do in the first part of Adventures, plus a few other things like swimming and climbing. The demo looks fantastic! Hard to believe it's just a demo on a simplified console game engine.

Unfortunately, CaptainKnight808 has no plans to release this demo, which makes me sad. However, he is working on other demos which show powerful 3rd person action gameplay features. He more recently created a demo with a red-furred Krystal-inspired character that might be more readily released. (The character appears green here because of the lighting.)