A couple of you have emailed me to let me know that someone going by CakeInferno might possibly be the long-lost Greyfirefox under a different name. I've conversed with him and can confirm that, yes, CakeInferno is Greyfirefox. The reason he disappeared was due to overly critical comments from some "hard-core Star Fox fans." They were badgering him about the technical accuracy of his Krystal rig and animations to the point that he was no longer enjoying himself.

After taking a break from the internet for a while, he has returned to do 3D graphics once more under this new name. However, this time he is focused on subject matter that is mildly NSFW using different, but similar characters. It is because of this potentially NSFW content that I urge caution if you wish to view his new gallery directly.

Meanwhile, Greyfirefox will be sending any future Krystal content to the Krystal Archive for posting, to the possible exclusion of his own gallery. No word yet on how often and what kind of content that will be, but he did state that he will not be using Krystal in any future NSFW projects.

CakeInferno on DeviantArt | CakeInferno on FurAffinity

There was a big rumor floating around yesterday that Nintendo would be showing, among other things, the new Star Fox game in a Nintendo Direct scheduled for April 1st. It didn't seem all that plausible to me, but this morning, Nintendo announced a Nintendo Direct for April Fools Day, so... wow, who knows! If you want to see the crazy rumor and what Nintendo will supposedly announce, the translated information is on NeoGAF.

Thanks to Kevin for the info.

As part of my research into the next version of the site, I've implemented one of Krystal's tattoos as a SVG image (Scalable Vector Graphics). Because it's a vector, this tiny file is infinitely scalable. You can make it as big or as small as you want and it will look correct. This is a stylistic version of the tattoo. It's accurate in terms of alignment and the number of spiral turns, but it's more 'perfect' and clean than the real one.

I had fun this afternoon learning enough of Inkscape to build and manually compress this image. Download and use for this vector free in your Krystal projects, no crediting necessary!

Yesterday, Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma issued an apology and announced that the Legend of Zelda for Wii U will not be appearing at E3 2015 and will not release in 2015 at all. By way of explanation, he said new and exciting gameplay possibilities arose during the development of the game. So significant were these ideas that they decided to push out the release date so they could fully explore them. Nintendo has never been shy about taking as long as it takes to make good games. However, in recent years, they have adopted a strategy where they avoid announcing or showing titles until they are very far in development, or even ready to release, to avoid disappointment at missed deadlines. The fact that they so publicly promised the game this year, then delayed it, I think speaks to the significance of the gameplay innovations they are working on.

There's no telling what this means for Star Fox, since Mr. Miyamoto stated it would come out before this Zelda game. Hopefully we will still see this one at E3.

Another find by Brian, this cosplayer appeared at Paris Manga 2014, a manga and sci-fi convention in France. Neither of us know anything about this cosplayer other than their on-stage appearance here. Like Mancoin's performance in the previous post, this Adventures Krystal fursuiter does a short, choreographed fight sequence with Krystal's staff to music from Star Fox Adventures.

We have posted about Mancoin's Krystal cosplay before. Since then, Brian sent me a few videos of Mancoin's Krystal cosplay at UniCon 2014. The first is Mancoin's on-stage performance with music, sound effects, and voice acting integrated into the act (Alternate Angles: 1, 2, 3). The second video, below, is a quick cellphone video of Krystal acting catty.

Artist and cosplayer, Nayel-ie, posted a photo of a work-in-progress Krystal cosplay back in 2014. It looks great! Nayel-ie has also done a lovely Krystal fanart too!

Quite a few new Krystal cosplayers have appeared in the last couple years. I'll be posting about as many as I can in the next few days.

Update
Nayel-ie tells me that she has discontinued work on the Adventures cosplay, but not to worry, she's planning to do an Assault version soon.

Three days of editing and over 10 hours of rendering later, here it is, the fully edited Krystal Archive Podcast Live Panel at Furry Fiesta 2015! Featuring special guest Ayano as Assault Krystal and one other surprise guest. See all of the announcements that you missed out on in person.

One of the announcements of the presentation at Furry Fiesta 2015 was that I have managed to decode all of the sound effect data for Star Fox Assault in both the English and Japanese versions. I would like to subtitle them all so I can make a page where everyone can read and listen to the voice acting in the game. Unfortunately, there are 3290 audio files, far more than I can comfortably subtitle myself. That's where you come in.

I have uploaded the audio files and set up a spreadsheet on Google Docs that anyone can edit, even without a Google account. Just go to the spreadsheet, follow the instructions, and fill out data. Whether you can do a little subtitling, or a lot, anything helps! As a bonus, you can see the current status of the subtitling and all the files right now.

Furry Fiesta was essentially "Krystal Con" for me.

Except for the technical difficulties, the panel was a smashing success. About 15 to 20 people attended. Many laughs were had and the announcements have been greeted with much enthusiasm. Ayano was kind enough to come to the talk and posed for some photos with everyone, in spite of not really being able to understand what was being said during the talk.

I was able to meet two big Krystal fans for the first time:

• Stratosfear Tully (formerly Eggman9713) - the maintainer of the Krystal Lovers Association
• Tobias Amaranth - One of the first widely-known Krystal fans on the internet (he was vocal and had several important Krystal commissions)

I hung out with Brian from the UK. Together we formed a two-man paparazzi for Ayano, occasionally being joined by a third man, one of Ayano's friends from Japan. Between us, we have more than 2 hours of footage and many photographs of both the Assault and Adventures suits. More than a few furries were a little taken aback at our sole focus on the blue vixen fursuiter. We followed her literally everywhere, always keeping our cameras trained on her.

On that note, having seen it myself I can enthusiastically confirm that the Assault suit is fantastic! Not just good, but I would argue better than the Adventures suit by a substantial amount. What's more, the photographs don't do it justice. It actually looks even better in person. As always, Ayano acted the part fantastically through body language. Unfortunately for everyone, the gatling gun had to stay at home in Japan, for fear that it would be confiscated by American airport security. Ayano brought her staff instead, and on occasion, a small nerf gun.

Now the real work begins. I have to redo the presentation video and edit the tons of Ayano footage and photos. Then there's the new content I announced during the panel that must be prepped for posting. I'll try to do a little each day, so stay tuned.