The Big Trio

This was something I felt like doing on a whim yesterday when I came across one of my bigger sketchbooks and felt like sketching out some of these characters. The concept is based on something I thought of as a kid, after the first Smash Bros on Nintendo 64 had come out: what if they had a multi-platform fighting game with characters represented by Nintendo, SeGa and Sony games? At the time, it was a struggle for me to find characters from SeGa and Sony other than their mascots, since I was primarily a Nintendo kid. Now, it's MUCH easier to pick 'em out, so I went with five for each. We have:

.:Nintendo:.
Mario (Super Mario Bros.)
DK (Donkey Kong Country)
Kirby (Kirby's Dream Land)
Link (Legend of Zelda)
Pikachu (Pokemon)

.:SeGa:.
Sonic (Sonic the Hedgehog)
NiGHTs (NiGHTs into Dreams)
AiAi (Super Monkey Ball)
Ulala (Space Channel 5)
Billy Hatcher (Billy Hatcher)

.:Sony:.
Crash (Crash Bandicoot)
Sly (Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus)
Spyro (Spyro the Dragon)
Ratchet (Ratchet & Clank)
Jak (Jak & Daxter)

I made the stupid mistake of not rounding-out the bottoms of the character line-ups so I could make the final art piece into a giant circle, but I think what I came out with in the end turned out alright. I knew that stock photograph of the sky I took a while back would come in handy someday.