{"id":118946,"date":"2020-10-05T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/10\/random_diddy_kongs_creator_is_publishing_drawing_tutorials_on_youtube"},"modified":"2020-10-05T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T10:30:00","slug":"random-diddy-kongs-creator-is-publishing-drawing-tutorials-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/05\/random-diddy-kongs-creator-is-publishing-drawing-tutorials-on-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Diddy Kong&#8217;s Creator Is Publishing Drawing Tutorials On YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/40ab9c11a20cc\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/40ab9c11a20cc\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/40ab9c11a20cc\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\"><\/aside>\n<p>Kevin Bayliss is a name that will be instantly familiar to anyone who considers themselves to be a hardcore Nintendo fan; not only was he responsible for the visuals in many of Rare&#8217;s classic NES titles, he worked as a character designer on games such as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/killer_instinct\">Killer Instinct<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/battletoads\">Battletoads<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/donkey_kong_country\">Donkey Kong Country<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 in fact, he&#8217;s the guy responsible for creating Diddy Kong.<\/p>\n<p>Bayliss is now plying his trade at Playtonic Games \u2013 custodian of the <strong>Yooka-Laylee<\/strong> franchise \u2013 but he&#8217;s still keenly aware of his connection with Rare&#8217;s past and has started a series of art tutorials on YouTube to showcase his working process.<\/p>\n<p>The first tutorial focuses on Mumbo Jumbo (created by Ed Bryan, another ex-Rare staffer who is now at Playtonic) from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/banjo_kazooie\">Banjo-Kazooie<\/a><\/strong>, and offers a fascinating insight into how modern game artists create artwork and concept images for their games. Once upon a time, Bayliss would have been putting pen to paper to concoct his characters, but these days everything is done on a computer.<\/p>\n<p>Bayliss is also involved with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/09\/former_rare_staff_reveal_salamandos_a_collectable_album_celebrating_over_30_years_of_game_dev\">&#8216;Salamandos&#8217;<\/a> project, which aims to fuse his creations with the music of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/tags\/david-wise\">David Wise<\/a>, another Rare legend.<\/p>\n<p>Let us know what you think of the video, and tell us which characters you&#8217;d like Kev to tackle next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Bayliss is a name that will be instantly familiar to anyone who considers themselves to be a hardcore Nintendo fan; not only was he responsible for the visuals in many of Rare&#8217;s classic NES titles, he worked as a character designer on games such as Killer Instinct, Battletoads and Donkey Kong Country \u2013 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}