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my redesign of ember, based heavily on her original concept from spyro: enter the dragonfly!

ever since i saw ember’s original colors, i’ve been itching to do a take on her inspired by them. if you haven’t seen it, the concept they initially had was a trading card in spyro orange:

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(by the way, shoutout to the enter the dragonfly documentary by mr. fo1 for pointing this out! this screenshot is also from that vid)

i honestly dig these colors; i think they fit her name a lot better! still, though, i tried to take inspiration from her colors in a hero’s tail a little - for example, i gave her heterochromia, with one of her eyes being the color they went with in that game.

when planning this out, i wanted to give her a more distinct silhouette from spyro while still keeping some traits from her AHT look. she’s a bit chubbier than spyro and flame in-game, so i used that as a starting point for her overall body type. i gave her longer wings too, just to set her apart more. her face shape in that game always really stood out to me however, so i tried super hard to nail it down!

every other change comes from my interpretation of the pixel art - except for her spots and transparent wings, the latter of which are inspired by these baby dragons from year of the dragon:
64.media.tumblr.com/d5b7253f3b…

Description

my redesign of ember, based heavily on her original concept from spyro: enter the dragonfly!

ever since i saw ember’s original colors, i’ve been itching to do a take on her inspired by them. if you haven’t seen it, the concept they initially had was a trading card in spyro orange:

64.media.tumblr.com/5f2e04c378…
(by the way, shoutout to the enter the dragonfly documentary by mr. fo1 for pointing this out! this screenshot is also from that vid)

i honestly dig these colors; i think they fit her name a lot better! still, though, i tried to take inspiration from her colors in a hero’s tail a little - for example, i gave her heterochromia, with one of her eyes being the color they went with in that game.

when planning this out, i wanted to give her a more distinct silhouette from spyro while still keeping some traits from her AHT look. she’s a bit chubbier than spyro and flame in-game, so i used that as a starting point for her overall body type. i gave her longer wings too, just to set her apart more. her face shape in that game always really stood out to me however, so i tried super hard to nail it down!

every other change comes from my interpretation of the pixel art - except for her spots and transparent wings, the latter of which are inspired by these baby dragons from year of the dragon:
64.media.tumblr.com/d5b7253f3b…