🂢 Goomba - Foil - "Two of Spades" - Digital Collage and Animation

It says right here: 'Goombas are underlings of underlings.' ...That is totally rude!

A rare card perhaps but this foe was not rare at all during the golden age of video games starting with the Nintendo Entertainment System and the perennial Super Mario Brothers. Goomba was the first opponent you would face as a new player and it stands to reason that perhaps no other creature has been hit on the head as many times as the ever faithful Goomba. Lumbering ever to the left of the screen to do Bowsers bidding. We got an NES in the early 90s and I remember playing it with my brother. Since Mario Brothers was the first game we had it's safe to assume that Goomba was also the first virtual enemy I defeated (and that defeated me). As such Goomba marches on and is a staple of every Mario game across the generations. A true legend!

• This is a digital collage of about 26 bitmap layers. Using my mouse and standard Photoshop brushes and layer blend modes. The cards and textures I got from FusRoDa and edited them to suit our needs.The sprite I pulled from the internet too. Perhaps I could do some Koopa Troopa pixel art next time? I also tried to preserve as many of the steps as possible for the process animation. I then made the animation in Premiere Pro CC, simplified it, sped it up, added inserts, rendered it as an mp4 video file and then converted it to an animated gif online (nifty!)

Category	#FanArt
Medium	Photoshop
Suit	Spades
Character	Leonardo
Universe	Super Mario
Style	Digital Collage
Original Artists	Shigeru Miyamoto & Takashi Tezuka
First Apperance	1985

A Goomba bravely vanquishes an obnoxious plumber in his original NES form.

Lore

In the first 10 seconds of play, level 1-1 teaches you the fundamentals of playing a "Super Mario" game: question mark blocks are full of potential, mushrooms make you grow bigger, and there are evil, walking mushrooms who can hurt little Mario. Those "evil" mushrooms are known as "Goomba" or "Kuribo" in japenese.

Initial designs for level 1-1 actually had a Koopa Trooper there in place of a Goomba, but Miyamoto and co-designer Takashi Tezuka decided that an easier enemy made more sense for the educational focus of that first level in "Super Mario Bros.

Originally, we had a Koopa Troopa that came out, but we thought it might be a little too difficult for the player to jump on and then kick it. That's why we created the Goomba. If it was a turtle, we couldn't really just jump on it and defeat it. So we decided we needed a "bad mushroom.

• business-insider.com

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Process

Here's the animated process for Goomba that I made out of the individual layers. This is a digital collage so I went a little nuts on the pixelisation and video game elements. I'm also trying to make a unique transition at the end of each card. Hope you dig it.

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Lucky number seven is a slighty more humourous take on the card series. Figured I'd give this "unsung hero" some love. It's also the first card I made that's not a face card, how about that. My #AntiHeroes art contest is still going on for a bit and you awesome artists have already come up with some epic entries for the suit of spades. Still some time to enter though if you haven't yet ;)

Check it out here:

✏ Sketch Off Contest - Edition 2: The Club of Antiheroes

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or you can draw another card:

• 🂫 Leonardo - "Jack of Spades"
• 🂱 Optimus Prime - "Ace of Hearts"
• 🂾 Vol'Jin - "King of Hearts"
• 🂻 Duck Avenger/Phantomias - "Jack of Hearts"
• 🂭 Batgirl - "Queen of Spades"
• 🃎 Iron Man - "King of Diamonds"

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