#CDI Design

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CD-i Zelda: W-who are you?

Echoes of Wisdom Zelda: I’m you but cuter <3

[katlimeart]

Made in 2023

If you’ve seen this anywhere else, I posted it back on my deviantArt when it was made.

From my large project of drawing every Zelda design, I’ve now taken to colouring them! And here's the compilation of all of the game Zeldas!

[haxardouswaste]

miitopia is such a fun game

[gattnk]

Linktober Shadow 2023 Day 19 - Gohma

Masterpost

[bofriend]

sorry nintendo

[tinyetoile]

I made a Zelda to go with this Link I drew a while back. Her princess outfit is on the left, her adventure outfit is on the right.

I wanted her adventure outfit to use all the same parts as her princess outfit, she just modified them for ease of movement (those pants are, in fact, her skirt, cut up and resewn. Don’t worry about where the jacket came from.)

[evilmagician430]

my evil scowlene fanart

[waggtoon]

I recently learned there was an unreleased Felix the Cat game planned for the CDI. Gameplay of it managed to show up on Youtube which is how I found out about it.

[cdialipur]

[leetrevenaphd]

Happy to say that the first study has been accepted for publication by a Q1 journal.

Trevena, L., Paay, J. & McDonald, R. VR interventions aimed to induce empathy: a scoping review. Virtual Reality 28, 80 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-024-00946-9

[jojolimons]

professor layton and the unwound future is instantly my new fave in the trilogy, i dont have to write out my name at the start, god BLESS

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[jinxthejubilee]

im sorryyyy but the megaman cdi zelda post made me so sad...they're friends...why are we fighting....they'd both bail you out of jail...we have to stick together

Would they, though? They look like THEY would be the ones in jail for unsavory crimes.

Look at his face, and tell me that he's innocent!

[loz-furbies]

Zelda ages based on when their games came out. Welcome to the team EoW Zelda!

Characters and design thoughts under cut:

For starters, I did a similar Zelda piece a few years ago and ran into the problem that I can't really draw anything else than anime teen girls, which is kind of a problem in a drawing where half the characters are above 20 and their age differences are the whole point. And in addition almost everyone is supposed to be royalty with very similar clothes too. But in my defense, in general it can be pretty hard to tell the ages of 25 to 40 year old anime women anyway.

I needed a reference for the body proportions in order to even get started, so I quickly thought "who is an anime woman who doesn't look like a teenager", and used Yor's character sheet for assistance. The younger characters' proportions are a little inconsistent, since I couldn't choose if I would look at realistic growth chart or go with the anime look (where teens and children are often shorter than they would be in real life) so the result is this weird hybrid.

Four Swords (December 2, 2022) & Four Swords Adventures (March 18, 2004) - Chronologically they are different Zeldas even though they use the same promo art/character design, so I used the promo art design for the original FS Zelda and drew the FSA Zelda based on her sprite. There's not much to these designs, they have very little going on in terms of story or personality to use as inspiration and their character design doesn't offer much anything original when compared to the other more well known Zeldas either. Their only distinct element is the big red hair bow, but I thought it would look too childish when they're supposed to be in their twenties here.

Minish Cap (November 4, 2004) - There's not a lot MC Zelda that I could use for inspiration. But then I remembered that a while ago I wrote about how the pointy hat Queen Ambi wears should be used more often, so I thought I should put my money where my mouth is and draw it here, since Zelda does wear a red cap for a couple seconds in MC. In general the MC Zelda and both FS Zeldas are at a little awkward age for this picture, since they're too old for youthful child designs but not really old enough for more mature queenly designs either.

Skyward Sword (November 18, 2011) - Her design is based on her concept design, which I assume is meant to be her casual look and not the ceremonial costume she wears in the game.

Ocarina of Time (November 21, 1998) - I decided that age-wise she makes the cut of when I start using updos. Why do the Zeldas have such similar canon hairstyles anyway, it was surprisingly boring to work with them. Still not sure about the curls though, my fancy dress design artbook that I used for inspiration had so many cute curly hairstyles but I couldn't really use any here because I worried the characters would become unrecognisable. But since OoT Zelda had some curls in her "sideburns" she fell victim here.

Hyrule Warriors (August 14, 2014) - HW Zelda has a distinct enough design from the other Zeldas that it gives a lot of elements to work with, though her age here limits it a little since she's too young for bikini armour. Also because HW is a spin off, I also considered including the Cadence of Hyrule Zelda, but that led to the realisation that it would have opened the doors to CDI Zelda as well. Which I guess would have been fine, but this is already a pretty wide drawing full of adults, so while a Cadence of Hyrule Zelda would have been easy to fit on the front row, I couldn't justify adding even more adults just for the CDI games. So only HW is included because I've played it and actually like it.

Zelda 1 (February 21, 1986) - The original Zelda is at an age where it's a little awkward how there's little difference between her (38 years old) and OoT Zelda (25). But I couldn't think of any anime that would help me as reference here, and I don't think she's old enough to have that "this character is getting old" wrinkle under her eye (you know the one).

Echoes of Wisdom (September 26, 2024) - I think she looks a bit too old here to be a zero-days-old newborn but work with me here.

Breath of the Wild (March 3, 2017) - She's actually at the age where her mum died, poor girl. She's very refreshing to work with since her look is so different from the other Zeldas.

A Link to the Past (November 21, 1991) & A Link between Worlds (November 22, 2013) - Originally I also had the Oracles Zelda in this since she does have a unique design, but then again I consider the Oracles Link to be the same as in aLttP which ought to apply to Zelda as well, plus the design isn't unique in any interesting way and is just a combination of the OoT & aLttP designs, so in the end I just gave the Oracles Zelda sprite's hair buns to aLbW Zelda. Overall having to use the essentially same design for both aLttP and aLbW Zelda wasn't much fun, especially when neither really offers anything notable in terms of story or personality, but at least they're pretty far apart when it comes to age.

Twilight Princess (November 19, 2006) - I haven't played her game so I don't know a lot about her (other than reading the manga which didn't give me anything to work with either) and she's also close to her canon age (?) here so she ended up looking pretty similar to her canon design.

Spirit Tracks (December 7, 2009) - This was a tough one because technically ST Zelda does have a lot of elements to her story and character that could work for a redesign, but not really for the purposes of this picture. Anything train related is more of Link's thing, and anything ghost related doesn't really fit either since she's not supposed to be a ghost at this age. And as for the Phantom, I got the impression that while she learned to appreciate it, she didn't exactly like using it, and that personality-wise she would prefer not to go on another similar adventure. So In the end I just replaced the regular armour parts many Zeldas have in their designs with the Phantom armour and used the ghost palette for the rest of her look, and I kind of like the result. Her personality looks a little out of character though but I couldn't resist the opportunity to draw this with Grandma Tetra.

Wind Waker (December 13, 2002) - I haven't played WW so I'm not sure how accurate this is, but drawing her with the pirate design definitely added some much needed variety to this picture. I really like her twirly hairstyle in canon, but I also really wanted to draw her with short hair, so it had to go. Maybe ST Zelda can style her hair in a twirl when she gets older to compensate?

The Adventure of Link (January 14, 1987) - Really don't know what happened here, not particularly happy with the end result. I prefer to draw the Zelda 2 Zelda with her sprite design because just reusing the OG Zelda design is boring, but I really should have kept it closer to that since now she's practically unrecognisable.

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[Image Description: A series of character designs based on Legend of Zelda's villains for the Linked Spirit AU. One is a merged TotK/CDi Ganon, "Simulacrum of the Demon King" who has a raised hand, grinning. He has red long hair and wears a green hood helmet and tunic with a long sleeve. He wears a black shirt and cape with red malice-like patterns throughout the edges. He wears golden jewlery. 2nd is FSA Ganon "Master of the Dark Mirror" Who glares forward, hands at his sides. He matches the game design, a moblin with blue skin and light gold armor. 3rd is LoZ 1 Ganon "Prince of Darkness" who is a teal light blue skined moblin with a long thin snout and pointed ears. He wears a purple helmet and pants, with red pauldrons and cape. He wears a skull on his chest. He points forward. 4th is Cartoon "Ganon", "Leaders of Ganon's Army", Agaheir, a LoZ 1 Wizrobe in blue with brown skin and a birdlike beak, and Kilbo, a blue moblin with dark blue tunic and gold accents. 5th is Ganondorf at 3 ages, OoT "Theif King", as a young man, TP "Twilight God of Power", middle aged, and WW "Ancient King", an older man. His outfits are about the same as the games. 6th is ALttP Ganon, "Darkworld King" dark blue furred Moblin with a red cape and gold armor. 7th is ALBW Yuga "The Painter Mage" who holds his arms out dramatically. He wears the same outfit as he does in canon. Finally is MC Vaati "The Wind Mage", who looks like he does in canon, one hand held up slightly clawed. His cape is bat-like on the bottom edge. End ID]

Ganons & related non-demonic villains!

For Linked Spirit the randomly specific headcanons/changes are as follows: CDi Ganon is basically like one of those Phantom Ganons but created from a different source (thus why he can just get trapped into a book), ALttP Ganon is OoT Ganondorf, FSA is some other dude who happens to also be named Ganondorf... and LoZ 1 Ganon may or may not be ALttP's son or otherwise related...

Also I split Cartoon Ganon into two dudes so that I can say that Hope's Ganon is like. Dead. If you're watching the Cartoon going "how does that work" just take any time Ganon claims to be a Master Wizard as Agaheir and any time he's a grumpy leader it's Kilbo. :P