Welcome back

This is REALLY good!! You totally nailed the look & feel of the cartoon

Also the image goes incredibly hard

I likey

ayyyy love it. 5 years away definitely gives someone an advantage when it comes to trying stuff in different styles

LET’S GOOOO

Instantly incredibly nostalgic, completely captured the vibe of your impressive run of skins you made in this style years ago. Feels so rare to see someone come back and still invoking the feeling that they could masterfully and immediately return to the top of their game, but I suppose you're just forever incredibly impressive in your works. What else is there even to say but marvel at how you've retained such a high level despite a 5 year break.

I think my single favourite part is how distinctly this skin feels like a skin only you would and could make. The armour layering details, particularly the logo had me go "god damn, that's clever".

Whenever I look at skins made years ago, even with nostalgia in mind I also always realize just how poorly some of the skins from back then held up. My own are a prime example, where looking back really puts into perspective that while I thought I had something good back then, it just wasn't the case. Your skins are one of the very few exceptions: The design-work, the colouring, the feelings they invoke - so much just falls into place. Your dragon designs in a pre 1.8 era are perhaps still some of the best if not the best to this very day design-wise. I am honestly not sure anyone could replicate that level of pre 1.8 design to this very day.

And honestly, it pains me to say I failed to fully appreciate this when I was starting out and unfortunately for a while thereafter. I distinctly remember loathing some of your colour choices, when they in fact were crucial in capturing the skin's mood, and I can honestly say at this time I was jealous at how far ahead your design work was. Luckily for me, that is not the case anymore, as now I can just enjoy and marvel at your talent and look back at all of your amazing work and be the fan I always should have been and I sincerely cannot fathom why I was not. I can only say I am sorry for how I must've been back then.

When we asked you to make a palette for SSPBL, we all looked back to season 7 of the original PBL, which incidentally was my first season ever. I always remembered old PBL years ago as having rugged palettes, tough to use with jarring colour choices; what I was met with was not that. The palettes you had made back then still inspired us to this very day and honestly, I don't think enough credit was given to you at the time. Every single week that season, you delivered a palette that had a lot of depth behind it, and only when we played around with it after years of improvement and trying to run PBL on our own, we realized just how special your palette-work that season was. Your palette upon returning is equally impressive and really highlights why you making the finals palettes was always a no-brainer for us.

I am sorry for rambling on, I feel like I always missed this opportunity in the long run of "half-activity" you had. I am so grateful that you're back, even if it might just be for this one skin. Thanks for inspiring a whole generation of skin-makers Kefka, your name was not forgotten by any of us that grew up with your skins in our feeds. In the same vein as other greats such as Leo, Knoble etc. you shaped so much of this community that I've come to be evermore appreciative of, an appreciation that has further shown me just how great you were and clearly still are. Thank you for making skins Kefka, it's a pleasure to see your creations at any time!

The Return of the King <3