Hiya folks. I recently made a video where I attempt to redraw a lot of the KH2 Heartless to be more similar to the KH1's Heartless design philosophy. As I state in the video, it's not about fixing them, it's just a fun exercise. I believe people have done similar things within the Pokemon community; making idk gen 5 Pokemon feel like gen 1 Pokemons. Idk, I'm not in that community.

Anyways, if that sounds interesting please check it out, and if it sounds boring as hell then feel free to move along lol.

 

Some really cool re-designs in here! I think my favorites were the fiery globe and ice cube, they looked a lot cuter with your redraws! Also appreciate you outlining your process and the timeline for the entire project, looks like a lot of thought and effort went into it over quite a bit of time. Also neat that your re-draws match the aesthetic of what we might find in concept art/art books. 

Curious to know if there was one you had the most fun with or were most satisfied with over the others. Thanks for sharing here with us.

On 7/4/2025 at 8:20 PM, WakelessDream said:

Some really cool re-designs in here! I think my favorites were the fiery globe and ice cube, they looked a lot cuter with your redraws! Also appreciate you outlining your process and the timeline for the entire project, looks like a lot of thought and effort went into it over quite a bit of time. Also neat that your re-draws match the aesthetic of what we might find in concept art/art books. 

Curious to know if there was one you had the most fun with or were most satisfied with over the others. Thanks for sharing here with us.

Thanks a lot for your response! Yeah a lot of thought and effort was put into this, and I've on numerous occasions debated whether I should finish the project. But I always leaned back on the assumption that at least a few people would probably find it interesting/entertaining, so that pushed me to finish it. And it was fun to do!

That is a great question! When drawing I often find the sketching phase to be the most fun; when you're still workshopping the idea. And the Hot Rod redesign was the one I struggled with the most and thus the one which yielded the most different sketches. So I believe in the end - despite the struggle - that one might've been the most fun to do!

Two others I was greatly pleased with were the Morning Star and the Fortuneteller. They saw some of the least drastic changes, but the smaller changes they did receive I felt made a world of difference, so I was quite satisfied with those!  

On 7/5/2025 at 1:25 PM, JTD95 said:

Thanks a lot for your response! Yeah a lot of thought and effort was put into this, and I've on numerous occasions debated whether I should finish the project. But I always leaned back on the assumption that at least a few people would probably find it interesting/entertaining, so that pushed me to finish it. And it was fun to do!

That is a great question! When drawing I often find the sketching phase to be the most fun; when you're still workshopping the idea. And the Hot Rod redesign was the one I struggled with the most and thus the one which yielded the most different sketches. So I believe in the end - despite the struggle - that one might've been the most fun to do!

Two others I was greatly pleased with were the Morning Star and the Fortuneteller. They saw some of the least drastic changes, but the smaller changes they did receive I felt made a world of difference, so I was quite satisfied with those!  

That's interesting! Based on what you said in the video, I would have thought the Hot Rod might not have been too fun. All the Timeless River heartless did seem challenging, they're so specific to that particular world that I honestly wouldn't know where to start on how to re-design them so they might fit elsewhere. The Fortune Teller was interesting too, I didn't notice that it had a more specifically feminine design until you pointed it out, the re-color on that one looked quite nice too. 

Hope you have as much fun with any future projects that might be in the works!