>>37384544They all matched the production quality of real pokémon anon. That doesn't, in no way shape or form. There's a LOT of back-and-forth when it comes to designing pokémon and then when it's finally been okayed, it gets redrawn as an official pokémon, with related production quality and only THEN does it leave internal GF HQ to get put into the greater pokémon environments.
>for reference, Game Freak's own reference art to compare to that moody shite 