>>29638043I'm the one with the image and funny thing is I'm actually in a STEM oriented college (I'm studying computer science with a bent of marketing to it). I just have a lot of passions towards many mediums be them games, comics, music, films, animation and etc. I understand the technical nature of them of what makes them tick but truth be told I'm more interested in the overall context a piece of medium brings that is how it stands up to other genre-like pieces and what does it do to stand out from the rest.
Technical prowess is nice but if it doesn't come from a person/team of interesting points of views to share or be relevant in a discussion point then you're just a nice image with no backbone. No humanity really. It's like how the best house and hip hop tunes from the 70s and 80s were from DJs who knew the best samples from old records that sounded fresh from the crowd while still bringing their own style that makes their work poignant to exist.
Also in regards to Pokemon, people may or may not care about Bogleech due to criticisms of his work (ie SJW and all that) but he's arguably one of my favorite people I've seen who has talked about Pokemon designs as he comes from a position of loving monster designs that are monster like and gave me an angle of appreciation towards pokemon I never would've considered to (like Garbodor and Magmar for example). And funnily enough he's also a big biology nerd, always harps on insect anatomy but he appropriates wild and abstract ideas that look more interesting as a result (like how he harps on the eyes for a lot of pokemon).
I feel like a lot of the pokemon fandom latches on more solid and easy to read designs and those happen to be the more animal like Pokemon even if most of em happen to be really boring like original Persian or Arcanine (which I really love personally but he is really bland in hindsight). Same reason why a lot of fakemon dex lists are more animals with literal type fusions.
