>>52976201>Just how hard was it to actually just stay faithful to Sugimori artsyle?Sugimori's artstyle is near impossible to use due to unnatural forced perspective highlighting curvature to get across the three-dimensional structure with a single still. But he went too detailed and fucked up structure anyways, so starting some time in gen 2's development the rest of the team beat him over the head with what the art was for, and by gen 5 the general Moefication trend started coming to them.
>>52976204Some of those details were LITERALLY NEVER in a sprite, though. Fearow's feather-ends only showed up in-game in XY (pic related), because the sprites simply did not have high enough resolution to show it. As such, the detail only complicated merchandizing by separating the "official artwork" from the games.
Take a look at Noctowl and Taillow, wings were massively simplified to unify the game appearance with the merchandise pretty much instantly. Same goes for Krabby and Corphish, the latter's sprites significantly more closely resemble the official art because its level of detail was properly constrained.
