>>22466605>>22466577>>22466542A lot of the designs are collaborative.
There's a chance that Goodra and Dragonite were intended to turn out the way they did.
Sugimori let someone else continue with Reshiram and Zekrom, and then finalized it and was credited with it in its entirety.
Sugimori's original designs for a number of mons got redesigned for one reason or another as time went on and can actually be seen in the sprites in the original games - like Gastly which you can also see in the Capumon document.
It was originally a roundish haze with a face on it like the R/B sprite, but got changed to a black sphere with ghost flames - probably because it would have been harder to depict in animation in its original form.
