I'm not clear on James Turner's role in the new games. I thought he only designed some Pokémon (Vanillite, Mandibuzz, Golurk, Poipole etc) and cinematics/conccept art for some of the cutscenes in gens 5, 6 and 7.
Sugimori headed the Pokemon design division up until gen 6, and Ohmura handled gen 7. Is it stated somewhere that James is officially in this role for gen 8?
>>38347938Looking at the list of Pokémon he designed, it doesn't really seem like it. Scorbunny's face is most similar to Chespin's, and we don't know who designed Chespin (though some people believe it was Megumi Mizutani, who also did Audino, Pancham and Mimikyu)
I'd love to see more transparency on who made what because it's clear people are still confused, and people have taken an interest in understanding Game Freak's design process. The past few years have shed a bit of light, but there's still so much we're in the dark on.
