>>39403401>>39403648He's actually kinda got a point here.
They actually hired extra staff for Gen 5 to make all 720 Pokemon in 3D. They saw it as an investment which is why they made them higher poly than they needed to be.
At the same time, they wanted to do Sky Battles leading them to making certain Pokemon have floating/flying animations that look kinda shit. They built all the animations for those Pokemon around that flying idle too. Because of this, when they went on to later titles, they'd have to completely redo the animations if they wanted to get rid of the flying/floating shit, leading them to just say fuck it and never change those animations.
In fact, all those old pokemon kinda suffer now cause each gen they've raised their standards fro modeling and animating the Pokemon, so the newest Pokemon actually have noticeably better quality than the old ones exasperating the issues of recycling the old models/animations each gen.
That said, Wingull is actually one of the Pokemon that has always had that pose. Even as a sprite it was always depicted as if it was gliding like that.