>>45074129>They almost always kill any appeal the pokemon hasThis, pokemon are stylized to look a way that makes them identifiable and also show the kind of personality they have (since pokemon in canon have some form of sentience rather than just being a wild animal) all without having to see them move at all. By changing them into hyper-realistic versions with huge liberties taken, any kind of personality or identifiable markings are lost, if you showed someone with a base knowledge of pokemon half of these, they'd think they were just generic mobs from something like the new Final Fantasy. Detective Pikachu's designs were done slightly better, but I feel they should've taken the same route as Sonic The Hedgehog movie. Give them the big cartoony eyes and just give them a realistic texture or 2. Shit like
>>45072098 >>45071184 >>45071142>>45069728>>45069672>>45069676Is just hard to look at as anything other than generic monsters with a decent render. Don't misunderstand, his art is good, but in this medium, the talent is lost on anyone who *should* be able to recognize the characters in question. I kind of feel like the artist was really good at realism, but no one cared so he took the easy route of trying to appeal to a wider audience, which some people loved, but I'm willing to say most didn't.
