>>46460852Game Freak used to do all sprites in-house with a team of sprite artists. The problem now is that they're all gertriacs who have never touched 3D modeling software in their life like Sugimori, so now they outsource it to Creatures instead. Sugimori especially is a frail old cuck that takes literally DAYS to draw one drawing (He once took 9 hours drawing a simple Jill drawing from Drill Dozer and the initial base sketch was like 4 different chicken scratched messes underneath). So imagine having to deal with that with the tighter crunch schedules.
>>46460980And this one is another reason why. The desaturated look was meant to copy official Sugimori art, but those are 2D water color illustrations. It hits differentlt when applied to 3D, ergo soullessness. I think they also did this because Kalos as a whole is a very desaturated and bland region, they think France is this fancy sunbleached museum full of royalty knickknacks so everything is just shades of desaturated green, purple and greys. It looks absolutely fucking vomitrocious, and nearly 70% of all the new Pokémon have purple as part of their color scheme.
You can compare OR/AS to X and Y and see just how much more vibrant and colorful Hoenn is, so it wasn't just the Sugimori art thing. Imagine that. Not only is Shitlos responsible for permantly tarding out several winged mons because of air battles, but it also permanently fucked the color scheming of 3D models too.
