>>51437586Since when is "the concept" the only thing that matters? Execution is just as(if not more) important.
And hell if you want to play that game a lot of "the concept" were description prompts by Tajiri himself and no way in hell should you give him sole credit of pokemon art designer.
Why cant people accept that the monster's creation was the collaborative effort of tajiri's ideas, each original sprite artist and sugimori's overall art direction and follow up redesign?
>>51437704It would be one thing if Sugimori's art was merely a direct "high resolution" copy of the red/green sprites but they were all redesigned to a degree. If that wasn't the case vaporeon today would look something like this thing on the left. Are you really gonna pretend Vaporeon would be just as a appealing and popular if it looked like that? Are you really unable to acknowledge Sugimori's significant contribution towards the design?
