>>52199391That does not make sense, Jolteon uses quadrupedal rig that many, many other pokemon share. Any special animation it has can be easily applied to other since they use the same rig, yet Jolteon here has unique swim animation, which means someone went into animation script for it and specifically added it.
Same in previous game, stretching animation was unique only to it even though easily could be applied to any other quadrupedal pokemon.
Implausible assumption:
- same animator who is jolteionfag animated all eevees throughout the series. This is very unlikely as even in the same company same animators dont get to animate the same things and they shuffle/vary throughout projects, let alone the fact animators very often come and go so there is staff shift.
Plausible ones:
- this is a running gag/easter egg inside dev team/among animators. This kind of thing actually happened in other long-running series. Question is why Jolteon. I guess unless Noclip o the like make a big-ass documentary and interviews we will never know
- someone up the chain is a Jolteon fag and is making sure it gets some extra love in each game. Possiburu, but less chances than previous hypothesis.
