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Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2024 16:53:00 No.56578701 View View Reply Original Report

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Who was making these designs? Did gamefreak hire an edgelord from europe at one point, only to give up after realizing he sucks at making soulful designs?

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Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2024 16:58:38 No.56578842 Report

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>>56578701
cope that's a cool as fuck design

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Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2024 17:02:42 No.56578945 Report

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>>56578701
That's just the concept art, they will simplify it to fit pokemon if it's approved.

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Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2024 17:04:33 No.56578988 Report

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I assume this stuff was made as a response to Gen 2's reception. People thought it was a fun game, but they also thought the designs were getting a little too "cute". Pokemon became a kids franchise instead of something for everyone. I guess this stuff was to tip the scales a little to balance things out and appeal to older kids again instead of being the stupid franchise for babies it was starting to be accused of being.

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Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2024 17:08:26 No.56579090 Report

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>>56578701
they were trying to soft-reboot the franchise after Gen 2 introduced too many baby and cute Pokemon.
They had different artists making cool and over the top monsters and then slowly tone then down to fit better with the overall aesthetic of the series.
The one in the OP is for example is what eventually turned into Metagross.

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Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2024 17:37:31 No.56579801 Report

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It's fascinating - knowing that the majority of this fanbase only ever pay attention to pokemon related stuff - to see how they react to the most basic stuff.

Last leak, they were introduced to the world of placeholders and we had countless threads asking why GF was so lazy putting paint scribbles inside the games instead of actual sprites.
Now they are discovering the concept arts, ignoring the fact that - like the name suggests - those images are made to highlight a CONCEPT. There is even a distinction between character artist and concept artist.
But there is no use explaining any of this shit, get ready for months of threads made from people who unironically think they were considering using those designs in the games.

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Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2024 17:40:00 No.56579866 Report

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>>56578701
Gamefreak initially wanted to go in a darker direction with Gen 3, didn't they? The artstyle was probably a remnant of that

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Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2024 17:41:21 No.56579897 Report

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>>56578701
There's a reason he's called Metagross

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Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2024 17:42:34 No.56579928 Report

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>>56578701
Is not this a Mario enemy now?

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Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2024 17:43:13 No.56579946 Report

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>>56578701
Someone in one of the proto threads said its Okutani Jun, from a writing on the unown frog picture, his other work matches

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Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2024 17:48:09 No.56580073 Report

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My guess is that gen 3's initial concept was "we're doing kaijuu this time". So they started with a bunch of very kaijuu-esque designs while trying to figure out exactly how to work the concept into Pokemon.

Eventually, they just boiled the idea down into Groudon and Kyogre.

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Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2024 17:51:03 No.56580146 Report

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>>56578701
I believe someone brought up the idea that these were just conceptual sketches some dude at GF made imitiating Sugimori's style (in terms of coloring and linework I guess), which they'd then give to Sugimori to actually make look like Pokemon.
Obviously there's tons of stages of conception for characters and mons. Kinda reminds me how BotW was pitched to have some Eldritch freak bosses at some point (pic related) but eventually went with something far softer.

I still kinda enjoy these designs.

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Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2024 17:51:22 No.56580154 Report

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>>56578701
I don't like the tail but it's cringekino

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Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2024 17:51:50 No.56580162 Report

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>>56580073
>My guess is that gen 3's initial concept was "we're doing kaijuu this time".
>this time

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Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2024 17:56:56 No.56580306 Report

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>>56580162
The Kaijuu influence was there, but it wasn't really present in the story. Gen 1 had the sci-fi Mewtwo thing and Gen 2 had an underlying mythology theme (which was revisited in gen 4).

Gen 3's plot was about some dumb fucks accidentally awakening an ancient monster from the bottom of the sea who nearly destroys the world. It's literally a stock kaijuu flick plot.

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Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2024 18:03:12 No.56580457 Report

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>>56579090
Holy shit that one is cool

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