{"id":129839,"date":"2022-11-17T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-141291"},"modified":"2022-11-17T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T22:30:00","slug":"random-fakemon-artist-details-the-recipe-for-what-pokemon-should-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/17\/random-fakemon-artist-details-the-recipe-for-what-pokemon-should-look-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Fakemon Artist Details The Recipe For What Pok\u00e9mon Should Look Like"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Pok\u00e9mon<\/a>
Image: Nintendo Life<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Don’t you just love when someone applies scientific levels of study to something very un-scientific? It might sound a bit pointless, but that’s how we end up with beautiful pieces like 4-hour video essay deep dives into a non-existent theme park<\/a> \u2014 and Xelshade’s wonderfully detailed examination on “What Looks Like A Pok\u00e9mon<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

Posted to the Pok\u00e9mon subreddit on November 15th, Xelshade’s analysis<\/a> includes \u2014 like all good scientific theses should \u2014 a preface, experiments, data, and a summary. Honestly, our university essays never looked this good.<\/p>\n

Xelshade’s experience with Pok\u00e9mon comes from their own experience as a “fakemon” designer \u2014 the practice of drawing original artworks that look<\/em> like real Pok\u00e9mon designs. After deciding that Pok\u00e9mon need to be neither animalistic nor soft and cuddly, Xelshade gets stuck into what they call the “four factors” of good Pok\u00e9mon\/fakemon design:<\/p>\n

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  1. Colour count<\/li>\n
  2. Level of detail<\/li>\n
  3. Anatomy and proportions<\/li>\n
  4. Relatable features<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    We’re not here to regurgitate the fantastic work that Xelshade has put in, of course \u2014 we’re here merely to highlight it \u2014 so you should head over to the thread for the full insight. To summarise, though, it turns out that what most good (or recognisable) Pok\u00e9mon designs have in common are these four things: 2-4 colours, a moderate level of detail, stylised anatomy, and relatable features, e.g. human<\/em> features, like eyes and limbs.<\/p>\n

    \"Ultra<\/a>
    Ultra Beasts are made to feel “alien and unnerving” by playing with the design rules, says Xelshade \u2014 Image: Hitoshi Ariga<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    Of course, these aren’t hard rules. Mega Pok\u00e9mon, Ultra Beasts, and most notably, Ditto break most or all of these rules, and Pok\u00e9mon’s designs appear to be shifting over the years towards more colourful, detailed new creatures.<\/p>\n

    But Xelshade says it best in their conclusion:<\/p>\n

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    What\u2019s left is to answer the question\u2026.does it matter? Even if Pokemon\u2019s style and brand identity are changing, maybe all that matters is that enough people like the new stuff. THAT\u2019s the subjective part.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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    With Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet<\/a> due out this week \u2014 and with reviews coming in lukewarm \u2014 perhaps that’s something that we all need to keep in mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Image: Nintendo Life Don’t you just love when someone applies scientific levels of study to something very un-scientific? It might sound a bit pointless, but that’s how we end up with beautiful pieces like 4-hour video essay deep dives into a non-existent theme park \u2014 and Xelshade’s wonderfully detailed examination on “What Looks Like A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}