Great, Is this the New "Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack?"https://youtu.be/Ofl9vf0nXmw?si=4_-RCvTpfoz1aOQc
I shan't be consuming Pokeslop.
>>155237653But Aardman made it... so i will.
>>155237612Wait they gave farfetch'd an evo? What's next, stantler? Girafarig? Fucking dunsparce?
>>155237715Regional variant have an evo
>>155237659I wouldn't care even if Jesus Fucking Christ himself started his own classical animation studio to make the greatest Pokemon animation to every exist. It is still pokeslop and I shan't be consuming.
Interesting combo, but hey:At least it's not that one slightly grim turtle commercial they did a while back, so yay..
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>>155237653You sound like those faggots that bitch at "capeslop"
>>155237612Gamefreak's been commissioning a bunch of different one-off animations. But I suppose you're shitposting due to the title.
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>>155237833They're desperately trying to keep the brand in everyone's good graces with the drastic dip in quality of their games + the bad PR it's been getting with the TCG scene.
>>155237715Yes
>>155237861What's the tea? They are celebrating their 30th anniversary so they had to be doing pretty good to last this long. And took them so long to branch into other areas too.
>>155237715anon....
>>155237861
>>155238103>What's the tea?man this board is fucked beyond repair
>>155237896What ao bullshit is this
Favorite Pokemon?Mine is Pinsir
>>155238452Fug
>>155238408What's the deal then? The scoop the drama the bullshit the faggotry the retardation the niggerdom the booga-beluga whatever term you declare appropreste for the events that lead to the situation.
>>155237849WHOOOOOOO ELSE BUT QUAGSIRE
>>155237833>GamefreakThey don't do shit. TPC does.
>>155237612I’m genuinely pissed off Aardman didn’t make the Pokémon Aardman-styled. I fucking hate how overprotective GameFreak is with representing Pokemon in other media, we never see them stylized in unique ways. Like what was the point of even getting Aardman to animate a Pokemon series if they weren’t gonna use their iconic style? GameFreak is the same company that also doesn’t allow for shiny Pokemon to be alt colors in Smash, they hate fun.
>>155237757The what?
>>155238103>What's the tea?What?
Pokemon is officially /co/ now?
>>155239682Why is pokemon considered trash now? What is causing them to lose such popularity as people here claim? They seem to be such an evergreen brand to be celebrating their 30th anniversary this year and have been branching out beyond their scope as of late such as commissioning a famous British animation studio for original work.My normie ass views that as success but pros and oldheads say otherwise so correct my thinking and expand my horizons.
>>155239696don't listen to these fags anon, Pokemon is infact still one of the most profitable brands on the planet, and when Gen 10 comes out a new wave (pun intended) will take over. I am old, old enough to have lived trough every generation and the cycle always repeat itself.
>>155239696>>155239706I don't know anything about Pokemon. Was "tea" a typo?
>>155239667To be fair they only started getting into non Japanese media in the last decade right? Perhaps western sensibilities clash with Eastern.Like I notice when Japan translate their anime into live action they copy every element 1:1 with no care to how it reads in real life. Like gluttony from fma had his actors eyes whited out because his characters eye were beady.The west seems to go for versilimitude based on semantic pragmatism. The figure out what the original work was trying to portray and then source the real world equivolent so it makes sense in the real world context without losing the form function or meaning the source posesses.
>>155239720Pokemon is one of the most Westernazied brands in Japan anon. It stopped being about Japan as far as Gen 3 and officially at gen 5.
>>155239667think of it this way, if you stylize their Pokemon too much they will pass for different kinds of Pokemon which is more work on their part cuz they have to create new Pokemon and there are already over a 1000 of those
>>155239717"Whats the tea" I guess is girly pop for story or news. I was basically asking for why people are claiming pokemon is sucking now.
>>155239724Were talking about philosphy of adaptation though. Japan wants a direct translation without intepretation while the west is well aware that adaptstions well adapt to new media and modes.
>>155239732So they want to avoid a 1997 Godzilla situation?Supposedly Detective pikachu was going to be more rabbit like but the pokemon company wanted to match that weird yellow marshmallow rodent directly.Guess it helps a bit that they had HD 3d models that figure out the animation already. So whatever anatomy weirdness they may encounter is solved.Cant believe Mr mime is made out of recyclables though. And jigglypuff is a furball and psyduck feathery.
>>155239752Pokemon still allows this, they just don't want people messing with the Pokemon because it opens a floodgate of other issues for them. They don't care what you do other than that. Detective Pikachu for example.
>>155237896The Farfetchd evo is fine but this looks dogshit
>>155239769Elaborate on this. The complaint is that the character designs are so shackled you cant tell it is an aardman picture and not some Japanese stop.motion studio.Detective pikachu is a testament to that as their cartoony proportions clash so much against the humans and realistic sets.
>>155238768You like power
>>155239798It is quite simple, it needs to be recognizable to promote the Pokemon in question. If you deviate too much from their design kids might now even realize those are Pokemon, or think its some knockoff. Then a bunch of copypasted bootleg Pokemon knockoff games can reuse those same designs claiming they are not Pokemon... and don't you see the issue? Plus there is the Palworld (which was build on stolen slightly altered Pokemon designs) situation which GF are still salty about and that solidified their policy of never ever deviating, probably.
>>155239667It's the Pokémon Company, not Game Freak.Pokémon is owned by three companies: Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures, so it's a bit more complicated than usual. Game Freak basically just makes games.Since most of their revenue comes from merchandise, and it's enormous, many executives who have little to do with the games are involved, and so they have the kinds of problems typical of such situations.To be honest, it could be a lot worse.
>>155239822>GFmeant Nintendo and TPC but whatever
>>155239667Don't be ridiculous. That would've looked grotesque.
>>155239667here you go
>>155240125That from the trailer? I forget.
>>155238452I love this little guy like you wouldn't believe.
Why didn't this board just immediately go ">>>/vp/"? That's what would happen on /v/.
>>155237749>performative apathyIt's easier to post nothing.
>>155240375its a West production
>>155240375Pokemon is furry so /co/ loves it, newfag
>>155240439So what if it is, apparently people don't like seeing Pokemon outside its board.
>>155240460>don't like seeing Pokemon outside its board.where did you get that from? Pokemon has a presence on /a/, /v/, and /tv/ even
>>155240460it gets posted here regularly, now it has an excuse to be here
>>155240493kill yourself
>>155240375fuck off
>>155239667you are genuinely a fucking retardthat shit looks fucking ugly and i'm glad the japs made sure the characters looked cute instead of ugly innsmouth creatures the British like
>>155240707lets not go there, it still has some of it but its cute >>155240125
>>155239667I don't actually care for the Aardman style, so this is a boon to me. As I've pointed out in other threads, this is basically a feature-length adaptation of the clay art from the TCG, so it makes perfect sense for it to use that style instead.
>>155239798I think if they had pokemon as simple cel-shaded 3d models instead of pic related, I think it would've looked better. Though you hit the weird style clash even harder where it'd be like, are pokemon living cartoons? Could the suspension of belief have worked for cel-shaded designs
>>155239696To keep it short, it’s mainly cause the games. They’re bad, to a comical degree. S/V alone released with several massive bugs from graphical to game-breaking not even an indie dev would allow. Problem is, GameFreak aren’t an indie studio but head and creator of a hundred-billion dollar franchise; they should be coming out with some of the greatest games ever made with that kind of money but they can’t even release a functioning product, which is unacceptable>but pokemon isn’t just vidyaIt isn’t, and statistically the games are at the bottom of the brand’s moneymakers, but the games serve as the cornerstone of the whole franchise, it’s what introduces the new generation with the new region and pokemon. It SHOULD get the most care out of anything but it’s headed by people who can’t even code and refuse to improve cause they make their money either way. Anyone who still cares about pokemon is a slave to the brand, only liking it for the cute creatures and nostalgia over its actual substance (of which there is none) kinda like disney in a way…
>>155241057Think its easier to just stylize the humans as CG characters to make them work with the already stylized monsters. Like Pixar. Guess its all a question or versilimitude and what details to bring back in that stylization discarded. Like I heared the vfx folks made detective pikachu more rabbitlike as that's what its main design cues were mapping to but the pokemon insisted it be that squishy plush that technically has no ears but fur covered conical stalks. Damn shame because they seem to have a thorough process for designing poke.on complete with inspiration habitat and other info that helps inform the design. Would have lead to some amazing realism.Then again that's what they tried doing with Sonic in his first movie and they took their sweet time to make him more accurate to the cartoon and now hes got a full franchise. So maybe the pokemon company was right to ensure model rigidity.
>>155241129>Problem is, GameFreak aren’t an indie studio but head and creator of a hundred-billion dollar franchiseThe problem is that they still want to pretend they are an indie studio. Game Freak started as a fan magazine that reviewed video games and drew lewd manga, and then they started making their own games which were for the most part mediocre. Pokemon being successful was a total fluke for them.
>>155241342Even that wouldn’t be much of a problem if they actually had the discipline to make a good product, a feat they haven’t been able to accomplish in 15+ years
>>155241427I'd say way longer than 15, more like since almost the beginning. Heck, Pokemon wouldn't have even left Japan had 4Kids's CEO didn't find out about it on a business trip and pushed Nintendo to localize it while he dubbed and marketed the anime in advance.
>>155240375>That's what would happen on /v/.Because /v/ is pathologically adverse to discussing anything even tangentially related to video games.
>>155241616pfff it won't happen on /v/ if its about the gamesthey will start spamming pokegirl porn
>>155241589It had to have something good to get big in the first place, and there was a time people did actually like it. Those years are long gone, but they did exist
>>155240023>>155240707Nigga there’s nothing wrong with comedies being funny to look at. Retards like you would bitch about shit like Ren & Stimpy and Ed Edd n Eddy for being "ugly" if they came out today. Animation fans have forgot that ugly doesn’t always equal unappealing.
>>155241803There's no place for funniness in comedy.
>>155239667You say that like Aardman hasn't inched away from the "Aardman style"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfHvKG4PmFQ
>>155237749Why would you care at all if Jesus started an animation studio, he wasn't known as some great animator. You'd probably cry that he was a nepo baby.
>>155241803Just because a studio has one iconic franchise doesn't mean fucking everything they do has to conform to it you dunce. Wallace and Gromit/Nick Park's style works because it's Nick Park's thing, no shit that was never going to fly for something like Pokemon and you're a tard for thinking that was ever going to be the case. And I don't even think Nick would've wanted that
>>155238103The modern games haven't been great, and they have a pretty high profile, really stupid lawsuit against Pal world, a game by a much smaller studio that people really liked. As for the tcg, I assume it's all about the shitty scalper drama? I dunno.
>>155241921Thank you! Havent touched the games since the Gameboy era so I got no comment on that but christ what they were doing to password was straight up copyright trolling.
>>155241921>>155241981The Legends games are great though, disingenuous faggots.
>>155242006Are they though? The last one takes place in one singular city and had graphics pulled from the PS2. Not exactly the marks of a great game
>>1552423421st one is amazing exploration game with lacking cast and story2nd ditches the exploration but has a really good cast and fun storyI really like the battle system in Z-A so I am a little biased. hopefully Legends Galar combines the two or fucks everything up; 50/50
>>155238452>Favorite Pokemon?trevenant
>>155242389>"Hey, I just borrowed some money from the local mob to help us out. I'm sure nothing bad's going to happen to us because of this."Yeah, nobody thinks the Z-A story was good, not even compared to the first Legends. The only part of it that seemed decent was putting some better context behind Team Flare's past antics.
