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Nishida was working at Game Freak on the game Pulseman with the art director for Pokémon, Ken Sugimori. In his initial character design, Sugimori made most of the Pokémon scary, but he realized he also wanted to have cute characters in the game. [1] [2] This led to the design of Pikachu, which was originally based on a daifuku, a Japanese ...
Sugimori is best known as the character designer and art director for the Pokémon franchise and designed a large majority of the first 151 Pokémon with Atsuko Nishida, Motofumi Fujiwara, Shigeki Morimoto, and Satoshi Ota. He has worked on the various Pokémon movies, trading cards, and other games.
[4] [5] It was directed by Ken Sugimori. [6] Much of the staff who worked on Pulseman would later work on the Pokémon series, including Sugimori, designer Satoshi Tajiri, artist Atsuko Nishida, and composer Junichi Masuda.
First introduced in the video games Pokémon Red and Blue, it was created by Atsuko Nishida at the request of lead designer Ken Sugimori, with the design finalized by Sugimori. Since Pikachu's debut, it has appeared in multiple games including Pokémon Go and the Pokémon Trading Card Game , as well as various merchandise.
First introduced in the film Pokémon—Zoroark: Master of Illusions and later in the video games Pokémon Black and White, it was created by Atsuko Nishida with the design finalized by Sugimori. Zoroark has since appeared in multiple games including Pokémon Go and the Pokémon Trading Card Game , as well as various merchandise.
Bulbasaur was created by Atsuko Nishida, a character designer for Pocket Monsters Red and Blue, which she described as "working backwards" by basing it off the established Venusaur design. [1] Afterwards, the design was finalized by lead artist Ken Sugimori who, towards the end of development, drew the promotional art of all the species to give ...
Modeled after a fox, Ninetales was created by Atsuko Nishida, [1] who had been brought on the development team to help create "cute" Pokémon for the game. [2] Once development was complete, Ken Sugimori re-drew the species along with the others in his own artstyle in order to give the game a unified look and finalize any design elements, while ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 December 2024. Pokémon species Fictional character Charizard Pokémon character Charizard artwork by Ken Sugimori First game Pokémon Red and Blue (1996) Designed by Atsuko Nishida (normal form and Mega Charizard X) Tomohiro Kitakaze (Mega Charizard X and Mega Charizard Y) Voiced by Shin-ichiro Miki ...