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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 ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 January 2025. 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 In ...
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.
Throughout development of Red and Green, all Pokémon were designed by Ken Sugimori who was a long-time friend of Tajiri, and a team of fewer than ten people, [14] including Atsuko Nishida who is credited as the designer of Pikachu. [15] [16] By 2013, a team of 20 artists worked together to create new species designs.
With the early development team consisting of three men, [5] character design lead Ken Sugimori brought female developers into the project feeling they would be better able to create "cute" designs. [6] While conceived as a group effort by multiple developers at Game Freak, [6] the finalized designs and artworks were done by Ken Sugimori.
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 ...
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.