A fan of thePokemonvideo games has recently shared a project that they have just started, and they are working on recoloring the 3D models of the pocket creatures into the more vibrant shades from their older pixel sprites. Starting with thePokemon from the 1st generation, the artist is slowly making their way through the whole roster of pocket creatures.
It is not surprising forPokemonfans to make callbacks to the older pixel graphics titles of the video game series. After all, these were what started the wholePokemontrend and global fascination with the pocket creatures. Members of thePokemoncommunity regularly put their adoration for the pixel titles into fan art and original content. Some fans make their own visualizations ofnew generation Pokemon as Gen 1 sprites, and one fan even started a project to recreate the Kanto region solely out of LEGO bricks.
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On TikTok, a user by the name of ThoughtBubbleYT started a miniseries of them documenting how they are recoloring the3D models of Pokemoninto their more colorful sprite shades from the older Nintendo DS games. In the first video that ThoughtBubbleYT posted, they started the series with the first pocket creature in the Pokedex, the Grass-type starter Bulbasaur. The artist shared that Bulbasaur was originally more blue in the pixel games. Fixing Bulbasaur’s coloring, they also proceeded to match the 3D models of Bulbasaur’s evolution line with the shades from their older sprites.
The artist explained that many of the 3D Pokemon models lost their vibrant colors after Game Freak made the switch to 3D models. This can be seen in ThoughtBubbleYT’s other videos when they moved on to the otherPokemon starters from Gen 1. They recolored Charmander and its evolution line then this video was followed by Squirtle and its evolution line. As of now, the artist has up to Butterfree recolored in their Nintendo DS pixel shades, and has a long way to go if they want to complete the whole roster of Pokemon.
Hopefully ThoughtBubbleYT is able to keep up with theirPokemonrecoloring project. According to them, they have already completed 15 out of the 151 Pokemon from the Kanto region. With more than 630 more Pokemon to recolor, it might take a while for them to complete their project. Nevertheless, many within thePokemoncommunity will likely be interested to see the artist finish all the recolored pocket creatures in their more vibrant shades.
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