The VG Resource

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  hi everyone! im making this thread to share sprites and artwork for my pokemon fan game, pokemon 3. its a GBC style fan game inspired by pokemon bootlegs and made in RPGmaker XP with Pokemon Essentials, so it doesnt necessarily have to fit within gameboy color restrictions but im trying to mostly make it fit the style, unless it would be too much of a pain in the ass to the point where i just dont feel like bothering with it . 

my friend Mattsludge is doing most of the designs for the pokemon (ive done a couple but he does like 99% of them ) and im making the sprites, which is what this thread is mostly for, but matt and i will probably post some of his original artwork for some or most of the designs im sure. im going to be posting each evolution line of pokemon in their own post (if i ever figure out how to make a post that doesnt just get added under this one with a horizontal rule instead of actually being separate  ) and will keep posting them as i make them. i have around 80 pokemon done so far as im typing this so the first 80 or so will probably be posted much faster then new ones will start coming in slower. also im going to be posting them roughly in the order i made them rather than purely in pokedex order, especially since the pokedex order isnt finalized.  (snowman bc the first pokemon line is some snowman guys)

please give your thoughts on the sprites and dont be afraid to give constructive criticism! ill be the first to admit that a good number of these i havent really put maximum effort into but ive been progressively putting in more effort (and also just improving) as ive made them and ive also generally improved some during the process. ill probably also give some of my own criticisms of the sprites as im posting them, just saying what i think could be better on them, and eventually i might go back and update some of the older ones. despite this project not being ultra-high effort i do still want to put a lot of effort into making it good and part of that is improving my pixel art. i had some experience with pixel art before this project but i hadnt really put it into practice that much so im very much still learning as i go along. but yeah thats about it have fun looking at the pokemon! 
(also just for reference, the first sprite of a mon is the normal colors, the second are the shiny, and the third is a grayscale palette like how it would appear on an original gameboy)

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ELTHEL LINE:

these were the first sprites i made for the project so theyre a bit rough, some of the curves could definitely be a bit smoother and the detailing on snowpope is a little weird. some of the shading is also not quite where id like it to be especially compared to later sprites, i think i could have shaded beneath the heads more and made the shading go further on luhthunk. i also kinda stopped doing the double/triple thickness outlines like helord has on some parts of him after this so i think he looks a little inconsistent with the rest of the sprites   . if/when i redo or go back to tweak some sprites these guys will be first, but i still like them

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TATSUGIRI LINE:

this evo line is a regional variant of tatsugiri. the first two evolve into each other every level, until level 100 where they evolve into twotsugiri. i think these ones are pretty solid

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 MAIYAMULA:
  
this ones sort of a weird one. i just took this image (on the right) and put it through a thing to bring the number of colors down and then refined the outline and stuff some. there are only a couple other mons that are jsut pictures that have been scaled down and stuff because i think its a lot cooler to just have an original sprite. i think this guys neat though. its name comes from a greentext spooky story

 STARTERS:

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 CHIAMO LINE:

this post is kind of breaking the general trend of posting the mons in order since i actually did the water starter a month or so before the other two, but i wanted to put all of the starters together so the grass starter is first. i think my main critique of this line for myself is just that the poses feel very static, which i think is generally the biggest problem i have with all of my sprites. it kind of makes sense here though since theyre supposed to look like theyre made out of clay like chia pets and haniwa (the things gyroids in animal crossing are based on). also the first sprite here is a secret split evo based on vinesauce vargskelethor joel, the funny swede himself

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MATCHSLUG LINE:

i think this is my favorite of the starters. the name of the first stage is based off of mattsludge, and the second stages name is overly literal as a bit. but yeah i really like the pose in strikefore's sprite and i think these ones are pretty solid as a whole.

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 AHFISH LINE:

this was the first one of the starters done and there was a monthish between it and the other two. this line is the one i did after maiyamula. i think ahfish is kind of small compared to the other two but also thats mostly just because its body is very skinny. besides that my only gripe with these guys is thahfish's back sprite. i generally put less effort into back sprites because theyre just less fun to do, but its particularly bad. i did it after staying up all night and i think it really suffered because of it lol. im probably going to redo it at some point. besides that though i like these 3 a lot

Hey guys. its me, matthew the sludge! here with some hot juice and sour meat. so uh, ill be honest. the canvas most of the guys waddleskele has talked about so far were on? basically deleted. uh, so yeah. dont have 98% of the art i did for the original guys. the current canvas, ive spent about 120 hours on, though, that has every single other drawing. Everything from here on out though- is very muchso documented and ready.

NO-CHANCEY LINE:

wacky chancey spinoff guy. shittey's back sprite is just an edit of chanceys from either gold or silver i forget which one lol

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(02-19-2024, 12:06 AM)Mattsludge Wrote: [ -> ]Hey guys. its me, matthew the sludge! here with some hot juice and sour meat. so uh, ill be honest. the canvas most of the guys waddleskele has talked about so far were on? basically deleted. uh, so yeah. dont have 98% of the art i did for the original guys. the current canvas, ive spent about 120 hours on, though, that has every single other drawing. Everything from here on out though- is very muchso documented and ready.

oh i still have the early art for like all of the guys ive posted so far that arent on the later megacanvas. theyre mostly individual screenshots but yeah

 BIRD DOG LINE:

i think the shading on these guys is a little weird and i could probably go back and do it better, also i think i could probably make the smoke coming out of the top of chilibrog look more like smoke because right now it kinda looks too much like weird hair. also i might change chilibrogs name at some point i kinda dont like it but i cant really think of one thats much better

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 BAGOGO LINE:

big fan of these guys, i think bagogogo looks a little flat, like he could use some highlights, maybe some more shadow like under the top of his eyes or something, and his pose is also pretty stiff. other than that i mostly really like how these three turned out

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 MINI-NOSE LINE:

mini-nose is kind of a spin off guy of probopass. ive always loved the mini-noses that probopass has and wanted to make a pokemon thats like a separate one and an evo for it. noseblo is like a weird snot looking alien that lives inside a mini-nose. noseblo's sprite was actually done a couple weeks later, after the tunggaga line and the fire and grass starters.

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STONEMOJO:

stonemojo

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 TUNGGAGA LINE:

route one mammal guy, theres only one pure normal type in the game so these guys are tough type. tungsters name was originally molestir but then that kinda recontextualized his design to be really weird and would probably make no one want to use him on a team so i changed it lol. also these guys were chronologically done after the fire type starter

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 GAS LINE:

this is a funny guy thats half of a gastly. gastier was done wayyy later like probably 2 months i think but i wanna post evo lines together.

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 TLY LINE:

the other half of gastly. tlyneous was also done way later, right after gastier. i kinda hate tlyneous' face but i think thats a good thing, i wanted him to look hateable

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 SKULREM LINE:

these guys are kind of a counterpart to the elthel line, theyre also some of my favorites. skelestare/skeleseer are a split evo from skeleaper. this evo line was done like a month after any of the previous ones (except gastier and tlyneous)

 MOGGIT LINE:

really like these guys, i wanna try to do the underlighting type stuff i did on elytrarch on some more sprites

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 SLOTSTER:

this ones an original design that i did (snowpope and chilibrog were too buti forgot to say) it was inspired by this one toy dispenser gacha machine type thing in a dollar tree that has crystal animals and has a crystal lobster on the picture on the front. i wanted the crystal lobster really bad and probably ended up wasting 7 bucks worth of quarters and still didnt end up getting it so i was pissed. so this guys gonna be in like gacha machines that dispense pokemon and have like a 0.1% chance of being dispensed or something like that

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 BEATUMS LINE:

these are some of my favorites, i love how depressed beatdon is.

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 STEELSHREW LINE:

little dude

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this thing is gonna have like a 1/2000 encounter rate on one route

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 BURROWGO:

i kinda dont like this one. i made his sprite in a rush because i jsut wanted to make another steel type guy (and one thats a single stage) since the first gym leader is gonna be steel type but he ended up really lopsided feeling i think. ill probably redo him or replace him with a different pokemon entirely at some point

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 FOAMR LINE:

flower foam dude. the evo was originally gonna be called "the foamany" but that didnt fit so me and matt decided on "le foamany" which is really really really stupid but its funny enough that im set on keeping it since this game is partially a shitpost anyway

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NIGHTMAN!

NIGHTMAN! RETURNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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 FUNBUG LINE:

this is another one i did the original design for. its based on this weird bug that looked kinda like a raspberry that i saw in some trees by my school when i was like 7 or something. that thing scared the shit out of me but i still remember it so yeah

 TSUMARANAI:

only pure normal type hes a funny dude

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 PROTOTTOT LINE:

this is the first of the fossil mons, little nerd mushroom that becomes big tall prehistoric mushroom

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FIDDLIDDL LINE:

second fossil mon based on prehistoric ferns and stuff

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 SIPHONOMIN:
 
last fossil mon. this one is based on the black carpet which is an urban legend creature thats a giant black mass at the bottom of the ocean that can be up to like a mile wide and just absorbs whatever touches it.

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So, i figured i would divulge about the general thought process behind these designs. So, about 89 percent of, i genuinely really, really love. Half of these guys typically get axed. but uh, generally, that remaining 11 percent? those things? those are made out of pure spite, and hatred, just really, really angry. and then those guys are the ones that DO get put in. So if you see a guy, and just think like, "wow. whoever came up with this was really pissed while they made it." you're probably right! and, honestly? i kind of really adore this project cause of that. like, having guys that exist purely cause a guy was *that* pissed off rocks, to me at least. and it really makes me think, yknow? what actual pokemon have that kind of hate interlaced in their designs?

This was a fun thread to scroll through. Given the nature of the project I'm not gonna dive too far into constructive criticism aside from the line-art on a few of them needing some polish. Some of these designs are clever and I enjoy the creativity as a whole.

I'll try to follow along as this thread sees updates.

 ZUBAT LINE (REGIONAL):

regional zubat form with funny butt

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 BROFISH LINE:

these fish mons are based off of a heathcliff comic where there was a bunch of fish in a tank saying "bro" a ton and the caption said "the brofish are restless". there was a sprite i did for brofish several months earlier than this one but i didnt like it so i didnt use it. i meant to save it but i think i accidentally lost that version of the spritesheet pic

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 ANISAKMER LINE:

the second stage of this like is based on the leaked beta eternatus where he kinda looks like a fish. this mon isnt a legendary though, its just inspired by the funny eternatus

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 HANYAIR LINE:

mask fire spirit guys, i thought they were ghost type at first then mattsludge murdered me over that

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 SMAUDIO:

i forgot about this one, he was supposed to come after the regional zubats but all of the past few were done within a couple days of each other anyway so it doesnt matter too much. the colors are based on elfilin from kirby because when i saw the original drawing of this guy that matt did that was what i thought of

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 HAPPY LINE:

these are some of the most intentionally dumb guys in the whole game. happy was just a pic of a smiley face i shittily imported from google and touched up a bit like maiyamula but even worse, and -stare was just a drawing that me and mattsludge's friend ross drew, and its back sprite is exactly the same but cut off at the bottom to fit lol. the elite four in the game are basically just gonna be pokemon versions of me and mattsludge and a couple of our friends, including ross so these guys are gonna be on his elite four team. their type might change later though idk

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   OMNILZRD LINE:

this is one of my favorite evo lines, little lizard dude that evolves into weird versions of the three kanto starters

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   MLTIBEAST LINE:
these are also some of my favorite guys, same thing as omnilzrd but based on the gen 2 starters

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 DHAMMOO:

buddha cow guy, this is the most recent one so this stuff is all caught up now, theyre gonna be coming in slower now

 GAMBOLT LINE:

 i accidentally forgot about these guys. they shouldve been before brofish

BOREALISK:

new guy

 SQUAWKIRD LINE:

the first stage here is just an unused sprite of a bird fish thing from gen 1 that i liked, and the evos are new original guys. i thought it would be funny for them to have no indication of the fish part in their names or typing though so all of that stuff basically just doubles up on bird

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 GOLDER:

golder is a GOLD type