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Pokémon Evolutions goes back to its Sword and Shield focused first episode to give a behind the scenes look at the how the anime series gets made.
Pokémon Evolutions released a behind-the-scenes video that shows how a shot from the anime series goes from a rough animatic to a fully animated and colored scene.
The video was released through the official Pokémon Twitter account and shows the evolution (no pun intended,) of several scenes from the series’ first episode, which was based on the most recent game in the mainline Pokémon series, Sword and Shield. The clip offers a side-by-side comparison between the completed shot and how that scene looked when it was first planned out in a rough animatic, complete with on-screen notes from the animators, black-and-white sketches, and lots of lines that show how the animators were able to maintain correct perspective rendering during the episode’s more elaborate action shots. The clip provides a lot of insight into the amount of work that goes into an anime production, and should be interesting for Pokémon fans and animation nerds alike.
Pokémon Evolutions debuted in September and was produced by animation studio OLM, which has also animated all of the more than 1,000 episodes of the main Pokémon anime series, as well as its numerous movies and spinoffs. The first episode adapted key scenes from the most recent game in the series, and the show will work its backwards through the games’ history, with the last episode being based on the original Pocket Monsters Red and Green Versions, which were originally released in Japan in 1996 and premiered internationally in 1998 under the title Pokémon: Red and Blue Versions.
The series is being produced as part of the celebration surrounding the 25th anniversary of those games’ original release. In addition to Evolutions, OLM also produced the latest season of the main Pokémon anime, which now sports the Master Journeys subtitle. The current season of the series similarly focuses on Ash and Pikachu as they revisit regions from previous seasons of the anime. An upcoming arc of the series will revisit the show’s Diamond and Pearl era, and will see Ash reunited with his fan-favorite traveling companion Dawn, as well as the Sinnoh region’s champion, Cynthia.
Of course, the core of the Pokémon franchise is still video games, and Nintendo has been more than happy to cash on the wave of nostalgia that has accompanied the multi-billion dollar franchise’s big anniversary. Earlier this year, the video game publisher released New Pokémon Snap, the long awaited sequel to the classic Nintendo 64 photography simulator, and will soon release the latest remakes in the series, Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl. The new releases will update the classic Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Version games, which were originally released for the Nintendo DS in 2006, with new 3D graphics and gameplay mechanics. The games are the first mainline Pokémon titles to not be developed by Game Freak and will be released worldwide on the Nintendo Switch on Nov. 19.
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