Does Ken Sugimori Still Draw Pokemon

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Ken Sugimori ( 杉森 ( すぎもり ) 建 ( けん ) , Sugimori Ken), built-in on January 27, 1966, currently sits on the Board of the Pokémon Company and also acts as Fine art Manager for the franchise. He is responsible for drawing the majority of the official artwork for every Pokémon.

i History
2 Pokémon Credits
3 Other credits
- iii.i Manga
- 3.ii Games
4 Trivia
5 Gallery
6 External links

History

Sugimori became friends with Satoshi Tajiri in early 1981 when he began illustrating for Tajiri's Game Freak mag. In the start he submitted work on a freelance basis, every bit he wanted to pursue a career as a manga artist, just later he joined the company equally an employee. Tajiri and Sugimori formed their own game evolution company, named after the magazine, in 1989, also, in 1995 both they created Pokémon.

Sugimori is usually credited with designing and drawing the 151 original Pokémon himself. However, this is incorrect; Sugimori designed as role of a team simply was chosen to draw all of the official artwork equally the company wanted to give the series a compatible way. He based his artwork for Red and Green on the game sprites, equally information technology was the but artwork covering all 151 Pokémon available at the time.

For Pokémon Black and White, Sugimori directed a squad of 17 people in designing new Pokémon for the games, although he always drew the concluding designs.

Pokémon Credits

Pokémon game serial (Fine art Director and Graphic symbol/Pokémon/Graphic Designer)
Anime (Character Design)
Pokémon: The Showtime Picture show - Mewtwo Strikes Back (Original Character Design)
Pokémon: The Moving-picture show 2000 - The Power of I (Original Character Design)
Pokémon iii: The Pic - Spell of the Unown (Conceptual Character Creative person)
Pokémon 4Ever - Celebi: Voice of the Forest (Conceptual Character Artist)
Pokémon - Heroes: Latios and Latias (Conceptual Grapheme Artist)
Pokémon - Jirachi: Wish Maker (Conceptual Grapheme Artist)
Pokémon Destiny Deoxys (Conceptual Grapheme Artist)
Manga: Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness (Writer and Artist)
Pokémon Trading Carte du jour Game (Illustrator)

Other credits

Outside the scope of Pokémon, Sugimori has contributed to many other creative projects. These include:

Manga

Quinty/Mendel Palace (Artist)
Jerry Boy/Smart Ball (Artist)
The Take chances of Valkyrie Gaiden: Ii Goddess (Writer and Creative person)
The New "Pitiful for Causing You Trouble" (Artist)

Games

Quinty/Mendel Palace (Creative person)
Jerry Boy/Smart Ball (Artist)
Magical Taluluto-kun (Director, Artist)
Pulseman (Game Designer and Artist)
Bushi The Fable of the Blue Dragon and the Two Heroes (Artist)
Drill Dozer (Director)
Sega 3D Classics (Box Art Designer/Illustrator)

Trivia

His favourite:
- Kanto Pokémon is Gengar.
- Johto Pokémon is Hoothoot.
- Unova Pokémon is Zekrom.
- Unova Starter is Oshawott.
- Mega Evolution is Mega Kangaskhan.
Although in the game never has been show the unique ability of Mewtwo, he has the ability to deny, block and remove the unique abilities and special powers of all the other Pokémon. This ability was given by the aforementioned Sugimori and might be added at a bespeak in the future.
Ken, alongside other Pokémon creators, accept confirmed that Mewtwo is the almost powerful Pokémon that exists. This is controversial with fans, because there are Pokémon like Mew or Arceus, who have the status of gods, simply it also confirmed that they are gods in their corresponding mythologies, and that not make them the most powerful Pokémon.