[Showcase] Ice's Fakemon Iglo

shvihka said:

I like how most of your designs are creative and easily distinguishable. Some of them do lack a bit of personality but that can be fixed by adding some more detail especially the face or make their shape something else than rounded.

Oh yeah a tip: maybe ask people to add a description for their trainer with a history and outward appearance?

Cheers!

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MorallyIncorrect said:

Thanks! Which ones do you mean, maybe I can fix it...

That's a fun idea, I'll make a form, I'll make some team line-ups, if people would enjoy that.



So if you want to have a team picture with the fakes, just for fun, I don't expect people to do much with it, just fill it in (leaving blanks is ok), and I'll try to make a team line-up for ya! If it's reasonable to be a early game, or mid game I'll put it in there, and if not, than I'll try to put you in a end game battle arena. :)

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shvihka said:

Im gonna name the a couple of them so you can hopefully see the pattern:

Swiftog - This one stands out immediately it just looks awkward and flat to me. The arms and legs don't suit the shape of the body and the long body makes it look bland. The face is...too standard I guess nothing memorable in the design besides the spikes but they're placed poorly (because of the shape of the body). I'll do something about the arms, because you gave me a better idea for the shape, but I don't plan on changing it that much. I like how most of him turned out, altough I maybe should do something about the spike placement. I think it's mostly personal preference with this one.

Mattle - The face just looks wrong, not pokemon like. And it's merely a couple of rounded up squares that form an awkward shape, again. The horns are inverted on purpose but I think it would look better with standard horns. Your really right with this one. Mattle is one of my least favourite designs, which is a bummer because I like stellos. It's definitly up for a redesign. It's just hard to figure out what I want with him, and I don't just want to remove him because I like the pun so much.

Kamaisickle - it's Swiftog all over again. I would look into the shape of the head and eyes for this one. You convinced me to plan a redo of Kamaisickle. I like the design I made for Weasickle, but his whole design makes him a little derpy, not what you expect as an evolution.

Altocuran - Make the wool come from behind of it's neck, it would make the position of the head look more natural. I'll see what I can do

Puffuin - I don't think it can stand on it's feet with that big of head (beak). I'll probably redo this one too, it may be a little big indeed.

Puffteui - Rounded arms, don't suit it and are not interesting. The round arms are a conscious design choice, I quite like them to be honest. I think this is another case of personal preference

Tarmount - The eyes. I like them to be honest.

You get the point, to sum up, you should look into proportions ask yourself how would that pokemon handle itself in the pokemon world (walk,run,swim..). Would it look out of place? Why?
And it might be hypocritical to say all of the above as most of my fakemon don't even look similar to pokemon in the slightest way, but it's much easier to give criticism on someone else's work than on your own as most of the times you don't see your own mistakes, but that's why we are here to help each other. {:3}

With that said, the majority of your fakemon are good and naming the good things would definitely take me much longer than naming the bad things.
I hope it didn't come off too harsh and I think if you practice the things I mentioned, your fakedex would be even better, and that's the only thing that matters.

Good luck and keep it up! :)

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MorallyIncorrect said:

I made some annotations in Bold. I really appreciate the criticism, it really helps to self-reflect and let's you see what you can do better. The fact that I disagree on some points doesn't mean that critique is really helpfull, especially when delivered so detailed and clearly as yours. It really helps, so thank you!

I made the backsprites for Octurf and Miraken, included in the spoilers below.

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Miraken

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I may change up the backsprite a little, depending on how the mustache is received, haha.

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shvihka said:

I still don't quite understand why you would give Puffteui round arms, I would just make them penguin like or give him fingers or at least make them longer, unless you want to limit his movepool on purpose {XD}

I love what you did with Miraken it has 2 faces actually if you look closely, one evil with the mustache and one smiling if you make the mustache his eyes and ignore the upper part, clever design.

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VeranithasVI said:

Loving the rename of the gallery, MI. The new Halbird looks brilliant. The back sprite of Miraken + the shiny version are fantastic, too!

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MorallyIncorrect said:

New legendary. It's Atnucli, the pokesaint of Humor, madness and trickery. Who guesses what the thought behind it's name is get's an important npc named after them.

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