This reminds me of when you translate a sentence into a different language, then back to the original, and it's something new, that's what this artist has basically done with these pokemon, translating what were originally inspired by real world animals back into realistical animals. I love it.
because in the words of Franca Cavagnoli, the Italian translator for Virginia Woolf and many others, "sometimes it's lost in translation, but sometimes it is gained"
Not gonna lie, turning Gastly's comical eyes into a pair of large bat ears is pretty smart. I'd like to think people from the ancient times mistook the ears for a pair of big eyes staring at them from the darkness in their panic, and thus Gastly's depiction as spectral floating heads came to be.
I don't know....I genuinely hate the fact that the artist even turned Ghastly, Haunter, and Gengar into hyper realistic bats. They're ghosts for a reason, and should've stayed that way. Don't get me wrong, the art is great, but Gengar being a weird giant bat/bear thing??? I just can't wrap my head around that concept. lol
Charizard's bipedal stance as an intimidation display rather than a normal walking gait really gives charizard the vibe of a winged reptilian Grizzly Bear rather than a dragon, which I personally think is even more badass.
I’d imagine The Eevee line as actually being a bunch of subspecies with identical Cubs but distinct adult forms. Also, Realistic diglett is cuter than canonical diglett.
You know, in a weird way, this all feels very similar to monster hunter, many of the monster hunter designs are based in real world biology but turned up to 11, and seeing garchomp look something like a cephadrome actually makes me appreciate both series
Of course it is! The guy who made these, RJ Palmer also does a bunch of Monster Hunter stuff! And since these are my absolute favorite franchises, I absolutely support the dude.
I had an idea that the bulbasaur and oddish had a symbiotic relationship cause they’ve got features of the same flower on them idk just thought that idea of a oddish chilling on a venusaurs back would be adorable 🥺
@@fabioavaro7947 salamander tadpoles (or whatever you called them ) look like axolotls I'm pretty sure axolotls are just salamanders that don't grow up.
I imagine that ancient civilizations would depict it the way it looks in the games and assume it is some sort of spirit because of its anatomy, and the fact that it lives in dark caves where it would be hard to get a look at
anybody else feel like arcanine/growlithe should look more like a canine? loved the detail in the reimaginings but always felt like they were kind of a cross between feline and canine
i agree it could be more canine, but arcanine is based off of the shisa (japanese "lion dog") statues after all, which are often more feline in appearance. so i don't have any issue with the approach, it's just another take on it really
@@rutvin8763 it was intended to be legendary. in one of the early eps it showed the arcanine and was said to be a legendary or rather pseudo legendary along with dragonite. they hashed it though.
I look forward to the other Pokemon Designs Arvalis has in store. I may not be an expert on Pokemon, but My favorite is Zapdos, who was based off of the Thunderbird from Native American Mythology.
@:O🍡 japanese names are basic and weird for almost all pokèmon. Staryus name translates to "starfish man" in Japanese. And Umbreons name is "blackie" in Japanese. Articuno is just Freezer and Krabby is just Crab. There's tons more examples.And people think the English names are unoriginal or basic,lmao
And the pleasant surprise was right next to it at the end. Idk why but the realization of magmar as a prehistoric shoe bill just fits for a unique pokemon
I don’t even watch pokemon but the speculative-biology-ish description adds a unique combination of realism and scientific fantasy in its world that it fascinates me
I don’t know if Pokemon fans watch Pokémon, i think that most just play the video games (Sword and Shield is NOT worth it, but you can always just download roms or something- of the main games, G5 has the best story, but G4 has the best gameplay- spin-off games tend to be superior, however) (The Pokémon Special manga is also very good, but I think that even less people follow it than those that follow the anime- which, to be fair, is easily accessible and basically free to watch, as well as being simple and appealing to small children)
Same, it pleases my imaginative brain. When i saw these realistic pokemon i just imagined a movie with the idea of a huge catastrophic phenomena occured around the planet. Massive earthquakes are happening all around the globe causing a tremendous loss of human and animal lives then tsunamis happened. After all of those events, some sort of interdimensional portals suddenly appeared on certain parts of earth in the visage of huge surface cracks and ruptures, like fault lines splitting countries and continents, on the earth's surface, products of the earthquakes. Then they appeared out of the portals, the pokemons. After 50 years, the appearance of earth is now quite different from that of it's former self, continents are split, and some countries are either split or severely damaged or sunk, only few governments are existing, barely 500 million humans are left trying to survive this new damaged world full of these mysterious, mythical and magical creatures that could either kill them or help them survive.
everything really hit the mark here except maybe only scyther. for how accurately depicted everything else was, scyther was just a bit too on the dino side. not saying it was a bad design, just not conceptually close enough. it's awesome to bridge the gap between the poke-verse and reality with such amazing artwork!
Honestly imo most of it missed the mark, really lost a lot of the intelligence and human-compatibility that makes the pokemon world so cool. These pokemon all look really quite brutish, which (I feel) somewhat misses the point
@@nxvh9062 yeah i hear you but the artist adapted them anatomically to creatures/monsters that exist in our world. some of it is a bit of a stretch, but that goes with artistic license
I imagine the Charmander family's fire attacks are made by a kind of flammable venom. It's either less potent as a Charmander, or they simply don't have great command over it yet, so you get weaker attacks like Ember, and their venom gets progressively more potent as a Charmeleon and Charizard, so you see more powerful attacks like Flamethrower and Fireblast. I figure since most actual reptile bites are infectious due to filth, corrosive saliva, or actual venom, that would kinda follow through to these guys haha
Fun fact: In real life, the babies of venemous lizards and snakes are actually more dangerous than adults, because they havn't learnt to control the amount of venom they inject yet.
What’s funny about at arcanine is that canines were originally very similar to felines, and were ironically out competed by those felines who had the traits they’d lost many years ago, such as retractable claws, and a couple other things that I honestly forgot
Yeah, I mean since the game/series is originally from Japan, I think they could keep the markings but borrow from some dog breeds, particularly soup hounds, that do have stripes and made it like a chow chow/lab mix or an Akita Inu--something like that. If you want to go for a huge skeletal form, go for a mastiff breed. I'm a dog person, so dog breeds are more my forte. This guy seems to be into lizards and paleontology.
I would pay anything to see a 'walking with dinosaurs' style documentary with these realistic CGI Pokémon roaming the world. It would look so awesome! Almost like a documentary about speculative zoology! 😍 So cool!
There’s a series on Netflix that depicts real planets, but gives them speculative life and evolutionary traits. They have scientists describe the worlds and atmosphere and stuff, and then have artist do cgi renderings of the “life” there, and it’s shot like it’s a documentary
The pokedex descriptor given to Arcanine is "legendary pokemon", the same way Gyarados is the "atrocious pokemon" and Nidoking is the "drill pokemon". It doesn't actually refer to its rarity or power in game but the narrator probably didn't remember or didn't know
There is an anime episode where arcanine was displayed in an ancient stone next to other legendary Pokémon. So it is somewhat of a legendary but might have been downgraded early on in the franchise. Personally I just imagine it being a normal Pokémon with legendary looks.
Mannn, this is so sick. I always knew a realistic depiction of pokemons would be cool but not expecting to see such great designs and arts. I also just found your channel a few weeks ago and has been loving it since. keep up the good work!
This is a very unpopular opinion, but I really like how the Pokémon looked like in Detective Pikachu Yes, some looked kind of ugly, but most of the time it makes total sense considering their real life inspirations
There’s good and bad, but they clearly based Pikachu off of the pika (understandable if you don’t know Japanese onomatopoeia) rather than the mouse or squirrel, its actually inspirations, so it was uncomfortably fluffy until you got used to it
I liked them too! I feel like a lot of people were way too hard on them. What, did they think freaking _Mewtwo_ and _Gengar_ would look cute and cuddly upon being rendered realistically? Like, I get that cute is subjective, but I for one wasn't exactly expecting a Pokemon Frankenstein and a ghost to look like fluffy Pikachu.
@:O🍡 in the scene where they're interrogating him they mime covering him in petrol, and mime lighting the match. Afterwards they let go of the match. The scene ends with Mr. Mime's horrified expression.
i used to follow this artist on dA years ago! i remember detective pikachu coming out and hearing that the film worked with them on the project. i'm so glad this was made with consent from the artist, i'll definitely be seeing if i can get my hands on their book
I just realized, Garchomp would need to be REALLY FAST to be a great predator, since it’s bright blue and red color scheme sticks out like a sore thumb in arid environments
This. This right here is why I subscribed. It is just as intriguing and entertaining as a Nat-geo documentary and better than others. Thank you all for the hard work, imagination, and energy put into this channel.
As someone who loves Biology, most notably Zoology, and monsters, "aliens" (which are practically just extraterrestrial monsters), animals and all that, I love stuff like this! I love how the artist made them and how they based it off actual real life biology, and then envisioning it, and it looks amazing! I also love how you talk about it, and how you go into detail into it, and Im definitely subbing to both you and to RJ Palmer!
As an artist this guy’s works we’re really inspiring. It’s such a great exercise for any artist to study actual anatomy and apply it to designs that simplify or exclude it.
@:O🍡 aaah I understand, I also don't really understand why people want edgy adult stuff in pokemon, do you think any one will take it seriously? I want darker subjects,not crude adultness,remember when gen 1 implied that a war happened? I want more of that stuff explored
I freaking LOVE the Hounter because he says in the DevientArt post that the belief that they're ghosts stem from people encountering them in caves where it was too dark to see their wings, they just saw this weird purple thing floating around
that was because arcanine was planned originally to be a legendary, but the pokemon team was half way through their blunt before they realized four legendary dog pokemon was too much and decided to nerf the big doggo.
Blastoise looks like an alligator snapping turtle. Leafeon also has the face marks of a sloth to make the moss feature more obvious like you mentioned. Groudon reminds me more of a carnotaurus instead of the tyrannosaurus that you showed. I was expecting Arcanine to be based off a tibetan mastiff or a leonberger instead of a feline, but it looks awesome either way. My favorite interpretation is Dragonite.
It was planned to be a legendary in the game, and even the Anime shows it in the 2nd episode in a picture with the 3 legendary bird pokemon. But it isn't a legendary and will never be! Stop calling it a legendary, that is irritating!
the two people in the replies have no idea, its hilarious. Every pokemon has a title for it, picked by the creators of pokemon. For example, Pikachu is electric mouse pokemon. Arcanine's title is "legendary pokemon"
my favorite was gengar as it is one of my favorite ghost types. the way its biology looked like a terrastial bat was amazing and looked like something that would be awesome to find in the wild.
As a ground type it is weak to water. Garchomp was always nonsensical to begin with though. Take a hammerhead shark smash a raptor into it, make it ground type and weak to water and then depict it flying without any technical ability to do so.
These are so cool and creative! I remember seeing a couple of these when I was 10 and thought they were weird. I guess now that I'm older I appreciate the work put into this.
I'd like to see a somewhat believable realistic explanation of how the physiology of some of these pokes works and what the internal anatomy would look like.
I've always seen Palmers work as being foremost about Turing Pokémon into bizarre version of normal day animals with realism taking a slight backseat (in a good way). I absolutely adore his work and I would have never imagined a video like this would be made on him. I also can't believe that he worked on the detective Pikachu movie, I honestly have no idea how I could have forgotten that lol.
these all look great. although this is just my personal taste but I would've preferred if realistic garchomp's arms to have resembled pteranodon wings(albeit smaller muscle membrane only on the forearms) more than what seems to be similar to shark fins so it has more control its arms, can use them to balance its upper body as well as can more effectively use the spikes on them in combat.
The combination of your editing skills/enthusiastic explanation and his outstanding illustrations made for a very interesting video. I'll be definitely waiting for a second part!
I’d like to imagine The Snivy line becoming more carnivorous as they evolve, with Serperior bing a full on Carnivore whilst Snivy bing a Herbivore. That’s if you look at them in the wild, but out in the place called “Captivity“ it is a lot different, since you can force a full on Carnivore to become a Herbivore. I also imagine that a Charmander can eat a Magikarp, while it is fishing with its parents at the closest river near its home cave. Tho, until we can get a full on Pokémon food chain, I don’t think this opinion will ever be fact, speaking of which, I’d like to see a Pokémon food chain, where each and every Pokémon is put in a food chain just like the real world food chain, and to make things less complex, it’s only will take place on the wild, there, done 😎
Magikarp is canonically eaten by Pidgeot, who snatch it out of the air when it splashes. Pidgeys also eat Caterpies, Chandelures eat souls, and Sandeghast & Swalot eat everything they encounter.
@@pistincup352 That would mostly depend on things. We can assume Totadile is a carnivore, and that Cynaquil is an herbivore, based on the animals they're inspired by. Any Pokémon MADE of rock or steel would have to be getting that material from somewhere, and Onix & Aron are known to eat rocks and steels respectively. Poison-types either make their own poison, or eat OTHER poisonous pokémon and absorb the toxins. Some poisonous frogs for example eat toxic bugs and fruits, which causes the poison to build up in their blood. Zubat likely makes its own venom, but Trubbish gains its poison from the rotten garbage it eats. Ursaring is a bear, so it likely eats both fruits and meat. Wabbofett lives in caves, so perhaps it eats cave moss or fungus?
@@Alizudo But what about "How many pounds of food do they need to eat in order to feel satisfied?" (I already know that Snorlax needs like 800 pounds of food in order to feel satisfied, but what about the others)
I’ve been a fan of this creators work for years. I absolutely love how thoroughly the mix in their Pokémon to the point where most people wouldn’t even fully notice the ones found in the picture. Like how there’s ninjasks around the venusaur as well as their sheddings (shedinja) and the Bulbasaur is eating a nincada. Charmander is carrying a caterpie in its mouth and there’s a staryu on Blastoises arm as well as a few tynamo. I still remember when he got hired for detective Pikachu and I’m so glad he was it just made the movie designs all that better.
Pokémon designs were mostly based off real world animals. Now we are taking Pokémon designs and bringing it back to real life. We have come full circle.
In the past, I watched a "Pokemon are real" video where there are just photoshopped animals to look like Pokémon if they're irl. This video here is bring me back to it.
If Guillermo Del Toro could make a semi-horror Pokemon movie with practical effects… these designs could used as reference as well as OG animated material and story and would be so freaky 💀
Honestly, I don't get why Arcanine had to get feline features. Personally we had 3 dogs who had such so huge manes a lesser male lion's. They were brothers from a bedding of nine puppies. They were all glorious, huge members of their species, all of them lived long and healthy lives on our farm. Their father was a Kuvasz, their mother was a Newfoundland dog. I miss them so much, since the last of them died nearly 10 years ago. Personally, Scyther is my favourite. It's reimage looks beautiful! :D
Just imagine if mother nature just said:"It's evolving" And also I do wonder how long the evolution takes since real world evolution takes 100's of thousands or even millions of years
Me: if espeon was real, i would catch it! It looks sooo adorable! Me after seeing what espeon in a realistic art style: actually I changed my mind- Edit: 8:31 Jesus Christ I wouldn't want that in my house
I like to think of all the "evolutions" (more like metamorphosis) of some pokemon as being groups of seperate but still very closely related (in evolutionary terms..) species such as Gengar and its pre-evolutions or as various life stages of a highly metamorphic species such as Dragonite and its pre-evolutions.
Bro these are really well thought out and how I would actually picture pokemon being real. Alot people who try to make them realistic don't change the eyes but these were amazing
I like how the Ghastly’s eyes have been reimagined as large ears, probably meant to scare off predators. Gangar’s arms look like a vestigial wings to reflect the previous evolutions.
Wow it came out so great! Thanks very much for the kind words and thorough explanation of my works.
Love the monster hunter bulbasaur
@@Sidrinzler Thank you, I made it myself!
Dude you're a boss!
Eyyy I didn't expect to see you here.
I really love the idea of grounding Pokémon in biology, really great concept!
YEEEEEEESSSSSS!!!!!! I've always loved realistic art of Pokemon
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>insert "I wasn't expecting to see you here" comment
Ayy It’s One of my favorite UA-camrs 🔥
thanks for the comment
You really should talk about these videos and something like serina the world of birds.
This reminds me of when you translate a sentence into a different language, then back to the original, and it's something new, that's what this artist has basically done with these pokemon, translating what were originally inspired by real world animals back into realistical animals. I love it.
because in the words of Franca Cavagnoli, the Italian translator for Virginia Woolf and many others, "sometimes it's lost in translation, but sometimes it is gained"
This would be a fascinating yet nightmarish world with some very op and potentially world ending creatures........
Some Pokedex entries are highly wtf lol
What about the detective pikachu movie
Simple make the pokemon world bigger n more durable
Remember that archeus guy?
Just wait until you see his take on the Vanilluxe line.
Not gonna lie, turning Gastly's comical eyes into a pair of large bat ears is pretty smart.
I'd like to think people from the ancient times mistook the ears for a pair of big eyes staring at them from the darkness in their panic, and thus Gastly's depiction as spectral floating heads came to be.
So it farts to stay afloat… fascinating
@@thomasramirez5132 why would it fart out the helium inside it
I don't know....I genuinely hate the fact that the artist even turned Ghastly, Haunter, and Gengar into hyper realistic bats. They're ghosts for a reason, and should've stayed that way. Don't get me wrong, the art is great, but Gengar being a weird giant bat/bear thing??? I just can't wrap my head around that concept. lol
@BombBird11 cause they were grounded in realism and ghosts arent real
@@BombBird11,they did it to ground the designs in realism,because,to be honest,the Gengar line isn't that biologically realistic.
Charizard's bipedal stance as an intimidation display rather than a normal walking gait really gives charizard the vibe of a winged reptilian Grizzly Bear rather than a dragon, which I personally think is even more badass.
As an Alaskan that has had terrifying contact with the normal ones in the past I'll pass on the winged grizzly bears. 👀
Bears aren’t the only creatures to do that though
@@HeyitsBri_Such as anteaters, they do that better
I’d imagine The Eevee line as actually being a bunch of subspecies with identical Cubs but distinct adult forms. Also, Realistic diglett is cuter than canonical diglett.
That is actually a really interesting way to invision the Eeveelutions, I like it.
Mat Pat from Game Theory says that pokemon "evolution" is not evolution but epigenetic.
V a p o r e o n
@@estatico1655 Id imagine as they grow their tail spine starts to spike up and the skin gets really stretchy, forming the fins.
Yeah, makes a lot of sense, all closely related but their cubs all look very similar due to that common ancestors
You know, in a weird way, this all feels very similar to monster hunter, many of the monster hunter designs are based in real world biology but turned up to 11, and seeing garchomp look something like a cephadrome actually makes me appreciate both series
Yesssss! Glad I wasn't the only one who thought Garchomp resembled Cephadrome from Monster Hunter :D
@@SomeOne-wr1wr same
Gastly is just a shortened Nightshade Paolumu
Agree!
Of course it is! The guy who made these, RJ Palmer also does a bunch of Monster Hunter stuff! And since these are my absolute favorite franchises, I absolutely support the dude.
I had an idea that the bulbasaur and oddish had a symbiotic relationship cause they’ve got features of the same flower on them idk just thought that idea of a oddish chilling on a venusaurs back would be adorable 🥺
Oddish slowly killing venusaur 😳
@@hmidk676 or maybe riding him 😏
@@sauravdwivedi504 daymnnn
And Ninjask Pollinating Venusaur
@@sauravdwivedi504 sussy baka
His version of the Dragonite line actually looks like related Pokémon unlike the originals
The dragonite line looks like axolotls
@@fabioavaro7947 salamander tadpoles (or whatever you called them ) look like axolotls I'm pretty sure axolotls are just salamanders that don't grow up.
@@flyingfish8058 I guess they're not actually going extinct, they're all just beginning to grow up lol
I love that the eyes on Ghastly are now the ears of the bat- it’s genius
IKR
I imagine that ancient civilizations would depict it the way it looks in the games and assume it is some sort of spirit because of its anatomy, and the fact that it lives in dark caves where it would be hard to get a look at
It barely resembles its video game counterpart though.
@@SirBlackReeds barely?
@@SirBlackReeds True!!
anybody else feel like arcanine/growlithe should look more like a canine? loved the detail in the reimaginings but always felt like they were kind of a cross between feline and canine
Completely agree. After all, it's Arcanine not Arfeline lol
and it's not exactly a legendary, it's meant to be a household pet. i would've made it a less imposing and threatening version of a liger
i agree it could be more canine, but arcanine is based off of the shisa (japanese "lion dog") statues after all, which are often more feline in appearance. so i don't have any issue with the approach, it's just another take on it really
@@rutvin8763 it was intended to be legendary. in one of the early eps it showed the arcanine and was said to be a legendary or rather pseudo legendary along with dragonite. they hashed it though.
They are also based off of komainu which are dog lion hybrids
I look forward to the other Pokemon Designs Arvalis has in store. I may not be an expert on Pokemon, but My favorite is Zapdos, who was based off of the Thunderbird from Native American Mythology.
Have you seen the new galarian zapdos? Based off a roadrunner and looks awesome AF too. Zapdos was always a badass mon
Yes!
@:O🍡 japanese names are basic and weird for almost all pokèmon. Staryus name translates to "starfish man" in Japanese. And Umbreons name is "blackie" in Japanese. Articuno is just Freezer and Krabby is just Crab. There's tons more examples.And people think the English names are unoriginal or basic,lmao
@:O🍡 no clue,lol
Or was it?
7:22 ITS A SHARK WITH WINGS HELL YEAH
A good choice for a video would be looking at the biology of Monsters from the Monster Hunter series. I feel like that has great potential.
That would be awesome.
Well they are already expanded upon and there is a lot of info already but still a good thing for the ones not that known
Man, groudon really lived up to his title as a legendary Pokemon in that realistic art
He is pokemon godzilla!
@@SzaraWilk and that makes rayquaza ghidorah
And the pleasant surprise was right next to it at the end. Idk why but the realization of magmar as a prehistoric shoe bill just fits for a unique pokemon
8:29 bro as much I can see, the artist made the eyes of ghastly the ears of the bat. What a creativity man
I don’t even watch pokemon but the speculative-biology-ish description adds a unique combination of realism and scientific fantasy in its world that it fascinates me
I don’t know if Pokemon fans watch Pokémon, i think that most just play the video games (Sword and Shield is NOT worth it, but you can always just download roms or something- of the main games, G5 has the best story, but G4 has the best gameplay- spin-off games tend to be superior, however)
(The Pokémon Special manga is also very good, but I think that even less people follow it than those that follow the anime- which, to be fair, is easily accessible and basically free to watch, as well as being simple and appealing to small children)
@@runeanonymous9760 oh I didn’t know that! Thanks for the fun fact
Same, it pleases my imaginative brain. When i saw these realistic pokemon i just imagined a movie with the idea of a huge catastrophic phenomena occured around the planet. Massive earthquakes are happening all around the globe causing a tremendous loss of human and animal lives then tsunamis happened. After all of those events, some sort of interdimensional portals suddenly appeared on certain parts of earth in the visage of huge surface cracks and ruptures, like fault lines splitting countries and continents, on the earth's surface, products of the earthquakes. Then they appeared out of the portals, the pokemons.
After 50 years, the appearance of earth is now quite different from that of it's former self, continents are split, and some countries are either split or severely damaged or sunk, only few governments are existing, barely 500 million humans are left trying to survive this new damaged world full of these mysterious, mythical and magical creatures that could either kill them or help them survive.
@@yaboialphapsi-krieger2709 omg thnx for the mini apocalyptic-sci-fi read 😻
As a person who enjoys both pokemon and speculitive evolution, this video is great
Lol same
Love how he made Ghastly's ears look like the cartoon counter parts, eyes. Awesome!
everything really hit the mark here except maybe only scyther. for how accurately depicted everything else was, scyther was just a bit too on the dino side. not saying it was a bad design, just not conceptually close enough.
it's awesome to bridge the gap between the poke-verse and reality with such amazing artwork!
Honestly imo most of it missed the mark, really lost a lot of the intelligence and human-compatibility that makes the pokemon world so cool. These pokemon all look really quite brutish, which (I feel) somewhat misses the point
@@nxvh9062 yeah i hear you but the artist adapted them anatomically to creatures/monsters that exist in our world. some of it is a bit of a stretch, but that goes with artistic license
@@ekim613 that espion was mad ugly. Realistically it would have fur
I bet the artist considered doing a mantis and thinking “naw, too easy” and made it a theropod for the sake of the challenge.
@@AnkhAnanku The Artist said he always saw Scyther as a dinosaur thing with bug parts in the design in the description, so i guess that explains it
I imagine the Charmander family's fire attacks are made by a kind of flammable venom. It's either less potent as a Charmander, or they simply don't have great command over it yet, so you get weaker attacks like Ember, and their venom gets progressively more potent as a Charmeleon and Charizard, so you see more powerful attacks like Flamethrower and Fireblast. I figure since most actual reptile bites are infectious due to filth, corrosive saliva, or actual venom, that would kinda follow through to these guys haha
In real life theres lizards who shot liquid from their tails. When i saw that, my mouth dropt to the cellar.
Fun fact: In real life, the babies of venemous lizards and snakes are actually more dangerous than adults, because they havn't learnt to control the amount of venom they inject yet.
@@justusb.plorer8773 interesting
What’s funny about at arcanine is that canines were originally very similar to felines, and were ironically out competed by those felines who had the traits they’d lost many years ago, such as retractable claws, and a couple other things that I honestly forgot
Yeah, I mean since the game/series is originally from Japan, I think they could keep the markings but borrow from some dog breeds, particularly soup hounds, that do have stripes and made it like a chow chow/lab mix or an Akita Inu--something like that. If you want to go for a huge skeletal form, go for a mastiff breed. I'm a dog person, so dog breeds are more my forte. This guy seems to be into lizards and paleontology.
I would pay anything to see a 'walking with dinosaurs' style documentary with these realistic CGI Pokémon roaming the world. It would look so awesome! Almost like a documentary about speculative zoology! 😍 So cool!
The closest is ‘Walking with Godzilla’ just think of the Kaiju as a Tyranitar.
There’s a series on Netflix that depicts real planets, but gives them speculative life and evolutionary traits. They have scientists describe the worlds and atmosphere and stuff, and then have artist do cgi renderings of the “life” there, and it’s shot like it’s a documentary
@@S3verusMyG I'll have to check it out!
@@nicbell8090 I've been watching it! Life on alien worlds right? So interesting!
No same
"In the category of legendary Pokemon, Palmer imagines Arcanine as-"
Wait, what?
The pokedex descriptor given to Arcanine is "legendary pokemon", the same way Gyarados is the "atrocious pokemon" and Nidoking is the "drill pokemon". It doesn't actually refer to its rarity or power in game but the narrator probably didn't remember or didn't know
Arcanine was actually supposed to be a legendary
There is an anime episode where arcanine was displayed in an ancient stone next to other legendary Pokémon. So it is somewhat of a legendary but might have been downgraded early on in the franchise. Personally I just imagine it being a normal Pokémon with legendary looks.
Yea, the nerd in me actually raged a bit on that one.
Arcanine is a psuedo legendary i think
This is some amazing art. I'd so play a game featuring these models. A more grown up version of pokemon on PC.
@@mousek801 this is the correct response
For real. That would be amazing
Pokemon Black?🙂
Also why limit it to PC? I'm sure it could be a console hit as well.
Palsworld?
@@Daviticus042most likely in a super realistic game consoles would lag soooooo much
Mannn, this is so sick. I always knew a realistic depiction of pokemons would be cool but not expecting to see such great designs and arts. I also just found your channel a few weeks ago and has been loving it since. keep up the good work!
They didn't draw this art. A guy name rj palmer did. They mentioned that he drew this
@@khaingshwewah8534 oh don't worry, i know about that. I was just saying I love the channel because they cover great contents like this
I love how Ghastly’s ears were stylized to look similar to it’s eyes in canon!
This is a very unpopular opinion, but I really like how the Pokémon looked like in Detective Pikachu
Yes, some looked kind of ugly, but most of the time it makes total sense considering their real life inspirations
There’s good and bad, but they clearly based Pikachu off of the pika (understandable if you don’t know Japanese onomatopoeia) rather than the mouse or squirrel, its actually inspirations, so it was uncomfortably fluffy until you got used to it
I liked them too! I feel like a lot of people were way too hard on them. What, did they think freaking _Mewtwo_ and _Gengar_ would look cute and cuddly upon being rendered realistically? Like, I get that cute is subjective, but I for one wasn't exactly expecting a Pokemon Frankenstein and a ghost to look like fluffy Pikachu.
Unpopular? I’d estimate about 95% of the opinions I’ve seen of those designs was positive
@:O🍡 That's the reason why he burns alive in movie...
@:O🍡 in the scene where they're interrogating him they mime covering him in petrol, and mime lighting the match. Afterwards they let go of the match. The scene ends with Mr. Mime's horrified expression.
RJ Palmer's art is what first got me down the spec bio rabbit hole
i used to follow this artist on dA years ago! i remember detective pikachu coming out and hearing that the film worked with them on the project. i'm so glad this was made with consent from the artist, i'll definitely be seeing if i can get my hands on their book
I just realized, Garchomp would need to be REALLY FAST to be a great predator, since it’s bright blue and red color scheme sticks out like a sore thumb in arid environments
But it's also a burrowing animal, "swimming" in the sand and gravel.
Explains why Cynthia's Garchomp is so strong
Thing is, Garchomp can *fucking fly*
@@haka-katyt7439 that's what the pokedex says, but I guess it can't actually learn the move fly...?
@@a_donut prolly cannot fly very high I assume
This. This right here is why I subscribed. It is just as intriguing and entertaining as a Nat-geo documentary and better than others. Thank you all for the hard work, imagination, and energy put into this channel.
Dragonite: "she turned me into a newt!"
Garchomp: L A N D S H A R K
I mean that's literally what Garchomp is supposed to be so it makes sense. XD
As someone who loves Biology, most notably Zoology, and monsters, "aliens" (which are practically just extraterrestrial monsters), animals and all that, I love stuff like this! I love how the artist made them and how they based it off actual real life biology, and then envisioning it, and it looks amazing! I also love how you talk about it, and how you go into detail into it, and Im definitely subbing to both you and to RJ Palmer!
7:42 "This gives sharks the ability to walk on land, greatly improving their hunting range"
As an artist this guy’s works we’re really inspiring. It’s such a great exercise for any artist to study actual anatomy and apply it to designs that simplify or exclude it.
8:35 You can also see that the Reimagined Gastley's ears look like eyes
I've been a fan of Arvalis' work for a while now. He's got some great stuff! Thank you for showcasing his work :)
The Gastly/Haunter ears looking like eyes are so unique
Can't believe how you glossed over the very creative way RJ designed ghastly's eyes to be the ears
Now THIS is epic. Imagine a t rated pokemon game with realistic art style....
T rated doesn't necessarily mean adult. I just want a pokemon game that tackles darker subject matter,not necessarily edgy or anything like that.
@:O🍡 aaah I understand, I also don't really understand why people want edgy adult stuff in pokemon, do you think any one will take it seriously? I want darker subjects,not crude adultness,remember when gen 1 implied that a war happened? I want more of that stuff explored
@:O🍡 heh,glad we could gone to an agreement
A pokemon game like majoras mask would be truly awesome
Legends: Arceus was close
Imagining these realistic Pokemons saying their names in human like language is kinda terrifying
Pickachu : *pickachu*
Human : *Confused screaming*
I prefer game voices.
@@zeropsaft pikachu*
@@_Jotop bruh
Iirc in his description they don't. They make animal sounds (like in the video games)
I can’t say that I was expecting any of these adaptations! So creative and detailed! Awesome
I freaking LOVE the Hounter because he says in the DevientArt post that the belief that they're ghosts stem from people encountering them in caves where it was too dark to see their wings, they just saw this weird purple thing floating around
Fun fact: the original Nidoking is based on the Godzilla kaiju Baragon
Rydon probably too.
I take back that I want pokemon in real life 😅😅🤣
“So first we will be looking at the kanto region”
Puts garchomp in
They also called arcanine A legend ary
@@krustaceanSG
Because it's called the "Legendary Pokémon". It SAYS so in the games, if you bothered to pay attention.
that was because arcanine was planned originally to be a legendary, but the pokemon team was half way through their blunt before they realized four legendary dog pokemon was too much and decided to nerf the big doggo.
@@Alizudo officially, arcanine is a pseudo legendary
@@joeriandries
... except no it isn't?
The Gastly and Haunter ones are mind blowing. Nintendo should canonize this interpretation of them haha
Blastoise looks like an alligator snapping turtle. Leafeon also has the face marks of a sloth to make the moss feature more obvious like you mentioned. Groudon reminds me more of a carnotaurus instead of the tyrannosaurus that you showed. I was expecting Arcanine to be based off a tibetan mastiff or a leonberger instead of a feline, but it looks awesome either way. My favorite interpretation is Dragonite.
Arcanine is a legendary!!!!
(Only true Pokemon fans would understand)
Sense when was Arcanine legendary?
It was planned to be a legendary in the game, and even the Anime shows it in the 2nd episode in a picture with the 3 legendary bird pokemon. But it isn't a legendary and will never be! Stop calling it a legendary, that is irritating!
the two people in the replies have no idea, its hilarious. Every pokemon has a title for it, picked by the creators of pokemon. For example, Pikachu is electric mouse pokemon. Arcanine's title is "legendary pokemon"
I like how the ghost pokemon’s are actually bat’s, it’s really clever and creative.
I'd love to see a monster hunter type game with these monsters.
I remember looking at this guy's art years ago and loving it, and I still love it today.
my favorite was gengar as it is one of my favorite ghost types. the way its biology looked like a terrastial bat was amazing and looked like something that would be awesome to find in the wild.
I've always loved his interpretation of the Eevees and Reshiram!
I'd think garchomp would be more of a semi-aquatic cause of its tail design, maybe more similar to a crocodile
As a ground type it is weak to water. Garchomp was always nonsensical to begin with though. Take a hammerhead shark smash a raptor into it, make it ground type and weak to water and then depict it flying without any technical ability to do so.
@@ScionStorm1 pretty sure they were going for the "land shark" trope but kinda muddled it up a bit on the way.
@@ScionStorm1 Oh yeah I forgot it was a ground type
Its based on cephadrome
@@ScionStorm1 garchomp is not weak to water
Magmar, Scyther and the Gengar evolutions were all so well done and unique. By far my favorites.
I would love to see a more real life version of golisopod, my favourite Pokémon 🗿
It’s an isopod…just bipedal? And a lot larger?
I wished we got a whole line of promo cards like this from this dude. I buy those.
These are so cool and creative! I remember seeing a couple of these when I was 10 and thought they were weird. I guess now that I'm older I appreciate the work put into this.
5:36 Don’t give them more vaporeon content!
7:30 givin me some monster hunter vibes there palmer,,,
I would love to see a fan-made Pokemon game with realistic art like this.
I'd like to see a somewhat believable realistic explanation of how the physiology of some of these pokes works and what the internal anatomy would look like.
In VR so people can see just how terrifying pokemon would be if they were real
I've always seen Palmers work as being foremost about Turing Pokémon into bizarre version of normal day animals with realism taking a slight backseat (in a good way). I absolutely adore his work and I would have never imagined a video like this would be made on him. I also can't believe that he worked on the detective Pikachu movie, I honestly have no idea how I could have forgotten that lol.
7:02 I think this is inspired by male sage grouse.
these all look great. although this is just my personal taste but I would've preferred if realistic garchomp's arms to have resembled pteranodon wings(albeit smaller muscle membrane only on the forearms) more than what seems to be similar to shark fins so it has more control its arms, can use them to balance its upper body as well as can more effectively use the spikes on them in combat.
The combination of your editing skills/enthusiastic explanation and his outstanding illustrations made for a very interesting video. I'll be definitely waiting for a second part!
I know this would never happen, but they would look so cool in a Monster Hunter game
One of the best videos I've found. This is taking Pokemon realism to a whole new level. I think I need the book!
I’d like to imagine The Snivy line becoming more carnivorous as they evolve, with Serperior bing a full on Carnivore whilst Snivy bing a Herbivore. That’s if you look at them in the wild, but out in the place called “Captivity“ it is a lot different, since you can force a full on Carnivore to become a Herbivore. I also imagine that a Charmander can eat a Magikarp, while it is fishing with its parents at the closest river near its home cave. Tho, until we can get a full on Pokémon food chain, I don’t think this opinion will ever be fact, speaking of which, I’d like to see a Pokémon food chain, where each and every Pokémon is put in a food chain just like the real world food chain, and to make things less complex, it’s only will take place on the wild, there, done 😎
Magikarp is canonically eaten by Pidgeot, who snatch it out of the air when it splashes.
Pidgeys also eat Caterpies, Chandelures eat souls, and Sandeghast & Swalot eat everything they encounter.
@@Alizudo But what about the ones whos diet isn't confirmed?
@@pistincup352
That would mostly depend on things.
We can assume Totadile is a carnivore, and that Cynaquil is an herbivore, based on the animals they're inspired by.
Any Pokémon MADE of rock or steel would have to be getting that material from somewhere, and Onix & Aron are known to eat rocks and steels respectively.
Poison-types either make their own poison, or eat OTHER poisonous pokémon and absorb the toxins.
Some poisonous frogs for example eat toxic bugs and fruits, which causes the poison to build up in their blood.
Zubat likely makes its own venom, but Trubbish gains its poison from the rotten garbage it eats.
Ursaring is a bear, so it likely eats both fruits and meat. Wabbofett lives in caves, so perhaps it eats cave moss or fungus?
@@Alizudo Hmm... Good point
@@Alizudo But what about "How many pounds of food do they need to eat in order to feel satisfied?"
(I already know that Snorlax needs like 800 pounds of food in order to feel satisfied, but what about the others)
I’ve been a fan of this creators work for years. I absolutely love how thoroughly the mix in their Pokémon to the point where most people wouldn’t even fully notice the ones found in the picture. Like how there’s ninjasks around the venusaur as well as their sheddings (shedinja) and the Bulbasaur is eating a nincada. Charmander is carrying a caterpie in its mouth and there’s a staryu on Blastoises arm as well as a few tynamo. I still remember when he got hired for detective Pikachu and I’m so glad he was it just made the movie designs all that better.
Pokémon designs were mostly based off real world animals. Now we are taking Pokémon designs and bringing it back to real life. We have come full circle.
In the past, I watched a "Pokemon are real" video where there are just photoshopped animals to look like Pokémon if they're irl. This video here is bring me back to it.
This looks like a fusion of Pokemon and Monster Hunter. Great work!
If Guillermo Del Toro could make a semi-horror Pokemon movie with practical effects… these designs could used as reference as well as OG animated material and story and would be so freaky 💀
Just wanna say that your videos are a treat every time you upload. I always look forward to it!
Glad you like them, thanks for watching!
Same here! Every upload feels like a trip to a new world
6:23 Lion cubs play with tortoises irl
So cool! This really brings my fantasy of recreated dinosaurs and pokemon to life!
(those are axolotls not salamanders btw)
Still a salamander
Apologies are salamanders
I've never loved Pokemon any more than this, this seems so good it's like an actual documentary of another planet or dimension
Honestly, I don't get why Arcanine had to get feline features. Personally we had 3 dogs who had such so huge manes a lesser male lion's. They were brothers from a bedding of nine puppies. They were all glorious, huge members of their species, all of them lived long and healthy lives on our farm. Their father was a Kuvasz, their mother was a Newfoundland dog. I miss them so much, since the last of them died nearly 10 years ago.
Personally, Scyther is my favourite. It's reimage looks beautiful! :D
A realistic Guzzlord would be one of the most terrifying things ever made
Guzzlord AKA your mom on the hub
@@S3verusMyG dayuuummmm
A lot of the ultrabeasts would look freaky as hell, since they're aliens after all.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA”
@@S3verusMyG your mom meme is cringe
never in a million years have i thought u would be making content on pokemon. i think imma subscribe now
Just imagine if mother nature just said:"It's evolving"
And also I do wonder how long the evolution takes since real world evolution takes 100's of thousands or even millions of years
Me: if espeon was real, i would catch it! It looks sooo adorable!
Me after seeing what espeon in a realistic art style: actually I changed my mind-
Edit: 8:31 Jesus Christ I wouldn't want that in my house
I kept seeing this guys art on deviant art but I never knew all this, it’s truly amazing
6:37 If you didn't say that was a porcupine, I genuinely would not have been able to tell.
These Designs would make up to a great movie! Imagine roaming through a world ruled by these Creatures
Gengar and blastoise were always my favorites and they look awesome in this
I think we went from Pokemon to Monster Hunter, this is awesome
I like to think of all the "evolutions" (more like metamorphosis) of some pokemon as being groups of seperate but still very closely related (in evolutionary terms..) species such as Gengar and its pre-evolutions or as various life stages of a highly metamorphic species such as Dragonite and its pre-evolutions.
Bro these are really well thought out and how I would actually picture pokemon being real. Alot people who try to make them realistic don't change the eyes but these were amazing
7:48 absolutely no. Scyther is a bug
I love Palmer's interpretations, he gives the meaning of MONSTERS to Pocket Monsters (aka Pokemons)
I like how the Ghastly’s eyes have been reimagined as large ears, probably meant to scare off predators. Gangar’s arms look like a vestigial wings to reflect the previous evolutions.
i've been following this man's work for years and he never fails to astound me
My day keeps getting better and better.. and this is the perfect icing on the cake!
These renderings are so beautiful. He does these Pokemon so much justice. Especially my pal Blastoise!
this is the only man that can make dragonite’s line make sense
I thought Arvalis is she.
6:32 that realistic Pikachu on his tail is kind of disturbing