I still remember the first time I saw it. The bold orange skin, the piercing blue eyes, and that unmistakable flame burning ...

In the early days of the Pokemon series, much of the promotional art for the franchise was provided by Game Freak's designer and Pulseman manga artist Ken Sugimori. He is responsible for the designs ...

Ken Sugimori is best known as the character designer and art director for Pokémon, but have you ever wondered what he did before that? In a recently released art book of his, titled Ken Sugimori Works ...

Pokemon X and Y is a big hit worldwide, selling 4 million copies in the first two days of worldwide release (2.3 million in Japan alone as of this week). It's heady times for Ken Sugimori, character ...

After all, one of Pokemon‘s first-ever designs was a giant ape. The adorable figure never made it into an actual game, but the kaiju is what helped Sugimori and the team persuade Nintendo into ...

Shortly before the opening of his one-night-only exhibition “Who Is Ken Sugimori?,” the artist known as Johnnie JungleGuts walks into the main room of Chinatown art space Human Resources. He is tall, ...

Long-time fans of the Pokémon franchise may remember the early retro art style of Ken Sugimori, the illustrator of the artwork used for the original Pokémon games. Sugimori’s artstyle is much less ...

The Ultra Beasts in Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon kind of look like they came from a different franchise. In the fiction of the games, these monsters are from another dimension than the one we ...

A fan project has given us a taste of what a 3D Pokémon game might look like if the series tried to mimic its original 2D art style. Pokémon's art style has changed a lot over the years, but obviously ...

Sarah has been an editor and contributor for GameRant since 2015. She kicked off her video game journey after meeting her first Chocobo, she never looked back. After years of playing them, she decided ...

JORDAN Blecher fell to his knees in pure and utter disbelief. The Miami-based Pokémon expert, who swapped his career as a mortgage advisor to concentrate on unearthing valuable collectibles, had just ...