Extreme Pokemon Makeovers
 

While there are shittily designed pokemon in RBY and GSC, I - and as far as I can tell most people - feel that in general, standards have declined significantly since then.

In particular there has been a change in direction toward far too many fiddly details. Adding stupid stripes as well as things like random tufts of hair in some really awkward places..

So the idea behind this contest is each round we pick a pokemon we feel has a strong concept, but whose design is just fucking awful. Your job is to take that concept and make something fantastic.

The submissions will be judged by me, az, and Novaray. Winners will receive an enthusiastic metaphoric pat on the back. Or a literal pat on the back if you are willing to collect it in person.

ROUND 1:
Redesign the Vanillite line.

Ice is a type that over time the designers of pokemon have struggled to come to terms with. From Jynx to Kyurem, it has been responsible for some of the worst pokemon every generation.

It is difficult to make a compelling living creature out of something as unalive as ice. But it's also hard to come up with new ideas for something that is mostly found in places where plants dont grow, and as a consequence, animals dont visit.

So once you have a concept, you really need to execute, which, in this case, they have just failed miserably to do. I think there is a lot of scope (scoop?) for a fucking awesome ice-cream pokemon, it's your job to try and prove me right.

Some rules/guidelines:
You can pretty much change whatever you like, provided it still has the ice type and still is an ice-cream. Other than that, go nuts. But we are just judging you on the design, not the idea you had to make it a fire type and give it drought so it can counter abomasnow better..
Sketches or whatever will be accepted. It might count against you, but personally I am gonna be looking at the design itself, not necessarily the art. Mostly cause I dont know shit about art. If other judges have a slightly different perspective then I will leave that up to them.

For some judges comments, like, what I personally will be looking for:
I want compelling creatures with personality, and I dont want anything more than that.
So, if something isnt a part of telling the story of what makes this pokemon what it is, then, it probably shouldnt be there. Simplicity is really key for me. On the other hand, it had better be a fucking good story. Bear in mind though, in this case it's a living ice-cream, if it's compelling at all, it's likely to be interesting enough..

GAME OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!



A more intimidating (and much cooler) Vanillite idea I had. It hides in it's little cone waiting for prey to come by, and then ambushes it's prey. Complete and utter enemies with munchlax and lickitungs.

It's evos get more goopier and spiker as the line goes, and picture the final form having 2 heads.

Okay this is really cool and I will definitely be entering :)

I'm in! I've had ideas for those guys since I first saw them.

When is the deadline going to be?

wooo this sounds like fun i might as well!

Wait, do you want us to do remakes of it's evolutions as well? Or just vanillite?

it says redesign the vanillite line, which means designing the stage 1 and stage 2 evos as well

i will hopefully give this a go if inspiration strikes

Spikes make everything better
http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/...t/897f1c35.jpg

Damn Gamefreak why you so inventive. There was 2 lines in first gen where all you did was add 2 more of the same. It got pretty old pretty quickly. Considering it's Ice Cream, though there's little you can do with it. Going £0.69 £0.99 and £1.99 was quite cool, considering when I was growing up, they were the tiers of ice cream you could get. I don't see how you can make them more interesting unless you deviate from Ice Cream.

Badassifying the vanillite line sounds like a really cool idea! I'm definitely entering.

couldnt be bothered to take it past a sketch

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/20...le-d4rb0ap.png

This thread seems funny
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/3456/vainillas.jpg

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I think nasty was high when she drew that ;;
Probably the most badass one there, though ^^
I don't think I'll enter, but good luck to all~
This seems really interesting~

http://i.imgur.com/vHyV8.png


Behold, the frosty turd family.

ahhahahahahahahah omg Bummer that is funcking amazing on so many levels, bravo sir.

They just look so squishy and amazing!

You want a backstory? I'll provide one. I wanted to change the Vanillite line, tone down the ice-cream aspect while not removing it completely. Thus, with Vanillite and Vanilluxe, the change isn't very drastic, but still enough to soften the ridicule, I hope.

Oh my god Cobraroll your Vanilluxe looks so freaking awesome and cute! And only Ditto and Bellsprout can manage that for me! But if I were you I would edit Vanillish, because it looks smaller than Vanillte (or is it just me?) Really good, keep going!

^Different levels of zoom. I'd say Vanillish would be about twice as tall as Vanillite, and Vanilluxe about twice as tall as that again.

Man I wish Game Freak went with the Snow Yeti approach like NJ than a stupid ice cream Pokemon :/ Those ice cube horns so awesome >:D

Sorry Pocket, TrollGameFreak want to make Pokemon as stupid looking as possible

Ok, so an update of what I've made for my submission. Got the whole line done sirs.



All of these submissions look great. Can't wait to see the rest!

I'm also working on this, do we have a deadline?

Lets say a week from now..

Considering an American designed the Vanillite line, it goes to show which side of the world does pokemon better.

Anyways, this thread is genius hip.

My submissionhttp://i.imgur.com/jLUAX.png