#pikachu with hyperrealistic eyes…

[rexbalistidae]

Thinking about Harriet and Frida showing joan all the creepypasta/lost episode stories that used to scare them and realizing they were kinda ass.

In all fairness I was scared of Pokémon creepypastas when I was ten okay.

[arlovinnia]

For the make an oc thing,

A parody.

A pikachu with hyperrealistic eyes and spoooooooooooooooooooooky blood that takes you to olive garden like sunky.mpeg

PUki.Mp4

You lost me after the Olive Garden part, or maybe I'm just stupid, either way, I'm taken aback and confused

[deathchipz]

VOSIM dreams ive had (holy shit)

ive dreamt about vosim a few times over the past 3 years now, heres some dreams i still remember:

in one dream i was at a playplace, i was heading up to this swirly slide only to find vosim had blocked the entrance to the slide itself, i asked him politely to move but he said no >:[

one time his eyes were hyperrealistic looking. AND THEY WERE GREEN.

i dreamt i was a pikachu sleeping in my bed, vosim came into my room looking all scary, i was screaming as he approached me.... he stared at me creepily and angrily for a good while.... then he just said "bazinga" and left my room... WHAT DOES THIS MEAN

vosim and rotten(?? it was one of the chips lol) were my parents for some reason. they took me out to mcdonalds lol

i also had some with lil guy in them, heres the ones i recorded:

this. this art appeared in my dream one time. i dont remember the details of the dream, that was the only thing i remember from it

lil guy and deejinka standing outside of my house, staring really creepily. they were trying to get my attention by throwing stones at my window, but my silly ass shut the window (it was open, not all the way) on them as if it was a normal occurrence lol

vosim hijacked what i was watching, it kinda looked like this (i watched this before sleeping lol) after some weird glitchy shit, he turned to face me slowly looking insane.... before fucking pulling the skin off his face. it was very gory and that image has been engraved into my head since

i'll update and add on shit as i have more of these dreams lol

[alternativeproject]

Live action poke man is just showing us nobody learned anything from the cgi Alvin and the Chipmunks movies

[toasterlunatic]

What the fuck

Humans. Pokémon. Ryan Reynolds.

Wait—Ryan Reynolds?!

Get ready for a Pokémon adventure like you’ve never seen before, Trainers—POKÉMON Detective Pikachu hits theaters in Summer 2019!

[prettypinkpansy]

pokemon

it is incredibly funny that my notifications are full of people implying i am in some way a coward for not wanting to draw pokemon monstrous or otherwise pointing out “they’re pocket MONSTERS!!!” when my main fandom is prototype and i have a 40 gallon tank of cockroaches sitting in my room. i am... not in any way opposed to monsters y’all.

my point was not that monsters are ugly or bad. it was that smearing hyperrealistic textures on a 3D model of the source material, deliberately rendering it in a way that is ugly to most people all for the sake of “realism” is not realism, it’s just grittiness for the sake of grittiness. it’s like taking sailor moon’s style with its tiny mouths and huge eyes and rendering it like Momo.

i’m pointing out the hypocrisy of claiming a mangy, snarling rattata with a head bigger than its torso is more biologically “realistic” than, like, rendering what rats actually look like in reality, because we already have a base for that.

the gritty “realistic pokemon” take is over a decade older than detective pikachu. the problem is not the style, necessarily - it’s fine if you like it. the problem lies in people being smug and weird and saying it’s the superior option because it’s REALISTIC, when it isn’t... actually realistic, because your concepts don’t mirror and actively contradict any actual known animal biology. and who can say what the fuck is realism in a universe where monkeys spit fire at each other??

i’m not a stickler for realism, i think that word is subjective and the way it’s implemented is often creatively stifling. i also do like thinking about a world where pokemon are implemented more realistically, like everyday pets or service animals, and the questions and complexities that come with that.

humans are abstracted into a cutesy style in the pokemon universe - it’s reasonable to assume pokemon are as well. i think there are multiple ways to interpret that. even if you dislike using 1:1 analogs of existing biology, there are ways to creatively conceptualize realistic pokemon without making them look like spore creatures rendered with 4k textures or bad taxidermies with matted fur.

“they’re pocket MONSTERS, they’re supposed to be ugly and monstrous!!” except... we have tons of people explicitly calling them cute in-universe and treating them like darling little babies. dressing them up, carrying them around, producing cutesy merchandise and stationery of them.

“they’re basically engaging in dogfights! they beat the shit out of each other! they’re gonna look like deadly predators that maul each other!” these are essentially consensual sparring matches between sentient pets that have pent up energy, like play-wrestling. they are stated multiple times to enjoy it and find it stimulating. you really can’t compare it to real world concepts like dogfights that are illegal, abusive, dangerous, and lack any element of consent, unless you’re being willfully obtuse.

please stop being weird in my notifications now.

[gaphic]

i think an inherent problem with live-actioning pokemon (this isnt hating on detective pikachu, just my Thots) is that people assume either too much or too little stylization. like, the difference between disney animated animals and real animals isn’t as massive as when people translate celebi as some terrifying chitinous insectoid, but it’s a much bigger difference than just doing Exactly the same shapes and proportions but 3d 

if u wanna do hyperrealistic pokemon to the fullest potential, i think you really have to go against what your character design brain WANTS you to do and dial down the cute (giant eyes, soft little gingerbread paws) WITHOUT dialing up the weird and creepy (scaley textures and distorted skeletons and shit) 

what im saying is as cute as bulbasaur is, they’d look better in hyperrealism mode if their heads and eyes were proportioned more like normal turtles and less like baby dolls, but they still had cute little grins 

[poop4u]

Timon and Pumbaa Are Terrifying in the First 'Lion King' Trailer

Timon and Pumbaa Are Terrifying in the First 'Lion King' Trailer http://bit.ly/2UksOrS

On Wednesday, Disney released the first official trailer for Jon Favreau's kinda-sorta-but-not-actually-live-action Lion King remake. The nearly two-minute clip is exactly what you'd expect from a Lion King trailer: There are the obligatory nods to the original cartoon, some uplifting narration from James Earl Jones as Mufasa, and a general sense of wonder and endless possibility or whatever.

But right at the end of the trailer, just when it seems like it's over, the familiar sounds of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" come floating over the credits. What's that voice? you think to yourself. I know that jolly baritone singing "a wimba way." And then it clicks. Ah! It's Seth Rogen, playing the jolly warthog Pumbaa in the new movie, and—oh, for the love of God, what is going on? What has happened to Timon and Pumbaa?

For some reason, the beloved duo that filled your childhood with joy and a strange, insatiable appetite for grubs has been replaced by these hyperrealistic, vaguely terrifying CG monstrosities. They look like Spongebob close-ups sprung to life. What is happening? Who did this? What Disney executive slammed his fist on a boardroom table and decried that we better see Pumbaa's wrinkly-ass skin and eye boogers or some animator was getting canned?

Apparently, this is just par for the course now. We live in a 2019 hyperreality where we are collectively forced to reckon with Will Smith's Genie and the skin textures of various Pokémon in Detective Pikachu. Everything that we once deemed cute is now laid bare under the harsh light of our modern world, pubey warthog fur and all. Get used to it.

The new Lion King movie opens July 19 and features a brain-bleedingly stacked cast, including Beyoncé, Donald Glover, Eric André, James Earl Jones, Seth Rogan, John Oliver, and more, which seems promising. But it also features that goddamn new Pumbaa, so, you know, prepare yourself.

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via VICE https://poop4u/blog April 10, 2019 at 10:48AM DMT.NEWS, @River Donaghey, @pooop4u April 10, 2019 at 03:30PM

[coxinyoface]

...anyway, BETTER animation choices for cg, sure? i think they're exaggerating a lot because they don't *want* people to look at these like we're actually hyperrealistic pokemon, but i was getting oddly... monster's inc. vibes. then again, i can't see anyone suggesting a single mixed live action-animated movie with heavy 3D CGI creatures that's had good visuals that--and this is an important distinction--is based on preexisting images of creature based beings with human facial emoting equivalents.

unfortunately, we're not about to get space jam or who framed roger rabbit for pokemon. man i fucking wish we were. but 3d's probably easier and more popular/appealing to most studios. the closest 3D CGI thing was fantastic beasts? and if you notice, other than vague puppy eyes and overall body movements, none of the beasts emote much. the niffler and the bowtruckle emote the most of anyone, but it's not as facially focused. they don't make their mouths form words. that's realism for you! plus, it's all text inspired versus preexisting image inspired.

pokemon? pokemon has some basis in anime, which is all about that zoom on face. the fucking REPTILES in pokemon will facially emote. the charmander episodes in the first pokemon anime nearly made my child self cry. however, if i saw any reptile try to make charmander faces with a realistic reptile face, i don't know if i would laugh or scream. i probably would do both.

we enjoy bananacat face pikachu, but pikachu with a more realistic rodent face would be nonstop mild body horror/uncanny valley, versus cute or funny. like, it's great bad movie fodder, but? no. no. they're trying, and it's kinda ballsy considering castlevania seems to be the only popular anime/video game adaptation so far and that at least was 2D which is a hell of a lot less risky than LIVE ACTION WITH ANIMATION

i don’t get why people want the pokemon in the detective pikachu movie to look more realistically animated when many–of what i assume are people from the same or agreeing crowd–are complaining it looks too gritty and edgy

like. if you can’t stand mr. mime’s furless ass having very gently animated fuzz, dimples, and freckling? you are NOT gonna have a good time seeing what other furred and… not furred pokemon look like, more realistically than that. i also don’t get why anyone would walk into a movie that is going to have any Impossible Anatomy Pokemon and expect or even want to be convinced that’s real. like wow, i sure do want to see some eyeballs stuck on magnets. check out that weird… flat frog… with a transparent torso… showing swirly intestines. isn’t that a coconut tree with–oh god are those human faces on coconuts???

like the only other non pokemon being i can imagine similar to jigglypuff is kirby and i do NOT want to imagine him real life hi-res. i love him and i would never want that for him.