Link can be found here: www.creatures.co.jp/igp2/prize-winners/
They did plush Pikachu dirty. Another Slowpoke in the bathtub situation.
Congrats to all the winners and at least Wishiwashi got 2nd! Love the Tyranitar art too.
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Damn, that winning charizard is super nice though
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God damn, there are some talented people in the world. All of these are beautiful.
PokeBeach have a list of the other entries, if anybody missed those. They’re all fantastic:
www.pokebeach.com/2020/07/creatures-announces-winners-of-2020-illustrators-contest
Some of my favourites that weren’t picked as winners:
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I think a lot of the art doesn’t get picked not because it’s not good art, because there are a lot of beautiful submissions, but because the art is too busy or detailed for a very small card.
My favs ones are Milotic and Pikachu, great designs
Mr. Yuhi and Nozzle killed it.
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Whilst these are fantastic designs I hope they return to the 2009/2010 contest style at some point where participants are given a template to fill in.
I cannot fault any of these designs, but ultimately they all look like generic set card designs that the Pokémon company would produce anyway. They’re all so well refined that there’s little personalisation to any of them.
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I admit to resenting it at first with a knee-jerk reaction like, “Ugh, of course it’s Charizard.” But after reading the judge’s description of it, it made me realize that this artwork inhabits every child’s fantasy of what it means to be a Pokemon Master - having your toughened Pokemon finally advancing to the big stages of battles, presenting itself with a dynamic pose right after it comes out of the pokeball, the dust settling and the amass of the crowd going wild after seeing it. It makes sense why this won.
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Do you hear that?
It’s the sound of Charizard collectors all collectively crying that they need to purchase another hard to obtain card.
If it’s anything like the 2019 contest it’ll be a readily-available promo.
bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Gardevoir_(SM-P_Promo_408)
Have they said how many copies are going to be printed? All I saw was it say the card will be printed as a promo, so depending on what kind of promo it could be pretty easy to get
Charizard collectors are used to just getting their copies from regular printed sets. After the 600 copy V-Max promo and now this promo, both not obtainable from a normal box set will will displease them.
The Charizard winning is a 1000000% improvement over the ugly, generic, lazy ‘no risk’ Gardevoir of last year, yet it’s still nothing in comparison with Bathtub Slowpoke.
Every entry shown had potential and were all above the average standard. It’s bad enough that entries had to compete for each other for one planned release result instead of having one per pokemon.
The perspective I had from before has shifted after seeing the point shown by @azulryu 's view of pokémon through the audience intended. Meanwhile, I’m writing comprehending a thought pattern of the system’s decisions playing like this but pokémon and art. Gordon Ramsay Boiling Point Extended Highlights - YouTube
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I need that Charizard, like mentioned before the reason why it was chosen is really cool.
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Well that seems a little harsh, certainly wasn’t my favorite but I thought it was pretty nice.
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It seems that I have to teach you all again, hardworking metagross > bathtub slowpoke
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I think that is a bit harsh. All 50 submitted artworks could have easily won last year (honestly alot of these people are professional artists already…), same with this years contest. For example: I liked urinori’s Mewtwo the most (seriously, i like the style of him) and think that should have won. But we are not professional illustrators. We do not see what the judges see.
https://twitter.com/uninori550/status/1284076050868105216
Remember that this is still a contest. There was a theme going on called “Landscape with Pokemon” and the Judges picked Gardevoir. They are professionals and thought that card fitted the theme the most.
Also Nishida Yuu was comissioned to do art for the snow miku x alolan vulpix collaboration a while ago:
She has talent for sure and is a professional.
Here is an interview of her with creatures for those interested:
www.creatures.co.jp/igp2/about/pokemon-illustration/article-6.php#atl?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=tw&utm_campaign=cr_twitter_igp2_article6
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