Pokemon in 3D The making of the Pokemon.

For those interested, each pokemon has been created in 3D Studio MAX 2.0 using polygons. The Charizard started as a box, and I just pulled at the vertices, and extruded the faces and shaped it into the dragon it is now. The only problem is, when I brought him into Maya 2.5 at school, he's too complex to easily weight even using the paint brush tool. But I'm working on him, although I will be looking at making a simpler but similar model. He took the better half of the morning to model, about 4 or 5 hours. I used the Pokemon Stadium Nintendo Players guide as a guide on how to model him in 3D. It's not a perfect replica, but I think its pretty good in most ways. The Jigglypuff, Voltorb, Electrode, Koffing and Oddish all took significantly less time obviously. Each has a four or more texture IDs. Two for the eyes, one for the mouth, and one for the main color underneath. The Charizard has eight. What this does, is allow me to make a scene with Charizards eyes blinking at different times using either an animated Gif, or an avi. My early attempts at Pokemon models tried to be realistic too much, and were more trouble than they were worth. My original Jigglypuff wasn't cute at all, but actually, kinda scary. I recently reevaluated what I was trying to do, and realized that since making realistic and seamless humans was very difficult, I would study what they do with video games for their characters. The N64 provided the key. Texture mapping. Look at how good each model actually is and then look at the texture maps. In most cases, you may mistake them for their N64 counterparts. I tried hard to make the textures anime in nature, and I think I got it right. Please let me know what you think of them. My email is x1commander@hotmail.com Any comments, complaints or questions are welcome.

Psyduck

This pokemon is often the comic relief of the series, and with little wonder, this Pokemon is both powerful and slow. It's about as fast as a slowpoke when it comes to registering anything. It's scratch attack is weak as are most of its physical attacks. But, its psychic attacks kick butt. It's confusion is one of the more powerful ones. Misty doesn't seem to appreciate its potential and ends up more often than not bashing it on the head, which hurts it, and also increases his power. Psyducks are usually strong swimmers, but when swimming, they sometimes get knocked over by careless photographers with apples.(ie - Snap in Pokemon Snap)

Pikachu

For some reason, this little yellow Pokemon seems to be one of the most popular of all Pokemon. It's electric attacks are far stronger than they should be for it's level, making it a rare variety of Pikachu. They are tempermental, it is not recommended to confront one without a pokemon that can match its power. Pikachu are quick and agile, but not very strong physically. Watch for its electric attacks. If many gather in an area, thunder storms are not uncommon.

Charizard

Charizard is arguably one of the most powerful pokemon around. His fiery breath can reach several thousand degrees and its physical strength is just incredible. Ashs Charizard is among the strongest of all Charizards, and is also one of the most stubborn ones. While Ash isn't the greatest trainer, he does try hard, and he isn't as dense as he tries to be. But Charizard hardly gives him the time of day, let alone any real combat time. Unless Charizard agrees to fight, Charizard pays no attention to Ash, except to give him a blast of fire.

Jigglypuff

Jigglypuff is one of the most popular Pokemon around, and with little wonder. It's the only Pokemon who even has a chance against Mewtwo, as long as it can sing its lullaby. It dreams of becoming a broadway star and having its own show. But because of its singing power, it can't sing without making everyone fall asleep! When this happens, it inflates and gets mad and then draws goofy faces on everyone. They tend to not be too happy about that.

Voltorb

Voltorbs are electric-type pokemon which have a tendency to self-destruct. They make excellent power generators, and have on occasion been used as bowling balls. Some people pick them up thinking that they're pokeballs, but they usually end up getting zapped, or blown-up. They're a bit tempermental, so handle with care.

Electrode

The evolved form of a Voltorb, Electrodes are about three times larger than Voltorbs, and even more tempermental. They have an obvious mouth, unlike a Voltorb, which no one can figure out how it can survive without one, although its theorized that it can take nutrition through its skin. The record for an Electrodes power generation is set at 10,000 volts, but most scientists think that it can go much higher.

Oddish

Oddish are one of the weakest plant Pokemon. Their main ability is using its pollen as a weapon against their enemies. They can use most plant and normal attacks, although the lack of arms tend to be a major disadvantage. They make excellent pets, as their gentle nature makes them happy with good trainers. Don't ever mistake its gentle nature though. It may not be very strong, but its pollen can be very dangerous to humans, and other Pokemon.

KOFFING

Koffing are large floating balloons filled not with helium, but with lighter than air explosive gases. Most Koffings are generally happy, and like to smile. They tend to resemble World War 1 floating mines, and have a toxic symbol on their chest. Koffing in the show isn't a bad pokemon, he just has a bad master. If James knew how to use Koffing correctly, Koffing would have been a much stronger Pokemon.

Poliwag

Poliwags are cute but not very strong pokemon. They're water pokemon who lack arms and rarely leave the safety of water. They are not much more than tadpoles, and still have a long way to go before they have the strength to compete in real Pokemon competitions.

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