There are nearly a thousand types of Pokémon, they are not all the imagination of designers, carefully considered, you will find that it is not far away from us, some people say that inspiration comes from life, and the colorful world is the designer's eternal source of creation, designers use their own inspiration and hands to miniaturize this colorful world into anime and games.
Pokémon
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > biological prototype</h1>
The greatest artist is actually the Creator, and nature is a huge and rich treasure trove of art, we will find that many Pokémon are actually in nature, but after clever artistic processing, become a game, anime and manga one by one and flexible image.
First, let's look at the Pokémon, which is the opposite of the famous armored bird, which is the 226 giant fin flying fish. In fact, many friends are familiar with it, in many films that reflect the ocean, we can see the figure of this animal, such as the Japanese animation "Wyvern Under the Sea", Disney blockbuster "Finding Nemo" and so on. This fish is called manta ray, which is the same subject as sharks, belongs to the plate gills, and because it lies on the bottom of the water for a long time, its body slowly becomes flat. Because of its beautiful appearance, it is indispensable in many works of art about the ocean. It is often described that the flying fish is huge, and the sides of the fat torso have become wings that can fly and can carry people to soar. The giant winged flying fish in Pokémon obviously borrows from this setting, and in the game it not only has the attribute of flying, but also looks at its posture as if it is flying freely in the sky.
Giant finned flying fish
Next we look at the Overlord Flower, this Pokémon everyone must not be unfamiliar, since the beginning of the first generation, its original form of walking grass is extremely common, and its prototype is also obvious, that is, we commonly known as the King Flower (also directly known as the Overlord Flower). The big king flower is the largest flower in the world, with a diameter of up to 1.5 meters, the petals are divided into five flowers, the whole flower weighs more than 30 kilograms, and the center of the flower can even stand in a person. In addition to its huge size, its other characteristic is that it has a huge odor, and after flowering, it will emit a foul smell like a rotting corpse, so butterflies and bees are unwilling to pay attention to it, only a group of noisy flies pollinate it. In addition, it is not self-sufficient with leaves and stems like other flowers, but survives by absorbing nutrients from other plants, and is an "exploiting class" in the plant world. However, in the anime game, after some processing, the Overlord Flower looks more beautiful, like a small elf with a huge flower crown. In addition, the Overlord Flower is just as strange and smelly in the anime (because the pre-evolutionary form is called stinky flower), but can learn aromatherapy.
Overlord flower
The prototype of the thousand needle fish stingray will not be unfamiliar to everyone, the stingray dolphin is a fish that lives at the bottom of the ocean. It doesn't like to swim very much, and if it hadn't grown a body of hard thorns, I'm afraid it would have been eliminated by the ruthless nature a long time ago. The stingray can bulge its body so that the thorns on its body protrude and protect itself. When the danger has passed, the body will return to its original shape. Like pufferfish, the liver is poisonous. The thousand needlefish pouted and stared, showing a fearless look, and the thorns on its body were not as many as in reality.
Thousand needle fish
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > synthetic processing</h1>
Nature's miraculous craftsmanship has created exquisite works of art, but the jade must always be processed by skilled craftsmen to become beautiful. In Pokémon, it is not difficult to see the careful processing of the designer. Originally two unrelated things, through the skillful hands of the designers, they have become amazing and wonderful creatures.
The first is the star Pokémon that everyone is already familiar with, the Magic Frog Seed. Starting from the design concept of animals and plant symbiotes, it is not difficult to think of the precious Chinese medicine - Cordyceps sinensis. Cordyceps sinensis is actually a fungal ascomycete spore that enters the lepidoptera larvae in the winter; in the summer, the infected larva burrows into the soil, dies and appears mycelium, and forms sclerotia in the winter. Speaking of Pokémon inspired by Cordyceps sinensis, we have to mention the mushroom crab Pailast, which looks like a mushroom and is simply a Pokémon version of Cordyceps sinensis, even if it can be used for medicine.
Perast
Although they are all a combination of animals and plants, but the frog seed is a full-fledged green environmentalist, the seed is not its burden, but when it is fully opened, it can absorb the energy of the sun into its own energy, this setting should come from the photosynthesis of the plant. In addition, from the designer's setting of the frog seed, it can also be clearly the designer's understanding of the Pokémon trainer - the seed on the back of the frog seed will grow, which is inseparable from the trainer's careful care.
Magic frog seeds
Next is also the introduction of frogs - mosquito coil frogs. The obvious feature of the mosquito coil frog is the mosquito coil pattern on its body. And the setting of this mosquito coil pattern also coincides with its frog identity - anti-mosquito. In the design of this pattern, the designer's whimsical ideas are undoubtedly revealed, linking the two repellent hallows of frogs and mosquito coils. The mosquito coil and the mosquito coil frog are not only that, the mosquito coil has always been in order to sleep peacefully and the mosquito repellent object is lit, the mosquito is gone, and naturally sleeps peacefully; and in the setting of Pokémon, the mosquito coil frog also has the ability to hypnotize the opponent with the mosquito coil pattern on the body. It seems that the dual repellent ability of frogs and mosquito coils can indeed ensure the comfort of sleep.
Mosquito coil frog
After introducing the frog, we continue to look at the turtle in the water, the Jenny turtle has recently become an emoji, compared with the ordinary turtle, the biggest feature is its large and curly tail, which is naturally added by the designer to highlight the identity of the Jenny turtle as a water Pokémon. The swollen tail is reminiscent of waves at first glance, and this is even more vividly demonstrated in the Kami turtle. After the Jenny turtle evolved into the Kami turtle, not only the tail was more inflated, but the most important thing was that there were more pairs of ears, and the strange ears should be deformed by using rabbit ears to meet the wavy tail of the Kami turtle, and its role was actually to maintain balance.
Jenny turtles
The swimming in the water is introduced here, and then I will introduce you to a few synthetic Pokémon that climb on the ground. The first to appear was Pikachu, the Uranus superstar electric rat. This fat, fat tiger-striped mouse. The twisting tail and pointed ears with a very hard line make people naturally associate with lightning, which also reveals the identity of the Pikachu Thunder Andian family leader Hua Dan. Among them, the tail is an indispensable feature of Pikachu, when Pikachu evolved into Rechu, the tail became longer, this change also reflects the evolution of Rechu's strength - the previous short tail has not been able to fully play a role in lightning protection, so this long tail is needed. The obvious change in the appearance of Rechu is also the design of the ear, which is larger and more tortuous than Pikachu, which complements the change in the tail and closely links rechu's image to its attributes.
Pikachu and Rechu
Having said that mice are naturally indispensable to cats, the most popular cat in Pokémon is none other than Meowth. Meowth's design inspiration comes from the Japanese legend about the Lucky Cat, and even its attack skills have the function of obtaining gold coins after battle, so the designer transforms the image of an ordinary cat according to the image of the Lucky Cat, and then embedded an ancient gold coin on its forehead to have Meowth, a Pokémon that should bring money. However, the designer let him join the villain organization Rocket Team in the animation, at first glance, such a setting seems to be contrary to the identity of the fortune cat, but it is not unreasonable. First of all, the cat-and-mouse duel called the American animation "Tom and Mouse" was talked about from the beginning; secondly, Musashi and Kojiro of the Rocket Team were both money-hungry lords, but they could not get rich if they followed meow (of course, Kojiro's family was very rich), which also proved that stealing other people's Pokémon to sell was not advisable after all (in fact, this meow did not know how to gather treasure at all). The only Pokémon that speaks human language is even more popular in some areas than the owner, Huadan Pikachu.
Meow
Finally, it was the turn of the Air Force of the Synthetic Pokémon to appear, and the first to appear in the applause was the Great Needle Bee, which triumphantly flew around the field to show its mighty majesty. This image is clearly of a knight in medieval Europe with a spear. It seems that the designers thought of the way bees attacked and stabbed to the knights of the Middle Ages who were good at stabbing with long guns. However, as a bee, the most important feature is the poisonous needle at the tail, the so-called wasp tail needle, the three stingers of the large needle bee are the most toxic in the tail.
Large needle bee
When the needle bee was overwhelmed, the flying mantis, which is also part of the synthetic Pokémon Air Force, flew out, and it expressed its inner dissatisfaction through a sharp scythe, which flashed a gloomy cold light, which made people shudder, and was reminiscent of the animal of Japanese legend - the sickle ferret. Sickle ferrets look a lot like weasels. The two front feet are in the shape of a sickle and move as fast as the wind, making the opponent invincible. Therefore, it is often said that after a gust of wind, there is an inexplicable knife mark on the body, which is the masterpiece of the scythe. Many characteristics of the sickle ferret can be found in the flying mantis. Another habit of the sickle ferret is exactly the same as that of the praying mantis, that is, cannibalism. To be able to perfectly associate the scythe with the mantis known as the "big knife general", we also have to admire the achievements of the designers.
Flying mantis
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > myths and legends</h1>
If Pokémon are all derived from the real nature, then there is no difference from the animal world, and various magnificent myths and legends are also an important source of inspiration for Pokémon.
For example, the prototype of the nine-tailed fox is the well-known nine-tailed fox. Foxes are considered to be animals with aura in both China and Japan, so there are many legends about foxes. Although the fox demons are mostly women, there are many men with extraordinary temperament, and their common feature is that they are beautiful and have absolute charm ability. Another feature is the tail, the mana strength of the demon fox is positively correlated with the number of tails, the weakest fox demon has only one tail, and the nine-tailed fox is naturally the strongest demon fox. This is also faithfully reflected in the opening of the door, the original six tails, which evolved into the more powerful nine tails. In the "Fengshen Yanyi", the nine-tailed fox transforms into a daiji to confuse the king of The Dragon, so that the King of the Dragon is addicted to wine and eventually destroys the country. There are similar legends in Japan, and it is not difficult to see the traces of the demon fox in the Japanese anime "Youyou White Book" and "InuYasha". Demon foxes also use ghost fire to confuse humans, and the phosphorus fire seen in the mass grave and forest late at night is said to be the masterpiece of these demon foxes.
Of course, the demon fox is not necessarily an evil demon, on the contrary, they also have their own feelings and a heart to save the world, so they are also called fox immortals, which has many stories in "Liaozhai Zhiyi".
Tengu is also a well-known term, but the legend of the tengu in China and Japan is completely different, and the earliest source of the tengu should be the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", the original text is: "Three hundred miles to the west, known as the Yin Mountain." The turbid water flows out of the bath, and flows south to Banze. Among them Dovinbe. There are beasts, whose shape is like a tanuki and a white head, known as the tengu, and whose sound is like a cat and cat, which can resist the fierce. "It can be seen that the tengu is a fierce thing." Erlang God's demon-exorcism dog is not unrelated to this. But with the passage of time, the tengu became a sign of great evil. There is a saying that "Ning Chong is too old, do not commit tengu", tengu will not only eat the moon, but also swallow children, and lead to infertility of women, in folk customs around the world, where travel, marriage, funeral, migration, etc., all of them regard hitting the tengu as the first taboo. Why the tengu has changed from the original fierce object to a sign of great evil is worth pondering by scholars. Coincidentally, although the Japanese tengu originated in China, it has also undergone continuous evolution, and eventually became the familiar image of long-nosed white hair, holding a tuan fan, and a tall figure. The image of the early Japanese tengu was a pair of large wings, as well as a bird's beak that could attack humans and animals, and was able to fly freely in the sky, this tengu was later known as the raven tengu, they liked to abduct and get lost humans, especially children, so the ancients called the disappearance as a hidden, meaning hidden by the gods. In Miyazaki's masterpiece Spirited Away. The twin sisters tang and qian are inspired by the raven tengu. Due to the fear of tengu and the influence of Japanese Buddhism, tengu slowly became a deity who violated the tenjo and was relegated to the mortal world, and also referred to monks who had a strong obsession during their lives and could not enter the Elysium world after death and fell into the Tengu Way.
Speaking of which, everyone also knows which Pokémon is borrowed from tengu, yes, it is the cunning tengu, but unfortunately the powerful mana of the cunning tengu is not reflected in the game and animation.
Cunning tengu
Next, let's change the taste and look at which Pokémon are bred under the soil of Western myths and legends. The most representative is the rumble rock, which is more obvious, that is, we are familiar with the rock golem, the English name of the rumble rock Golema is derived from the Golem (puppet). Golems are Hebrew legends that use clay, stone, and bronze as materials to build human forms, inject magic into them and make them move. It is said that in order for the puppet to act, the warlock needs to put a small pill on the puppet's tongue every day and engrave "Ameth" (the Hebrew word for truth) on its forehead; to destroy it, it is simply to remove the pill and erase the initials of Ameth to become "Meth" (Hebrew for death). The puppet has no consciousness of its own, and even says that there is no life. So I don't know that life is called pain and fear, but is bent on fighting for its master. Coincidentally, there are also puppets in China and Japan, in fact, what we call puppets, from terracotta warriors to small children's toys, the types of puppets are quite rich, and they are more legendary, such as puppet masters who can manipulate puppet battles, or magic that uses puppets to curse others. Back to the point, looking back at Rumble Rock, although we have no doubt about its puppet identity, but looking at its body, it seems to shrink into a ball and roll around even more terrifyingly.
Rumble Rock
Everyone may have had nightmares since childhood, and although nightmares will no longer make us feel afraid, the taste of struggling in nightmares is definitely uncomfortable. Medieval Europeans believed that nightmares were caused by demons, and named them nightmares, which resemble dark horses and are regular visitors to games or fantasy novels. Pokémon also drew inspiration from it, but because at that time it was mainly to open up the young market and win the love of children, the design image was mainly cute (starting from the gem version, we can find that this design principle is not constantly adjusting and changing, and gradually there are some fierce and powerful Pokémon that come into our eyes), after the designer swipes a large stroke, the original black horse has become a weird elf, which is the dream demon. The Japanese pronunciation of Dream Demon and Nightmare is extremely close. And the dream demon's usual tactic of the demise song is to trap the other party and then sing the demise song, after three rounds of countdown, the other party will die quietly in the sweetness, don't look at it cute, it is actually quite scary.
Dream Demon
When there is a nightmare, there is a corresponding countermeasure, so a creature called the dream-eating tapir came into being. Its image is not much different from that of the tapir in reality, but it is said that it likes to feed on people's dreams. Once you taste the beautiful dream, your original black fur will turn into a shining gold. Sometimes when you get up and forget what dream you have, then the dream must be eaten by the nightmare. Pokémon carries forward the spirit of its own take-it-or-treat and brings nightmares to the stage, which is Sorbeth, whether it is its image or performance, it is a reproduction of the nightmare of eating. And Solibai's evolved form Sulibai is also very interesting, carrying hypnosis props with him, and vowing not to give up without hypnotizing people.
Solipp
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > encyclopedia of popular science knowledge</h1>
The world of Pokémon is not just a biological or historical museum, but an encyclopedia with deep popular science knowledge. Covering all aspects of human civilization, the designers want players to understand the new Pokémon while experiencing the bits and pieces of this vast world. This article uses some of these Pokémon as examples to learn about the encyclopedia of Pokémon World.
The first is the north-facing nose, which, as the name suggests, is the nose pointing north, and its English name is a combination of noose (nose) and compass (compass). Since it is a compass, it is required to be magnetic in itself, so the designer makes the nose facing north nose have a strong magnetism. This design inspiration may be related to the nose of the pigeon, and some studies have shown that the pigeon has a 0.1 micron needle-like magnet in the forebrain under the skull, and scientists believe that the pigeon is oriented by using geomagnetism. In addition, the north-facing nose pointing northwards also reminds designers of the huge stone statues on Chile's Easter Island— they always look in a serious direction, as if watching something, and no one has been able to say exactly who they were made and what they did. The mutually exclusive features of the north-facing nose are perfectly in line with the theorem of magnet homosexual repulsion in physics, although it may seem cruel to them, but the laws of nature cannot be changed.
Facing north nose
As mysterious as the Easter Stone Statue is the Loch Ness Monster, although it is said that the mystery has recently been revealed. The legendary Loch Ness Monster has an elongated neck, oval body, fin-like limbs and a long tail, and this image can be said to have nine points similar to the dragon, and the two are fully consistent with a large number of detailed features. As for the tentacles on the dragon's head, they were also found on the head of the monster in the photo of the Loch Ness Monster taken in 1975, and it can be said that in addition to the armor on the back, the dragon was actually processed by the designer through the imagination of the Loch Ness Monster.
Ride the dragon
After looking at two unknown events in nature, let's look at the equally mysterious human specific function, which refers to the ability of some people to surpass ordinary people because of their specialization in terms of system. Although the special functions are various, the most famous should be the bending of the spoon with the power of mind. There is a super power in Pokémon, so the designer naturally cannot let go of the classic image, so Yongjira and Hudi have a spoon in their hands, and their skills also have the super power system skill of bending the key. As early as early 2000, British super-powered Uri Geller had filed a lawsuit with Nintendo over infringement, on the grounds that Hudi's image, name, and ability to bend the key were metaphors for himself and his superpowers, demanding Nintendo to pay $100 million in damages. Although his almost lion-like approach did not succeed in the end, Nintendo never dared to use such local materials again.
Hudi
After all, there is still some controversy about superpowers, but science is constantly improving, which can also be seen in the Pokémon setting. The 3D Dragon is the first scientifically crystallized Pokémon whose basic movements are controlled by a program. However, the degree of scientific development did not seem to be enough, so only the polygon with a body as stiff as the lines of building blocks was created; later, with the continuous progress of science, the 3D dragon was also evolved, and the body of the evolved 3D dragon 2 was no longer like a square block, but had become quite sleek, and the production technology was greatly improved. Later, the 3D Dragon Z2 appeared.
3D Dragon
If we want to promote the continuous progress of science, we need to understand all the knowledge around us, and the strange animals and plants in nature are worthy of our research. When it comes to plants, they are not usually associated with predators, but Nepenthes is an out-and-out insect killer. The leaves are oval in shape, 10–25 cm long and 4–8 cm wide. The tip of the leaf is connected to a downward curved tendrils, with an insect catcher at the tip of the tendrils. The insect catcher is cylindrical, the lower half is slightly expanded, somewhat like a pig cage, so it is called Pitcher plant. From the characteristics of Nepenthes, it is naturally associated with the large food flower, which is also an insectivorous plant, and also has a huge insect catcher, but the big flower is more like a trumpet. The evolutionary process of the large flower is more faithful to the production process of Nepenthes, when the nymph has not yet grown, the cap is sealed, and the cap can be opened after the adult, and it has the ability to catch insects, and the mouth flower does not have the function of digestion and dissolution before it evolves into a large flower.
Big food flowers
Inspiration also often comes from life, and good designers can get inspiration even from a very ordinary little thing, and Pokémon designers are such good designers, they have a keen sense of life's things - whether it is in the intense competitive activities or the leisure pastime of daily life. The prototypes of Both Makushita and Iron Palm Lux are national sumo wrestling from Japan, and both Makushita and Iron Palm are the hierarchical names of Japanese sumo wrestling positions.
Makushita wrestlers
Not only Japanese national skills, Pokémon designers also draw inspiration from world-famous martial arts competitions, including boxing and boxing, and the corresponding Pokémon are Shawarang and Abirang respectively. These two Pokémon not only conform to their corresponding fighting competitions from the image, but even the names have made a deep allegorical arrangement: Shavarang's English name is Hitmonlee, and some analysts point out that the etymology is hit (hitting) + moster (youkai) + Bruce Lee (Bruce Lee); Abilang is hitmonchan composed of hit (hitting) + moster (youkai) + Jackie Chan, although Jackie Chan uses Chinese martial arts, But perhaps because of his influence, the Japanese thought that Jackie Chan was also good at boxing, so Abirang looked more like a refined boxer. And Shavarang, his kicking posture resembles Bruce Lee.
The variety of monsters is simply derived from the plasticine used by children in the past, and the two are surprisingly consistent in terms of characteristics and shape. Plasticine can be kneaded into a variety of forms, and the mule can also transform into various Pokémon and even humans. What is more interesting is the setting of the special props for the changeable monster, the metal powder is the special prop of the changeable monster, and its role is to enhance the defense power of the changeable monster. In reality, if you add metal powder to the soft mud, the soft mud will become hard. Here, I have to admire the whimsy of the designers, and even a small piece of plasticine can be used for ideas.
Strange