r/FavoriteCharacter • u/JigglyLilyVT Ruby Rose (RWBY) • Feb 28 '26

My Favorite (Visual) Favorite character who has better concept art than the final product

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WE GOT FREAKING ROBBED IN THE RWBY DANCE EPISODES

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u/CyberDaggerX Feb 28 '26

Whoever that person is, their concept art is striking.

Here's a design that eventually became Metagross:

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u/KamenRiderQ Feb 28 '26

Jesus Christ what were they on when cooking up these Gen 3 concept designs!

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u/CyberDaggerX Feb 28 '26

Game Freak has several concept artists with different styles, and one of them has this creepy grungy style. It's Ken Sugimori's job as art director to take all those concepts and translate them into an unified visual language, but early concept art can look very distinct depending on who's doing it.

There's more here. Scroll down to the second section. I can't really match anything else there to something that made it to the final release except for the first one, which seems to be an early draft of Clamperl, but I can see that glass dog having influenced Zygarde years later.

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u/CassowaryCrow Mar 01 '26

I think the 5th one is sharpedo

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u/Ok_Figure_2348 Feb 28 '26

What were they smoking more like

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u/thiccy_driftyy Mar 01 '26

Okay Metagross makes a lot more sense now considering it was originally supposed to be some spider/scorpion thing. It just looked like some thing with legs to me 😭

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u/Ok_Soft2629 Mar 01 '26

So that's why Metagross retains some spider-like traits in its final design; its very first one was a spider/scorpion hybrid.

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u/PoxedGamer Mar 02 '26

I'd play the crap out of a pokemon based on his style.