Give that person a Master Ball.
When there are multiple people working on a project such as a video game — sometimes many multiples of people — it’s often that fans attribute the hard work to the most prominent designer or director they can think of. Even with individual aspects, such as music, art, level design, and the many other elements that make up the video game whole, there are usually one or two prominent names in each department that stick in people’s minds who tend to get credited with the whole shebang. It’s a mistake many of us make from time to time!
This is often the case with Pokémon designs. The two most famous designers in the franchise are Ken Sugimori and James Turner. Many tend to attribute a lot of early pocket monster designs to the former, while Turner is often at the forefront of adorable creature art in the modern games. But with such a wide variety of designs, and over 900 Pokémon just catch and marvel over, there’s simply no way just two people come up with every one of these fabulous creations! And yes, we’re counting Trubbish and Garbodor under the “fabulous creations” umbrella here.
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