Pokémon fan project gives us the chubby Pikachu we deserve. Ken Sugimori's classic ... but obviously plenty of us still have a fondness for the original 2D art from character designer Ken Sugimori.

In an interview for Japanese newspaper Yomiuri-- translated by Siliconera-- key Pokémon designers Ken Sugimori, Atsuko Nishida and Koji Nishino spoke about all things Pikachu.

Gotta catch 'em all, indeed. We learned something new and kind of disturbing this week from the original Pokémon developers and designers Ken Sugimori and Atsuko Nishida as the revealed a secret ...

Pikachu has been a fixture of the franchise since the first Pokemon game debuted in February 1996 for Nintendo Co.’s Game Boy handheld game console. Ken Sugimori, 52, ...

The news comes from none other than Pikachu's illustrator Atsuko Nishida, who was interviewed alongside Pokemon designer Ken Sugimori by Japanese newspaper Yomiuri (translated here by Siliconera).

Pikachu IS the face — the cuddly, squishy little face — of Pokémon. ... We can conclude with Nishida-san and designer Ken Sugimori’s reasoning as to why people love Pikachu so much.

The Pokemon Company has unleashed a recording that teaches viewers how to draw Pokemon mascot Pikachu.. Executed by series art director Ken Sugimori, the tutorial video's debut coincides with the ...

The design for Pikachu, one of the main characters in the popular game Pokemon, was based on a squirrel, ... According to the developers, including Ken Sugimori, 52, ...

The developers, which include talent like Ken Sugimori and Atsuko Nishida, ... Nishida created Pikachu using digital software while Sugimori illustrated the final design by hand.

The era of chubby Pikachu. A fan account has been posting images of what a Sugimori-inspired Pokémon game mght look like; the bio, which is in Japanese, explains that they are creating fan art of ...

A fan project has reimagined what a Pokemon game could look like if it was rendered in both 3D and its original art style. When the series first began way in the 1990s, Ken Sugimori served as ...

In a handy how-to video provided by YouTube's Official Pokémon Channel Pokémon Character Art Director Ken Sugimori breaks down the process of drawing Pikachu into a few, easy steps. Have you ...