Pokémon sprites, art evolve over the years, Part 2: Difference between revisions

"It appears that there are ''two'' versions of the [[bp:Pokémon Gold and Silver|Gold/Silver]]/[[bp:Pokémon Crystal|Crystal]] sprites for Jynx (or six, depending on how you look at it, since each game has her in a different pose). During North American localization, they changed her skin from black to purple, as you might expect. What is more interesting is that that was not the only change. In Japan, her hair was normally blonde with a white glare, and her 'costume' had yellow around the chest area, and because of the limitations of a Game Boy Color, the glare on her 'dress' was also yellow. With a [[bp:Alternate coloration|shiny]] Jynx, all those yellow bits would be silver. During localization, however, in addition to the skin-color change, they took all the yellow out of the sprite, leaving her hair and costume accents completely white in both normal and shiny sprites- and for no reason I can discern, they shortened her hair a bit in the front, but ''only'' in the Silver sprite.

Image:Spr 1y 124.png|Yellow (Sept. 1998)

Image:Spr b g1 124.png|Gen I back (Feb. 1996)

Image:Spr 2g 124 jp.png|Japanese Gold (Nov. 1999)

Image:Spr 2g 124 s jp.png|Japanese Gold Shiny (Nov. 1999)

Image:Spr 2s 124 jp.png|Japanese Silver (Nov. 1999)

Image:Spr 2s 124 s jp.png|Japanese Silver Shiny (Nov. 1999)

Image:Spr 2g 124.png|English Gold (Oct. 2000)

Image:Spr 2s 124.png|English Silver (Oct. 2000)

Image:Spr 2s 124 s.png|English Silver Shiny (Oct. 2000)

Image:Spr 3f 124.png|FireRed and LeafGreen (Jan. 2004)

Image:Spr 3e 124.png|Emerald (Sept. 2004)

Image:Spr 4d 124.png|Diamond and Pearl (Sept. 2006)

Image:Spr 4d 124 s.png|Diamond and Pearl shiny (Sept. 2006)

"Of more interest than the shiny hair is the official artwork: In [[bp:Generation I|Generation I]] art, Jynx's face was originally black and was later re-inked to a ''very'' dark purple (much darker than in the localized games) in [[bp:Generation II|Generation II]]. Though they were always black in the games (once again, it was presumably due to technical limitations), in the [[bp:Ken Sugimori|Ken Sugimori]] art, Jynx's hands were distinctly blue! That actually seems to support the ice-princess theory [[bp:Dogasu|Dogasu]] is fond of but which is unfortunately unreferenced. And with the slightly bulbous, whitish fingertips, they looked not entirely unlike {{p|Mr. Mime}}'s hands. Yes, some other artwork, including the anime, made this ambiguous by using very dark blue, gray or black for its hands; however, the anime also colored her forearms red instead of white. In the [[bp:Generation III|Generation III]] sprites and artwork, however, her hands were re-colored bright purple to match her face (and {{p|Smoochum}}), the bulbous fingertips were discarded and the exaggerated shoulders which ''also'' linked her to Mr. Mime were covered by her hair (perhaps because Mr. Mime can now be female and no longer needs a feminine counterpart)."

Image:124Jynx RG.png|Generation I Sugimori art

File:124-Jynx.png|Generation I anime art

Image:AG168.png|Jynx in the anime ([[bp:AG169|AG168]], Nov. 2006)

Image:Spr_3r_024.png|Ruby and Sapphire (Nov. 2002)

Image:Spr 3f 024.png|FireRed and LeafGreen (Jan. 2004)

Image:Spr 4d 024.png|Diamond and Pearl (Sept. 2006)

Image:Spr 4h 024.png|HeartGold and SoulSilver (Sept. 2009)

Image:Spr 2g 243.png|Gold and Silver (Nov. 1999)

Image:Spr 2c 243.png|Crystal (Dec. 2000)

Image:Spr 3r 243.png|Ruby, Sapphire, FireRed and LeafGreen (Nov. 2002)

Image:Spr 4d 243.png|Diamond and Pearl (Sept. 2006)

File:243-Raikou.png|Anime art

Image:Spr 3r 353.png|Ruby, Sapphire, FireRed and LeafGreen (Nov. 2002)

Image:Spr 4d 353.png|Diamond and Pearl (Sept. 2006)

Image:Spr 3r 354.png|Ruby, Sapphire, FireRed and LeafGreen (Nov. 2002)

Image:Spr 4d 354.png|Diamond and Pearl (Sept. 2006)

More will be added to this list of changed Pokémon in upcoming editorials. Please feel free to discuss further possibilities and give suggestions at [[bp:Bulbagarden forums|Bulbagarden forums]].