Either the Pokemon is completely reimagined to resemble a real-life animal, or it maintains the official shape, but gains more realistic skin textures like Subag_i’s Lapras did. A recent example ...

Narrator: RJ used real animals as inspiration. RJ: The natural world is so inspiring, and I think pulling from that, as much as possible, is really cool. Narrator: For example, Mewtwo was a ...

The Pokemon franchise has currently produced nine generations of pocket monsters, and several of the creatures' designs are inspired by real-life animals. Torchic is one of many cute Pokemon ...