If you've been around a while on my profile, then there's a chance you might remember a project called "I try making Pokemon Fusions (Badly)", back when I still used Vector. That project and its sequel heavily impacted my Scratch profile, for both good and bad. +It got me quite a bit of popularity for a while +It was my first real entry into the world of hybrid designing, something that I still love and enjoy to this day, as you can see. -The fusion requests took almost all my motivation out of me for the longest time, and made me feel like I was forced to do requests I didn't want to do for absolutely no repayment because I said so. The projects (particularly the second) were a nightmare for me to maintain, and I'm not sure what I would've done had requests had been closed any later then when they were. But besides that, those two projects hold a lot of history for me, and without it, my fusion-making skill likely would've never taken off to begin with. I figured I'd take a look back at some of my first fusions and try to remake them, just to see how far I've come. COMMENTARY BY YOUR'S TRULY -Dragini- I absolutely hated the original Dragini, even if it was the second fusion I ever made, and a hybrid between my favorite Pokemon and favorite Mythical. However, I've wanted to redesign it for the longest time for those reasons. When coming back to try it again, I wanted to make a smaller, chubbier-looking Dragonite, much rather than the unusual combination of putting Victini's parts onto the fairly tall figure of Dragonite. All things considered, I think this design worked quite well. -Rockee- Rockruff/Eevee was a particularly abundant hybrid pairing from what I've seen, simply because the designs are both simple, cute, and work well together. Even though I don't think there's anything particularly wrong with my iteration of it, it doesn't stand out very well from others in my eyes. I figured I might as well tried to partially incorporate Rockruff's folded ear look onto Eevee's longer ears for a more unique design aspect, as well as changing Rockruff's rocks into more rounded-out gemstones. No particular reason for the latter, I just thought it'd look nice. -Furlava- Even though I thought this hybrid looked fairly good, it was heavily limited by how I made hybrids at the time (that being, copying and pasting parts of one Pokemon onto another without drastically changing the body shape.) It just always felt like its potential was being wasted, and... Eh, I'm not the biggest fan of the redesign either, but at least it was fun trying to draw a Furret. -Charstoise- Speaking of wasted potential, Charstoise! It's probably not even worth mentioning how popular both of these Pokemon (Charizard in particular) have always been, but all I did with it was just put cannons onto its wings and call it a day. When I was looking back at it again, I was struck with the idea of it having shell armor on its wings so that it could protect itself by enclosing them around it. I immediately loved this concept, and had a blast drawing this fan-favorite duo. (Also, I realized that a water type having an open flame on its body didn't seem too logical, so I made its tail have steam coming from it instead!) In the end, I'm really satisfied with how these redesigns turned out, and it was really fun to make all of them! nOW pLEASE nO mORE rEQUESTS nOW i'M bEGGING yOU
The song is Marnie's Battle Theme from Pokemon Sword and Shield. Pokemon belongs to the Pokemon Company/GameFreak All fusion/hybrid designs belong to your's truly (@cedpath) So, in case you were interested in checking out the projects that the original designs came from, here's the two projects where they debuted: 1: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/210622178/ 2: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/211373036/
