The Game-Art-HQ Community Presents The Pokémon Generation III Art Collaboration!
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Welcome to our third celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Pokémon games we tribute with our art collaborations now since 2016! You can find all Pokémon from the third Generation: Sapphire, Ruby, and Emerald illustrated twice by artists from the Game-Art-HQ community while they are performing their attacks, moves, abilities. You can also learn a bit about the Pokémon and the illustrated moves since they are accompanied with the official Pokedex descriptions as well as our own ones, please have a lot of fun and enjoy this Project that features over 250 artworks!
Welcome now also to Hoenn, the land of adventure, trumpets and “too much water”. So, to start off, let us talk about Generation III in general. Obviously, the biggest change was switching over to a newer system – the Gameboy Advance, which meant a whole new quality to both the appearance and possibilities.
The other really big thing was that this generation not only had Ruby & Sapphire with their own new region of Hoenn, but also includes remakes of the very first generation with Fire Red and Leaf Green which took us back to the nostalgic region of Kanto. This allowed people to not only relive their memories (and let’s not forget there is a 6 year gap between the English release of Red/Blue and Fire Red/Leaf Green) but several changes and improvements that Generations II and III brought made the adventure feel fresh even for series veterans.
We sorted the Hoenn Region Pokémon after the official National Pokédex: |
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The most obvious new addition is the new 135 Pokémon you can catch and train, including a huge addition to the Ghost, Dragon, Steel, and Dark types, which had very little critters in the last two generations. It also brought new attacks and items, including a very nice buff for Fire-types, which were nigh useless in the last two generations (including the fabled “most picked” Charmander, which only got relevant starting with Gen. III).
It also brought abilities; a new feature inspired by “Pokemon Powers” from the Pokémon Trading Card Game, they made a huge impact on battling, giving a whole new asset to many underused mons as well as adding a certain quirk to others. Best examples being Slaking, an ultra-powerful Pokémon with stats on the same level as legendaries but is terribly crippled by its Truant ability, or Shedinja, with not very impressive stats and a single 1HP but with Wonder Guard that makes it invincible to all attacks but ones it’s weak to. It was really fun to experiment with new mons.
Moving on to Ruby and Sapphire themselves, as expected, they were very amazing and successful games. But sadly, not all was as colorful as the graphics; they were what you could call a “double-edged sword” with many things that worked and backfired at the same time.
Second, the new Pokemon. With all the changes made in this new Generation, Game Freak really had fun not only in designing them but also in making them very unique with special skills and themes. Though at the same time, the total amount of existing Pokemon was too big to put into the games, so when fans couldn’t find many of the familiar mons, they were rather distressed that they couldn’t catch some of their favorites in this new, prettier game. Some even grew worried their beloved classic critters would be forgotten and less used in future games (which actually sparked the group we know as “Genwunners” today).
And lastly, the features. The new region (and more importantly, new system) has meaty new features, some minor ones like leaving footsteps in the sand or having a reflection in the water, and some bigger ones, like the Pokemon Contests, Secret Bases or PokeNav. But for some reason, the developers did not include the fan-favorite Day/Night cycle. It’s said that was because they wanted this feature to be exclusive to Generation II, thus making it still relevant. Yet understandably, all fans would rather see this particular one explored more in future games rather than abandoned in an older game.
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| Thanks a ton at all participating artists, and the Pokemon fan community in general that made this project possible! |
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Some Trivia regarding our 3rd Pokemon Art Collaboration: The first three Gen III Pokemon that were claimed for our art collaboration were: Sceptile with Leaf Blade by Kiriko-Windgeist around 15 minutes The first three drawn and submitted Gen III Pokemon were: The first Pokemon claimed by two artists was Spheal on the 1st January Latias was the first Gen III Pokemon that got both artworks drawn for this collaboration. The 2nd illustration was done on the 14th January. 35 Artists joined the Gen III Tribute on the 1st January 2018 already..the day we started this big project, however, it was difficult to get the last around 90 illustrations together. Due to changes in my personal life, this took a lot longer to create than the previous Pokemon Generation Art Collaborations, I hope the Gen IV Tribute will be done faster again!
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