Last updated 3/7/2015: We have hit the mother-lode. A ton of super high quality scans have surfaced through Ebay sellers. I've updated a lot of the images. Tentacruel, Vaporeon, Persian, Pidgeot, and Rhydon added with transparency.
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I noticed that there has not really been much of an active effort to go after the Ken Sugimori art that was used for stuff like the Pokemon TCG and served as the base model for the 'anime art' and the vector art that would be used often in American stuff. This is actually art from Red and Green, not Red and Blue, and was on some of the earliest collectable cards and promotional images - it also bears obvious resemblance to the original sprites of R/G.
Thus, the art that is on the Bulbagarden Archives as "Red and Green" is actually from Red and Blue / JP Blue and this needs to be changed...
For the past year or two, I've been searching the Internet for good pictures of the hard-to-find art. This database that I've created contains as much of the Red/Green Pokemon art as I could find, some transparent and some left unedited. These are from:
1) Bandai Monsters Collection cards, usually around 600x600 px. Someone put up a ton of them on Ebay with huge scans, but not all of them are available.
2) Amada stickers. Their first set featured Red/Green art. People post these all the time on collectors' websites, but the scans are obnoxiously small.
3) In another thread that was posted here, someone posted scans from the Japanese Blue Version official guide. I took some of those and made them transparent.
4) TCG scans that weren't on the Bulbagarden Archives yet (e.g. Chansey). However, I put the ones from Bulbapedia that had already been done (e.g. Machamp) into the folder for completeness.
I haven't had the time or resources to edit all of the images, sadly, but I've got some of them done. There may be multiple versions if there are color or quality differences (e.g. Ivysaur from the TCG and Ivysaur's Monsters Collection card are very different colors).
This sub-folder is from a website that my dad archived for me years ago, containing all the Sugimori art as tiny .gifs. They're probably way too small to use, but you can see them all clearly. Many Pokemon fansites in the very, very old days used to use these, because they came straight from a page on pokemon.co.jp. I've included them for reference and historical purposes.
If anyone has an artbook featuring this art, such as the Pocket Monsters Encyclopedia / ポケットモンスター大事典, scanning it would be extremely appreciated - in order to surpass the Monsters Collection images in quality, the individual Pokemon images should probably be larger than 600x600px. If you've discovered other Sugimori art that isn't available online, that would be cool too.
Please feel free to use these without credit. If you make any of them transparent, post them here so that I can update them. Thanks!
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I noticed that there has not really been much of an active effort to go after the Ken Sugimori art that was used for stuff like the Pokemon TCG and served as the base model for the 'anime art' and the vector art that would be used often in American stuff. This is actually art from Red and Green, not Red and Blue, and was on some of the earliest collectable cards and promotional images - it also bears obvious resemblance to the original sprites of R/G.
Thus, the art that is on the Bulbagarden Archives as "Red and Green" is actually from Red and Blue / JP Blue and this needs to be changed...
For the past year or two, I've been searching the Internet for good pictures of the hard-to-find art. This database that I've created contains as much of the Red/Green Pokemon art as I could find, some transparent and some left unedited. These are from:
1) Bandai Monsters Collection cards, usually around 600x600 px. Someone put up a ton of them on Ebay with huge scans, but not all of them are available.
2) Amada stickers. Their first set featured Red/Green art. People post these all the time on collectors' websites, but the scans are obnoxiously small.
3) In another thread that was posted here, someone posted scans from the Japanese Blue Version official guide. I took some of those and made them transparent.
4) TCG scans that weren't on the Bulbagarden Archives yet (e.g. Chansey). However, I put the ones from Bulbapedia that had already been done (e.g. Machamp) into the folder for completeness.
I haven't had the time or resources to edit all of the images, sadly, but I've got some of them done. There may be multiple versions if there are color or quality differences (e.g. Ivysaur from the TCG and Ivysaur's Monsters Collection card are very different colors).
This sub-folder is from a website that my dad archived for me years ago, containing all the Sugimori art as tiny .gifs. They're probably way too small to use, but you can see them all clearly. Many Pokemon fansites in the very, very old days used to use these, because they came straight from a page on pokemon.co.jp. I've included them for reference and historical purposes.
If anyone has an artbook featuring this art, such as the Pocket Monsters Encyclopedia / ポケットモンスター大事典, scanning it would be extremely appreciated - in order to surpass the Monsters Collection images in quality, the individual Pokemon images should probably be larger than 600x600px. If you've discovered other Sugimori art that isn't available online, that would be cool too.
Please feel free to use these without credit. If you make any of them transparent, post them here so that I can update them. Thanks!
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