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Surfing, Snowboarding and Flying The New Exclusive Pichu lines!
I haven't had time around the time these guys were added but I still very much wanted to talk about these lil guys. Just sort of gonna explain all of them an such and why I put what I put into them. Let's share, Yes~? SorryNotSorry if longThe Exclusives
Surfing:
Snowboarding:
Flying:
Surfing Chu Line
The Surfing Chus, I say, have the most Research and References put into them then all. Looked up through Pokemon anime, Pokemon Yellow version, looked up waves and looked up various Swimsuits. I went around and looked at stuff involving Surfing Pikachu which was the most commonly seen Pikachu variant in games and seen in the anime and in the manga, also being used in the old gen games. 1st lemme explain to those who don't get why the Surfing Chu line, as well the Snowboarding Chu line, have Blue eyes. For those who do, Novie am proud. Now then, The reasoning why they have Blue eyes is because of an actual Pikachu that had Blue eyes that was seen. No its not me but thank you. No. This Pikachu is named Puka. Puka is a Pikachu that was able to feel the ocean and tell when big waves were coming. It was slightly larger Pikachu than Ash's Pikachu and it was a sweetheart. Puka appeared in EP067 "The Pi-Kahuna" ((Or "The Legend of the Surfing Pikachu" in Jap)) and was the only Episode Puka was seen in. Here's Puka!Puka the Surfing Pikachu
Snowboarding Chu Line
The snowboard chus, while they keep the scarves and the board ((Pikachu only)), I wanted them to really look like snowboarders. The boards they have straps that hold them down to the board and I added goggles onto to them which, from what I assume, snowboarders commonly wear. Those goggles have a different tint depending on gender. They also both wear similar scarves like in the original but the colors are same to that seen on the swimsuits. As for the Snowboards. Pikachu still holds the old sprite's snowboard but its more simplified and was given shading. Raichu's snowboard, while it keeps the same coloring, is all striped. I went through looking through tons of snowboard designs but didn't mind anything that looked cool. I do like how it came out though. Also love how they came out pose wise. Just really happy how them guys came out. as said previously with the Surfing Chus, Due to the means of getting the Snowboard chus, they keep their blue eyes. FunFact: I've oddly found great enjoyment in making tiny sprite accessory items since way back into making the custom Pikachu Outfit sprites that are current available ((minus the 1st 5 released with Cosplay.)) When I was nearly finished Snowboarding Raichu, I added the goggles cause I felt like they fit the Snowboards like the Sharpedo fang had fit the male Surfing chusFlying Chu Line
Flying Chu line was the last bunch I did and was also a set that I looked up a bit more into. 1st off, I seriously had to make them look like they were flying. They're Flying chus! they should be Flying for Arceus sake! let them be their namesake! I fixed up the balloons to appear more like cute plump balloons and changed the colors. the old colors for the balloons were far too bright and had lines that were as bright. Though! I did try keep the same number of numbers that were on the old sprites, rather then change it. But! With Flying Raichu, I wanted to go with something different. Since it had the most of its line, with 5 balloons, I wanted the 5th balloon to be different and make the sprite more cute and have said balloon be different depending on its alt.color ((Being Shiny, ALbino or Melan)) What was 1st thought up was to have the balloons be the Pokeball, GreatBall, Ultraball and Masterball for Normal, Shiny, Albino and Melan respectively. BUT- It was suggested by other artists in the group to use different Pokeballs to make it even cooler and much cuter So the Timerball and Quickball are accompanied by 2 other Pokeballs that I ain't gonna spoil over what they are, that's something for you guys to find out <3 Also! I'd like to bug around with the eyes. Yes, while there have been no Pikachu in the anime or in the games that have described a Chu with Green Eyes, unlike with Puka and its blue eyes. I wanted all the chus to be special and not have the eyes of the normal chu. And, since I have the snowboard and surfing blue eyes, I wanted Flying to have a different eye color so the idea of it having the rivalling eye color to blue that looked adorable on yellow was the next best thing so tada! Green eyes on Flying Chus! Pichu's sprite was loosely based from the Pichu and Pikachu flying Chus from the Pokémon Puzzle Challenge game. I was mainly checking it out but I still used it as reference. Pikachu, like its Surfing counterpart, also somewhat goes by the old gen sprite its name sake came from. In Pokémon Yellow, You see this Flying Pikachu Which what I tried to make look similar with my Flying Pikachu but its pretty obvious they don't looke exactly alike. which is good an bad. Cause I wanted to it look like it but still happy it doesn't cause its it own. Raichu, like the snowboards, was done all on my own and several times of me screwing around with it to make sure it looked good qwq. That one was a long one to go an do. Man the feet were the biggest pain qwq FunFact: While I was still super hyped about the chus, it was still frustrating. Flying Pikachu went through 2 poses before getting what I got and Flying Raichu had 1 other pose. the Snowboards were the most difficult cause I was trying to give them more action. That Pikachu going through 3 while Raichu went through 2 with long spans of time of trying to get the boards right.---------------------------
so Yeah there you guys go! as much word things I can muster up to explain my chus. Boy you guys can't understand how happy I was when I was making it. IT was so worth the weeks working on them! Imma be honest and say I was also scared that people were gonna hate it. Yeah while I know not everyone is gonna like something, I was happy more people love it! while frustrating here an there I had so much fun and I love how they came out!
I also hope you guys like the lil funfacts I had later added into this! I thought it be nice to share a bit more into this with lil facts that most aren't actually facts but yeah! c: C':
If anyone has any questions about the Chus, feel free to shoot me a PM <3