I can see their evolutions being like: Vertle --> Turamboo (Tur for Turbulence or Turtle, amboo for the Bamboo) --> Kamenai (Kame being Japanese for Turtle and nai for Shinnai, which is a Bamboo sword) Boomoo --> Nucow (Nuc from Nuclear Bomb, and Cow from, well, cow) --> Bulliferno (Bull and Inferno) Meribee --> Aquabuzz (Aqua for water and Buzz) --> Waspoon (Wasp and Harpoon)
@@BJGpixel I drew it! It's far from professional, but I'm still proud of it. I decided to make it a motorcycle instead of a van. I'm telling myself that it's because of the whole motorcycle thing in Scarlet/Violet, but it's really just because this was easier. It's the newest video on my channel, assuming it doesn't get deleted (I had a little bit of trouble uploading it)
@@N_IRL Oh nice, that was quick! And yeah a motorcycle is a good call too; very fitting with the recent showcases from Scarlet/Violet! Thanks for sharing :D
@@BJGpixel No problem, it was lots of fun to draw! I'm glad I can show off some of my pixel art to you since you're the source of most of my pixel art knowledge that I didn't gain through observation alone
A fun bit of trivia for the first design: As you were scrolling through the randomizer, the anchor bee was the first one that caught my attention because it immediately made me think of Seabees. Seabees (Derived from CB for Construction Battalion) are a faction of the US Navy that serve as combat engineers, constructing and making operational all of the hundreds of military island ports and airstrips that would pop up throughout WWII and onward, and responsible for appropriating and refitting whatever machinery gets picked up along the way. Often among the first to land in order to make bases suitable for the incoming deployment. Thought it made for a cool hypothetical Pokémon inspiration.
Fakemon from a random emoji combo? This is such a great idea, since it - it can easily be turned into a drawing practice (that takes away the overhead of thinking what to draw) - leaves room for the choice of style and complexity - creates results that can be used as base for novel character design, _and_ - can provide results that can be combined yet again (like Plague of Gripes' TriFusions')
hey brandon, would you ever consider doing some sort of series of a large-scale pixel art project? i feel like itd be so cool to watch you design a city on a huge canvas or something
boomoo is my favorite easily! as soon as i saw the "cow heart bomb" emoji while scrolling through the emoji randomizer i knew you could get something awesome out of it. looks like it would fit home RIGHT with the other gen 2 pokemon. you could have told me this was apart of the gold silver leaks and i would have believed you. awesome work
I was thinking maybe Boomoo can use it's tail as a fuse for the bomb at the end. Like one attack would be to spin and throw the bomb towards the enemy by detaching the tail. I'd love to see those characters animated and (as someone else already requester) see their evolutions. Also I found it really funny that you're using the turtle shell of Vertle as a backpack. I have been designing a turtle / cat fusion character the other day and stumbled across the exact same thought.
Totally! A bomb throw would be great, maybe even lighting the fuse with the flames coming from the horns. And that's interesting about the backpack thing, kinda stumbled into it during this design but it's a neat idea - would love to see the turtle/cat design :D
If you recontextualized the lanterns on Maribee to bouys, you could call it Bouee! And you could also alternatively call Vertle Tenboo, referencing it's stick as a tanbo staff/bamboo/to tend or guard. Then you'd have Boomoo, Bouee, and Tenboo
One of the things about the 40x40 pixel style is that giving a Pokemon CGI-level details means you'll need to take more space in the 40x40 square. A Pokemon that's supposed to be smaller isn't going to look good standing next a Pokemon that's larger. It'll seem too big or too small, unless the larger one is crouching or squished.
40x40 was an approximation for the small starter-type Pokémon only (e.g., Charmander). Medium size (e.g., Charmeleon) would be ~48x48, and Large size (e.g., Charizard) would be ~56x56. For this GameBoy style, the relative scaling between them is a bit of an abstraction anyway to ensure they all fit reasonably well within the restricted screen space while balancing readability.
@@BJGpixel Ah. Alright Even the larger pokemon sprites tend to be crouching to emphasize how much bigger and badder they are than their pre-evolutions.
@@gaidencastro9706 Haha yeah true, that totally emphasizes their scale too - they have to crouch just to fit on screen; kinda like squeezing into frame when someone's taking a group photo 😅
Seeing as you have an extra 9 emoji combos left to work with id definitely be interested to see this as a mini series! great work! The designs are super cute, if i had to pick, maribee is my favourite !
I need more of these Pokémon. I'd like to suggest taking these sprites that represent the Gen 1-2 era and trying to recreate them in the style of another Pokémon era, like the sprites from Generation 3. You could even split them into 3 videos, going over Gens 3, 4, and 5.
WOW BRANDON! Please make a series out of these videos! Totally agree with the other comment that you captured the GBA style perfectly. I would literally assume these were real if they were presented as a concept art leak.
I see this trio as like the three starter pokemon for your own reigion. I'd like to see a follow-up video either going deeper into their concept by evolving them or making more pokemon based on other emoji combos 🐒🧶🔌
Maybe you could make a part two or even come up with an idea for your own region. All I'm saying is that this idea has a lot of potential and I think it is really cool.
Super effective indeed, it's amazing where you find inspirations for creativity! 😁 And using a random emoji combination with Pokemon in particular is such a great call, considering the breadth of all the Pokemon out there ✨ I could see a version of this challenge with filters like food emojis to create dishes (I was thinking art while writing this but actually prepping it would be quite something!) 🍜🧀🥥
Thanks so much! Yeah the randomizer is an interesting way to find some unique traits - it's unlikely I'd've stumbled into these sort of designs through my own concepting alone ✨ Hahaha and yeah that'd be an interesting challenge for art/food as well - maybe both! - first as an art piece and then as a real dish! 🫐🌮🔥
this is so cool! i'd love to see them maybe in a more modern pokemon style? think black and white 2 style! or perhaps their evolutions done in a progressingly modern artstyle?
Hey man, just wanted to thank you for getting me into doing pixel art, without you I wouldn't be where I am today, you are a huge inspiration for me and I love watching your videos, keep up the good work :)
One feedback I have is that Vertle only really subtly calls back to the crosswalk emoji in a sense that it's a kid that probably crosses streets to go to school by design. That is totally fine but given the bamboo emoji refers a japanese festival it would not be uncommon to directly incorporate that tradition in the pokemon design. There are a ton of Pokemon that do that symbolism already, even in Gen 1. (Magikarp, the Legendary Birds, Ninetails come to mind) So yeah, that and the Anchor and specifically the lanterns don't quite come through on the Maribee sprite, which could be due to Sprite limitations.
great video as always and I love this idea a lot, i'm using the emoji generator to come up with new creature ideas and objects for my game and its working extremely well.
I kind of avoided this video because I'm a bit tired of "let's design some fakemon!" but this is youtube gold! I never thought the emojis could create such great prompts (in Brandon's hands at least)
idk if this is in the realm of something you would ever do but, would you consider a like Ben 10-Themed video? Anyway, another great video Brandon! I liked the little animations of the Pokemon popping out of the PokeBalls especially.
This is fantastic! You should definitely do a follow-up video later on where you design their evolutions.
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That would be sick, I can already imagine when the turtle evolves it could become more of a guiding figure than a kid on their way to school
@@LegoSauce You mean like a school pilot? I like the idea!
absolutelly !!!!!
@@LegoSauce Or a teacher, with the bamboo now acting as a ruler!
I can see their evolutions being like:
Vertle --> Turamboo (Tur for Turbulence or Turtle, amboo for the Bamboo) --> Kamenai (Kame being Japanese for Turtle and nai for Shinnai, which is a Bamboo sword)
Boomoo --> Nucow (Nuc from Nuclear Bomb, and Cow from, well, cow) --> Bulliferno (Bull and Inferno)
Meribee --> Aquabuzz (Aqua for water and Buzz) --> Waspoon (Wasp and Harpoon)
Love them, beautiful ideas all around! "Nucow" in particular is so perfect 👌✨
Holy crap I really need to see art on Waspoon immediately
I love waspoon
I personally would consider renaming Maribee to include Apiary, a man made hive
And how lanterns look like bee hives
I had the idea of "Taurbomba" for the final evolution of Boomoo. A play on Tsar Bomba + Taur. A little straight forward but found it fitting.
What's good is that these could actually be starters because they're water, fire, and plant.
That's what I was thinking! Someone should make a pkmn red rom hack with these as the starters lol
No offense, but *grass
You managed to capture the GB style so well
I like how the bees wings look like floaties, could be a water bug type with levitate
Water-bug, fire-fairy, grass-psychic
@@nyxiestarz Why fairy and psychic type?
Boomoo is everything Milktank wishes it could be. Love this video! I might have to try to draw hippie van chicken sometime
Haha thanks! Hippie van Chickie was soooo close to being selected for this one, I'd love to see that :D
@@BJGpixel I drew it! It's far from professional, but I'm still proud of it. I decided to make it a motorcycle instead of a van. I'm telling myself that it's because of the whole motorcycle thing in Scarlet/Violet, but it's really just because this was easier. It's the newest video on my channel, assuming it doesn't get deleted (I had a little bit of trouble uploading it)
@@N_IRL Oh nice, that was quick! And yeah a motorcycle is a good call too; very fitting with the recent showcases from Scarlet/Violet! Thanks for sharing :D
@@BJGpixel No problem, it was lots of fun to draw! I'm glad I can show off some of my pixel art to you since you're the source of most of my pixel art knowledge that I didn't gain through observation alone
A fun bit of trivia for the first design: As you were scrolling through the randomizer, the anchor bee was the first one that caught my attention because it immediately made me think of Seabees. Seabees (Derived from CB for Construction Battalion) are a faction of the US Navy that serve as combat engineers, constructing and making operational all of the hundreds of military island ports and airstrips that would pop up throughout WWII and onward, and responsible for appropriating and refitting whatever machinery gets picked up along the way. Often among the first to land in order to make bases suitable for the incoming deployment.
Thought it made for a cool hypothetical Pokémon inspiration.
This is great we need a part 2 of their evolutions
Fakemon from a random emoji combo? This is such a great idea, since it
- it can easily be turned into a drawing practice (that takes away the overhead of thinking what to draw)
- leaves room for the choice of style and complexity
- creates results that can be used as base for novel character design, _and_
- can provide results that can be combined yet again (like Plague of Gripes' TriFusions')
Vertle nails the OG pokemon art design style and filled me with nostalgia 🐢🚸🎋
absolutely loved BOOMOO
it should be a real Pokémon
Begging for a BJG Pokémon game, these are all so creative and fun! I will choose Boomoo as my starter!
Hahaha thanks dude! Excellent choice; Boomoo is definitely the most OP early on, though we'll have to see how they all stack up once evolved 😆
@@BJGpixel Need an RNG Pokemon simulator to find out :o
hey brandon, would you ever consider doing some sort of series of a large-scale pixel art project? i feel like itd be so cool to watch you design a city on a huge canvas or something
Boomoo is interesting. My guess, ramming into things and triggering explosions on impact would be its thing.
Nice designs !
boomoo is my favorite easily! as soon as i saw the "cow heart bomb" emoji while scrolling through the emoji randomizer i knew you could get something awesome out of it. looks like it would fit home RIGHT with the other gen 2 pokemon. you could have told me this was apart of the gold silver leaks and i would have believed you. awesome work
I was thinking maybe Boomoo can use it's tail as a fuse for the bomb at the end. Like one attack would be to spin and throw the bomb towards the enemy by detaching the tail.
I'd love to see those characters animated and (as someone else already requester) see their evolutions.
Also I found it really funny that you're using the turtle shell of Vertle as a backpack. I have been designing a turtle / cat fusion character the other day and stumbled across the exact same thought.
Totally! A bomb throw would be great, maybe even lighting the fuse with the flames coming from the horns. And that's interesting about the backpack thing, kinda stumbled into it during this design but it's a neat idea - would love to see the turtle/cat design :D
This is a sick starter set 🥹
So inspiring! I love the 3-emoji technique for inspiration. Your designs are flawless. Thanks for making this video:)
Aww a starter trio! They are so cute!
babe wake up new Brandon James Greer video !!
Those are really good. I love them all.
Some of the other emoji combos seemed pretty fun too so I would be looking forward to a part 2.
Really missed out on space cow - didn't realize you picked fire cow....I like it even more!!! Really great stuff 😊👍❤️
It is always a good night when Brandon releases a new video 😊😊
Oh I missed this background music! It's from the older videos! Also, nice work as always! :D
If you recontextualized the lanterns on Maribee to bouys, you could call it Bouee! And you could also alternatively call Vertle Tenboo, referencing it's stick as a tanbo staff/bamboo/to tend or guard.
Then you'd have Boomoo, Bouee, and Tenboo
Ooh that's really good too! :D
@@BJGpixel This was a great video idea. You come up with super creative concepts to work around!
When boomoo is really happy (or about to evolve), its tail lights up in a shower of harmless rainbow sparkles! Also, boomoo is a fire-fairy type
One of the things about the 40x40 pixel style is that giving a Pokemon CGI-level details means you'll need to take more space in the 40x40 square. A Pokemon that's supposed to be smaller isn't going to look good standing next a Pokemon that's larger. It'll seem too big or too small, unless the larger one is crouching or squished.
40x40 was an approximation for the small starter-type Pokémon only (e.g., Charmander). Medium size (e.g., Charmeleon) would be ~48x48, and Large size (e.g., Charizard) would be ~56x56. For this GameBoy style, the relative scaling between them is a bit of an abstraction anyway to ensure they all fit reasonably well within the restricted screen space while balancing readability.
@@BJGpixel Ah. Alright
Even the larger pokemon sprites tend to be crouching to emphasize how much bigger and badder they are than their pre-evolutions.
@@gaidencastro9706 Haha yeah true, that totally emphasizes their scale too - they have to crouch just to fit on screen; kinda like squeezing into frame when someone's taking a group photo 😅
@@BJGpixel Thanks for replying to my comment, and hope we get some of that awkward group photo action in future sprites
This is an absolutely genius idea!
Seeing as you have an extra 9 emoji combos left to work with id definitely be interested to see this as a mini series! great work! The designs are super cute, if i had to pick, maribee is my favourite !
I need more of these Pokémon. I'd like to suggest taking these sprites that represent the Gen 1-2 era and trying to recreate them in the style of another Pokémon era, like the sprites from Generation 3. You could even split them into 3 videos, going over Gens 3, 4, and 5.
"Boomoo?" Lol so good. Im prettyvsurr this is how the designers pick new pokemon
So good! Super Effective Combos.
This was a very clever excersice! What a great prompt for Pokémon creation. Awesome designs!
Thanks dude, it worked so well to get outside the box a little! :D
I think Vertle would be Grass/Water, Boomoo Fire/Fairy, and Maribee Bug/Water. Just a thought.
WOW BRANDON! Please make a series out of these videos!
Totally agree with the other comment that you captured the GBA style perfectly. I would literally assume these were real if they were presented as a concept art leak.
GB / GBC, not GBA. :P
I see this trio as like the three starter pokemon for your own reigion. I'd like to see a follow-up video either going deeper into their concept by evolving them or making more pokemon based on other emoji combos 🐒🧶🔌
It's great to see someone using their imagination to create original designs
damn these are sooo nice! please consider doing another part. love the premise
This was really fun!
your videos are just heaven of nostalgia and joy, super hyped for this one! 🤍
This takes me back to the Pokémon "Leaf Green" Game Boy days. I like the name "MooBomb" for the cow. . .🤩👌🏾💯
Maribee's lantern-wings remind me of water jugs in office water dispensers :) (totally fitting!)
Maybe you could make a part two or even come up with an idea for your own region. All I'm saying is that this idea has a lot of potential and I think it is really cool.
Better then some of the actual pokemon designs.
Super effective indeed, it's amazing where you find inspirations for creativity! 😁 And using a random emoji combination with Pokemon in particular is such a great call, considering the breadth of all the Pokemon out there ✨
I could see a version of this challenge with filters like food emojis to create dishes (I was thinking art while writing this but actually prepping it would be quite something!) 🍜🧀🥥
Also the 3 Pokemon are so great, couldn't have thought of a better name than BOOMOO 🐄😆
Thanks so much! Yeah the randomizer is an interesting way to find some unique traits - it's unlikely I'd've stumbled into these sort of designs through my own concepting alone ✨ Hahaha and yeah that'd be an interesting challenge for art/food as well - maybe both! - first as an art piece and then as a real dish! 🫐🌮🔥
@@BJGpixel Is it time for the BJG Culinary story arc??? 👨🍳👾😆
@@CKTDanny Haha time to become a Pro CZcamsr and start a second channel - entirely cooking vids 👨🍳✨
Awesome concept! Would love to see a part 2!
It think Vertle could also be a dual type martial. That staff and their imbalance would work great with Drunken Master style Kungfu lol.
Interesting idea! Would serve really well for their evolution line as well!
Your sprites are so fun and chill to watch you draw.
I’d love to see the evolution of these.
Or you can do some DigiMon, cause they get no respect
this is so cool! i'd love to see them maybe in a more modern pokemon style? think black and white 2 style! or perhaps their evolutions done in a progressingly modern artstyle?
I just imagine the bee throws itself around in staid of stings. :3
Looks super fun, I’ll have to try it! You picked the exact one I would’ve too, they look great!
1. These are adorable!
2. I love that Maribee has a move straight out of Xenoblade Chronicles
Nailed the style.
Welp, we've got starters, now the only logical step is to force Brandon to draw a whole Pokemon region
Hey man, just wanted to thank you for getting me into doing pixel art, without you I wouldn't be where I am today, you are a huge inspiration for me and I love watching your videos, keep up the good work :)
Would definitely be interesting to see some evolved forms.
Really good sprites
What an amazing work !!!!!!!!!!! GG
I got my start in pixel art doing edits of gen 1 pokemon sprites - this is an incredible idea!
Wow those look incredible!
would love a follow up for their evolution chains!
Very nice man. You are an amazing artist
this is amazing!! I love the concept and the result, it's great!
One feedback I have is that Vertle only really subtly calls back to the crosswalk emoji in a sense that it's a kid that probably crosses streets to go to school by design.
That is totally fine but given the bamboo emoji refers a japanese festival it would not be uncommon to directly incorporate that tradition in the pokemon design.
There are a ton of Pokemon that do that symbolism already, even in Gen 1. (Magikarp, the Legendary Birds, Ninetails come to mind)
So yeah, that and the Anchor and specifically the lanterns don't quite come through on the Maribee sprite, which could be due to Sprite limitations.
Fun fact. The US Navy has a construction battalion, their mascot is a SEA BEE
evolution video is a MUST . for sure :>
vertle is SO GOOD i want him on my team in scarlet and violet
also, i don't know if you did this on purpose, but you ended up with a surprisingly believable starter trio with the water grass and fire typings!
Honestly better than what gamefreak has been pooping out for the last 3 generations.
game freak: write that down! write that down!
I always love your videos! Such a good imagination! Thank you for the great content brandon!
great video as always and I love this idea a lot, i'm using the emoji generator to come up with new creature ideas and objects for my game and its working extremely well.
I kind of avoided this video because I'm a bit tired of "let's design some fakemon!" but this is youtube gold! I never thought the emojis could create such great prompts (in Brandon's hands at least)
This is awesome.
Fantastic I love them all
Ooo I love this! I wanna see more!
idk if this is in the realm of something you would ever do but, would you consider a like Ben 10-Themed video?
Anyway, another great video Brandon! I liked the little animations of the Pokemon popping out of the PokeBalls especially.
I'm not even super into Ben 10 and I think that'd be awesome to see. He could design some really cool aliens!
If only the new pokemons designs were this good
Incredible! Now make 147 more!
Ya never know, they could be your own starter Fakémons! =) But I wonder what their evolution lines would be like? 🤔
Cowboom! They're all so cute!
Awesome video, though I would have loved to see your take on "sad loudspeaker unicorn", too! :D
I'd suggest Mooboom for the cow for a nice palindromic name (just like Eevee and Girafarig).
OMG it's soooo coool!! GG bro
such a cool video !
would you make one with pixel art in the style of other gens that use pixel art ?
We gotta see their evolutions.
Id love to see their evolutions
I'd make Boomoo a literal Bomb shape and have the tail be the wick
These are great! Look like they are official! Hope you do their evolutions sometime!
🧀 Looks like the Laughing Cow Cheese logo
That cow is so cute!!
love! what a fun idea!
Nice started squad you've got.
Really nice job dude.
theyre so cuteee
Nice work!
do a part 2 for evolutions!!!
7:24 "super effective" :)
Awesome stuff. I would be interested in your thoughts on Pokemon overworld sprites. There are plenty of variations between the different Generations.
7:25 it's super effective! lmao
Luv your videos, btw i think you should do another vidéo when your designing evolution of the three starter. That would be awesome !