An idea for a redesign of The Crown Tundra’s three main legendary pokémon: Calyrex, Glastrier,

An idea for a redesign of The Crown Tundra’s three main legendary pokémon: Calyrex, Glastrier, and Spectrier. While I think the idea of fusing two legendary pokémon together to get a whole (*cough* Kyurem *cough*) is cool, the application with these three seems a little off. As other people online had noted, the two steeds look a little too plain; not fantastical enough to really sell them as pokémon by themselves. And the fusion aspect also does not work well. Calyrex’s color scheme is just too different from the others to really blend together in a visually pleasing way. As well as it just sitting on them like a rider being a kind of lazy way to work with it…Which is where this comes in. The main goal was to combine them in a way that retained their original designs while also smoothly transitioning from one to the other. The original idea actually came from a leak before the expansion’s release. All that was noted was that there were two horses: black and white. With Calyrex, it made it sound as though there was a chess theme involved. A king and two knights. There wasn’t, but I think incorporating that makes for a better overall design. Calyrex’s new design isn’t all that different. By removing its arms and legs, it makes him look like a chess piece, a knight as well as a king. How they fuse with the horses was an idea from my childhood: where was the rest of the horse? Because chess knights are just the head of a horse, where’s its body? Thus we get the two steeds being headless horses. Normally Calyrex acts as the head and makes the decisions, but when separated they’re wild and unruly. They’re literally brainless monsters. When fusing, Calyrex’s bottom bit slots into the horses’ necks, fusing them together with only a single seamline.In addition, I thought it best to change the rider’s color scheme to match the steed it’s on. Other things connect the two pokémon: Calyrex’s cape melds into the mane of the horse and its crown antler-things fuse together, making either a crown of ice or spectral smoke. Or bones. I didn’t really have time for the other. If I were behind the marketing, I’d call the complete fusions Calyrex “White Knight” and “Black Knight”. Perhaps the execution was a bit off for this is as well… I’m not good at completely on-model drawing like Pokémon tends to do. If you’re a better artist than me and want to draw these, please tag me! Not because I want credit, I just want to see this idea fully realized. -- source link

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