"I think I've figured it out!"

Game Freak is modeling and animating their games like how one would do pixel games. This was inspired by a few things all just lining up today. This post by u/BigHailFan and a comment my friend made to me in person about this post by u/SamuelTheManuel, my friend said, "This cutscene just looks like how they did all their cutscenes in the past.If you think about "modeling" and animating pixels for older games you realize that the methods are being applied to this 3D modeled game. Attacks are just a simple model animation and a few rotations/squash and stretches. Since it has come out that each color variant of each Pokémon is it's own unique model you have to think back to the days of sprite mapping. Where to get a unique color you would make a new "model" (sprite map) but in that color.This just shows that Game Freak is 20 years behind industry standards when it comes to 3D modeling and animating techniques. via /r/pokemon https://ift.tt/2QGqcl4