I FIX Pokemon Animations in Sword & Shield! Part 2 

What did you guys think!? Which Pokemon would you like to see get fixed? Leave your suggestion below!

A lot of people are saying the same thing and I have to agree: the animations loop too quickly. This is really evident for me in the Starmie in the beginning, where the sudden jerking and spinning doesn’t look too clean to me. A good way to do it is to maybe try and find a beat to them. So like, 1...2...3...[now]...1..., and so on. The animations might look better with breathing room is all

You said it best. "Politoed as a CHARACTER." Gamefreak treats their mons as objects instead of characters. Therefore they feel that they don't need to give them a personality.

Holy crap! You just made me like Maractus and Politoed! I honestly never realized how much the movements of Pokemon actually contribute to their likeability.

“Sadowudu” MY SUDOWOODO LOOK HOW HE MASSACRED MY SUDOWOODO

"And we're back, with some more fixed animations in Pokemon Sword and Shield!" *Shows a giant Tyranitar that is Fortnite dancing as it walks*

I think hitmontop's spin would be good as a entering animation, and the side steps as idle.

i'd prefer hitmontop to only spin on its head when it: -emerges from pokéball/appears in the wild -occcationally should make a variation in the idle animation -initiates certain attacks big fan of it's current idle animation where it stands on its feet and does the capoeira movements

Critiscm: Hitmontop looks too weird constantly on his head. I think he should spin for a while, then get down to take a break

I didn’t realize just how lifeless some of these Pokémon were in recent games. This can bring whole new perspective to how a Pokémon is perceived.

The problem I feel with these animations is that they're constant. Maybe it's just been made to loop immediately for the sake of demonstation, and if it is disregard this, but the ones like Politoed and Maractus need pauses in between these animations. It just looks unnatural otherwise. The same could kind of be applied to Hitmontop. The constant spinning just looks strange, in my opinion, but spinning intersped with breaks (either on their feet or head, maybe even dizzily) would look much better.

Pokemon Gen 5 games had the most personality in their sprite animations.

"You made Wingull look dumb." And I suppose the third and fourth generation back sprites for Wingull don't exist either.

I think hitmontop should do both. With the capo style stance being the main one where he then transitions to the spinning on his spike. Then after a bit he jumps out of it and returns to his standard capo animation.

Perfect of example of "fine, I'll do it myself"

I have mad respect for this dude. Instead of just complaining and wining how gamefreak is lazy and how pokemon is the worst game ever like other pokemon fans, he's actually trying to find problems with the game and finding solutions to them. He genuinely just wants the games to be better.

Sudowoodo, is pronounced pseudo woo do. As in, its pseudo wood, “fake wood”.

so my problem with most of these animations is that they seem to be too fast- or to put it better, it loops too fast they don't stop moving, and they don't feel like actual pokemon animations I'm editing this again to say: yes, these look better than what game freak offers, I just want to see them looped properly so I can see the true potential of that animation

You know what they say: If you want something done right, you do it yourself.

Starmie: *spins back* DistantKingdom: *The emotion that it makes, its outstanding!*

It’s so upsetting seeing just how charming these models can be, yet they all just stay still or sway gradually. Most if not all of them look pretty much dead

I agree so much with "posture matters", the reason I also like Toxtricity is how it looks at the opponent, kinda like it's looking down on them. Imagine Toxtricity without that posture, just standing still, looking directly at the opponent like Politoed. It would be so much more boring and lifeless. I would prefer some Pokémon to keep their cool posture (Sneasel and Salazzle also look cool) while the others to get proper animations to convey their personality better (I would prefer Politoed having an animation like Ludicolo but without the same hand movement, kinda just hops left and right while looking more battle-ready.)

Next on DistantKingdom : I fix Pokémon Sword & Shield As a Whole

How fast do you want your hitmontop rotation? Distantkingdom: YES.

Maractus is so cute with this animation and hitmontop made me laugh

Politoad animation has to be the best one in this vid.

"U made wingull look dumb" But... that's just how he stands.

When some random bloke on youtube can make better animations than the official studio behind *the largest media franchise in history* you know they just don't give a fuck anymore...you know as if sword and shield didn't drive that home already.

That Politoed croak is the cutest thing I have ever seen omg

You’re doing Arceus’s work. Arceus bless you.

"I was always a fan of maractus" I thought I was alone! Maractus is SO underrated

“We spent all our time making animations” Even though there’s less animations

"the ultra beasts didn't feeeel like Pokemon." THATS THE POINT

0:42 Do... Do these people not realize that the Ultra Beasts not feeling like Pokemon is the entire freaking point!? They're designs are supposed to look strange and otherworldly, because they don't belong on the Pokemon world.

These are really simple fixes. They could have easily implemented them without putting too much effort, without the need to make new assets or animations. They still can with an update but of course they're not doing that.

Man really said "Let it Rip" when the hitmontop came out, dude is gonna be spinning forever.

Screw flying wingull. Imo it's just like you said, he looks so cute and happy to be finally resting on the ground instead of akwardly be floating. I prefer your previous video :D

Game Freak has a fetish for bad animations and Distant Kingdom just kinkshamed them harder than Kira Yoshikage.

Regardless of the actual quality of these mods, the fact that you’re actually trying to have them be more dynamic than the current animations, which tend to be one step above t posing, serves to show that this sort of thing isn’t impossible, it’s just that Gamefreak doesn’t care

You’re one of the only people who does something with their criticism of Sword and Shield, which I think is really commendable. Also Politoed looked incredible

I love how you use colusseum and gale of darkness music

This is pretty cool, just one question though? *WHEN ARE YOU GONNA MAKE FERROSEED SPEEN LIKE IN THE GEN 5 SPRITE?*

"Soh-doh-woo-doo" Criminy my dude. Soo-doh-woo-doh. Y'know, as in "Pseudo-Wood-o?"

“suh duh woo doo” someone didn’t watch the anime

"People claim ultra beasts didn't feel like pokemon" YOU DON'T SAY!

"Fine... I'll do it myself" -DistantKingdom

No one: Distant kingdom: Sud-a-wudoo

2:18 "Sudd-oh-wood-oo"

these are wonderful! the only real reason im mad at game freak for the dex cut is cause they said they were trying to improve battle animations, which they didnt deliver on so im glad someone did

The starmie loop is not perfect to me because of the aggressiv learning forward every 2 sec, but much better then game freak good Job. The new wingull is better, the sudowoodo aswell. The polytoad is so good but the loop is a bit too quick aswell for me. At the beginn a quick spin yes pls but constantly is a bit much.

In order of Appearance my Opinions on the animations 1. Starmie: Much better than the old, played stadium so much as a kid and to see it in its former glory within Sword Shield albeit modded is good for my soul 2. Sudowoodo: I understand what you were trying to do and it does give it more life than the official one but i could take it or leave it 3. Wingull: As much as I liked the sitting Wingull Animation this one is much better for battling, sitting Wingull is definitely something i'd like to see in the Camp tho 4. Maractus: Maractus was one of those ones that didn't need to be changed imo but i am glad you did 5. Politoed: Perfection; I never liked the Sitting animations of the older 3d games personally and even the croaking bit was awesome! 6. Raboot: This is something i do wish was real, dynamic poses with the 3d games are pretty important cause some pokemon could actually benefit from having a good pose and no animation. i would like to see some of the other mons get this treatment in the future. 7. Hitmontop: Actually not a fan of the constant spinning, actually i'm not a fan of Hitmontop being upside down in a 3d environment at all, i don't know how to explain why i feel this way but i do. and those are my opinions. a Pokemon i would like to see get revived tho is Exeggutor since i remember the Stadium version doing a simple jig while being Idle

I think you may have singlehandedly given me a greater appreciation for Maractus with just that segment with your improved animation. It now looks so much cuter to me. well done, man :)

I love how starmie raises his hand a little looks like they are waving.

Great job here, but that was the roughest pronunciation of Sudowoodo I have ever heard 😂 The Sudo is Pronounced like “pseudo” as in fake. “Soo-dough-woo-dough”

I think the best idle animation for Hitmontop would be a combination of the two. For it to spin for a brief moment, and then flip and go back to standing. It seems like a Pokémon that would be active like that and changing up its movements.

Maybe you could combine hitmontops animations. When you send him out, he’ll jump on his head and spin, but only for a second. He’ll return to game freaks idle for a couple seconds and then switch to spinning again. It spices up the viewing experience by giving variety while also making sure he’s not too dizzy to attack (seriously any living creature would puke after a minute in constant spinning of that speed.

Your pronunciation of Sudowoodo makes me want to scream

I would say maybe decrease the speed of Hitmontop’s spin. Other than that, you and others are proving that a little extra effort goes a great distance.

This is how I imagine Tyranitar considering he "eats mountains" and somehow manages to be shorter than that looney toon Dragonite.

Your improved animations are soooo good, they're making me even angrier at GF for being lazy and incompetent

Politoed went from a "meh" pokemon to "I need to give this lil guy a hug" in exactly 4 seconds

Arceus has shined light on Distant Kingdom.

I rather Hitmontop just spin when he gets thrown into battle

3:15 Animals in real life that appear to be a plant or part of a plant actually dance a lot or even shake, to simulate a breeze or an underwater current.

Nobody: Starmie in Stadium 1: Cha cha real smooth

How does a hobbist make better animations in such a short time, than a bunch of professionals with a nintendo sized budget? (Also, IMO the landing animation of Wingull was better, but this one is great as well)Edit: Guys, do not like my comment! I was wrong, he is not creating these animations, he's just applying other ones to the idle pose... which is still impressive, just far less...

DK: "I fixed Pokémon animations, part 2" Me: *Glare to the Tyranitar and the Wailord at the start of the video* "Ehm... Everything is fine here" ( ° v°)6

to be honest, I really liked your old wingull animation. It reminded me of pokepark, where wingull would roost just like that when it wanted a rest from all the flying. Great job!

Starmie’s “idle dance” could be where it stands on its back star and spins it’s front once, then gets back on its front and gets back to spinning

We, and the pokemon, deserve more shiny alterations

Eyy shiny maractus I haven't seen that in several years now???

Hitmontop: *gets in a battle* Hitmontop: now it's time to get funky

I love all of them. Especially Maractus since It was my favourite Pokémon (still is but with some other) from the day I caught it. The movement made it look so adorable that my heart melted but when the animation was kinda changed to more "relaxed", the energetic and adorableness spell fell with it. It made me upset and seeing it move like in the Pokédex entry makes my heart melt.

DistantKingdom actually fixes the bland animations Gamefreak: Wait, that's illegal

I feel like, if possible it'd be better if wingull goes into the origami state if he goes below 50% health. Doing it all the time feels a bit over the top

6:59 I LOVE THAT SO FUCKING MUCH I LOVE IT YOU JUST MADE MY FAVOURITE EVOLUTION EVEN BETTER

The spinning on Starmie looks like it's two separate pieces not connected.

I feel like hitmontop should start standing and do a short spin before transitioning back onto his feat, kinda like someone who's breakdancing and about to do a headspin

I'd like a cross of balancing Hitmontop and spinning Hitmontop.

I love that hitmontops ability is intimidate like if you saw this dude just spinning at full speed you would also be intimidated

I absolutelly loved them, expecially Maractus, she's one of my favorite Gen 5 pokemon because she's so cute and energetic, 3D made her lifeless but your fix helped her a lot

While the animations are great, a couple of them, like Maractus, would benefit from using the gamefreak as a standard idle and your lively animations as the idle that plays after a few standard loops. Having so much energy constantly is a bit distracting, but in combination I feel it works perfectly to keep the focus on the gameplay, but have that lovely flair that isn't as present in modern games. I think Colosseum did that sort of thing as well. Also I LOVE your color changes and outfits if they are custom as well. I never beat the whole game so I can't remember lol, but some of those shinies definitely look much better!

You deserve a like for naming the wingull "peeko" Btw can u improve the animations for charmander?

7:45 Hitmontop:I will move like this so pokemons will miss their attacks! Quagsire: *O K*

This is... really cool, and really valuable. Subscribed first video; haven’t done that in a long time.

I definitely like Hitmontop standing and only getting on his head to attack. Watching him spin or balance like that makes me nauseous

-I liked origami Wingull! -I need animated Marractus and Ludicolo double battle now -I liked the dancing Hitmontop more, but if you could slow it down and open his eyes, it would look better. I particularly liked the Stadium with the slight slow wobble so its not too distracting but I get that might be a whole other level of challenge. -PLEASE FIX LUGIA!! 😂

I have always envisioned maractus to shake like a maracas

Great job! these little things make everything different. congratzz

"The lovable *SUH-DOO-WOO-DOO"*

2 things : A : I preffer the static sudowoodo anyways, it just seems more natural for it B : I preffer hitmontop how it is today, and it looks kinda jarring seing it constantly spinning. I suggest it sometimes does a little upsidown spin, but is most of the time with its current animation. The reason this animation is good is because one of the main inspirations for hitmontop is Capoeira, and in Capoeira people usually do hitmontops movement when they arent attacking.

I thought the animations needed to be a bit more lively since I grew up with Gen 5. This looks great!

I kinda love how "alien" the ultrabeasts are, and how they're a bit too 'off' to feel like Pokemon. Because they aren't! They're these alien creatures from another dimension. They're hostile and dangerous. I LOVE that.

Honestly, although I find this concept cool and I really appreciate the thought and effort gone into the making of the animations. I feel like some, if not many, of these, run the risk of getting overly distracting or annoying after a while. I think the extra subtly brought by breaks in between the animation, instead of it being on infinite loop, would be very beneficial to the feel of it all. Just as you don't normally stand completely still, you're not in constant motion either. Obviously, this doesn't apply to everything, like with Rabbifoot and Wingul. But the more excentric animations would benefit from having breaks in my opinion. Like with hitmontop, if it for example jumped and spun on its head for a couple of seconds (anything from 10 to 30), then jumped back on its feet, stood for a bit, and then jumped to spin again. This would give more life to the idle animation, while also giving a reasonable and realistic break in the action. Another example would be Sudowoodo. Instead of it constantly bumping it's hips from left to right, it could instead stand still, move its hip to the left, then after a bit moving it to the right, then back to center after a bit. This would give the expression of it shifting its posture instead of constantly dancing forever

8:17 I would prefer Hitmontop only spinning when attacking. That stays like a balanced top in non action stances and start spinning when performing a move

One of the best examples of the previously ment dynamic pose would be toxicroak. I love that thing

That song int he background while starmie spins will forever get me hyped

This proves two things . 1: Shinys are better than normal Pokemon. 2: People at Gamefreak/ Pokemon Company must be really really lazy. 2.5: They should stop overworking their employees EDIT: i got so many likes! Usally i get like five-

I would love to see the scaling problem fixed . It is wierd to see a wailord and a comfey be almost the same size .

That spinning hitmontop is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen, thank you so much for this blessing