The Pokemon franchise has been going for 25 years and has given fans the chance to capture, train, and befriend 898 different Pokemon as of writing. This may sound like an enormous number of digital pocket monsters to collect, but some fans still aren't satisfied. One Pokemon fan in particular has recruited an AI to create brand new fan-made Pokemon designs.

Pokemon fans have been creating their own Pokemon designs for almost as long as the series has existed. Some of these designs are new Pokemon for fan-made games and regions, while others are regional variants or different evolution stages of existing Pokemon.

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Max Woolf, who works as a Data Scientist at BuzzFeed in San Francisco, recently took to Twitter to share some of his fan-made Pokemon designs. What sets his creations apart from the crowd is the fact that he made them by getting a bot to look at every existing Pokemon and then assigning it to create its own monsters. The results are every bit as cute, stylized, and occasionally downright bizarre as some of the official Pokemon designs available throughout the franchise. In fact, most of them would fit right into any piece of existing Pokemon media.

The practice of using AI to create intricate and highly detailed art is becoming more and more popular as AI development continues. This isn't the first time a video game fan has used an AI to make fan art, but it may be one of the most accurate to the origin. Woolf's AI has done an excellent job of imitating the Pokemon art style. More importantly, however, the AI appears to have internalized the franchise's design ethos. Each of its creature creations reflects the soft shapes and bright colors popular in the franchise, though some of them feature more complicated designs than others.

As of writing, it appears that Pokemon fans have embraced these fan-made designs with open arms. Although relatively little information was packaged with these designs, unlike other fan-made Pokemon designs in the past, this hasn't stopped other Twitter users from sharing fan art of them. Some users have even begun to select typing, names, and evolution trees for Woolf's creations. For his part, Woolf appears to be so excited by the positive response that he's created two more batches of AI-generated Pokemon and shared them in the same thread.

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