Pikachu and Pichu (Alolan Ver.) 3D model by ICM26 on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

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So today marks 8 years since Pokémon Sun & Moon released

Maybe late but better than never

So here I have Pikachu and Pichu but Alolan!!

Nope, this isn’t a dream or joke. As the title says clearly, this is a full 3D model of pikachu and pichu, so to use in real space with the dimensions X, Y, and Z!

Now you might be saying to yourself, WHAT? And why? Well it’s a long story so I’ll tell you, feel free to read it. (or not, I don’t blame you)(don’t worry, summary at end)

Let’s rewind back to the start. The year was 2016, the United States presidential elections were at high stakes, an extra day was added in February, the summer Olympics took place in Rio de Janeiro, yada yada yada, Just the usual year.

And there I was, 10 year old me in November, who was being introduced to the Pokémon games and seeing gameplay of a Pokémon game for the first time during commercial breakers and promos. (Before that I only saw merch of Pokémon worn by people around the school, with either Pikachu’s face or other Pokémon charceters, but mainly pikachu) Howerver, I unfortunately never brought the game since I already owned a Xbox one and a PSP and I couldn’t have another console. (Minecraft was my all time favorite during that time, and I watched YouTubers played them, two of which I’ll mentioned later down the story) But back to the story, I never thought to much of the game until a few months later when it released, at that time as well a little game called pokemon go was released that summer and the whole world went wild. But I never jumped the bandwagon because I had no knowledge on how to create an account although someone with the game tried to help me create one during a birthday party, and still can’t since my old android phone isn’t strong enough to handle the game. The most part I spent on YouTube was on random videos on my feed, but I’ve watched a lot of TheDiamondMinecrart and StampyLongHead, with their let’s play on mods and adventures. And by surprise they both had the chance on playing the sun and moon games, opposed to Pokémon go which people wouldn’t stop talking about. And being their favorites, I gleefully watched their take on the game I couldn’t get a chance to play, (Dantdm played the demo only) but by December, stampy went the long way by playing the full game in parts, and as Dan stopped playing, stampy started on his quest to finished it, this is where it hooked me.

Everyday after school I hopped to see if stampy played the game to follow on his quest, and here is where it all happened, the course of history for these two just took shape. In part 3 of stampy’s let’s play, he caught a little Pichu (stampy sounded so happy when he caught it and it brought a smile to my face), and the rest is history for these two models, and soon it evolved to a pikachu by part 15, and the first glance at the boiiiii was at part 25 with hau’s raichu, and stampy was considering evolving his pikachu into a raichu as it would look cool (he also influenced me to adore the big mouse both the original and Alolan form, because he said that pikachu was always talked about but not raichu, and somehow that got me to like it even if I never heard of a raichu), but to me, it was the coolest and cutest looking Pokémon I’ve laid my eyes upon in my 10 years of existence. And soon enough by part 42 (a full 7 months after his start, by the time I was 11 and fresh from school to summer break) he evolved it and oh my goodness! It was adorable for my child heart, he even said it looked like a plushe and I believed he was right. And by looking up raichu on google was where my quest started as well, I witnessed by looking up raichu, I saw a creamsicle with chocolate dipped hands and feet mouse that didn’t looks like the one stampy had. But deep down inside of me, I knew this one looked more original to the pikachu stampy had but why, didn’t it evolved to this one, I wondered? And I actually felt that way or a long time, long after stampy finished his let’s play. It bothered me that raichu had psychic abilities while pikachu didn’t, why blue eyes when pikachu didn’t, why this one appears and the original didn’t. It bothered me very deep down, during that time, I started to enjoy more of raichu, both normal and regional form. But the thing stampy said of the original raichu is that it’s not worth it, but the new one. This made me feel betrayed. What was wrong with the original, and it sparked a search to see if his saying was true, and unfortunately, the evidence struck me with kanto raichu’s moon Pokédex saying “Because so many Trainers like the way Pikachu looks, you don’t see this Pokémon very often.”. That line teared me, my headcanon was the creators (gamefreak) always believed it to be ugly and an eyesore, and was choosen to be one of many that went to be redesigned to improve its appearance and gameplay, meanwhile abandoning the original, and stampy was one of them as he preferred pikachu over raichu since he saw raichu as cool instead of both cool and CUTE because it still has the cuteness on that goofy face. Fast forward to present day 2024, I started college and I wanted to do something to keep the pressure of work out of me, I took graphic design in high school and worked with creating digital drawings and I said “I’ll do that but more harder” -ICM 2024. And I heard of blender, and played with it when I had my first laptop, I only knew how to add and move stuff, but this software gave me the answer that has long bothered me in my core, I was going to the be first to make pichu and pikachu into their Alolan forms. (there were drawings of alolan pikachu and pichu concepts if it were ever real, but none have been made in 3D) the quest was no easy, but I’ve have finished it as the post you’re reading proves it. So I’ll tell you the process, for pichu, it was easy to model as I focused on the ears and tail, the rest almost looked like Alolan raichu, the ears were rounded and the tail was ripped from a togedemaru model and painted to fit in pichu, and was done. Pikachu on the other hand was a nightmare, I tried to make it look like it would evolve to Alolan raichu while looking strikingly different from their original counterpart, and I questioned if I could pull it off. I used the sculpting mechanic in blender but they were unequal, so I cut out half of pikachu and adjusted it and pasted back the other half, but after trail and error I have the final product, and it’s safe to say that I have done something no person has ever done, just for you guys, unless no one see’s this post, but I highly doubt it.

To summarize the story in a nutshell for those who want context but don’t want to read the whole thing.

It’s 2016, 10 year me see commercial, it’s sun and moon, DanTDM and Stampy started playing sun and moon, me engage, Stampy catches pichu, pichu evolves to Pikachu, me see raichu, me love raichu, stampy evolves raichu, me search raichu on google, reality hit me on the head, alolan raichu doesn’t fit in pika line, Stampy and Gamefreak hates Kantonian raichu, Gamefreak changes and shames on its original design, me sad, years later, me want to prove, me create Alolan pichu and Pikachu, me tired, me post and hope to get attention on my creation. END

Now with the context out of the way

I created these model since Alolan raichu stood out to me in a weird way although I still like it’s adorable design (asukto Mika did her job of making raichu cuter to emphasize it) but it never matched pikachu face or body, looking more similar to pichu. And not to say the plain or nonexistent lore of Alolan raichu, so I divided the two regional forms to give it new lore.

And fix my OCD

I’m happy how pichu turned out, pikachu was hard but looks cute.

Now I hope people will see this, so please share this on anywhere. (just credit me or I’ll do it myself, I don’t ban or report people, cuz it’s unnecessary and technically it’s not my property, just my creation of creativity on an idea)

There will be a download link so you can get the chance of using the boys on anything (animations, avatars, etc.) but I must warn, the skeletons and the model may not work, as I don’t know to rig a character and I’m tired and busy, so anyone better than modeling or rigging than me, do the favors for me and post the final results online with the link so I can copy it and credit you for your service.

Other than that, the models are free to do what you choose.

Note: the accessories don’t come with the models, but to give visual appearance.

Download link:

Pichu: https://skfb.ly/p8VKo

Pikachu: https://skfb.ly/p8VJD

Pokémon models used:

Pichu: N/A

Togedemaru’s tail: https://www.models-resource.com/3ds/pokemonultrasunultramoon/model/22220/

Pikachu: N/A

Raichu’s ear spirals: N/A

Models used in this scene:

Ukulele: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/ukulele-5dbc25a511184812bd5271c17d1dab81

Float: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/inflatable-pool-float-ring-low-poly-07000d5d03e34c48bf1cb1d777d7a3d2

Surfboard: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/surfboard-low-poly-50f909b001434240abcd7b779c875006

Pichu and Pikachu (c) Nintendo & Gamefreak

Models created by Me (ICM)

Models aren’t made by Nintendo & Gamefreak and I have no ties to them.

This is a freelance project, all models are used by sketch fab creators

If this gets taken down, I understand and won’t hesitate to follow request from them. (Hopefully won’t sue me for my life and my children’s future life, as in millions of dollars in debt my generation would have to pay)

Another Note: the models may be wonky and broken, I’ll update them during break, I’m tired and I need to finish an assignment right about now.