Summary
- A creative fan meticulously recreates Pokemon's Pallet Town in Unreal Engine 5.
- The town's design mirrors FireRed and LeafGreen remakes, including interior furnishings.
A creative member of the Pokemon community recreates Pallet Town, one of the series' most iconic locations, in painstaking detail using Unreal Engine 5. This simple town is where many Trainers first began their journeys in the world of Pokemon back in the 90s, and serves as a blueprint for many of the other small towns and cities scattered across the franchise's early regions.
Pokemon Red and Blue's Pallet Town has been the subject of tons of fan artwork over the decades. Home to the protagonist Red's house as well as Professor Oak's Pokemon Lab, this town is where every player's journey in the Kanto region begins, and is also where they get to choose between Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle as their starter Pokemon. Fan artwork, particularly that shared by some of the most creative fans in the Pokemon community, tends to take all sorts of surprising shapes and forms. Kanto's Pallet Town has been recreated in all kinds of ways before, with some fans even building it in other games such as Animal Crossing or even Far Cry 5.
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In this case, though, a fan known online as weedyalf has shared a hyper-realistic version of Pokemon's Pallet Town crafted and rendered in Unreal Engine 5. One of their main goals was to appropriately capture the vibe and aesthetic of Pallet Town in a realistic render, from the flowers and trees swaying in the wind to the town's residents ambling around outside. The creator also used some of the plants and architecture found near the real-world equivalent of Pallet Town as a reference while recreating the town. The creator behind this project even shared a video detailing the full process of its development on their YouTube channel, ElfRat.
This Lifelike Render of Pokemon's Pallet Town Captures Every Detail
The town's buildings were crafted by hand in Unreal Engine 5 and tweaked to more closely match the art style of the FireRed and LeafGreen remakes, rather than that of the original games. Many of the finer details were taken into account during the design process, from the house's interior furnishings to the text seen on the sign at the centre of the town. For maximum accuracy, the letters from the Pokemon world's fictional alphabet were traced and imported into the UE5 project, with Pallet Town's sign and script made to perfectly mirror its appearance in the more modern Let's Go, Pikachu! And Let's Go, Eevee! Games, which are also set in the Kanto region.
This isn't the first time that Pokemon fans have created some almost lifelike renders of the series' many locations and creatures. Even around 30 years later, the world of Pokemon continues to expand and introduce new locations and regions, although the upcoming Pokemon Legends: Z-A will actually be returning to familiar territory in the Kalos region.
- Created by
- Satoshi Tajiri