Ken Sugimori

Ken Sugimori (Japanese杉 森 建, Ken Sugimori, born January 27, 1966 in the prefecture of Tokyo) is a Japanese illustrator, character designer and art director.

Among other things, he designed the character design of the main characters of the television series Pokemon and the Pokemon characters. In Game Freak he is employed as artistic director and was among other things in the games Pulseman, Drill Dozer and Super Smash Bros. involved.

From 1981 to 1986 he worked as an illustrator for the fanzine Game Freak. Together with its founder Satoshi Tajiri he converted it in 1986 in a game development company around, and produced the game Mendel Palace.