The work of the Philadelphia-based artist Ruby Huang takes the world of Pokemon and scales it down into tiny anime sculptures.
Using polymer clay material and a great deal of patience, Huang is able to create miniature figurines of different popular Pokemon characters that are tiny enough to fit on the tip of a finger. Not only does each tiny anime monster from this 'Pinkymon' series faithfully resemble its subject, but each figurine is also rendered in the same color palette as the original.
Of the 151 characters from the original Japanese series, Huang has so far captured the likeness of roughly half of the battle monsters, and often does complete sets of each evolutionary stage of a particular character.
TIny Anime Monsters
These Miniature Pokemon Sculptures are Small Enough to Fit on a Finger
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