About

Sun and Moon Walking Animations refer to leaked 3D animation files for various Pokémon from the 2016 video game Pokémon Sun and Moon, which were widely circulated online after being datamined by Twitter user @KazoWAR in early December 2016.

Origin

On December 5th, 2016, @KazoWAR^[1] tweeted a link^[4] containing Pokémon walking animations datamined from the recently released game Pokémon Sun and Moon (shown below).

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That day, the GameXplain YouTube channel highlighted the animations in a video that gained over 121,000 views and 1,600 comments within 72 hours (shown below).

Also on December 5th, 2016, an anonymous 4chan user submitted @KazoWAR's tweet to the /vp/ (Pokémon) board (shown below). The following day, Redditor pokeguy64 submitted a post about the animations to /r/pokemon,^[2] speculating that Nintendo planned to have the creatures follow players on the world map.

Meanwhile, the Nintendo news blog AlwaysNintendo^[5] published an article about the leaked animations. Also on December 6th, YouTuber Verlisify published a video about the online reactions to the datamined content (shown below).

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