Pokémon Model Ripping Project

[MandL27]

It depends how much effort you want to put into getting good results.

With just a steady hand and copy of Inkscape or even the path tool in Photoshop you could trace over the shapes and fill them in with the matching colours, also get much higher resolution textures if you want to remake the whole thing.

Though, then you have to deal with the baked-in shadows, either remove them entirely and let your renderer deal with the model's lighting or bake in your own more realistic AO map for a better (and again, high res) result. Finally, there's also parts that use dark lines to define features on the mesh - like Squirtle's shell, Gardevoir's hair, or most Pokemon's eyes and mouths - that you'd have to repaint them with less stark lines or go in and make large geometry edits so that the features aren't lost completely.

Baked-in shadows don't bother me as much as baked-in cel shading. And I could theoretically use normal maps, specular maps, or just redraw the lines to not be solid black (baking on either of the above) to keep those details intact. Pokedex 3D Pro did that.