1. FV made the concepts for the basic stage, which we had thought up a Dinosaur, Fire type line:
We decided on the blue dino
2. While I was working on tweaking the sprite, I thought that blue didn't really match the fire theme (we originally thought of a Mystical fire-type with blue flames) so I changed the color and tweaked with the designs a bit:
3. While working with the basic stage, I thought up the final stage, with no plans of a first evolution:
4. I then colored the sprite in, then proceeded to the in-between stage (had lots of trouble because I had no previous plans of this) this resulted in:
and the colored final evolution:
5. I then finished the sprites up then sent it to FV for a little tweaks:
Before:
After: