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Instead of “fell out of favor” I shoulda said “artists stopped being informed of its existence and occasionally invented poor approximations to it from first pr
by corysama 3y ago
Instead of “fell out of favor” I shoulda said “artists stopped being informed of its existence and occasionally invented poor approximations to it from first principles”. Such as tinting sprites to approximate palette swaps of the retro style they are referencing.
You can do so much more than tint with palettes. The animations in the link I posted each a composed of a single 8-bit image and a function to rotate specific sections of the palette.
- reactordev 3y agoI’m intimately familiar with palette animations. You’re right though, it’s a technique that was lost due to hardware no longer limiting the artists. I still find it to be far superior to sprite tile replacement animations.