I agree with Voide.
I understand that uniformity can be nice to make everything look like they go together. I also agree that an algorithm likely does really save some time in some areas, and that some of the sprites really do look improved. Even I would say I'm definitely a fan of the Shaymin formes and their new colors...
But as I've seen mentioned elsewhere before, many of these melans and albinos just don't... appear Melanistic or albino anymore. Many of the albinos prior had the pale creams, and the red eyes... but now they just look like a made up shiny color scheme, with mostly the same shades or purples, blues and greens for all of them. Not albino vibed at all, most of them now anyways.
As far as I remember (I may be wrong, in that case I'm sorry, I'm just too lazy to dig into posts here from long ago), it was somewhat stated that the terms "albino" and "melan" were taken by the team just because there were no proper alternative for what they had in mind. The sprites are not irl-albinos or melans, they don't have to be pale with reddish eyes/very dark.
Nevertheless, this (very arguable) "consistency" thing is killing so much potential, imho. Yeah, it's very good when everything looks like it's compatible and accordant to some rule or degree, some of the old (let's be honest), MOST of the old-old melans looked like some schoolchild OC, with wild colors in emo palette :D
But.
There is always a But.
For me, many so-named consistent melans and albinos are just looking... lifeless. They lost some part of their appeal. Gender difference colors - eliminated. Accents in bright colors - eliminated. And those who saved some brightness, got their colors so drastically reversed...
Again, not all of them are bad. In fact, NONE of them are bad. These sprites are clearly made with a lot of effort. But this feeling in my gut, it's saying one word. "Lacking", they are lacking somewhat, somewhere, something...
Given some thought, I think with gaining "consistency", they lost "creativity". It's a site, where there are new "kinds" of Pokemon, created by wonderful artists from the team. Yeah, there are no, for example, much color differences in pokemon of different genders in games, but why shouldn't there be this kind of small changes here? It's not like it breaks something here on this site, if being implemented? (Once again, in SMALL accents, not like the whole colors??)
If to choose between "strict consistency" and "slight creativity", I would definitely choose the second. Does not everyone?
