Sprite Discovery Discussion

If we did that we would need to add up all the reds, pinks, oranges, etc. It wouldn't change the results.

If you mix a multitude of colors together, or even have certain colors in close proximity with one another, they can equate to different shades of browns sometimes. I think this has less to do with the fact "all melans are green and brown" and more so some users are honestly just upset the more unique color combinations for melans have been changed to more "standard" colors. (I do miss my purple Infernape...) Edit; This isn't meant to come off as mean spirited. Just understandably, actual colors aside, it doesn't per say change how users perceive them sometimes, myself included. ;-;

i'd like to ask, why would you add orange and pink together ? space is saying just the greens.

I can respect that, Iggy. I think a big portion of the dislike lies in the fact we had the old colors for so long. People grew to like them, and Staff did too. There's some old colors we miss, but they didn't make sense. Note that I'm not on Art Staff so my explanation will not be the best and for that I apologize. Some old colors were... sporadic, for lack of a better word ( I am the dumb ), where their base color would be darker than their normal color but their secondary would be lighter than the normal secondary color. It didn't speak Melan to us. I don't check Albinos often so I cannot put a thought into that. Yeah, trust me, dark colors with neat neon and florescent colors are the coolest thing ever. I'm a sucker for them! But we want to be consistent. We know we won't please everyone, as everyone has different palette and color tastes. We would love to, but it cannot be done so we are just trying our best to provide quality and consistency with sprites and work. Edit: I cannot type on my phone to save my life. Pardon my typos, please

Tbh I genuinely appreciate the feedback. Like def old feelings for the familiar can linger, and admittedly sudden changes can be jarring at times. So you definitely hit the nail on the head, agreed. I appreciate your honesty and your explanation. And it's ok! Typos or not, I definitely understand what you meant. I definitely am a sap for those old neon colors too, but I understand sometimes it can be a bit of a toss up with what works and maybe what doesn't as an artist myself haha. ^-^ (Edited, as it's early, bleck)

Okay. Here's the same information grouped into fewer buckets. From left to right: normal, shiny, albino, melan "Brown" is unclear now since it's somewhere between red and yellow, but green is still under-represented.

Maybe the more popular species are green and that's why people think there are more?

Its quite possible! While everyone has different tastes, some Pokemon are much more popular than others. Because of this it might feel like there's a lean towards certain colors. I didn't think of it before. A fantastic thought there, Gengirl!

I feel like a lot of the sinnoh color schemes just went an entirely different direction than the previous sprites. I’m not saying it’s necessarily a good or bad thing but a lot of us pick what we hunt based on the coloration of the specials and for them to go from our favorite color to our least favorite color can be very disappointing. I think some of us had expectations of getting something similar but just general better quality instead of a seemingly opposite color scheme.

Hi everyone! I do apologise for the LONG post to come but there's a lot of stuff to talk about. We're bad at communicating so in an effort to be a bit more open, I'll be tackling a bunch of things people have said, among other things that are happening as well. I'll pop things in hide boxes so people can read the parts relevent to their interests as well. First thing first, a quick update on Galar since I know you're all waiting for the new legendaries. We're almost finished, I'm sorry for how long this has taken, IRL things for certain staff members has slowed the process down but we should be just about done with those. I fully understand the disappiontment some people are feeling with some of the sprite changes, I too am not fond of many of them. The drifloon line is one of my personal dislikes. I don't like the colours on the pokemon itself, and that is wholeheartedly a personal preferece. There are others like that but oh well. Sudden and big changes are hard, I totally get why people have a "oh god what is this" reaction to seeing somethng suddenly be totally different. As an artist who worked on these (for 3 years I am so sorry it took so long) I had plenty of time to get used to the new colours, to the point where I genuinely don't remember what some of the old sprites look like. This is not the case for a majority of people and it's really jarring for you guys to have things go pop and be suddenly different. to address a few comments individually (sorry if I didn't get yours I am only one blep) A few comments were about the Pachirisus and I'm not going to be directing these since it was a similar comment from pretty much everyone mentioning it. I will miss the seperated colours as well, they were fun! Unfortunately that doesn't all in line with the vision we have for this game. Now to add, we are looking at things, that doesn't nessicarily mean changes