Sprite Discovery Discussion

A bit sad that melan mega raichu changed as it was one of my favourite melans but the new colours still look good. Absolutely loving the melan alolan raichu change though.

in an attempt to find a middle ground between having all the cramorants have normal arrokuda/pikachu and specials we have opted to go with having the albino with normal arrokuda/pikachu and the melan having shiny arrokuda/pikachu

Ah, I know a lot of this is personal preference, but I will throw my hat in the ring because this has been bugging me for a while... I promise I don't mean this as a slight to the artists, I tried to phrase things nicely so hopefully it doesn't come off wrong u__u I get that for melan Raichu it was changed to be more saturated because the shiny was more saturated. But I feel like what is failing to be considered is that saturation on dark colors is far more severe on the eyes in terms of color theory. As an artist I desaturate my darks quite a lot, and to me, the new Raichu doesn't even look "dark" at all to me, just a super deep blue, and it's rather unappealing compared to a subtler blue. I'm not saying the old melan was perfect either, I don't care for the eyes and the blue needed tweaks, but I don't personally feel that this was a step in the right direction. I've noticed a lot of recent melan revamps are heading in that same "neon" direction. I am really not a fan, and it doesn't really look "melanistic" to me in any capacity, or even darkly colored, they just look like alternate shiny palettes. I don't think following the saturation of the shiny sprites 100% is wise, because in terms of color theory, you just can't shift the brightness down and have it look good all of the time. Just one of those things where I feel "consistency" needs to be balanced more with what's appropriate for a melanistic coloration. Matching saturation and hues across the wheels with other sprites also has an unintentional effect of making it look like someone just played around with the hue and brightness slider, which I know the staff doesn't do, but it's so much cooler to have sprites with more character and uniqueness. I guess the tl;dr is that it seems strange to me that the revamps happened in the first place because the sprites were too neon, and now we're looping back in that same direction with neon sprites (in some cases).

Not gonna lie I'm confused about this one. It's odd that it catches its own colour, but it's completely fine that it catches a colour that has "nothing" to do with it? I mean, I appreciate that you wanted to do something with the sprites, but it's just so random.. I don't think they seemed odd before but now they do?

I think it's because the normal and shiny Pikachu/arrokuda sprites will never change color since they are canon, so there is no need to adjust the cramorant sprite each time those lines are updated... I understand it from an efficiency viewpoint but I also agree that it is a bad compromise.

I think consistency across lines with secondary species would be a good idea. Now we have Cramorant doing Normal/Shiny/Normal/Shiny, Early Bird doing Normal/Normal/Shiny/Shiny, and Hallowe'en Witch doing Normal/Shiny/Albino/Melan. Hallowe'en Witch could just be artificial decoration, in which case it's not really a problem. It seems a bid weird that there's such variety in the handling of secondary species right now. Why is shiny Cramorant eating the shiny forms? As far as I can tell the canon shiny is still eating the normal forms.

I love the new Melan Serperior! I think the colors blend well together and look nice together :3

I'm in love with the new oshawott-line albinos and melan colors. Makes me want to resume my hunt.

Ngl, I don't like the shell on the new Oshawott line, it looked very distinct before, now it just looks like some kind of paint splodge. the colours although look absolutely gorgeous, the tepig line definately received some new life. Snivey line is beautiful as usual. Oshawott, eh it still leaves a lot to be desired, but it;s not bad.

For the melans, I wish Snivy/Servine was red like the Serperior instead of just being brown, the Oshawott line is, meh, Oshawott seems too dark, Dewott just became vomit green? and Samurott is ok, I don't really care about tepigs line in general too much but I think they look the best out of the three. I know it's based on generated colors but I'm not really a fan of these at all