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i'm once again super disappointed with a sprite update :(
i understand consistency, but i strongly feel like the consistency being used for specials is just ruining them, honestly. being completely genuine, it just feels so boring and lifeless. they all follow the same pattern (mostly grey, green, purple, sometimes a deep brownish red) and it doesn't look good a lot of the time. obviously these colours can be used and they can look Good when used right, but the same swamp-esque palette is really just sad and it sucks to see every time a new sprite comes around
there are a lot of sprites that i thought were GORGEOUS before they got updated, which was like the sole reason i hunted them - like the swablu line :(
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the dark grey with purple highlights was GORGEOUS, it was SO pretty. or there are a lot of melanistics who i think were absolutely stunning before, and here's a short list of those melans (and a few albinos) plus their revamps:
generally, i've really Hated the consistency rule for a long time now, and i feel like having less restrictions or rules on what melans are supposed to look like would be so beneficial. obviously taste is subjective, but i think that the consistency rule is just so limiting and makes a lot of pokemon arguably look bad because the main colours used just do not look good together on their sprite
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vs - a (sadly) common case of a pokemon getting a new green revamp. i don't like this specific shade of green, which seems to be incredibly common in new melans, which kind of sucks to see
vs - this in particular is SUPER disappointing to me. i was insanely upset and disappointed when i saw the change made to leafeon, and specifically its melan. the old melan was absolutely beautiful, and the dark body paired with the purple and red highlights (though the "highlights" were still pretty dark, too) was so, so pretty. the new one is just does not look good at all in my opinion
vs - these ones are super similar, and i still really like melan cyndaquil. i just wanted to add this one to show that the "highlights" i think a lot of people liked on melanistics don't have to be bright or neon. the original melan cyndaquil had darker highlights than the new one, and i know that cyndaquil was a pretty beloved melan
vs - another case of me really liking a dark grey melan with purple highlights :) but i still feel like the dark red-brown on the snivy line looks super out of place
vs - i was really super disappointed with the snivy line, too. i feel like it just doesn't look right and isn't appealing at all. the purple is nice, and i like the red-brown as a colour, but i do not like either of those colours on the snivy line at all
vs - the entire oshawott line was also so disappointing because i had really wanted to hunt oshawott. the new melan is Once Again green and it genuinely just doesn't look good at all to me. it feels swampy and i really do not like that shade of green that is Way too common now. i LOVED the old melan - the light blue was super beautiful and looked really good, and i felt like it just fit more, given how dewott is a water type
vs - the albino was also really saddening to see. the old albino was pretty much a default albino imo LMAO, incredibly white and pale with red eyes, pink undertones. it was super super pretty and i really loved how the entire oshawott line looked. the new one is just a unappealing yellowy-green and it generally looks nothing like how i personally would imagine an albino
vs - honestly i could put all of the elemental monkeys here, but panpour is specific is pretty upsetting. i've confused the new melan for melan pansage like a million times, and i think that, again, this specific shade of green just generally Does Not Look Good. the old melans were super cute even if they were a little bland. i really loved the theme that they followed, with each elemental monkey having their "type colour" as their ear colour. i thought it was super distinctive and a good idea, and i'm disappointed that that didn't stay the same
vs - i like the new melan gigalith, though definitely not as much as i liked the old one. i like this shade of green more than the muddy swamp green, and i also like the dark cyan/teal body. i prefer the old one by a lot, i really loved the golden crystals and blue in the eyes, but the new one is still pretty eye catching, and i think is an example i'd use for what other shades of green i'd like to see
vs - i think that this purple is also becoming more and more common over the years, and i wish that it wasn't. seismitoad still looks fine and i'm not that upset with the new melan, but compared to the old one, it just doesn't hold a candle to it
vs - i think that both of these melans are SO pretty. i LOVE the shades of purple used for the new melan torterra and would love to see those more often. i also was really happy to see that the purple was paired with dark blues and greys instead of green, which i generally think looks pretty horrible. i'll absolutely miss the old melan, i really loved how it looked autumnal and i thought the orange contrast was super appealing, but the new melan is also gorgeous
vs - a lot of albinos tend to follow the Toothpaste Colour route, which i think is pretty disappointing. adding an underlying tint to albinos is fine and i think it can definitely look good, but i think that a lot of the time the mint albinos don't look as good as the more Solid White ones used to
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QUOTE originally posted by impish.sei
I think the problem is...the colours on canon Aurorus ARE very different colours, they're just so pale that they blend more. Since we are looking at the melan, you have to reference the shiny colouration, so the sail is pale yellow and a pale pink-ish lilac grey. So very much both a warm and a cool colour. It's just that when you deepen them, especially with making a gradient in a pixel art at a small scale being more difficult especially when things are stylised, that clashing is more obvious.
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yeah fs, there's absolutely no way to please everyone which definitely makes it difficult. i just wanted to give some examples on certain sprites i don't like and then give examples of what i do like - but my taste isn't going to be for everyone! i generally think that the biggest point i rly want to make is that the "consistency" has been absolutely destroying my want to actually hunt anything
it definitely sucks to spend months or even years of time hunting something for the colours only for those colours to completely change, sometimes without any warning (megas, totems, etc) :( it's hard to want to participate in arguably the biggest part of the site when it's Always changing
I like the new paldean sprites so much! The only one that seems a bit awkward to me, is a Dachsbun - something feels... wrong with its snout? It also looks like this pose is not comfortable for the doggo to stand in lol
P.S. I REALLY hope we will have a three-mouse Tandemaus family variant!
QUOTE originally posted by Shazi
Our newer sprites have been smaller to fit more closely with already established sprite sizes with the rest of the regions. When we have been making our new sprites we have been a bit better at taking into account existing pokemon of similar size and body shaped and found consistantly across especially older sprites like kalos, they were far too large.
They/them, for simplicity. Beathan sprite; egg sprites from Bulbapedia; avatar; Acacia sprite by me; Bee from Pokefarm Advent
I see the trend happening for the Squawkabilly melans and OMG i am going to need a melan yellow one, pronto
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QUOTE originally posted by Gallevoir
QUOTE originally posted by Shazi
Our newer sprites have been smaller to fit more closely with already established sprite sizes with the rest of the regions. When we have been making our new sprites we have been a bit better at taking into account existing pokemon of similar size and body shaped and found consistantly across especially older sprites like kalos, they were far too large.
Something just feels off about the Tandemaus sprite to me. Maybe because it's naturally so light, and lining on the edges, as well as details, have to be dark? :o It's cute, don't get me wrong. Something just feels off about it.
However, my baby, Fidough? So in love! Look at my freshly baked bakery boy! So precious! Smoliv looks smol and delicate, and while I dislike Squawkabilly as a Pokemon, its sprites are done nicely too. Can't wait to see melan Fidough cause if it's pretty I'm adding it to my list <3
I love the Tandemaus and Maushold sprites! Adorable work. ♡
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