Posted by LavaClaw (Post 206712)

Love PoeticFolly the most

Posted by Dylan (Post 206938)

The amount of colors used could be reduced, 19 is a ton for a lil sword. :P

Posted by Cure

You may find that pixel artists often advocate a low color count. You might assume that this is just a tradition leftover from the olden days of pixel art, back when video game consoles could only display a certain amount of colors.

If modern computers can easily display hundreds of colors, why shouldn't you use them all? In truth, using small palettes isn't an outdated tradition of pixel art, and there are very logical reasons behind this practice.

Cohesion- When you're using less colors, the same colors will reappear throughout the piece more frequently. Since the different areas of the work share the same colors, the palette ties the piece together, unifying the work.

Control- The smaller the palette, the easier it is to manage. You may, and probably will, want to change adjust a color later on. If you've got 200 colors, it's going to take you a lot longer to make the adjustments, because by changing one color you've thrown off its relationship with the colors neighboring it on its color ramps, and adjusting them means changing the relationships between those colors and their neighbors! You can see how this quickly adds up to a lot of work. With a smaller palette, the effect of changing a single color is more substantial, and there are less micro-relationships to worry about.

Posted by LavaClaw (Post 206952)

Thanks Dylan, makes more sense now.
I used 8 colours on this sword, the blade itself looks a tad plain, any ideas?

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Posted by LavaClaw (Post 206798)

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A water-style sword, wasn't too sure how to shade the metal though.

Posted by cache (Post 207074)

Use blue to shade metal

Posted by callimuc (Post 207075)

awesome! go to loki and get part of the gfx team rather than the pr team!