13,000 Super Nintendo Sprites

September 29, 2014 at 2:45 pm

Apparently I did­n’t play the right Super Nintendo games because I don’t rec­og­nize any of the char­ac­ters in this mas­sive pixel col­lage of 16-bit sprites. I did find a pin­ball machine though.

Closeup of 13000 Super Nintendo Sprites from an Image by Reddit User lax4, 16 bit pixel artwork, 8 bit graphics

(via Reddit)

Pokémon Color Palettes

September 11, 2014 at 11:45 am

Reddit user need12648430 wrote a script to break­down the col­ors used in mak­ing the col­or­ful pock­et mon­sters called Pokémon. Most of the color palettes are great inspi­ra­tion as they show color the­o­ry con­cepts like com­ple­men­tary and anal­o­gous schemes. It’s also great to see how much vari­a­tion and and com­plex­i­ty goes into some­thing as sim­ple as 8‑bit characters.

Pokemon Color Palettes by Reddit user need12648430, 8bit, sprites, color theory, pie charts

And yes, I know I’m show­ing off some of my geek­ness with this post. What would be even more geeky is if I were to dis­close that I have a col­lec­tion of Pokémon trad­ing cards that I gath­ered in my teenage years safe­ly tucked away. IF I were to dis­close that. AND IF that were true…

*rum­mage* *rum­mage* “If I were a Pokémon were would I hide in this attic…” *rum­mage* *rum­mage*

(via Polygon)