05-23-2012, 08:40 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-23-2012, 08:44 AM by Terminal Devastation.)
Wait... when did we say anything about more desaturated colors?
I'm pretty sure how vivid the colors are isn't an issue. I'm almost certain every complaint about the color pallete is either solvable with a change in contrast or a hue shift.
In short, palletes aren't bad because they are bright, but because their shades don't show off the details and shading clearly.
(also last I checked... ZX was VERY high contrast, and bright and colorful... Its MMZ style that's more desaturated...)
From my admitly lesser color palette experience, reds work nicely with a bright near pure red as the lightest/brightest shade, then a much darker red (Reds tend to blend in my experience, so you want higher than normal contrast with them) And then the darkest shade is either a dark purple or dark brown (the same you'd use for skin tone) depended on the overall shade of red you want.
Orange isn't a color I work with too often. But I use a yellow-orange for the highlight, and that same darkest skin tone brown for the darkest shade. But keep in mind you can change the appearance of a color just by adjusting how much of shade there is.
I've read blue to purple works well for blues... but I tend not to hue shift much for less purply blues.
Blacks are hard to explain. You actually want to have brighter highlights than you'd normally think. I like to call the shade 'light black', its sort of the color you appear to get when you color really lightly with a black crayon, but I think its just a slighty green or blue tinted meduim grey. And then you just darken from there, with minor other adjustments.
I think I'd let those more experienced with palletes correct me if I'm wrong, and take it from here.
I'm pretty sure how vivid the colors are isn't an issue. I'm almost certain every complaint about the color pallete is either solvable with a change in contrast or a hue shift.
In short, palletes aren't bad because they are bright, but because their shades don't show off the details and shading clearly.
(also last I checked... ZX was VERY high contrast, and bright and colorful... Its MMZ style that's more desaturated...)
From my admitly lesser color palette experience, reds work nicely with a bright near pure red as the lightest/brightest shade, then a much darker red (Reds tend to blend in my experience, so you want higher than normal contrast with them) And then the darkest shade is either a dark purple or dark brown (the same you'd use for skin tone) depended on the overall shade of red you want.
Orange isn't a color I work with too often. But I use a yellow-orange for the highlight, and that same darkest skin tone brown for the darkest shade. But keep in mind you can change the appearance of a color just by adjusting how much of shade there is.
I've read blue to purple works well for blues... but I tend not to hue shift much for less purply blues.
Blacks are hard to explain. You actually want to have brighter highlights than you'd normally think. I like to call the shade 'light black', its sort of the color you appear to get when you color really lightly with a black crayon, but I think its just a slighty green or blue tinted meduim grey. And then you just darken from there, with minor other adjustments.
I think I'd let those more experienced with palletes correct me if I'm wrong, and take it from here.