Does anyone else miss sprites?

[TechSkylander1518]

One minor thing impacted with sprites vs models that comes to mind is what the fandom can do with the assets. Obviously it's not at all something Game Freak should be designing their games around, but I do think it's fun how easy it is to manipulate the sprites, recolors, splices, fangames, etc. Like, hey, maybe I want to make an artist's palette with a rainbow of Dittos?

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Boop. That probably took like five minutes? (And, as is clear from the awful brown circle for a palette, I can't sprite from scratch)

But there's also tons of fun stuff that gets done with models, even if it's harder to edit them:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDG4nSRMjaA



One thing I do think was lost from sprites to models was coloring. It's really weird comparing some Pokemon and seeing how washed out they look:

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It's not the case for all of them- Caterpie, Oddish, and Rattata are some examples I think transferred nicely- but I think it's a fair amount.

But to be fair, I am making this comparison by looking at Bulbapedia's sprite section- it's possible lighting comes into play here and I'm just not realizing the impact that has.

 

[prog rocker]

I think the Switch models look better, but I'm not exactly sure since I don't have a Switch to compare.

Like, hey, maybe I want to make an artist's palette with a rainbow of Dittos?

Now I'm picturing someone using Ditto's to paint, and I don't know if that would be funny or nightmarish.

 

[Esserise]

But to be fair, I am making this comparison by looking at Bulbapedia's sprite section- it's possible lighting comes into play here and I'm just not realizing the impact that has.

Personally I do think lighting plays a part; both LGPE and SwSh use different lighting engines and shaders from the 3DS games and I think both of them bring out more color or definition on the models. That said, you aren't seeing things, because this was one of the things I recall them saying in XY interviews was that they really wanted to keep the models in-line with Sugimori's illustrations. I think you can see that very evidently in this comparison:

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idk why Alolan Exeggutor and Dugtrio break this rule, though:

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(Also, touching back to my first sentence, here's pictures of Starmie from Gen 7 to Let's Go to Gen 8; make of these what you will:

Spoiler: Sun

Spoiler: Let's Go

Spoiler: SwSh