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Color Palette
Topic Started: Dec 6 2007, 09:07 PM (399 Views)
3d
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Chicken Xing
Well, this is the biggest thing that stumps me when making a fakemon. My question is how do you make a color pallete. Thats all, plz and thxu!
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Luke
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Well, just go to the place where you make custom colors, and use the paintbrush tool to make dots of each color and it's shades.

Kinda hard to explain.
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Tabbloza
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If you have trouble with getting a good color scheme for your fakemon, I think this is a pretty useful site: http://www.wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html ;)

As for making the color palette, if it's in MS Paint, you go to Colors -> Edit Colors, choose some nice base colors, use the round paintbrush and line them up. Then go back to Edit Colors, and for each base color, make a lighter and darker version and put those on the palette. Also add a really dark color of each for the outline.
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Involuntary Twitch
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Tell me the truth this time, why don't you.
*Resists urge to make a guide* Ah well, I'll just make a list. :P

Get a good color scheme for your fake. If at all possible, try to use colors that complement each other-- that means, colors on the opposite of the color wheel. Examples are red and green, blue and orange, yellow and purple, etc. Typing is generally defined by coloration, however you are free to use any color you like really. I actually like it when people are creative with colors and don't exclusively color according to type, but whatever.

Fire: Red or orange or dark brown
Water: Blue, esp. dark blue
Grass: Green, brown
Electric: Yellow, orange
Ice: Light blue, white
Bug: Yellow-green or purple, or both
Normal: White or tan-brown
Fighting: Red-brown or red
Flying: Light blue
Psychic: Purple or pink
Ghost: Purple or gray
Dark: Black or gray
Poison: Purple
Steel: Silver
Dragon: Dark blue or red or both

But remember: you are not restricted to these colors. At all. In fact I hate it when people color simply according to type. (yellow mouse pkmn olol its electric k) So choose colors sensibly.

Also, this may sound ridiculous, but refrain from putting crystals or excess metal plating/shiny stuff on your fakes. Especially if you're new at this. Metal and shiny objects are very, very hard to shade right, and if you do it wrong it comes out looking incredibly tacky.

When creating your pallette, choose muted colors that aren't too high on the colorpicker. Also, take into account the display of your computer monitor-- some computers display a much lighter image than others. If this is so for your computer, adjust accordingly.

Select your main color first. Usually this is the color that's one below the highlight, and it the main body color. There are generally three to four shades of this color. Make sure it's visible, and that the brightness pointer is approximately in the center of the bar, give or take a little depending on the overall shade of your Pokemon.

Now, for the second shadow, lower the saturation. What I mean is, take the color-selector thing and drag it into the area that's more gray. This is because things become grayer as they grow darker. Slide the brightness thingy down a notch or two as well, and make sure your colors have good contrast, so you can see them against one another. But not too much contrast, mmk? Repeat this process for the outline color (s) and the highlight, if any.

Do this for all colors. Lesser colors may not have outline colors/highlights, and smaller sprites sometimes don't need more than two shades.

Uh, yeah. ^^ If you need me to elaborate on anything, just say.
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Neurogenesis
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I have trouble with highlight colors. Help, plx?
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Involuntary Twitch
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Tell me the truth this time, why don't you.
Highlights are something different. Mostly, you won't even need 'em if you sprite smoothly and use enough contrast between main body color and shadow. However, highlights are necessary on shiny things.

Highlights generally follow the curvature of the body, just as shadows do. As a general rule, the shinier the object is, the greater the contrast between main color and highlight. Highlights are never completely white. At the same time, if something is less shiny, either forego highlights completely or make them less of a difference. (Make sure they're still noticeable, though!-- lack of contrast is such a pain.)

When creating highlights, keep in mind that highlights on red, orange, or green tend to trend to yellow, and that highlights on blue or purple tend to trend to light blue.

That help? ^^
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Neurogenesis
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Yes. A lot. Highlights are my downfall. Tanku. ^-^;
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