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Invitive Astro

Published: September 30th 2024, 12:56:01 am

Was messing around with this inbetween while working on a Dirty Rat piece. I just couldn't leave my new character without classic pixel art when others have their own already. Wanted to go with something very classic, retro and limiting yet still able to represent Astro's palette accurately and so I chose 16 color palette of EGA, the second graphic card for IBM DOS after CGA. It's really limiting as it doesn't even have purple so I had to use dithering with dark magenta and light blue for the rigth hue but just in general I had most colors I needed.
And just out of curiosity I decided to see how this pixel art will look in CGA colors. I chose this graphic card's second official palette in favor of the more standard cyan-magenta one because it seemed better to make all pink parts red but keep Astro body green with yellow nose instead of making it cyan with white nose. The results of chosing such palette are shown on the third image, actually not so bad looking, I think I love classic cyan-magenta CGA way too much but technically the grassy one is obviously closer to the original. Getting around with all the extra colors he originally has was a bit of a tricky task but I think it turned out nice, as good as it can be in 4 color CGA palette at least.