and you can use it as a live wallpaper on android, with the colors shifting in sync with the time of day (so it gets sunsetty around IRL sunset, for example). and you can have it change to a random image once a day, once a month, once an hour. the most recent thing added was ambient soundscapes for each scene. highly recommended!
Mark's work is bananas. He did a talk a few years back at GDC and for part of it he gave an overview of this kind of art. (Link is timestamped)
i found this website years ago when i was in middle school and thought it was crazy how you could just use color palettes to do animations like this. i didnt understand how it worked back then, and i still kinda dont!
This is lovely. Thank you for including the links to additional context.
Holy crap, I've been using .gifs of these as wallpaper since forever and I NEVER KNEW!!! hella!!!
this is a level of pixel art mastery that is frankly difficult for me to comprehend
I remember when I got Deluxe Paint and it could do the cyclying colours, it was so unlike MS Paint which couldn't.
Oh, this is great. There's something very cozy about these old pixel landscapes.
I don't suppose there's a way to do this on desktop on windows, is there?
sadly not since windows 98-XP's "active desktop" feature was removed, i think.
during the windows 7 era there was a program called "WallpaperWebPage" that let you fake having a webpage as your desktop (i think it actually just drew a borderless immovable window over your actual desktop, covering any icons you had there?), but i don't know if it has survived into the win10+ era. https://archive.org/details/WallpaperWebPage_zip
Blast. Thank you for this, though. I assume this is more or less what people use Wallpaper Engine for on Steam but that's always sounded mildly weird to me. My biggest problem is how badly Windows 10 compresses your desktop wallpaper, for whatever reason. I even tried that regedit everyone says to use, no luck there. Ahh well.
