G33X (Sketchasaur's sprites n' things)

[Sketchasaurus]

I've been fiddling around with NES related stuff lately (sprites, music, etc.) so I figured I'd post up a few things.

I'm trying to get a better grasp on palette optimization and maintaining readability particularly in regards to NES graphics.


I'm aware that the Sprite on the left breaks the 3color+transparensy limit of the NES. The one on the Right uses 14 colors + transparency, staying within the color resolution per sprite on the SNES (though it doesn't use the SNES palette, if one even exists)

I'm wondering if there's a good explanation somewhere behind some of the programming tricks that have been used to increase the amount of colors displayed on particular graphics (such as the Mega man sprite, as that seems to be the best known/most cited example.)

UPDATES:
I figured that I should probably put all of my spritestuffs on the first post for convenience.

Spoiler

"Newscaster, Arnie Cade"








NES Hero


Enemies:

Updated:

Chupacabra:


NES Enemies: