Some sweet-ass 8bit HTML5 animated background things

[Topcatyo]

http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/?sound=1

Actually they're pixelated, not 8-bit but whatever.

My favorite is Pond Ripples - Dawn

[buttplug]

Fuckin beautiful. I want to play a point and click adventure in them now.

[WrenchClock]

"Rough Seas - Day" reminds me of Durdle Door.

[NintendrCkolc]

I was gonna say there's no way thats 8-bit but you beat me too it..

Cool though.

[DWARFINATORclock]

this looks really cool.

[SockpuppetClock]

I love this soooo much

[LimewireClock]

Whoa shit man, that's fucking amazing. How was it all made?

[AlbinoClock]

Looks like the Dune game.

[AC Slater]

These are really well done! It must have taken ages to do all of them.

[Kombucha]

Very, very pretty. Mark Ferrari must really like water.

[Blue]

If I were to guess I'd say someone dug these images up from back when this was THE way to to graphic animation, and created an HTML5 palate shifter to work w/ canvas. I remember making animations like this for boot screens, and for Qbasic games. This was very nicely done though.

Think is, this method of animation was devised back when you didn't have enough ram to store multiple frames, so you used a palate that had sections of colors that shifted incrementally (like w/ fractal apps).

Not sure where the modern use for this is, since it takes so long to devise the original images.