You know what would be amazing? If some AI tool (I don't know of any, but maybe Photoshop or Aesprite can do this) could auto convert your other assets from the "realistic detailed" view to the "anime / airport clean look" ; i.e. to have all your tilesets in two formats:
(1) realistic / detailed
(2) anime / "clean" / "flat"
Hello
At the moment, I'm not a supporter of AI. I do everything really manually. But I've had this idea for different versions in the past, that I use some filters to remove the micro details. To make it flat, but even with that, various problems arise, such as tilesets, it could be done that way but definitely not A1,A2,A3,A4,A5 tileset where it is so much a problems that it is better to create new ones :)
The worst are A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, where you have to create infinity textures, so I scrapped that idea. Because from the point of view of the time I put into it, it's not worth it at all
:)
How were you removing the micro details? Right now, I am just doing resizing with "mogrify -resize 33.33333333333%" which takes it from 48x48 to 16x16, but it is still very detail heavy. I'm trying to do something where it "flattens/smoothes" the texture, while preserving the edges -- but this is very non-trivial to do on pixel art.
