Color Cycling: 16 Minutes of Cozy Pixel Art Landscapes in 4K

16 minutes of animated pixel art landscapes in 4K, made with the classic color cycling trick from 80s and 90s games. Five procedural places, four skies each. No cuts, no camera, no footage. The scenery is generated once. Everything moving in it (the aurora, the drifting mist and sand haze, the moonlight on the water, the fireflies, the lighthouse beam, the windows coming on across the city) is one still indexed image with its color palette rotating underneath. It's the old palette-cycling trick game artists used to make a painted background feel alive, running here at 4K. The starlings are t