It's cool for me, but the red legs of man with crow mask are very light, IMHO, they are seems like short legs, standing on boots. Hope you will understand my bad english.

Dang it.. lost my text.. blabbity blah. oh well.. BG tiles are top secret...

 But here's a bit more progress on one sprite.

EDIT/UPDATE

Got 2 sets of waking frames to post as well:


Edited by |||| - 25 April 2013 at 2:44am

the elbows bend very minimally in a casual walk.  So it would have to be very subtle in a sprite this size.  It is too slow though.  What looks wierd about it though is how as one foot moves forward, the other moves backwards simultaniously.  Looks like hes skating.  It might work if you have him pick his foot up a little though.

Really nice job!
I think you should get some more bending in the knees with the backgoing animation ;) It's now some sort of "funny walk" like in Rollecoaster tycoon or so. Think your intention is a bit more serious than that ;)

Thanks for the feedback you two.

It's for a top-down style one wherein the sprite will move about on screens like Secret of Mana. So I might have to rework it all. It looks like I might have to do a full 8 frame walk, oh the dread ..
I'm a baby.
For now I will at least finish the back 3/4 view since I've already started it. I've also edited the front 3/4 view by making the arm action move less and reworking the feet just a bit... I think it matches the front and back views a lot better now, but will post later when I have the back 3/4 view done too. I want to do a test wherein the sprite moves over a simple set of tiles as well to see if it'll look alright.
Because if it looks ok and doesn't scream cheap, lazy, or just plain bad... I'd like to keep the frames somewhat limited. I was looking at Sword of Mana recently for example, the frames are very limited, the run or dash is 2 frames made into three, one being mirrored and it looks ok.. a little cheap but effective. I think the walk is also 3 frames made similarly.

Anyway, I'll post a test soon and if it looks terrible I will make it better, hopefully with some good advice etc.

UPDATE: As mentioned I  at least finished the back 3/4 view and fix the front 3/4 to match the front and back:
                                                
I will have to test a mobile walk tomorrow.




Edited by |||| - 30 April 2013 at 5:46am

Only the upward walk looks like walk, rest look more like sliding.

Edited by zaua - 10 May 2013 at 1:03am

I have decided to redo the sprite-style entirely to something even smaller in the near future. I also have something I could post here; of the character in a much higher resolution.
I will post here my 1st WIP of the character Erde (left), Möbius' edit & suggestions (middle), and my adaptation of Möbius' suggestions (right).  I liked his armour suggestions, only I think the breastplate would be better tied from the sides which I plan on adding. Do you think I should go with the cape? note the last one is still un finished/ I might redraw the right leg as well depending on comments.
I'm not even sure if it ok to post this here (NPA):

If anyone wonders who the heck Mobius is: http://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;u=3465



Edited by |||| - 13 May 2013 at 6:39pm