It all looks very good.
I would change the girl's hairbow color to a grey from the knight because it stands out too much, especially at 1X
Work without outlines until you have BG tiles made to see if you need them

I don't think hats a problem as a knight in full armour would be a bit thicker than a woman in a dress anyway :p

Something about the run animation looks off to be but I can't put my finger on what it is. It looks almost backwards to me, perhaps you're bending the legs at the wrong time in the animation? It also looks like the legs lack a frame where they're fully extended on their way forward, maybe that's why it looks off.
When you animate run/walk cycles, I highly recommend not doing it "in place", but actually having the character run forward, and you can then realign the frames centered on the character's center of mass afterwards. That way you can make sure the leg movement makes sense. It'll also help you add head/torso motion relative to the center of mass to make the animations look more natural.

The idle animation has that painful "legs breaking" thing going on. Don't arbitrarily shorten the legs! If you want the character to bounce, give them the motion to create that bounce! Have the knees bend, or have the hips sway so that the legs are at different angles, you could have a breathing animation with no leg movement, there are lots of possibilities that don't involve randomly dismembering your character, even at this small size. Also, vertical motion isn't your only option! If the others feel extreme, you could have the character sway from side to side, e.g. by shifting their weight from one leg to the other. Better yet, you could have different characters do different things - at this small size, it's not that time-consuming to animate multiple kinds of motion.

ok this is the sideways run.

I opted for 8 frames instead of 6 this time. I should've made it more clear which is the front limb and which is the back limb but as this is just a template just try to look closely

Looks good :)

A running thread for the whole project helps PJers understand and see things in context which means better feedback.

The other benefit of a long running thread is that others learn from your mistakes and successes ;)

We love long threads

The environment tiles feel noisy compared to the slick look of the sprites. Too much single-pixel "detail". Try to work with larger clusters like you did on the sprites, so that they feel like they belong together.

Your run cycle doesn't have proper pass-through for the legs and arms. Make sure to track them smoothly between each frame and keep each limb the same length. Also I don't recommend moving the pelvis laterally within the frame at this scale. Here:

Your latest gif looks great vilmore.

I think one weakness might be your knight characters feather in their helmet. Its resolution of detail seems off compared to everything else. Also, just eye balling it, it looks like just two colors in contrast. Its like, the feather is too fine in terms of resolution, and not fine enough in terms of color contrast.

No like, its colors shouldnt be so different, or, that it should have simpler features.

actually I will hold you to that promise :)
might still take a little while before I get a testable game though.

- One Year Later... -

Or almost :) So I came back to this project and decided to bring some new life into this thread too.

Since the post above I have actually worked a bit more on the project but mostly on the programming side of things. Only a few details in the art.
I will now try to get out a playable level to expand upon, you know, the minimum viable product principle, sort of...
Expect that hopefully in the coming weeks.


But what I did do was an other little project, with very small soldier sprites.
Unfortunately I though I had this backed up, but this week I found out I didn't... auch

The only thing I have are crappy JPG uploads I made to facebook and one video I uploaded on youtube.


I opted for the smallest version.

Here is a battle field.



Again this is -sorry was- a project in Unreal Tournament. You will have to click the video to see the simple sprites in action.
there is one version of the sprite walking towards us and one from the back, these are also mirrors giving me 4 directions, this is actually almost enough. That was one of the tests I was doing with this project.
The blood is not a spritesheet but a normal particle effect with little rectangles...

who will win???
https://youtu.be/BYrIffhqvxY

Alright!

Its been a long time since I posted here. But guess what I actually finished this project!
I will post all the sprites here later when I polished them a bit more, also I still welcome feedback of course.

gif with messed up colors:


normal screenshot:


Download the actual game (windows) from google drive https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wkIbkt7momQbxUi2z-P9UaQs5b4ykeWH/view?usp=sharing

Unfortunately I am not on Windows; I really would like to try out your game though! Will you be trying to get this out on Steam or some other service?

If so, you should consider writing up a quick news post for the PJ front page once you do