The second one looks better but i like the first one more...the very straight line from the hair that is in the forground bothers me...

Walking look fine but something about the arm movement seems to fast.O and the Head looks kinda to fixed...maybe put ita little forward.

Also idle shoudt be just legs...arms and body shoud move...

walk edit2, moved head a bit forward, hands re bit slower and tried to move scarf(shoulders)

idle 2

Here's an idle edit with the side to side movement I mentioned earlier.  It's only 4 frames and the colors reduced to 12.  I worked it over quite a bit, but maybe it give you some ideas on animating, colors, etc.

I really like the rework and the colors of dpixel's edit, not so much the idle. I would rather go for a slow breathing or duelyst style, where the whole body slowly rises and descends http://pixelartus.com/post/118593905696/duelyst

At least this is what I usually aim for: http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/104563.htm

I messed with the walk a bit, made it more like this template:

The head low and high points were not consistent and I changed the leg position on 2 frames. Did not finalized the pixels though, just a rough edit. It could also use some hair movement to make it more dynamic :)



Sprite wise those long necks still bother me, it would be much nice to make the shadow smaller on the face, imho.

then this mix dpixel and namis edit, combined into the new one. thank you ! I hope i cant use it freely. all credits goes to pixeljoint members, I will mention pj anyway. if this ever get to end (lol).

by the way, that idle is more like "confuse" status, or something like that. (there is some black lost pixel nvm that)

@dpixel ya, walk is not perfect o_o there might be possible more tweaking of walk before I implent the same floppy walk to all npcs. I m having break from npcs tho, before I ll spend sleepless night with walk I am adding some monsters.

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Hi again, I am stucked... After 3+ hours of nothing I decided I need help from more experienced folks once again -_-

I did this fellow this week, his arms and lower of body is something like cursed-steam / clouds / smoke, etc. material. (its floating enemy) I am really having hard time to animite it and make it some shape or flow right. I spent 3+ hours trying to animate this purple mass and all my efforts looked terrible. Because I can't animate legs or arms, I am trying to create a lot of monsters in my project arm/leg-less. And I can'ť animate even that -_- suggestions ? I am doing pixelart over 2 years and still I didnt learn how to animate (beside other things). It's really hard.

OK. this is hard, looked at duelyst for some fire/smoke effects, that pixelartist is crazy. current WIP, I think arms are done. so now the bottom part. I wasnt able to stick to original tho much.

VERSION 1


VERSION 2


VERSION 3 (FINAL)

Looks like the cloak's meant to be thick rather than actually rigid?
Don't have the bottoms move so much if you want to communicate thick, heavy fabric.
Don't have the cloak edge be a straight line, have it curve around the shoulder and then drop down. That'll avoid the rigid look.
Have the edge of the cloak sway/deform as the character moves. A heavy cloak wouldn't bounce, but it would definitely still sway and maybe even ripple.

I am trying to re-animate old sprites, like this one :


with new version, I hope this one is better (!) dont mind speed, I will adjust it. I feel I lack talent on animations. 8 frames is my cap. I am trying to draw low-frame animations to proceed with project. I have tons of characters. I am using template from above.

Ok so I think tent is ok this way. I am changing old sprite animations, I couldnt animate walks year ago. So it looked clumsy.

OLD 2015/16 :



Idle:


NEW walk- replacement 2017 (I didnt redraw it here, I worked with 2015/16 sprite and edited it), its hard !



any thoughts on anim ? / should i keep head static ?