No problem! If you want more VFX tutorials, Jason Keyser's stuff on Youtube is really good. He's the main VFX guy for League of Legends and has a bunch of helpful videos.
dude, that guy's tutorials are amazing. Thanks for the hook-up.
It's not bad, but I feel like it's pretty subdued overall. It doesn't convey much impact.
Here's a very simple explosion tutorial:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/explosions-part-7719254
I feel like your animation could benefit from doing something that achieves a similar effect as the third step in that tutorial (Sharp Blast), and you'd also benefit from thinking in terms of different "layers", each with its own action, so the whole animation feels more dynamic and lively.
Just googled him, damn his fx are godly. Yeah this explosion already looks like absolute ass to me now.
I just recently decided to make my game a top-down instead of a side scroller too, so I pretty much just scrapped all the sprites I've been working on, so it's a good time to attempt another splodey.