Man this is awesome, I used to want to be a ninja so badly when I was a kid. Man we need ninja movies to make a come back in a bad way.

  You HAVE to make some more pixel-works! Rare are pixelart animations of this quality!

so cool, i like what he does with his fingers.. XD

Really nice and smooth animation. Only thing you should work on a bit is the hind leg when it's contracting.

Nice animation but  it does look a little fast though

well, i can certainly reduce the color count by one no prob.  i'm not really going to for the j-fighting game / cel anime  look (even though he does look like spidey :you were right rush, i should've used it as a ref it would've gone faster AND be cooler).  as cool as capcom and kof sprites are, i don't want this guy to look cartoony.  I was thinking more of sierra adventure game sprite style, only a little more filled out.  I like his sort of oil paint muddled look. But i'd like to hear why you would like less colors?  is it personal pref for that style or the idea of color conservation?  I also got used to looking at him with a longer delay on ie so i changed that.  I messed with the hand some because I don't like it (still) and dropped that one redundant color out.  now its 15 colors.  Like I said in my other piece, This is the first digital art I've done since mario paint, so I really appreciate the feedback.  You guys have a lot of experience and were right about the speed and are probably right about the colors, I'd just like to know why to speed up the learning curve.  Thanks!