stonewall is right, but still. This might be your best piece here. Looks great!

Simply fascinating...

It sure does! Great improvement

Nice depth. Good job! The piece gets boring after a few seconds though. The background has no other cliffs on the horizon. Seems like we are at the brink of this alien world. The sand should have 1 more shade to it, just like the reddish cavewall. The slime could luminate light, making them have the lightest shade from the bg as outlines? Your dithering actually looks good. Hmh...

Why black lineart? Would work better with a darker shade in lineart for each shade.

I think this is your best sprite.

The picture has no actual depth to it. Might be due to just 9 colors, but still. Hmh... I'm not whining, just throwing my thoughts. =p

Very easy to read =) Usually gameboy-mockups fail at it. They are made too detailed even with the fact the screen is so small. I just wondered why the floors would not have a darker lineart. Would make it even easier to read :/ Hmh...

One of your best works in my opinion. At least palettewise. I can't believe only 19 colors...

Nice use of colors. If something, I think the sprite could use a bit more highlighting.

The palette is not made by you. That's why it does not fit properly.

Amazing work!

Ha... :O There is this user named PanicBomber, who certainly takes influence from you!

Behold the similarity in his boss-sprite compared to yours:

http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/46697.htm

http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/45746.htm

I'd count on it that the palette is same as yours in that one. He's also gotten comments about his works being sums of different styles that just are under the same palette. Hmh... Are you working on any game project btw? With your animal graphics the game would rock even with a simple coding :P

Id like this blocky scenery continue into the horizont and fade to the skycolor.

Woah! Looks like an oilpainting to me. Good job and the palette is chaoticly beautiful!

If you're familiar with Paper Mario -sprites, that is what I mean as seeming flat. Right hand seems to be just the sleeve sticked onto his chest. This is because the sleeve is as dark as the chest. Anatomy is not relatively unapprovable, but the muscles are way too distorted.

Again, the palette is great though! Concentrate on anatomy. I suggest having real people as reference, then later move onto distorting bodyparts from a realistic scale. This way you can make it work.

Objects on the background should have a smaller contrast and a greater brightness."The characters are not mixing up with the backgrounds anymore."I disagree. The spiky thing seems to be close enough to the player's depth and could be misread as a deadly object.

Shading is good at some points, but i.e. the grass on bg is really poorly shaded. The farther edge on the cliffs could use AA. Keep to the smooth AA and simplistic shades.

I think the palette is horrible, but you did a great job using it.

No. You make ME unsee it! xD

Hmh I wonder what kind of game it is... Nice animation

Thanks for commenting and liking the style!

Character seems flat and anatomy is bad. On pixel-level this is good. Great use of purple!

Great work! The bird looks a bit flat, but it's ok :/

I wonder how they stand on white canvas...

It's great, but this has the same problem as everyone else in the challenge(except two or three works) that it does not look like a real game =/

I wouldnt know of the flatness, since the original goombas have the front-view. This is so far the best of your mario-sprites.

That would be breaking the rules of this forum. So your work wouldnt get to the site in the first place even as a non-challenger. =)