The scarab is very hard to notice.
Right now it looks like a snowman with a scarf in the wind.

Not sure how you would fix it though, sorry.

Perhaps you could make a scarab snow-angel?

i see your scarab, he's on the second pic x)

I agree with hatch here.
Maybe you could change something on his bottom. Not sure why though. Maybe a hole in the snow or something. :/

I think the snowman is awesome - well pixelled and full of character.  The background is very supporting of the image, and the corner tabs definitely give it the look of a season's-greetings card/photo.  And the animated snow is the cherry on top.

Sorry, the scarab shape doesn't read unless you know to look.  I'm assuming you're not going for a hidden picture contest, so how about trying something like giving the snowman two sets of stick arms?
(it sounded cool and exciting at first thought, and it's never been done before, but I admit I don't know if it'd be awesome or weird unless I saw it first!)

Thanks!

Why not just give him another pair of threads-hands (like Ninja Crow said) instead of making an illusion? It will easily produce insect associations. But if you aim to draw just regular snowman - maybe put him into desert setting (oh, yeah, very regular)? Nevermind.

Edited by A.B. Lazer - 09 November 2009 at 1:48pm

first one is muuuuch better than all the other ones!

Duh! thx!
Pipe gets all messy looking in there. (strict color palette)




Edited by jalonso - 09 November 2009 at 5:12pm

I don't think the lower half of the scarf is necessary, considering you've already got an arm half-visible underneath it. I don't normally (Or at all?) see people wearing scarves with two... whatever you call 'ems flapping out behind them.

That aside, it looks quite nice! The two-frame animation looks a bit choppy in some places, but I don't know if you have any set restrictions.

the lower legs look sort of wierd.  I had an idea, not sure how it would turn out exactly but you could try putting the snowman on the ground again and then for the lower legs have two objects in the forground that happen to appear to be placed where the legs would go.  Not sure what type of objects you could use though.

I think it has to be 2 frames since all the other animations in his avatar file are 2 frames?

What is your color limit?

Forgive me if this is a technical issue that I don't understand yet, J, but exactly why can't the scarf and the limbs both be reddish (done very successfully in the earliest shown version)?  And earth tones are very seasonal anyway, right?

Uh...right?

Thanks.