The guys seem abnormally long.  Like, their feet are too long.

I love them standing.  Walking is fine.

Yeh, forgot to mention that the walk is still wip; the left leg has no shading and the headband I just slapped in there at the start frames to see how it would look. Small update for the headband:



@jrjellybean :
The left leg is bent a little at the knee so only the toes of their left foot touch the ground. Or that's what it's supposed to look like at least

The two characters look like almost the same person, I would vary them a little more. For example, change the hair color of one of them to green or something, or make one of the faces a tad longer. You could also change the shoe style some. The bodies being the same probably doesn't matter too much.

The headband on the walking animation isn't too appealing to me. I think that it would move a lot more than that for continuous walking.

The shading on the body and legs I really like though, I have no real complaints. The only thing I could say would be a line on the front of the pecs when walking, but that might not work with your background.

That's some valuable feedback, thanks all! I've done a couple of updates to the walk cycle, mainly given more of a sideways rotation to the torso and changed the headband movement a bit. Still not happy with it, I'll probably go back and try to fix it later on.

For the dude with the long hair, I changed his hair and pants colours around and gave him new shoes to make him stick out from his partner some more. Not sure about the green hair, to me it makes him feel like some kind of lagoon-thing or something so I did a red-hair version too.

Anoniguy: Yup, it's true that most strict beat'em'ups go for shuffle walks but we're aiming to incorporate some platforming elements too so a regular walk will probably be a better suit. Besides, these guys have superior kung-fu! They don't need no fancy stances

I love the walking animations. But I think it would be cool if they had different idle poses. Unless they both have the exact same fighting style, have been trained with the same person, and are twins whose only difference is clothing and the hair, they would probably have different fight stances.

About their designs I think its good but they are very similar. If your are going for something like, two players, and both players play the same way (like the first mario game where mario and luigi were just palette swaps) then its fine, but if when playing single player you actually get to pick who you're going to use, I would suggest a few changes. It would be a pain to animate but having different body types (maybe m aking one slower but stronger or something) or maybe give one of them a martial arts gi could help to make them more unique.

So you're not gonna do the Beat 'Em Up Shuffle? ...Man, if that doesn't sound like a real dance. That's cool. If it's a semi-platform kind of game, that makes sense.

The guy in the...turban, I guess - his walk reminds me of Makoto from SFIII,except where he only has the one shuffle step, she had a series of different ones. That's cool though. The way that his rear foot comes down is odd - the whole foot comes down at once, as opposed to the heel-toe i would expect, even in a sneak or wire-walk or whatever he's doing.

Is the zombie's hand just twitching for twitchings sake?