I love the start! However, if hadn't listed the species, I wouldn't have known that they were different, save the frog and gnome. Perhaps you could work on making that more obvious?

I like them all.
The only thing I don't like too much is the floating eye on the humans.

yeah i see what you mean with the floating eye, but im not sure how to fix that. maybe a blank face?


also, i started the walking animation.
crit?

Most human females don't have six packs, yo.

Totally support ripped video game heroines. However, if you want the male and female to be identifiable as such, you'll have to change up the shoulder/hip ratio. If you want clothing and equipment assets to be interchangeable between the genders... well, you'll have to compromise somewhere. At this size, minute differences in detail, like the one extra pixel to indicate cleavage, aren't going to help much. It'll be all about silhouette.

edit: About the animation, I would move *his* right shoulder back when his torso twists right, it's looking very uncomfortable right now.

Edited by MrHai - 04 December 2014 at 8:55pm

fixed the right shoulder so that it doesnt look so unnatural



thoughts?

Is the target scale 1x, or will the sprites be scaled up? At 1x, I think the animation looks fine now. I would def try how it looks with a darkened arm though.

It doesn't look realistic, sure. I think it looks kind of cute anyway, but depends on what your goal/vision is.

I was thinking the same kind of thing. whenever i put the sprites in front of a blue sky or anything, they got kind of lost. i guess i could try a somewhat thin outline, because im worried a solid one-pixel black outline  would be too thick

so i took the need of an outline into account, and it led me to completely overhaul the sprites. i doubled the resolution, which will make everything else a lot easier to do now

so i did a walk animation for the new sprites. any criticism?



as well, i started to do larger dirt tiles that work better with the large sprites in relation to size



im new to making these kinds of tiles that arent just squares (like terraira or starbound) so im not sure if im doing it right

Nice improvement on the walk cycle.

so ive redone the sprite because i didnt like how it looked at all. i made him have more character with a contraposto stance and a lot bulkier

is this better?

Looked at all previous updates and you always make thin shoulders and long pecs.
Maybe that's your thing?... its not anatomically correct but if its you then ignore me.
If its not then focus on anatomical proportions.

E: Cept the gnome :p

Edited by jalonso - 12 June 2015 at 8:10pm

Well regardless of look or style having decent proportions is essential in having the viewer see it right. Even stick figures need it.

so i decided to do a style change for the tiles. this time theyre much more cartoony, which fits better with the new character sprites, and they much more of platformer tiles, where they fade to a dark colour and only the top layer of tiles is visible