I don't see any issues, really (aside the missing tail).

You could try making the ears in the back view more of a ( shape, as in - reversing the curve of it.

Possibly spread the legs of the front and back views to show a more stable/aggressive stance.

This may be helpful. More leg movement!

This is a nice one too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlOMJPcvrEE&feature=related
It's actually reduced to 4 frames:jump, fly, land, cross. These are excellent to base your animation on, and then possibly expand to 8 frames later.

Depends on where your strenghts lie. Using six frames forces you to deviate from standard animation patterns, which requires you to be good at animating (which I assume is actually your weak point atm)

Using 8 frames allows you to just make inbetween frames for the 4 base frames, and this is easier because you can first tweak the 4-frame which is easier than tweaking a 6-frame.

You could also try to use muybridge's cat photos as a reference, and grab 6 images off of that, but you'll probably have to tweak the animation as this cat probably moveas a bit too fast:


Anyway, how about roughing out the positions of key elements first, like I did here:

You're not moving the shoulders at all, and most of the other things move very little either.

For now, try having just the head, and the rest as lines. Just lines. That'll make it a lot easier for you I think.

He seems to be running sort of diagonally now. I'd rotate the shoulders a bit.

I need help if anyone wants to give it
still looks odd to me

Smaller head, made his butt not go up so high

I'm going to do 8 frames, just want to get the 4 main ones down first.

Unless I fix anything else, then doing the other 4 is what's next.

did in betweens for the head sprite



Edited by skeddles - 14 November 2010 at 2:22pm

So far, so good.

look at me I'm skeddles I keep bumping my topic because I think I'm important

well heres outlines

EDIT:
faster



Edited by skeddles - 15 November 2010 at 1:55pm

not really sure what you mean, when the front shoulders go up, the back goes up

a little shading

does this version look better to you? I lowered the head in areas where it looked too high

REALLY like where this is going. See if you can make his ears move slightly, very slightly, otherwise just leave them the way they are now. Also, make sure to give him a walk, too.

because he's so cute and cuddly?

HE'S A MONSTER HE CAN FIGHT sh*t

he had a weird little hoppy thing that I tried to fix... next I'm gonna try to make his tail less whiplike, then finally adding details and bounce

EDIT:
look at those ears. that's adorable.

I can't get the head fur to bounce right... just looks like PKSHEW


Edited by skeddles - 17 November 2010 at 8:09pm

yeah but the thing is all the rest of it will be hair just like that, so if I can't get it right on the face...

You're gonna have to work sooo hard to animate front and back and get the same quality. :b

if all the game art is this quality, it will be ultrasexylicious