Transparency, two ways.

1. Download Giffy.
2. If jalonso was here, he'd say "Go to iaza.com"

As for the sprites, they look fine to me. I really like the dash and spellcasting ones.

Yeah with Giffy you'll need to take it apart and do it frame by frame and then put it back together. That's what I do. 

Hello micr0softener,

Cool a hero that I can be of help to! (I hope!)

The first thing that I noticed was that the arm
movement wasn't that exciting as the leg movement.
Here is an edit of what you can do better.
Mind you it is still not as fluent as it could be and
I suspect that there is a 'growing of the limps' effect
there, but at least it shows you some of the things
you can do.

Second issue I have with the walk cycle is that
the white parts interact which eachother.
Even while editing I had a hard time finding the
correct things.
I have changed some colors to indicate where I
think you need a bit of attention.

From first glance I think the walk cycle is the only
one that has this readability problem.

For the other sprites I can only say that  for the most
part they remain very straight.
The dash, dagger, megasword, spellcasting I would
suggest a bend down before ation effect.
The MegaSword is the one that has the best effect
of both legs and body. Angle is also pretty good but
it could use a little more. I think a bend before the
raise and the raise a little higher.

The Jump Cycle is the one that I have the most
problems with reading the motion.
It does a semi-walk cycle where the hair is
doing crazy things and then there is a too
fast upwards movement. Again it could use a
squash of the whole figure before going up.
The wall effect is really hard to see. Maybe
it could benefit from the same size as the
dash width?


Well I hope this is a good critique start you
was asking for?

Really looking forward to the updates!

Best regards from

M.E.


Oh Eh .. Here is the edit:

That is what I'm talking about, M.E. I agree with your idea about the arm movement and I think I'll add some of it soon, though perhaps not as much as your edit. As for the colour thing, I made the white leggings and white shirt the same colours because it keeps the colour count down... I'm at 13, counting black.

And I will put up a better version of the jump cycle, it's just what I had at the time, and I'll put together an exaggerated version of the current sprites... these will all be improved in time. But for a significant amount of time, I'm going to be stuck working on my Design Art portfolio and studying for exams, so progress will be slow... Ah, cest la vie.

Crap. For reference, these are all being made for a platform game with RPG elements, similar to a combination of Doukutsu Monogatari and Castlevania.