OMG this is like a short film made by pixel art entirely! Soooo cooool

Very cool!

Love the animation and the little storytelling on this one!

No problem and thank you 

Thanks for the detailed explanation! You've got my vote! 

First scene: 1 point perspective is used. I put a point down under the canvas and just started drawing lines from there upwards. Added the hanging sign in a similar fashion. The background simply scrolls. At the end I just slid a billboard with a shadow to the left, making it look like a transition.

Second scene: The train, building and backgrounds all move on different layers at different speeds. This is also used in the third scene with the background, train and passing poles;

Third scene: For the girl (aka me) I used rotoscoping. I filmed myself doing the action, converted it into a gif online, then put it in aseprite and scaled it down. This gave me a very messy animation that I had to manually cut out and clean up completely. This alone took me three days. The sign with the cancelation just scrolls by like the rest.

Afterwards I inbetweened everything (exept the girl) and doubled the framerate.

This is great! Wish I had the time and skills to do something similar. Could you briefly explain how you did the animation?

love the dejection

Such drama :D I like how the preview stands on its own too, both anims are really great. And yeah, train is the best :)

Very impressive!

Incredible Weerd! All your effort really paid off! 

@Weerdmeester yeah, these aren't easy to do. looking forward to see it!

This is so great, love the transition shots! :0

Epic

I have been planning to make more story focused animations for a while, just haven't really gotten around to actually do those yet. However, I am working on and off on a storydriven piece the last few weeks. It is a bigger canvas size then I am used to, so it might take a while still.

oh, my. i haven't seen a gif with animation actually depicting some story for so long i almost forgot they exist. nicely done.