A friend of mine raved to me about the cool pixel graphics of the battles in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade. Since my own current ideas had hit a dead end, I said I'd try to make an animation like that with her character Marigold.

Almost a month and an estimated 50 hours of work later, I'm done. With 117 frames, each 50ms long, it is by far my most complicated animation. Apart from the bandit sprite everything was done by me.