You're a legend 

Absolutely wonderful. Love the discreet guy in the grass.

This is an amazing picture, one of my favourites here. I'm interested to know what programming is involved here.

This looks amazing...

Its very much in the theme of a zine we are currently working on to print in Risograph.

Beautiful work!

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The fire animation is fantastic!

I adore this, well done.

Wow! Programmer art has never looked as good. Awesome!

Very nice star animation! :O

Awesome image! Nice palette color and fluid animation.

Love it.

I am actually more of a software developer rather than a pixel artist.

I'm only pixeling for fun.

Wow... Are you by any chance interested in working in a project similar to this style.

Very impressive, you have my vote!!

the contrast are pretty good.

Wow! That's a neat piece..

I missed it too til now

Better than the preview let on. I agree the animals could move some.

Wow, how did I almost miss this?! Great work!

Nice work!

I am happy you're finally back. I love this so bad =)

What bugs me most is the complete stillness of llamas and human. I guess you can't do much in 8 frames, but a twitching ear, a swaying staff would help lots.

Awesome man, i'll vote for you :)

Cool to have you back!

Not much to crit here except from the stuff the other guys said.

It's an outstanding entry with superb colours and  pretty smooth animation.

Nice work!

I really like the palette, and the animation brings this picture to life.

My only critism will go to the man's head: when first seeing it, I though it was a llama looking in the direction of the hut and chewing something. Then I saw the man's body and realized my mistake.

I also would have loved to see the parallax version as an entry, but it is very much to your credit that you have aimed for a more pixel purist version!
Gorgeous colours and lovely animation. 

Whoa. Wonderful piece. You got my vote! :)

Awesome palette !

Hey hey :)
Really nice animation on smoke and light. Quite atmospheric!

Really great work!

I'm not too fond of the gradient in the sky, but everything else is so sexy. I want to eat this with a spoon.

I agree with ptoing though. It'd be nice if the fire cast light on the smoke.

Wonderful! The smoke especially is great.

What parallax?

I am sorry guys for not completing the parallax, but it involved more programming and adjusting speeds than actual pixeling.

I'd agree with ptoing, and I'm also dissapointed you didnt do the whole parallax version, but still, this picture is gorgeous!

Great job! and welcome back.

Welcome back. This is quite lovely. The only thing that looks a tad weird is how the smoke and fire connect.