Esjitu's Sprites

Welcome ! this is the method most of them follow . There might be other methods also which i might not know . by altering parts the animation looks consistent . For some complex movements you need to re draw most of the parts . Just make sure they are of same size so that the character doesnt look like it is made of rubber or jelly :-P . You can visit lfe an affiliate . Bunch of tutorials are available . Have fun spriting !

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Looks like you made the shoulders move a bit more than the whole arms/hands themselves.
Try to always move the arms as a whole at first and only later consider also bending them.
No original LF2 character has his arms bending during the breathing animation actually, so just don't bend them here.
(also I cannot really make out any elbows or other joints; not keeping such jointless limbs stiff in a simple animation makes them look pretty flappy, do you want that?)

About the outlines:
The way you work now they get lost in the final resolution and it looks ok.
If they help you a lot you can keep using them.
However I think it's easier and faster fixing shapes on an already finished sprite when there were no outlines involved (erasing parts from the outside and reshaping the sprite from the inside is a really fast process giving you direct feedback on your improvement, if you have to reconstruct an outline whenever you do that it will really hinder you from improving your sprites on the fly).

Also where is that trusty chainsaw?

Doesn't take a genius to click a few links.

Anway I thought it would be pretty rad if he didn't pull it out of his ass at random and instead carried it all the time - pretty much turning it on as soon as he walks.
Never mind that tho, it might be a little too much on your first character.

The animation is good. But he looks way too chubby. There are two things you can do about that if you like:
-first of all obviously make him slimmer or taller in general
-and second: use more pointy shapes; all your color shapes have round corners resulting in a puffy face, very baggy cloths and plumb hands

Also his irides are way to light and small.

Alright, thanks for the feedback, both of you not sure if I'll actually change him, because it was more for fun and I wasn't planning to do a character out of him, but I can put the advice towards my future sprites. YinYin is definitely right on about the puffiness and rounded shapes. I think it would probably help if I used a smaller brush (doing in 2x sized canvas, using brushes between size 3 for fine details and 5 for filling in big blocks of color, maybe bump it down to 2 and 4).


I actually forgot I put a link to my board on my profile ^^;


That's basically what I was thinking too, it might be a little bit more challenging for me to sprite until I get the hang of things. It has other attacks besides using the chainsaw anyways, though, so I was thinking it would be okay to pull it out of hammerspace when it's needed...the real challenge would be doing the rocket chainsaw attack

I did redo my tiger animation, but I'm reluctant to share it now because it's also very chubby, haha. Well, here it is.



I'm going to try and put the advice to use pointier shapes to use and maybe make this a bit less chunky as well. The previous version with the outline definitely looks a lot slimmer, but I like this one's animation a lot more, and it was faster to create. I did try to be a little more dynamic with the arms too, not just moving the whole thing stiffly but trying to move the upper and lower arms separate and give a better appearance of joints, though I'm not sure if it shows. It's also a lot more subtle when I don't try to animate the hair, just for a breathing animation at least - more dynamic actions would definitely have hair movement, but probably not just breathing.

Okay...still haven't given up. Redid the tiger completely once again, with pointier shapes...I think I finally did pretty good on this one.



The only thing that looks maybe weird to me is that the chest expands too much on the third frame but I think other than that it came out pretty nice

Also, I edited my first post to include all my sprites, in a spoiler tag.

Thank you mundvoll I'm not sure if I should do a walk cycle yet though, I'm thinking I should continue practicing with breathing animations for a little bit with some other characters until I think I am comfortable enough doing a good job with them, before I'm ready to try the more complicated cycles. I might try to redo Jihskan from my earlier post, or just try a new character, I'm not sure yet.

So I've been looking at fighting stance animations from various fighting games to try and get some ideas because I want to try more than the generic standing-and-breathing pose for my other characters...but I'm having some trouble still I think I need to go to bed and come back fresh tomorrow...but this is what I have so far, the character is Lemmy.



First off it's a bulkier pose but I still think I definitely drew him too chunky (again)...the hands are probably too big, too. But what was bugging me most was I am having the HARDEST time with shading the fists I just can't seem to get them to look right no matter what I do.

On the plus side I really love the way the head came out. But yeah...I think I need to start this one over anyways, so before I do, anyone have any pointers? I'm trying to go for a pose like this miniature sprite of KOF's Shingo: