Feedback, and does this look familiar to you?

[Yeet]

Hey there!

I'm currently experimenting with new sprites for a game I'm making, after deciding my original one would be too much hassle.
After a bit of messing around, I came up with this, what do you guys think?



To me, something looks kinda off about it. I did struggle with the colors so that may be the reason, but it could be something else that hopefully you may notice.
His head is supposed to have a flame-like animation when finished, but I found it tough to make it look flame like.
The reason I say "flame-like" and not just "flame" is because my idea was that it'd be a form of energy that resembles that of fire, but have more of an alien feel to it(if that even makes sense  )
Oh, also, maybe its just my imagination but it looks kinda familiar to something. I don't want that to be the case if I end up using it, what do you think?
Thanks.

[MysteryMeat]

I think it's the scale! Head's too big even for a chibi, try either thickening the body or shrinking the head!
You should also apply lighting from his flame to his armpr and equipment!

[Yeet]

I think it's the scale! Head's too big even for a chibi, try either thickening the body or shrinking the head!
You should also apply lighting from his flame to his armpr and equipment!

Thanks for the reply.

That didn't cross my mind with it being deliberately not to scale, but I think I agree so I'll give it a shot.
I'm not great at lighting, so it'll be tough for me to get it to look shaded and still keep the parts visibly separated, but I'll try; I do think that would make it look better.
Did the colours look right to you?

[MysteryMeat]

Most of it's pretty dark, but in this case that helps serve the luminous head a bit. Remember, just add a bit of blue light to the bits that'd be in direct lines from his head, the way i think about it is light's just a big paintsplatter that wraps around from wherever the source or sources are!

[Yeet]

I ended up discovering why it looked so familiar to me; it was because it vaguely looked like the player in this video. They don't look that similar, but it was enough for me to notice something looked familiar. 

https://youtu.be/9IU0PToj7q0