@buddy90: It would definitely make it easier and good for practice, however as long as I've been doing this, this is probably the best of my abilities sad to say. Also, this sprite is something I've been working on since March, atleast half a year, as my post history would indicate. It'll be ashame to toss progress so far for a complete redo now, which will not even be what I want. Practice has been done numerous times, I'm working with what I can now. Thanks for the suggestion though. It's the thought that counts.
@AlexHW: Thanks, took alot of trial and error to make 'em the way they are now. Currently using 4 frames to precisely do as you say and make the animations more fluidly, and then trim them down to 2 frames as originally intended. The biggest problem lies with the East-bound animation because a 4 frame animation seems impossible for a sprite at that size and the position it's in.
[Update:]
I reworked on the East and North animations.
On the East animation, I repositioned the hands. This time they don't do as much movement and stay more so in place (still unfinished).
On the North animation, I finally completed the arms, and now have work to do on the pants. Made some headway though.
Any edits or advice would be really helpful. Thanks to all who contribute.
[Update:]
I've done the best I could do with the latest update.
If anybody can please help do some minor edits to these last animations, it'll be greatly appreciated.
Here's the progress made so far:
North-bound Edits:
* Apparently the "hop" that's normally put in animations to aid the illusion of movement affects the pants region too much, thus was taken out.
* A base for the pants/legs has been laid down, I think it actually looks alright. The problem: Highlights.
The may be other problems still within the animation, but I'm having trouble singling them out at the moment.
East-bound Edits:
* Base for the pants/leg region has been laid down. Having problems creating highlights for this one also.
So far, it's looking pretty much finished. Just needs some minor edits to the hands and shading for legs.
If anybody can please make some edits to this sprite, even give advice on how to fix it, I'll be in your debt.
Please help, anybody.
[Update:]
North-bound Edits:
*Re-added the head bop. Instead of moving the head downwards, it now moves forward towards the chest.
* Highlights to the base were added. Still not perfect, but it's in progress.
East-bound Edits:
* Took a few pixels off the stretch of the foot.
* Highlighted the base. Improvements made, but still could use work.
* Edited the arm.
No edits were made to the South-bound animation.
Though the more I look at it, the more the arms bother me.
[Progress:]