Good stuff! Keep making more art. I'm not sure what I'd say to improve this. Maybe you can animate the character now while others comment? Looks like that would be fun looking at his pose. I think this is quite nice and I like the stylized look you've got going on.
Whoa, thanks for the nice words! I try create a piece of pixel art daily; regardless of complexity.
I already started animating it. But I never animated a full blown mockup and it's hard
I truly believe it would have been faster just to create a prototype of it instead of animating a mockup.
Started with the runcycle:
not sure about the fixed reflection though - or if it's going to be visible at all anyway.
I might recommend more variation in height for the flames in the background.
Good point! When I started out, I was thinking of animating them, but now I'm not so sure if I have the endurance to do so.
I think your enemy character might need some more attention too. What's the creature supposed to be? It looks like maybe a metal ball with a gold teeth grill and eyes.
Actually, that's probably part of the problem with it. I have no idea what it's supposed to be. I rushed it in, because I felt it helped the composition and dynamic to have a floating enemy there
probably should've spent some time actually thinking up a decent enemy.