[WIP] Ape Animation

[The Berryster]

Hey there, me and Drazzke are making a game, and the character is an ape, so I thought I would just post it and see what people think!
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And these are the frames:
And the reference...
Yes, I know they are very similar, but I wanted to practise making an Ape. When I reference, I tend to make my sprites look very similar, a habit I just can't shake. I'm gonna remake this now, without a reference...

NEW --> All the references for this new one were pictures of real chimps...

I made and idle animation...

[Lazycow]

What about giving him a long tail?

[The Berryster]

I didn't give him a tail because apes don't have tails... Apes are a group of primates, which include chimps, apes, gibbons, orangutans, and humans, all of which don't have tails. And that's why he doesn't have a tail.

[Kren]

reminds me alot to Yoshi island monkeys..

[tehwexxl0rz]

reminds me alot to Yoshi island monkeys..

Same. Too close for comfort I'd say....

Regardless, it looks like a tail-less monkey rather than an ape....

[zeid]

A little more then close...

looks like a pretty obvious edit to me.

[tehwexxl0rz]

Uh ohs.... I smell a banning.

You best explain yo self, Berryster.

[AdamAtomic]

Please post your references and read the forum rules ASAP 

[The Berryster]

I referenced, and I'm sorry. And when I do that, I tend to make it very much like the reference. But that is no edit. I have never edited, and I probably never will. I'm sorry. I'll remake it, get rid of that one... and I'll post the reference. Once again, I'm sorry.

EDIT: I made a Chimpanzee, and this is it:
All the references for this chimp was from pictures of real chimps.

I made an idle animation...

[AlexHW]

try adding more frames, its hard to describe motion with two frames, expecially when the difference between those two frames are very different. maybe add a frame between the current two as a means of transitioning between them and smoothing it out. work at the pixel level to do this.. alter the pixels, not the locations of the objects which the pixels make up.

[The Berryster]

Alright, I made two. the first is pretty long and he kinda just does stuff... I'll make the drooling longer, but I didn't want it to seem too long while I was showing it... And in the second he kinda just stands there...

#1:

#2:

Constructive Criticism appreciated.

[missingno]

I like the one where he rocks on his toes. Could that one actually be converted into the idle animation? It seems to have a lot more character than the basic breathing up and down movement. I also think that one of those colors isn't really needed (the lightest or second-lightest brown).

In the first one I just had to point out that his innear ear changes color in a bunch of frames.

[The Berryster]

Thanks for the reply. they're both idle animations, but I thought I might as well just post them both.

Thanks for pointing out the ear, I didn't notice that...
As for the brown, I think you're talking about the second lightest... I first made him with the second-lightest as the lightest, but there wasn't enough contrast so I just added another and never really got rid of the older one... I'll fix that.

[EDIT] I fixed the ears, but when I took out the lighter brown, it looked horrible, just seemed really flat... and so I took out the lightest, and that looked even flatter... so I didn't get rid of any colours. This is the version with the fixed ears...

[Sokota]

Also, there is a pixel that flashes on the leg as well. I think it's supposed to be dark, but you made it light.

Sokota