Yah, it doesn't look like he's saying what he should be saying. I agree, lots of banding on the pipes too. I hope you can add more frames and the correct mouth movements! Looks cool though!

So some people have already brought up the perspective "issue". I say issue in quotes because really you can find tons of examples of games breaking or combining perspective. I like the detail of your characters but the scene seems sort of flat. What I would recommend is create a clearer foreground, middle ground and background. I like the edits the others did. What I'd do is add a long straight tall stone wall that you can tile towards the back (behind the tree) and add a building or anything behind that wall.

Since we're talking about perspective, I figured I'd share these game related game perspective links  I can see side scrolling brawler perspective from this scene.

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs3152/2013sp/lectures/15-Perspective.pdf
http://opengameart.org/content/chapter-3-perspectives

Hello all! Posted this over in the pixel art section but I think it would behoove me to post it here too.

So I'm working with some mates on a 16-bit Mega Man type game. I created what I've called Brainbot and I've started animating it. I'll be honest, this is unrelated but I'm having second thoughts about this brain/tank section of the robot and would like to change it. I don't want to change much, just turn it into some sort of simple robot or eye cyclops face. Brainbot doesn't seem very Mega Man-esque unfortunately! I'd really appreciate any feedback on the character design and pixeling but I'm mainly here for animation critique.

So I've created one full idle animation and I'm working on a dash punch animation. I'd really love some feedback on both. Playing Mega Man X - X3, I see a lot of bosses have minimal but expressive frames of animation. I've got more attacks and more characters to create so I'd like to be efficient just how Capcom was. I'm also inspired by Street Fighter 2's animation, a lot of cool quick 3 frame animations.

Here's my current wip animation for the dash punch. It's 22 frames and I'll have to draw the robot in 3 different positions, not including the idle position. My post on the other board has an older version of the animation. So I feel the frames after the punch, especially where the robot goes back to the idle animation aren't looking as good as they could be. What does everyone else think?



Here are two different idle animation. The second one has an older version of the character. 6 frames each. Which one is better? Neither? What can I do to improve it? I like the first one but don't like how the arms jitter at a similar rate.





One thing I foresee as a problem. The robot has two unique arms. I'll have to make unique sprites for  when it's looking in either direction right? I guess I don't really haaave to do that but it's be gnawing it me for some time. I've created the robot in pieces so maybe it'll just be a small amount of extra work. Anyway, thanks for reading!

I feel that the grass needs a bit more contrast. Maybe you can add one more color, a dark green shade, to the grass. And this definitely needs shadows being cast by the elevated terrain so it doesn't look flat. I think you're onto something by making the grass on the elevated structure have higher values of light. I think that works. Flora can also help the scene too!