Hey guys. I'll start with introducing myself: I am a 16-year-old programmer from germany and I want to learn how to do pixel art. I started last weekend by reading everything about pixel art I could find on the internet and watching as many sprites as I could. I created my first sprite ever:



Being happy with my result (which is btw heavily inspired by sprites the game starbound uses) I started to animate the whole thing and messed it up completely. It just looks like a pile of pixels not like a guy walking.





The animation does not look natural at all and I want you to tell me why.
Btw it'll be used in a game.