Here's my attempt at setting up a somewhat regular animation challenge. If this takes off, I'll continue to set up challenges... unless anyone else wants to step in and help set them up. If you have any suggestions about this challenge or for future ones, let me know.
I'm planning on keeping many challenges just asking for animated silhouettes. There's two reasons for this: to encourage people who otherwise would think that they didn't have enough time or the ability to fully render an animation to participate, and to focus the attention of the animators towards showing character through the animation instead of the character design. Full renders are always encouraged, of course, just please post the silhouette as well.
Okay, for this challenge, it'll simply be a walk cycle. 48 x 48 pixels maximum, 8 frames maximum. Here's the rub: it has to be the walk cycle of a duplicitous, untrustworthy character.