Funny coincidence, I'm actually listening to a Pork 'n' Beans youtube video on another tab right now. In a different browser.

okay, what program do i need to do that

Graphics Gale and Promotion are good. I haven't tried Promotion, but several excellent animators on this board have raved about it and I trust their judgement completely. There are also some programs listed in this thread that you can investigate.
http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=3467.0

Whenever you have a question, try to remember that it's probably already been asked before and do a search. There's a search engine at the top or if you insert "site:website name" into a google search, it will do a search inside of a specific website. For example, to search for animations programs, I would do a google search for "site:http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/ animation program" without the quotes.

and how do i fix this?

Did you search for those animation threads like I suggested? If you are truly interested in improving, you need to start actively searching out information. This board has been up since 2004/2005ish and has an incredible amount of information available.

Hmm, just tried using the search engine up top and it appears to be broken. Dang. I'm gonna send a message to the mods. For now, here's a thread with some animation advice.
http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=5420.0

I found that thread by google searching this site for "running animation" It was the 4th link on the second page.

EDIT: Nevermind, the search engine isn't broken. It just doesn't work with Opera. OK, that's it. I forsake this browser. I cannot stand it any longer. Opera, you may have nice, clean, filterless graphics, but I can't put up with your #%@* any longer. Perma-banned.

EDIT #2: Before I delete my browser and install an old one, remember how I told you that Ptoing has posted a couple times with some nice walking animation examples. Well, if you go to Ptoing's profile, click on the link to view his last posts, and just at the 4th page on his post on Feb.03, 2009
http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?action=profile;u=79;sa=showPosts;start=150

I bought Beyond Good & Evil off Steam around Christmas when I saw it going for special. Didn't like it. It wasn't challenging and the gameplay was fairly bland. I guess this complaint could be levelled against Psychonauts, but PN kept me engaged with the characters and the story. I always wanted to keep playing so I could meet somebody new or advance the interesting subplots. I heard BG&E's characters and story are supposed to be compelling or interesting, but... eh, they just didn't do anything for me. Many months on and I can't even remember anything about it. It's drifted almost completely from my memory. All that comes to mind is a pig, a girl with green hair, and some really bland story about benevolent protectors, wait, oppressors. Actually, I'm starting to remember cringing at all the protesters that start popping up towards the end. It kinda came across as a poly sci student's wet dream.

Anybody ever give Vampire Bloodlines: The Masquerade a try? It's a FPS/RPG based on a boardgame property by WhiteWolf. It was made byTroika Studios, which was founded by some core members of the the RPG team at Interplay. That would be the guys who were making RPGS like Fallout. Vampire is a pretty solid effort, Great story, multiple characters and the dialog and in game opportunities are affected by your stats. If you feel like given it a shot, make sure to look for the fan made patch. Troika's games are kinda infamous for various bugs. I don't think it was entirely their fault, though, they were under a lot of financial pressure pretty much over the course of their existence. I even read an interview with Leonard Boyarsky(one of the founders), describing some pretty brutal crunch time he put in over most of their final two games that took him out of the game industry for a short period. And now he's on the design team for Diablo III

I don't understand which one is the updated version. You've said that the left version is both the edit and original. It really doesn't matter that much though, because I can hardly tell the two apart. I wasn't planning to, but as I was writing this, I started doodling in Graphics Galle and ended up with an edit.


It could use some more touching up to make the shoulder pads pop more, but it addresses my main crits of your sprite. 1) The pose is pretty boring. The spine is straight, his arms hang limply by his side. In my eidt, I bent the arms and added some curve to the body, although I think a bit too much to his feet. I think I need to push them forward a pixel or space out the distant foot more. 2) Your shading doesn't desribe hte form of your sprite very well. Some parts aren't too bad, but the front of the jacket doesn't  work well imo. It's shaded almost like it was a cyclinder, when it should be shaded like the front of a box.  3) I should have pushed this more in my edit, but you shouldn't shade every part from light to dark with the same range of values. In your sprite just about everything looks like it's made from the same material because they all have a similar range of light-to-dark values. This makes the head come across as some kind of a helmet instead of hair and skin. 4)Minor things. Watch out for pillowshading on the hair and boots. Also, I think some of the mentioned problems may have been caused by a certain thinking process. Maybe you look at a bland or empty spot on the sprite and think that a realistically shaded sprite wouldn't have these empty spots and thus you find a way to fill it with either detail or undescriptive shading. I think flat shaded areas are just another way of describing texture or making other textures pop and you should not neglect this.

Sorry if all that is a bit harsh. I think the sprite has promise and and should go well with your snowy tileset you posted recently. It looks like it should contrast nicely with your background graphics and read well. It kinda has a Sephirothy-Soma Cruz vibe, both of which get thumbs up from me. I hope this was helpful

EDIT: I was bugged by the left leg and made a quick flip and fix. Reworded a sentence.
EDIT: Looking at it again, I think I lost the character in my edit and it has some contrat issues. I did another iteration with more emphasis on trenchcoat, making armour shiny, and polish.

Still JPGed. Photobucket will automatically convert bmps to jpgs if that's the format you're uploading them with.