Maybe I should just start over so that I'm not scrambling to improve an already flawed character, and can instead start off right from the beginning.

Well most o the things that are bein suggested shouldn't be too terribly difficult to fix. just mostly minor tweaks.

One thing you ought to know, and it took me a while to get this when i first started posting here, No matter how much you improve it there is *always* going to be room to improve upon it. even the best artists here still get critiqued and nitpicked to death.
I mean if you want to make your stuff better, or focus on one thing, then by all means, post. edit, lather, rinse repeat. But at some point you're going to ahve to settle. If you're making a game using he prites then make the game, by all means. As they are now - and this is just my opinion, they're definitely good enough to be used in a game as they are,

But, i guess at the end of th day you really can't "win". at no point is anyone going to *stop* giving advice on how it can be improved, y'know?

If *you're* satisfied with it, then move on. if youfeel like any futher improvements would just be using up more time than you care to spend, move on. But if you want to make the best possible animation you possibly can, then keep coming back for more.

It's your opinion that matters, not ours.

You have no idea how glad I am to have someone say that.

Well obviously i'd have done things a bit differently, BUt i've critiques as much as my ability permits, really.
I do think the animation could benefit from using different angles for the sword in the swinging frames, and maybe speeding it up a bit. photoshop and graphicsgales rotation tools are pretty good when you need a rough start on it, and generally require minimal touching up to get looking properly.

Even so, i think i'm going to take my edit and give it a life of it's own Think of it as being inspired, eh?

Final version up! Improved the footwork and added another attack. I've decided he's going to have a short combo as he's supposed to be a powerhouse. His weapons are now more characterized as katanas than heavy swords. I'm all psyched to work on my other sprites so... expect a lot of updates this week.



Removed old versions from main dump.

Argh. I still thinkhe should just hold onto the thing. It would make the transition smoother for real.
Try getting up and swinging something in that position. it's...uncomfortable at best


DEPTH!  also if he's a powerhouse, he ought to look the part.

Now don't get me wrong,  i'm not trying to be confrontatonal - and this is very much a case of the pot calling the kettle black mind you, but you're really being rather lazy with it,  whichis really only bothersome to me because it's obvious that you are capable of doing better.

Anyways, a simple technique that you can use toanimate better is start with just the basic "blobs"then add details as they are needed. you'll find that much detal gets lost in the motion and your brain will automatically 'draw' some of it in. Like th way i've done thsi you can "see" the shoulders without them being well defined. of course when you do add in those details it'll only look that much better.

Closest i've ever come to such  a thing; i attended (though did not participate) in an SCA event a few years back.
T'was there i managed to get pretty toasty on mead underage drinking ftw. well I'm no underage *now* so i guess maybe not.

anyways, i'm a poor redneck from the southern US, so the odds of me even being able to afford a trip to europe are practically nil.