Make his hands fists for one. Also study up on some fighting animations:
http://www.newwavemugen.com/~zweifuss/
If you want to save time, you might want to make him smaller as well.
Nope on the fists. That's how his stance is. The sprite is based on the animation in the intro. I have a gif of it.
He actually does fight like that. In fact, there's an episode called... "Tom, Sarah, and Usher", where Tom gets beat up by a girl fighting like this.
I know the site, and I'd certainly like to make sprites that smooth, but I'll work my way up to it. Dudley's stance has 48 frames! What I'll probably do, is get the basic stance that's been keyed, then sometime later add a foot switch, or something like that. Thanks for the source, though. With the sprite size, I actually find this to be easier to work with.
Instead of just moving, it appears his upper arm (what is that? @__@ lol I guess I should learn the terms before trying to crit something....) appears to change size. O: Like, the shoulder and elbow move toward each other. .__o trippy
I see what you mean. I think I know how to fix it, too. I'm thinking that having the shoulder roll forward instead of coming down so sharply might do the trick.