I'd like to see your thoughts on how you'd make a tile set consistent with the correct axonometric perspective. You run into problems if you're using 32x32 pixel tiles and you want to have a ground made of square bricks or something, do you just avoid that kind of situation?



Edit: you can get some pretty good square shapes if you use 2x1 tile constructions and don't mind a pixel gap or so every tile.

A few thoughts:

• I like your rocks and how you put so much detail into the tiles, but you've been doing this style of stone for a while and to me it looks less like natural stone and more like granola. Like a bunch of rocky bits stuck together with something. This might be personal preference since we expect some abstraction with tiles anyway
• That said, the glacier floor looks a lot like stone! Like cobbles, actually.
• Maybe diagonal lines for the icy shine?
• The sprite really fills his square but there's not very much liveliness in his motion. I think if you ditched the outline (it's probably unnecessary since you know he'll always be on backgrounds of a certain brightness) you'd gain some pixels to move him around  more and to fit in some more detail.
• I don't know, even though everything is outlined I don't think it improves the readability of the sprite anyway.
• Consider adding a secondary colour (like a differently coloured underbelly or something) to make the character a little more interesting and a little more readable.

Super quick take on the dino sprite:

Maybe it will give you some ideas. The contrast is probably eye-breaking because I was dealing with bright glare off my laptop screen when I drew this. The main thing I was trying to show was the dinosaur actually having a different posture for the sliding animation, I think it would add a lot.

Hello!

I'm glad you've come here to offer payment for some fine pixel art, but I think you may be offering too little for a professional artist.

However 80x80 px is large, and you're looking to emulate a style of art that is very polished and professional. At the rate you are offering, of MAXIMUM $90 for 44 frames, you're giving someone $2 a frame. If an artist wants to work for minimum wage, which is about $10/hr where I live, they would be spending no more than 12 minutes per frame. That's certainly possible, but I think a self-respecting artist might expect at least $15 to $20 an hour, so you might have to reign in your expectations about quality a bit there!

Regards.

Indigo
This is a fantastic gift, thanks! I love it. I learned something from the more subtle approach you took to the fur/feather texture.