Wow. Stealing art from a forum and then posting it directly in the same forum where you stole it from. Like if we wouldn't notice.



Taken from http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=11074.0

And the background is taken from ActRaiser.

Well, it clearly doesn't co-operate with the tileset very well at this point, as you have a bit of an angle to the view, while the tileset seems to be strictly a side view.
Also, the greens and reds seriously pop out in comparison to the more subdued hues of the rest of the palette, so tone those down.  I also read t he gray color (esp. on top of those tiles) as stone, which may not be what you intended.

Yeah, I agree with everything mentioned above. Just moving the head down and then up again by one pixel would make a great deal of difference. The movement of his legs seems a bit off as well. There should be a midway point (the contact point) when his legs are very far apart, but both are touching the ground.

I like the zombie one though. he could us some head movement as well and maybe some head animation too.

Oh my word. I'm an idiot. The sprite was just displaying strangely on my browser. That's definitely 2x as big as she's supposed to be.

 I'm not really going for generic chibio, or chibi at all really. I simply drew like I draw and tried to get her sprite to match up with my main character's proportions as much as possible. She's a girl, so I gave her smaller feet and hands, as well as bigger hips, but I'll post both so you can compare (his color palette isn't set in stone either). The reason I went with a style of bigger heads is because I wanted to be able to animate facial expressions. These are also just the proportions for these two characters, other people, adults, children, robots, etc, will have exaggerated proportions in other ways depending on the character. Some will be tall and thing, some will large and muscular.


Obee


Maple

As you can see, Obee looks much better with an outline as well, so I'm thinking of giving Maple an outline... Hmmm...

Once again, so sorry about that mixup, hahaha. I'm going to edit my original post.

FANTASTIC!! This is exactly what I was looking for.

No, that's at 100%.

Her coat is more of a sweater poncho. Google it and you'll see what I mean.