My plan is to make a character with a gun(or more guns), that will:

-stand
-run
-jump
-double jump
-duck
-shot weapon 1
-shot weapon 2
-die
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I will make this character by creating silhouettes in 3D, and rendering them for every animation and then painting them with details. Is this a good approach, or does your experience led you to different approach? its my first attempt at something like that, and i want to avoid major mistakes.


cleaned up silhouette of shot weapon 1



PS: i may be off for a few days so this thread will drop down to the bottom , but as soon as i'm back i will post updates.

here's a WIP of my sword slash, he glows on purpose, and his sword goes to his other hand for purpose too.

8 colors

ok, so here's pretty much, the "nearly" final version of my knight.



and here's his first animation attempt



(second animation)   edit->->

For now, I dont want to follow my shiluette... why?

 I spent hours watching pixelart from games like castlevania, and this is the conclusion i came up with. Following my though about animating pixelart equals massive redrawing and i see from other people's work that you can make animations with nearly no effort at all, by knowing which parts to move, think ahead about the structure of animation and what small areas to redraw. Those animations look really great. but i guess you just have to get to that level of making compicated things, simple...

here's a wip of the knight

edit---> edit---> edit---> (10 colors) edit--->

here is his finished animation

nearly finished animation of attack --->

16 colors, done in 1 hour
edit -> edit---> edit-> full edit WIP ->
 edit ->

the animation slows downa bit at the end becouse the first and the last frames af the anim are the same, i forgot to erase the one in the end, but i would like te read some suggestions on his look.

thanks

EDIT 1-----------------------------------------
changed the look and fixed the animation problem