So long folks.
I'm considering buying Graphics Gale, currently I'm trying the shareware version, and this is what I've come up with so far.
I wanted to make a SD-style hero that looks
worried and anxious, as opposed to looking all calm and composed while shooting down zombie robots.
These are the three animations so far, in chronological order
For the walk cycle (moar liek run cycle), first I drew one leg in 4 positions and cloned it, but a 4-frame cycle looked too choppy, so I drew the in-between frames manually.
I probably went a bit overboard with the handgun bobbing, wanted to make the character look nervous and trembling
The first two frames are copied from the standing animation
This is the spritesheet, 20 colors used, 22 if you count the yellow and brown in the reference line at the right. Probably too many colors, I should zap some.
First I tried bigger sizes, but they all turned out crap, so in the end I opted for 32x32 (the size I've got most experience with) and upscaling.
Can you folks give me any clues or advice? I'm sure there must be some glaring errors since I usually don't do this kind of stuff, but that's one of the reasons I wanted to do it, for a change.