Thanks for your critiques. I know criticize such a small sprite is hard, but I'm thankful for every small crit.

some parts of the tail and the hear need more curves work.

I tried to adress your crits. I'm not sure about the tail. I think it's better but I'm not sure how to make it more curvy. I don't want to AA into the background (it's a sprite), and I think I need the negative space to show it's a tail (seperate it from the body). Any ideas to solve this problem?

I made a slightly palette change, not sure about it too.

new <-> old


I don't mind nitpicks, please help me with this small sprite. It's very hard to be objective about the own work when working that long at a single piece.

Once there were people who laughed at him... they're all history by now.

One useful feature would be a view-mode where you can select "normal" and "gray-mode". In "gray-mode" your image is displayed in grayscale, but the color itself is preserved. In programs like ProMotion or Photoshop, you must alter all your colors to gray to achieve a grayscale image. When you want your colorful image back, you have to undo your altered colors (or Palette in ProMotion). For that reason it's useful to have kind of a grayscale preview, which you can even pixel on and you can switch from "normal" (colorful) to "gray-mode" on the fly (colors are preserved while pixeling).

I'm in!

I like:

- Hayao Miyazaki (especially Nausicaa)
- Nature vs. Men themes
- Pessimism
- Nihilism (some aspects)

And wrapping nr. C5 looks fine.

When looking at this animation various things occurred to me.

Your animation has much more power now, but the character lacks in life, it looks stiff. That is because he doesn't use his whole body to move the "heavy" hammer. I tried an edit to increase his body movement to put more life into the animation (I used your old animation as a guide).


I think the animation looks more lively now, but the main problem is still there: The hammer doesn't look heavy! It reminds me of the "fake-hammer" in One Piece. It's weight looks like 5t but it's 2kg in real. The animation (body movement) itself is not the problem, just the hammer doesn't fit. To be honest, it looks more like he's playing golf.


But HOW do you make it looks heavy? Gravity! Look at your animation, but played backward (I had to delete the motion blur. Otherwise it wouldn't work).


Now you have a heavy hammer. And surprise, the timing is still the same! What do we learn here? Use the gravity to increase the power of the "slam" (and don't work against it like you do in your animation now). Just ask your own experience. Did you ever chopped wood? How did you do that? Use your axe, extend yourself, hold it as high as possible to put as much potential energy as possible and with one blow you release all energy to chop the wood.
Use your experience and natural feel to put more life into your animation and make it believable. You went a long way but you can go even further. Be persistent!