I spruced up a sprite I made for an old gamemaker game I was planning on making.  She's some kind of "guardian" Christmas elf.  I can't remember the story or anything, but her name was "Chickadee" and she had a handgun and bazooka (named "Holly") for weapons.  I liked the animation, so I thought I'd post it.  Crits?

Round off the corners on the ground tiles?  Or is that sort of like a trade-mark of the style?  To me it looks kinda out of place with the roundness of many of the other objects (trees, clouds, rocks, etc.)

I think you can probably cut down your colours... I think the second-lightest color could probably go.  Since you have such a narrow color scheme you can afford to cut down on colors, and it will save you some work when you're redoing the other angles.

And for the down walk cycle, I would put the feet more one in front of the other.  Not like he's walking a tightrope, but people don't usually walk with their feet apart like that.

First off, I don't know what kinda monster it is... I guess it's like some kind of boar?  I wanted to work with a limit of 4 colors, but I ended up adding a highlight color in the end.  I'm pretty proud of it, but I'm looking for critiques!

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Edit:  Thanks for your compliments and critiques! I updated as per suggestions here (and deviantart) and changed it a bit to give it more depth and make it's stance look a little more solid.  I think I need to stop working on it for now (I have a baaad habit or overworking things... >_-) but keep the critiques coming! Thanks

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