@Captain Blood: Thanks ^^ I had an entire project to practice the cartoony look awhile ago so I guess it payed off. Btw your sprite reminds me of a what a more modern version of popeye would look like: better cleaner details (sexy pant folds mmm....) with a speck of shading as well. *waits for you to make a boktai-esque one* *taps foot impatiently* =P

Amazing work Hapip. This is propbably one of the cleanest and most refined sprites I've seen from you. At least one of the rounds from that contest wasn't too completely bizzare lol. Way to go man.

Pretty tight stuff here, nice fluid animation, great characters. The guy on the right bother's me a tab bit however. His < arm isn't moving much at all while > arm is moving around quite a bit, seems off balance to me I guess.

The background itself is pretty neat, but the dithering/detailing seems a tad bit messy. Even though there's a strict color limit, some of the existing tones could be used to AA and detail different areas ex: the balcony/stairs/big-whitish-thing above the guy's head. If the background isn't finished just ignore my comments ^^U.

Can't wait to see the playable version =D.

Your latest update looks alot better. Considering how shiny guns can be, I think either the gun highlights are too dim or the eyes are too bright. Pretty neat either way, can't wait to see it animated.

I love 'lil rpg shuffles errr walks ^^U. As for the design consider:

-adding leather armor (keep the arms and legs red, chest brown)
-adding a shoulder guard (greyish white or brown for leather)
-adding a small sword strapped to his side or back
-simply changing his arm and leg colors (to say green, or pale blue)
-adding a braclet (one pixel thin, a bright color to contrast against the clothing)
-give him a bandana or scarf

You dont have to do all of the above or any of it, just some ideas to keep in mind. Keep up the good work.