Updated the thing a bit. I'm assuming that advice at the end is for future animations, and not this one.

Added more bob and changed the left shoulder. The right shoulder now looks weird in comparison and the tail is still meh.

Spoiler: Part sheet

It looks very weird to me that the swirley ribbon suddenly stops when the characters body starts forming. The body forming takes quite a while as well.

I hope that's the correct animation. There's one stray light pixel, but it's the same colour as the site's background.

As far as the animation goes, the most obvious problem is that the thighs and upper arms do not move. You can reduce further stiffness by animating the tail and head.

Quick and sloppy edit just to show some ideas.

-Altough there is a horizon, most things aren't in perspective (mine probably aren't either). It's most notable with the path, which should shrink as it recedes into the background.
 The boots and rock woud probably be too tiny to see near the horizon, while the tree would be very small.
-The height between letters is inconsistent
-If the tree is being lit by the moon, it would be mostly dark (my trunk is still very wrong).
-There was a lot of barely noticable noise with the more used colours.

As far as the grass goes, you might want to imply some tufts to break the monotony. Exaggerating the worn away grass at the edge of the path would make it read better.

It is a bit fast for a walk! Why do you give the main character a walk and not a run?

I never noticed it was too fast, but a run seems like it'd fit better. I'll try to mock up a running animation soon.

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I Frankensteined the walk into a run. I'm aware one foot barely moves at one extreme for a frame, as well as the jittery shading on the front leg.
Unless there is something horribly wrong with this, I'll get to animating the arms and whatnot next time.

I just noticed that it still looks like a walk, moslty because the torso isn't moving. oh well.