Alright well heres where I'm going to really need some help, I tried to start animating a running animation but all the references I found have an isometric-ish idle sprite (like mine) that goes into flat 2d when running. However I really like the idle sprite so if anyone has a reference of that sort of sprite doing a proper running animation or a way to make my flat 2d version look better I would truly be grateful. Heres what I have so far I only animated one leg before I realized how much I dislike the look of the sprite so everything else is either static or not yet in existence.

Yeah its mean't to be a small mohawk so I'm happy that its conveyed as such, can you elaborate on what you mean by splitting the dark line in the middle though?

I made this sprite of a young woman with white hair wearing a red jacket, I would like general advice of course but also advice on making it look more feminine and perhaps less old

The two slits that appear under the cannon are eyes in the new one I've changed it a bit to hopefully make it both more apparent and more robotic, I added the cannon hole and redid the gears, as for the angry eyes this was meant to be a metal plate with scratches that was screwed in. I've made it more metallic and removed the scratches until I can figure out something more apparent looking, I made all the shading on the legs and feet and cogs diagonal like the cannon but I will have to do some work on the wood texture. As for the animation I think the cannon looks much better and the seperation was an error (thanks for catching that) tell me what you think

well alright I redid the colors using db32 palette and bent back the arm (don't know how well that reads) so how does it look now






edit: unless anyone has anymore qualms with it I'm thinking its looking pretty done big thanks to everyone for the help, as for the mingun I feel that the current animation is fine as he is a robot and the recoil kind of goes against the motionless solider feeling I'm going