I started coloring the piece today. I finished the first frame. Made some changes to the basic shape of the front arm, since his bicep seemed waaaay too bulky for anybody except a world-class weight lifter. lol

I see the color inversion too.  It's in frame 5.
Fixed:

I totally see it now! Thanks for the correction.

Proportions an animation are looking great. The behind arm is just doing a few wierd things. Looks like it gets amputated when it pops out the back. Also the shoulder popping out the front when it shouldn't. Considering a direct side on view I would imagine the behind arm to mirror the in front arms motion and proportions. Like if it were me I would just copy paste the front arm behind him, change it's colour and put it out of sync... if that makes sense. Just remember it won't always be visible in reality and as much as you might want to draw it, remember to leave it sometimes. The great thing about the animation is that you can imply that things exist in one frame by the frames before and after even when they might not be drawn.

I see what you're saying about the arm. The elbow isn't rested as much as the front arm, and it looks like he's drawn his hand up toward the shoulder instead.

In this edit, I fixed the color inversion and mirrored the front arm's motions to the back arm.

This week, I've been messing around with character designs. I've got a very basic walk animation done. 8 frames, based around the Castlevania series sprites.

I'm going to make my guy naked, so that I can apply different sets of equipment to him in-game, but I figured I'd get a bit of feedback on detailing body muscle before I jump in.

Here's what I've got so far:



Any advice is appreciated!

Here's an edit I made trying to reduce banding around the clock.  I AA'd to black, assuming it would be on a dark background like in your example.  I simplified the ornament on the end, because it seems like it got corrupted somehow since your earlier post, and I thought it looked noisy, but YMMV.

The only way I could think of to make this look better on a bright background was to add a black outline.

Thanks for the edit, trough! I really like the splitting area between the two bars, and the black depleted area. It maintains a nice readability while giving them the curve I was originally going for. I like the bottom edit, with the black outline, as well. It'll make it stand out a bit more during my outside game scenes. The hour hand on the clock is a bit thin, but I otherwise agree with the edits you made there, as well. These will make excellent improvements.

You were definitely right about the ornament being corrupted from my first post. I didn't even notice it. Thanks for pointing it out! It must've been from some pixels being shifted to the right on it.

Yeah, I'd say knock the background of it down a few shades then so it pops more. No need to get rid of the dithering i feel, just copy the layer and hit multiply.

How's this?