In fact, I was working on another version of it, one that would make him seem more 'real'. And I really liked, so I changed it definetely.

As for your impression, Darion, maybe it's the fact he's holding his Ancient Sword out of the sheath (which is just an excuse to try and sprite it), or the wind effect on his hair and fabric. But see, the inspiration for the sprite really came after I was fooling around SoTC lands and this wind came and made the hair and fabric flow with it. Although, I tried to make he seems less "Behold!" graphically, changing his expression and shoulders width.

Oh and colors, I think now I'm satisfied with them.

The edit is below, next to the earlier version:

Isn't he too fast for a limping Zombie? I mean, both wanking and attaking animation does not show the essence of a zombie. Also, I think his concept is a bit "clean" for a monster. He just have a stick instead of a leg, a mask and uh... something on his hand.. Not as creepy as a zombie would be. In another hand, it's still a good idea to avoid making stereotypes, or something too "Resident Evil".

I expressed myself wrongly then. But I'll take note about not using "rate" anymore.

About the sprite, I didn't notice the knee problem, which was the main mistake on the sprite. I tried to fix it, and the funny part is that I didn't see the reference's knee at first. The colors are desatured as suggested (in fact, I was undecided in the very beggining about them), so is part of the shading and AA. Hope that it seems better now: