Update! Yay!

EvilEye: Done ('cept for the nose). 

Sharprm: I left the colours essentially as they were. I feel the less saturated, semi-pastel palette is more fun or innocent or something, which I'm trying to use to create a contrast with the violence. I agree with you about the previous canvas, though, so I made it even taller in the update.

Souly: Thanks for pointing that stuff out. Not only were you right, but editing the stuff you mentioned led me to a whole bunch of other small things that needed fixing. Also, I don't know what was up with the AA, or how I missed that, but I changed colours just for you. 

Faceless: Done, but possibly not enough.

Ben: No combo points, but added a kill-score, for better or worse (it made me smile, so I kept it).

Nova: The eyes were originally intentionally small (I was trying to break from the classic mario face), but as I usually do, I made them too small. I think they're fixed.

Thanks guys!

I've started to worry a bit now that I've overdone the AA to the point of blurriness. It may just be my poor eyesight, but opinions are welcome just the same.

There's the edit. The nose is a bit way  overdone, but as an example, it probably still works.

Spaceships with dragon wings... throw in some robot strippers and you're golden.

Fixing the proportions on the table and chairs would help this piece a lot. they should be proportioned relatively to the people and building and are honestly far too large at the moment. If scaling them down is a big problem the piece might be better served without them, just to keep things looking more natural.

I like these a lot. I have a few nitpicks, but really, they're minor; they're probably even negligible, but crits is crits, yes?

The first thing that struck me was the characters' eyes. They all seem to have this dead-glazed-stare-thing going on, so I shifted the pupil on our right a little to the left. Maybe I'm misinterpreting it, and they're supposed to be staring in a different direction, but as it's a sidescroller, I just instantly assume they should be looking either fully left or right.

Some of your colours are quite close together. In the case of the edited sprite, it's (mainly) the green and brown. You may have used separate colours to get that nice mixed-palette effect that these have going on in general, but personally I think the sprite looks just as good with one colour or the other.

Aside from that, there were just some minor banding issues, particularly in the hair and... armor-skirt-groin cover thing, though these can be fixed pretty quickly.

Here's the edit, if you're interested:


These really are sexy.

using a smaller, higher contrast palette would benefit these sprites greatly. You've used at least 10-12 colours where you could've gotten away with about half as many. I made an edit of the blue guy to demonstrate:



I also altered the pose a little, as yours seem slightly off balance, and a little stiff. I spread the legs, and shifted some stuff backwards to help give an improved sense of balance and weight. My edit doesn't look much like a space marine, but hopefully will be helpful nonetheless.

Good luck with this.