Nice, actually that really helps. Vibrating is what I'm going for, but I didn't think of translating the vibration to the back parts cause of... Not thinking? =] Thanks.

Looks good, but it might be reading a little badly - the feet are sort of blending together with the body, as well as hard to understand which foot is in front and which is behind. The animation that you based upon has a contrasting color on the feet and the left leg looks like it strikes out more than yours, again, due to colors.

If you don't particularly want to change the colors, you might want to increase the range of motion of the feet and have the left foot go out more of the character to the right side of the canvas, so it creates a very obvious silhouette of a foot stepping forward.

Just my thoughts, I'm not really experienced in such low res chibi-esque animation.

I I understand the fear of sounding unprofessional if you ask the client for clarifications, but it's not. Try to get as much information from the client about what he wants. Ask him to send examples of what exactly he wants,  both from an art-style standpoint and a technical standpoint.

Lack of questions looks worse than too many questions. Worst case scenario, you make something totally different than what the client wants.

I think a great advice is that pixel-art isn't separate from the rest of the art world. Basic knowledge of form, structure, perspective and so on is necessary in painting as much as pixel art.

So I wouldn't suggest you start drawing pixel-art if you haven't go a lot of experience in the more basic art forms - just drawing. In essence, pixel-art is stylization. If you'll know how to draw and construct a human shape with pen and paper, chances are you'll be able to do the same in low resolution pixel-art.

Ah, fair enough, missed that a bit. Fixing that is easy, just show the chest more, move the shoulder that's closest to the camera farther to the back of the character.


Also, I really suggest always leaving areas free just in case on the canvas size when animating. I myself, for my game, use 100x100px for a sprite, although the characters range from 30px to 50px high. Gives me freedom. Just start doing this from the start of a project, just to save any headaches.