To be honest, I don't even know why I'm doing this...well, actually I do. It's just that I promised myself, that I wouldn't let anyone see one of my designed characters, so I could always have a full proof plan to protect it. Well now I'm in a rut, and I need some valid info. And that is, color/hue selection. I've had this story in my mind since I was a wee lad, and now I think it's nearing completion. I've designed a couple of fighters that belong to this story. Here is one:

(by the way, pay no attention to the older version's pallete, it doesn't really match it)

   The top row is the older version, and bottom row is the newer revamped style that I would like to create all my fighters in now. You'll notice that the newer version seems to be more "drab" in color, but it was all intentional, as each character I created should have a monochromatic color assigned to them. Any ways, while doing this guy I noticed he was a little lighter than the rest. So I was wondering, if any of the pro's here could be of any help in my selecting better, darker colors to fit him?( bear in mind, he is a Korean mixed fighter, and his body is supposed to look like that. But if you feel something is truly wrong with it, than damn it, just tell me...I want to make sure that all my characters (including this guy) become as good as they can be...)

Here's a quick edit of the plant...



If you can't tell, I just added a longer forcefull chomp at the end, creating a tiny quakeful motion blur of the mouth. Also I fixed the traveling white spot on her head, and gave it a darker background to further illuminate the animation...

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below is two animations without the blur frames. The top is the anim. without the first blur effect, and the bottom anim. is without the chomping blur effect. The reason I'm showing you this, is to help you see how the chomp's after-effect shake WOULD or WOULDN'T emphasize the rest of the frames.

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   @Flaber: Jesus Herbert Christ Man!! I just got a stern crit there. It's always interesting to find the problems other people see in my works, while I was blind to it. Not that it's a bad thing though. Great crit Flaber, I see everything you are talking about. I never knew that my high contrasted colors(mainly the light yellow) weren't up to par for the sprite.
   I do, however, like what you've done with my sprite. Gives er' a soft feel, where mine looks like she had a high dose of radiation fed to her. And about the zig zag motion, I had actually thought about and was going to create the long, thin, outstretched stem for the animation. However, I challenged myself to work within a 100 width pixel space. I did have several "proto-type" frames for this outstretched motion, but they were erased as each of them seemed to not look right with the rest of the animation. Therefore, I took the short-cut and just used flashiness over technique, and used the zig-zags. I'll try in the future, however, to utilize more technique in my animations.
   Now that you mention it, it is true that light on an object stays the same, and shouldn't be moving. I initially remember basing the shiny-ness off a wet women walking out of a beach. I guess I just got too confused when watching the sun light reflection on a womans leg move up and down on her curves. I was so caught up in the movement of the leg, that it tricked me into thinking the reflected light source was moving. It's obvious now, since most light sources stay still, that it's reflections shouldn't move either. I feel like such a dumb-ass now! Thanks for pointing that out, I never would have figured it out on my own.(damn hot women, and thier ability to turn my brains into mush)
   Well than. It's back to the drawing board for me. I'll be back. Any further crits would still be great to hear though...

Thanks again everybody!

Holy crap...I guess I got so used to drawing every frame, that I completely forgot to draw the teeth on that certain frame. Aside from that, I think the reason the spot on his head skips oddly over is because I may have accidentally left a frame out. When I get out of work, I'll add the teeth, and paste the left-out frame to fix her up. But uh, thanks for the comments everybody. This will definitely help me with my growing animation skillz....

"Larwick: I think you could try leaving the plant with its jaw locked at the end of the chomp for a bit, perhaps even shuddering, to increase the feel of a huge slam or shock. Just a lil idea though..."

Wow Larwick, when editing the animation, I was thinking about adding the hard chomp anim. in there also! I guess since you requested it, I'll try and add it in there to later on to help it out. Thanks for the advice!

Thanks again, The B.O.B...

   Once again, I've caused another heated debate. Ok look, I'm sorry for focusing merely on one pic, than the whole piece as a whole. However, let me point out that I am by no means backing down from my claim. The point of this forum is to better any piece submitted by using helpful crits to better the look of that certain piece. From my stand point, I feel that the website would look much cooler without an african american hanging from a post. It may be possible that you could also try and claim that you did not see any color in your choice by choosing to hang an African American. But if so, than why African American? Why not any other race, who hasn't been victim to such horrible deaths? And if you use the depiction for artsy purposes, than I must say, it still doesn't work. 
   You could try and back your reason for not changing by calling me racist. Fine, I don't mind. However, when the majority of people in this forum begin to agree in unision of the same problem, than maybe it isn't your original backing claim, and maybe it could indeed use a touch up. Cause after all, is that not the point of a website's design? To look pleasing to the eye, to invite the viewer? And it's not like you have to get rid of it entirely. I would seriously take Lief's advice and just change it into a rag doll, or worn skeleton. I believe it would look much better, and would better suit the web sites cartoony design.
   Aside from that, I would like to see more icons, and designs added to the site. It's lookin' bare bones at the moment, and I'm curious to see where this sucker heads. The background tiles do need to be cleaned up a smidge. Maybe, where ever there is a text box on the web page, there could be a cave imprint that would fit it inside the hill/plataeu. Also, some large dark trees in some quite random spots should help spice it up if you ask me.
   This bieng said, I have spoken my peace. And remember, if any thing, you didn't offend me. I'm just afraid you may cause a stir in the community, forever staining your credibility as a mature artist. You choose your own path, and if you stick with it, than so be it. You are most definitely entitled to your opinion, whether it be serious or comedical, as it is your natural birth right. But as far as my eyes are concerned, the hanging of an African American can be done much more respectfully in an artistic manner. This, definitely does not show any maturity in that subject area. Cause quite frankly, depicting an African American hanging from a post is not only immature, it is most definitely NOT FUNNY....even from the zombie point of view...

Thank you for listening, The B.O.B.

it's not really about how girly or tomboy she looks, as much as it's about how undefined the shape is, I cant even tell her head apart from her chest in real size.

Are you still talking about the one on the right, or the newly edited version on the left? I thought her head looked a bit more clearly defined from the right version. Am I wrong? Care to elaborate on what you meant, cause I'm still a little unclear on what you are referring to.