Hello everyone. These are run cycles I made for this character, facing down and up (so far):
                              

My partner says arms in facing up animation look like she's doing a Fortnite dance.
So I want to know your opinion about it. How can I improve the facing up animation if you agree with what my partner says?
Also if you have critiques about anything else, let me know.

Thanks a lot in advance!

This is the type of skirt I'm talking about. I don't know what it is called, but it's a little puffy, kinda ruffle type of skirt.



Thanks!

Is this any better?



A friend of mine said the back doesn't move back and forth enough. I don't know how to fix it... I consider myself a newbie in pixel art.

Thank you Chonky Pixel for your feedback! I changed the arms movement based on what you said and tried to make it look more realistic. Here is the improved version:


If there are more critiques to it, let me know!
Thanks a lot! 

hm, looking at this further I think the problem is an overabundance of colors and a lot of size discrepancies. Those legs are kinda chicken-leggy, and the torso is way too long and detailed compared to the simplistic style of the rest of the piece.

My edit doesn't fix much of that, but hopefully it points you in the right direction

Thank you for your critiques MysteryMeat! I appreciate the time you spent to fix my crappy sprite.

With the "size discrepancies" you mentioned, can you show me an example? I'm a little confused on how it should really be. And if the sideways sprite doesn't have the right proportions, then the one facing down must be messed up too... Is that what you saying?