The animation is very trippy, it looks like the colors are moving separatelyfrom the character and it looks very strange. The only the shading moves on on an object without the outline moving equidistantly is if you have a changing light source. But here it just looks like the characters colors are out of sync with the rest of the movements and it looks glitchy.

Sorry, I didn't mean to be rude. I didn't have enough time to write a proper criticism and the "fisherman" just looked like an unshaded rock to me in the earlier pictures. Obviously it looks much nicer now. The tinyness of it adds great scale to beautiful backdrop. The only thing I could criticize are the moss patches in the right foreground. I don't know if they are still wip but they look really flat. Kind of like someone spilled green paint on a beautiful painting. I think if u added another color fir shading and also made the moss patches follow the contour of the rock[shading] maybe it would fix?

Maybe you could turn down the saturation on the scarf. And maybe also make the highlights on the scarf a more similar hue to the base color. Yellow seems like kind of a strange highlight for a red scarf.

Minor Update. Changed the Stretching Kicks to have more speed and oomph ala Gil's example. Also changed the palette again and added a little bit of saturation to the brown because I thought it looked a bit washed out for a pokemon.



Here is that Heel Drop animation again but with a different ending that will make it easier to chain other attacks to it. Uses the old palette but I'll fix that when I color it.



I'll be out of the house all day for Halloween so I'll post this too. This is as far as I've gotten on a roundhouse kick. Think it needs one more tween to be truly smooth. Might also add an animation for the kick to come all the way around. Edit: added in that tween, amazing the difference it makes.

>>>>with extra tween>>>>

My real problem now is this guy. I've spent hours working on him but he doesn't look quite right to me. Here's the official sprite that it's based on.

I think I recall hitmonlee leaning back a bit the whole time he did his flurry of kicks, no?
I actually have the show... I should watch it and find out. >_<
Well, the axe kick seems very stiff in how the leg moves, especially for having 'elastic' legs.

Well, yes he does lean back for that animation, I thought you meant the body should move even more than that. I pretty much have him leaning back for all of those kicks except for the new axe kick, so what did you mean the body should move more? I can't really think of a way to make Hitmonlee lean farther back without stretching his torso in a wierd way.

And if you have any ideas for how to improve the axe kick and make the legs look elastic, I would love to hear them, it's why I posted it before I started to color it.

Rox, I watched the video you showed and it's great as a reference tool. But... his arms really don't move that much in the video, just like all the other TKD videos that I watched while making this animation. They are bent up into his chest through pretty much the whole kick, just as my sprites arms stay bent, only changing their postion relative to the body itself.

I really appreciate all the crit, and I feel close minded in that I'm having a hard time incorporating it. I think maybe an edit (even just a 1-frame outline edit) would be really helpful for me to see what u guys are trying to get across to me.