Space Shooter Ship [C+C] [WIP]

[Siapran]

Hello there!
I am currently working as the main artist for a space shooter project, and I produced these sprites for the player ship.

   [Turret goes on the marker on each ship]

Critique is essential to the progress of a sprite, so I came here to fetch some.
Anything helps. Absolutely anything.
Thank you for reading.

[Lachie Dazdarian]

Do you have the thrust animated? I'm not sure sure about it. It feels like a candle light. I think it should be more "afterburner" like.



Talking here specifically about shape, not color.

Beside that, I like the shape you designed, and especially your color choices.

[Siapran]

I was going to make a huge animation but I guess an afterburner like that would effectively make it neater and easier to make (perhaps a 2-frame animation on the afterburners?)

thanks for the suggestion

[questseeker]

• The turret is large enough to require banked frames; do you really need both a rotating turret and banking? How many turret orientations do you plan to draw?
• The right-banked frame has very strange lighting: the wings appear hollow (raised front edge) and the flat part that bears the turret appears larger (it's the turret shadow, and it's inordinately larger).
• I second the suggestion to animate exhaust jets; consider variants with different power levels, including off. Why is the center thruster so big?