Nes Portraits + beginning of mock up

[IvanX]

She looks old?
Heh, not nessisarly my intention, I'll lok into that.

Also


Update on run

[VDX]

It may be her hair that looks like an old aunt's hairstyle.

And why oh why do I think of Kramer from Seinfeld(Spelled wrong.) when I look at your second char. XD

[buddy90]

The dark line in the running ani kinda reads as a mouth to me, which makes the whole head feel boxy. After looking at it a while, I realized it was the line seperating the head from the neck, but it took me a while to get that.

[PypeBros]

The portrait suggested her hair take quite some volume in front of her forehead, but you rendered the sprite with something much "flatter". I'd get rid of the "non-feature" horizontal and vertical lines of her face, and use some shading to distinguish neck from head. I'm not convinced by the dark brown as an outline colour here, either.

[Jad]

Her turning her head while the hair keeps still looks weird to me! I can understand how it'd work, but the animation result is weird. I suggest she keeps looking forward while running! Find other things about the head to animate. Maybe a hair bounce?

Oh, also I feel that her feet travel a bit slowly when they're touching the ground. Make sure to try and match her walking tempo with her in-game moving speed.

[IvanX]

haha,
I was just working on a hair bounce, aaaand...



...there it is. Honestly, I think its too much bounce for such a calm looking run, So I might need to fix that. >_>

* Quick edit*



I figured out the magic of moving the head a single pixel to the left and speeding the animation up a bit.

[PypeBros]

A small edit, my first try to match NES requirement. I notice that you're using 4 colours for your sprite, which is unfortunately one too much. I split in two palettes, one with shades of "pink" and the other with shades of green+brown with the hope that this allow easier reuse. You'll note that the green eyes are barely noticeable (though the "green layer sprite" can show them anyway).

Note: I haven't checked that dark-green and dark-pink I used exist in the NES palette, though. Total is 3 sprites per scanline unless I'm mistaken.