Link's Awakening style Harry Potter

[DtFM]

My first attempt at pixel art. I'm not too happy with his body when he is holding out his wand.

[Platypotter]

Maybe you should make the wand a bit smaller? it still looks more like a sword, even without the actual hilt. Other than that, it looks like it came right out of the zelda game! 2 thumbs up!   

But... What about the upwalk sprites?

[robotwo]

The outline on the wand's movement blur kinda' makes it look like a pick-axe 

[Vermolius]

Wait, that isn't a pickaxe?

[Platypotter]

Instead of adding outline to the blur, fill it with a single solid color.

[DtFM]

I worked on the wand movement a bit to make it less like a pick-axe. I tried making the wand smaller as well, I haven't decided whether I prefer it yet.



Old:


New:


New smaller wand:


I also animated the walking sprites:

[EvilEye]

Why don't you just try blurring it? As in, taking both the start point and the end point for the wand swing and filling in the middle with a solid color. Should look great, I predict

[DtFM]

I reworked the wand animation a little and added another frame:





I'll try to make a blurred version like EvilEye suggested.

[voidSkipper]

Or add one more frame, so the arc of the blur remains there briefly when the sword has finished moving.

[Argyle]

More in the spirit of EvilEye's suggestion, here's one with a more solid blur and no sword in-between view.  Gives it more impact to just have a FLASH tracing the arc from start to finish than to show the sword in its mid-arc state.