@YellowLime:
Yea, I've been moving pretty slow. I mostly got hung up on that background, lost steam and then abandoned the project for a while since I got busy with classes.
I like your colors for your sketches.
@Dyliuckk:
That girl brought her pigtail A-game.

Interested to see the run animation, could end up with some pretty cool results with those pigtails.
@winkatawink: Nice squash and stretch. That's something I often fail at in my animations and they seem kind of lifeless as a result.
3/4 NPC idle animations complete. Note that these idle animations won't play in a constant loop, they'll be played every few seconds with the characters just sitting there in the intervals.

View at 300% zoom.
I don't like this one very much, but it gets the job done I suppose.