Could anyone help me with an walking animation?

[Daaniz]

http://imgur.com/NEVHcRb Ok here's a link because I don't seem to get this img/img thing. 
Like just point me in the right direction, I'd prefer it if you didn't use my sprite because then I'm probably just gonna copy it // I'm really lazy. But like point me in the right direction I don't really know how to make an walking animation with 2px feet.

[r1k]

I made you a little example based off these basic walk poses from the animators survival kit

http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse464/12wi/assignments/assignment_4/images/contact_method.jpg

I dont know how experienced you are at walk cycles, but a key thing to notice there is that the pelvis moves up and down in the different poses. In my example I keep the legs at 2 pixels tall for the 2 lower poses and stretch the legs to 3 pixels tall for the higher poses. This vertical movement helps it read as a walk, and the extra pixel of height in 2 of the poses gives you more room to work with too.



and sorry I dont have any software to save gifs right now

[yaomon17]

Yep. For really small sizes, vertical movement is the best way to convey a walk. It will also give you room to do cool things like making the plume bob up and down 

[Daaniz]

Worked a bit of what you showed me and I think it's looking good, any tips or bad things with the animation you could point out? And

[Gil]

click any image to zoom in, so you don't look like that dude.

[Daaniz]

Any tips? I think It looks kinda weird

[Gil]

Can you please crop your canvases? This is getting silly.

[Daaniz]

Why does it matter? As you said you can click the image.

[Gil]

Why does it matter? As you said you can click the image.

Yes, and when I do, my whole screen jumps around and is filled with teal and I have to use the scroll bars to look for the actual art?

[r1k]

Id suggest not working on that teal background too. Just because your character blends in with it so much that its really hard to see the animation without zooming in. Use a background that makes him pop out so you can see the animation more easily.