Hello, i am very new to pixel art, but absolutely loved it all my life.
I started with something trivial a little guy callded Jack


made him run as well


initially made a few other states to play around with in Unity,
then, i tried to do some "level design", lol, resulting in:

and

after that i went through millions of pictures trying to get a hang of it, on the way i run into a futuristic pixel robot gif on some other forum, and loved it so much, that i absolutely had to do my "steampunk" version of it:

animating this guy proved to be an absolute nightmare

Looking for info on pixel animations i came around here

, Decided to take a break and get some fresh opinions

so, any tips, suggestions are welcome!
Thanks!!!