Fix up my Chick Pixel?

[Midori]

Hey,
I recently drew this:

could anyone possible fix it up/ tell me how I can improve it where possible?
Thanks!
-Midori

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I didn't know jpgs could be animated! Learn something new everyday I guess.
Check out my post on this thread for my suggestion. Sorry for being lazy
http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=9733.0

Welcome to the forum.

EDIT: Ack! If I download your image I get a gif, but on this website it says it's a jpg. I guess tinypic is playing funny with me. Almost got me, too, since I don't get image filtering on pngs/bmps/gifs but do on jpgs. I took at look at your image after downloading to my harddrive. My biggest crit would be that you're just cutting off pixels when your birdie starts bobbing.

If something gets smaller heightwise, then this must be made up by an expansion along the width. Your image is only shrinking in height without growing in width. Also, if you have one of those rubber stress balls lying around go take a look at what happens to the highlights/midtones/shadows when you squeeze it. Your H/M/S aren't really changing to reflect the changed surface like they would in real life. Because of these two things, your animation looks like the top half of birdie's head is just moving up and down.

[PypeBros]

I'd strongly suggest the use of hue shifting. Yellows are terrible and look very plastic when you just alter their value.

[Midori]

Thanks guys for the tips! 
I will re-make it later~

[EyeCraft]

Hi, welcome to Pixelation 

Some attention could be given to the shading, particularly the highlight. At the moment it's following the rim of the sphere, which is inconsistent with how the rest has been shaded. Check out some example of spheres and how they are shaded.



Also a number of very similar colours that can be merged, and increase the contrast. You might want to make it fluffier... though that could be quite difficult without a specific background and at this resolution.