SAKIPAI'S PROFILE

author=Sooz

author=SakiPai
The main problem is it's hard to find reference of someone walking straight at the camera.

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author=Kaneshon
Shadows will help you emphasise the motion, if that's still not enough I think you'd need more frames I guess. The larger the sprite, the more frames you need to make the animations smoother.

Yeah, I haven't fully gotten to the shading stage yet, but I did try adding some a few iterations ago (I've redrawn these legs so many times at this point;;) and I still didn't like it.

author=Sooz
Honestly, there's not much you can do with just three frames to improve animation. The front-facing 3 frame cycles are pretty tough, but I think you've managed this one just fine.

Have you checked the sprite in motion in the game? It tends to work a lot better in situ, since the brain will fill in the missing movement info automatically.

If you're still not happy, you could look into adding a script that gives you more frames of sprite animations.

Yeah, when I put the sprite in-game and walk around, it looks like his legs are just kind of...twisting around each other, rather than moving forward and back. Like he's skating or something.

More frames it is, then. This is my first time making a sprite myself, since I usually just defer to bases, and I'm just realizing how difficult pixel animation is.

I could art for you, if you still need it.

My dA: http://sahkeyluffsyew83.deviantart.com
My tumblr art: http://stansusedbloggingemporium.tumblr.com/tagged/saki-arts

So basically I'm trying to create a faux battle system by only using events and entirely avoiding the built-in battle processing. But I already have a problem:

How can I display HP and other gauges outside of battle? Would I just have to make them as images and manually animate the gauge filling/emptying?

I'm having trouble even getting past the first challenge. ;u;