I have the animation half done:
It's still missing leg movement I know, but i'm puzzled on how the way the legs are supposed to move.

Bump.

I working on a sprite sheet for Harpuia:

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How's It looking so far?

Your forward smash is backwards. His arms don't move until the last sprite. You essentially reversed an animation. That doesn't work well backwards. Set it back to normal.

As for your animation, even with leg movement, that doesn't look good. The arm movement is unnatural. You might need to find a different position for that attack

The first sprite has a stray pixel in it.

I made this a looooong time ago
I haven't custom ever since. How I can improve this?

Try to find a sprite style, before anything.

It can be JUS, or anything else.

THEN we will be able to help you better.

Update: Edited Poses:

And a small update to the sprite sheet:

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How do they look so far?

That first one looks weird. As if he was greeting someone.

the nspec looks much nicer.

Update: My first JUS Style sprite

I actually like how it came out. The only thing that I'm missing is the shoes and the shading.

Reference pic:

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Not so bad, but I would have made is legs bend behind more.

And I would have made it more 45°.

And maybe you should've made a good sprite instead of what this is, that's kind of important too.

You have a problem many spriters face; Anatomy.

The legs are just some straight lines. Legs are not in fact straight lines. They are chock full of muscle, but that's kind of obvious. Legs have to be sculpted in a way that they can contain all of the muscle(mostly in the upper parts of the shin).

Like so:



from http://www.dragoart.com/tuts/4811/1/1/how-to-draw-legs.htm

Iroi's legs are obviously finely toned, and not women's legs, so his may or may not have more muscle.

Furthermore, the arms are disproportionate and the bent one is anatomically incorrect. This is much easier to fix, just bring draw both arms(neither bent) at an equal length, then take about half of one arm and rotate it to the right. Using that, try and approximate where the elbow should go. Then you'll have to draw that in, but that's no real problem.

Lastly, your head is really small. Use Frieza's head as a base, and draw the hair around that.



KD, if you'd be so kind, I'd like to help you with the finer parts of JUS spriting. I feel as though you should split the body section into equal and even parts to go through how each part is to be built.

You know, the torso, arms, and legs. One section for each of those should be fine. I might be a little laggy in terms of memory but I've been spriting forever, so I'll just get back into the groove.

Thanks Vii and Kiddragon. I'll fix all those things next week. I really appriciate the crit.