It's quite an awesome set, the animations really help characterize them. The colors look great to me, they remind me of Reprisal (the Populous-like).
Since your characters are extremely low-res and use a very large range of colors (I mean, they go from black bat to white sheep), you'll have to be careful with the background, though the animations will help. If you do get a readability issue, remember that you can use less saturated colors in backgrounds, in order to make the sprites stand out.

Edited by yrizoud - 03 April 2014 at 4:46am

I like your stylish palette ;D

I like em, but each humanoid's animation kinda looks funny if their arms only bounces upwards and not downwards.

Hi Iscalio,



Here's your animated lil' Rhino at his original size. I've always used a program on Windows called Graphics Gale for all pixeling, which is how I animated him. All the characters are 16x16 with 3 frames @ 10/60 frames per second.

If you were keen on working on lil' rhino, there would be a couple things I could suggest. Firstly, all the characters bounce! It adds expression at such a low resolution. I would also try an animated tail flip and an ear flap.

Also, I would try adding skin folds to his body to see how it looked. If you google a rhino, they have weird skin folds. And perhaps a different color for the horn, to differentiate it from his head. But it is a good start!


Edited by tyrannotorus - 21 April 2014 at 12:17am