Pixel Art Links...

An article about animating pixel art (specifically for videogames). It covers various subjects, including:

- Choosing the right frame rate,
- Using motion streaks,
- Basic physics/Ragdoll stuff to make your animation live,
- Rotating your sprite in a non-jaggy way (e.g. a back flip),
- Two Legged basic walk-cycle,
- Four Legged in-depth walk-cycle,
- Some other, more basic stuff.

This is less a tutorial on pixel art, but on how to create realistic explosions.

For that, this tutorial goes very detailed into the phsics of explosion, since it is a flash-based tutorial, you also get to learn a lot about animating a decent explosion, with a little humour.

highly recommendable