PM's General Spriting topic

[PRIMAL MORON]

A few things,

Having him standing will not work that well visually, for a simple change, I just suggest tucking the feet backwards, and if you feel they need an animation, have them give a cutesy half-kick every once in awhile

Another thing I notice is that the parts don't seem to be attached to the body, they moove too freely up and down, try having them pivot around one point on the body, which should be kept a static image in animation, but feel free to move the body's location.

The body looks much rounder than the actual pokemon's does, try flattening it out a bit, and he also seems to usually face going upwards, you don't need to, but it'l make it more like the official sprites.

For the antennae, in all the pokemon sprites, they use a darker color for the blue part of them, where as you use lighter colors, try changing it to a darker shade and see if it looks more defined.

Also, one big thing is that the drawing style changes with almost each body part, the eyes look like they were made of clay, the body and antennae look brighter and less outlined than everywhere else, and the hands look like they were handdrawn, and the best style of the three. If I were you, I'd switch to the style of the arms, they look a bit 2d, but they look the best done of all of them.

You know what's funny about this comment?
This is the most detailed yet down to earth critique I've ever gotten.
And here's the nice part, no other notes such as annoying habit complaints, no complaints about methods, no "fix this part of your posts", no update woes, and most importantly, it focuses on things I can COMPLETELY understand about Chinchou and nothing else. I had no clue what readability meant until I asked my friend about it, but this makes a lot of good, clean sense to me.
You're doing a lot better than I was at less than 20 posts, could I ask you personally to continue your wonderful critiques as I go?
In exchange, once Chinchou is just right, I'll build a custom animation of any Pokemon you like.

Also, I wanted to apologize to many of you for how today has been going, (or yesterday if you're farther west than EST)

But from now on, can we all just agree to focus on Chinchou when posting?
Unless if it's a compliment or something important that absolutely must change, it's not really my concern from here on out, I'm here to build Pokemon, not get Posting Tips 101.

Thank You.

PS- Toast, thank you for making my night a lot better. I owe ya one Pokemon after Chinchou, don't forget!