Koh's Sprite Joint

[Shawn]

Basically everything GaryASPG said but I don't agree with removing the mouth, since a key feature of Nayru's is her humble/gentle smile, a thing both of your sprites are lacking.

And one thing I'd recommend when working at a small scale is to play with strong shapes and blocks of colour, because it's how you'll get the most readable low scale sprites.



Ignore the really crude edit but about your animation, you're 1. Using WAY TOO MANY FRAMES. This isn't really a problem in itself, but theyre largely identical and add nothing to the animation. What you need is more unique frames, less minor changes.

Secondly, it's really stiff. Only the limbs are moving, theres no hair or ear or whisker bounce and the torso itself, or even the LEGS aren't moving at all either.

Basically just don't focus on smoothness or frame count, focus on the keyframes and what they're doing and how they're different from the others.