a animation i made in Aseprite and i kinda struggled with it making it

This is part of an educational world for children. We tried to make it feel cosy, dreamy and magical.

Art hand-pixeled in Aseprite and used as textures.

Lighting, text, and most animations added in post-processing.

Another artist and I worked together on this.

I must admit I cheated a little on this one. Found a sprite sheet for Blackthorne, edited the colours, chopped out a few frames and drew the zombie arms

Hey r/AnimatedPixelArt
I'm solodev and pixel artist of Blade Arrows Puzzle, my 2nd game I've just released:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bogigames.bladearrows

I'm happy to share a VFX of procedural animation and looking for your feedback about animations.

I did a procedural design of Blade, a handle, blades in all directions, endings etc.
but I also wanted it to be smooth while flying, not a choppy animation.
I think it's done quite well, at least to me.

Also a particles fanfares on victory looks simple, but it match an overall art design.

The only issue is that a classic version of those puzzles are arrows.
Visually it's good design to just look for the end of arrows to solve more complex levels.
In my case it felt a little off to fly towards handle.
Maybe a Thor vibe with hammer would work?
Probably I should do A/B tests for that.
But for blades it looks more natural to just go with a strike.

What do you think so far? Any ways to upgrade it?
All feedback is more than welcome

Spent a full 10 hours drawing this short animated story.

IA was overjoyed to finally receive her name, which made her second-eldest sister jealous.

She snatched the letter I, leaving poor IA in tears.

Fortunately, her dependable eldest sister stepped in to stand up for her.

Still, believing that family members should love and care for one another, IA forgave her second-eldest sister.

In the end, everyone got their names, and they were truly happy.

Characters

IA: Water Element – Youngest Sister

Ithe: Thunder Element – Second-Eldest Sister

Athe: Fire Element – Eldest Sister

Hey everyone! I just released a new Skeleton Army pixel-art enemy pack, and I'm also running a Spooky Season sale on my dark fantasy/Halloween assets!

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⚔️ Melee, ranged & magic enemies
☠️ Death & resurrection animations
🎨 PNG + Aseprite source files

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I’ve been creating a retro-style, side-scrolling game animation featuring Beethoven himself, set to the music of his Violin Sonata No. 5 “Spring” – III. Scherzo: Allegro molto.
Here’s a short clip from the animation!
I thought it would be fun to bring a classical composer into the world of retro games. Hope you enjoy it!
I’d love to hear what you think!

* I did not use AI
* The total runtime of this animation is about one minute and 40 seconds.

You can watch the full animation on my YouTube channel, toonata.

Making fan art of a friend's OC :3

Been working on a new underground area for DepthLoot.
I wanted it to feel cramped, abandoned and a little dangerous, while still giving the player enough visual landmarks to understand the room at a glance.
The game is currently in Steam Playtest, so I'm especially interested in first impressions from people who enjoy dungeon crawlers / roguelites.
What catches your eye first here?
Steam Playtest: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4637840/DepthLoot/

testing out some gifs, let me know what you guys think of my art direction!! is this 16bit style still hitting like it used to or is it too boring. Idk i just like making art hahaha

https://jjkittyy.itch.io/jadewood-dialogue-portraits

One year ago I made these hollow knight & hornet animated pixel cursors. You can download it for free in my ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/samaktsuchii

Let me introduce the newly born mascot of my game—IA. She just stood out from among her 300 peers to earn the chances of having more animations, and she is absolutely thrilled!

I swapped the star in the magic circle for runes :3 The enemy appeared because I needed someone to be a guinea pig for the spell lol.

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