OK, I think its pretty good (better than I can do), but, heres what I would fix up. (remember, I suck at everything to do with art)

1) When one foot goes back, make the other come forward (right now it just looks like it is coming back to right under the character)

2)She looks like shes power walking for some reason... perhaps make it more.. fluid?

3) The head doesnt move at all

4) I think making the character move up and down a bit as she walked would help

and lastly,

5) Her main body like turns too much or something...

hope this helped!
joshito

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I have been into female body animations for more than three years.

What I see in your animation is a lack of stretching in the legs. The backward movement is great, but a real person stretches the legs some more when going a step forward. This girl looks more as if she were playing, or doing a stationary exercise.

Nice job with the body torsion! Everything is excellent except for the legs thingie.

BTW, I wrote a tutorial about animations a long time ago. It is in the Artists Shrine Web Site. I am a master. Masters do not tell you exactly what to do, but give you pointers on finding the knowledge...

http://art-shrine.verge-rpg.com

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I made a walk animation a year ago in school....but i don't have the file with me right now.

But I still have a little something that will help you out. This picture was taken from one of my school books. (I could only find a side view, but it's the same then a front view...)

http://pages.infinit.net/maina5/walk.jpg

What i noticed in your animation:

Like many others said, both feet should move at the same time. The torso move is very good but the lower body shouldn'd be moving as much. And one other thing is the hip: when the feet are apart, the hips should go down and when they're one next to the other, the hips go up (like in the pic ^^)

Hope this helps you out ^^
Cheers!
NB: I think it's a great sprite. :)

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Judging from your pic, it looks like you're shooting for the exaggerated, cartoony style of Genesis RPG: Land Stalker, so you might just want to get the game and notice how the "pros" do it. That's really the best advice I can give, like for my game, I have several different styles of sprites depending on what I want to portray, going to Chrono Trigger's style for slender sprites needing fluid movement, action platform sprites for a scene in which Shaii needed some kung fu moves in an action-style cutscene, etc. These are just examples of what I use to help animate my sprites. As for the one you've drawn, I think it's really detailed, personally. The only thing I can comment on is that she has what my V1 game suffered from, the "locked hips" type look, where her legs, arms, and shoulders move, but her hips are completely stationary. Her skirt (which by the way, my main heroine wears a skirt in her Peasant form also, so I have to pay attention to it too) doesn't move, yet when her feet slide along the ground, it would sort of make sense that her skirt would follow the contour of her adjusting hips/thighs. Those are my 2 cents, but all in all, it's a gorgeous sprite, and the outfit is really inventive for her. ;p

~Blade Dragon

Lucid Soul's Web Page (till I have an Anime Artist for the real one)
http://Blade_Dragon.tripod.com/

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