Faeldspr's Top-Down Sprites

[Jamuk]

Personally, I think the main reason you're having such trouble with the readability is your attitude to it. You've now come up with two reasons as to how it will be cleared up externally from the sprite itself, with animation and a mugshot. Sorry if this sounds a little harsh, but the sprite itself needs to be readable WITHOUT the benefit of animation or a mugshot, otherwise it's clearly flawed.

Anyway, the new colour is better (since it is no longer the same colour as the claws), but the shape is the main problem. The raptor snouts you see tend to be long and slim, but not pointed. It's the point that makes it look like a beak more than the colour.

Sorry, I didn't realise I was being stupid with the readability. Thanks for the heads up.

There's old vs. new of the snouts. I'll try and fix the readability tomorrow. Also, I know it's no excuse, but games do sometimes use undetailed sprites and fix the readability of these. e.g. Advance Wars, units on the map, compared with the units in battles and Pokémon, overworld Pokémon compared with the battle ones.
The undetailed ones look horrible though so I'll definitely try to avoid this sort of thing.