E-Man's Sprite R & D

[Gors]

Both sprites are bad, because there is no cohesion into the animation. The body is moving towards a direction, the eyes face another, and none of you are taking goomba's anatomy into account.

Goomba should first of all, look towards the direction it's walking. That said, the fourth frame in the walking animation is really awkward because his head is turning more to us than facing left. It's interesting to say that usually when we walk, we -DON'T- sway our head to the side; this is more of an exaggerated detail cartoon animators use to make the cycle stand out, but overdoing it makes the subject look really broken

The eyes are really annoying because it's not looking to the direction it walks either; it looks like he's looking up to the sky instead. Fix the face and head as mentioned, but take his body into account.

Goomba has stubby feet that is directly connected to the main body, therefore the body should rotate in the same direction as the legs does, UNLIKE human characters' walk cycles. Since we have two main horizontal stuctures in our body (the hip bone and shoulder bones), we can swing our upper body inversely to the lower body. Tiny characters such as goombas obviously lack that so each step should slightly turn his entire body according to his feet.