Continuing the discussion from I FINALLY DID IT! CELEBRATION TIME!

[John_Shrekinson]

@Baron_Wasteland

gotta agree with galactian, there. you should really try changing up the pose. especially for the kind of games you make, having the character stare directly into the camera on a platformer doesn’t look good. you want to communicate even just the basic stuff to the player, like where the character is actually facing. a lot of gamedev is sensory communication, with either visuals or audio (or both, both are very nice and itch people’s brains very good) so it’s good to use the character’s pose to communicate as much as you can without cluttering it.
all this to say, yes, it’s best to have your character be at a 3/4 perspective or even side view.

@Baron_Wasteland

also unless you want to make a point of how silly it is that this character is shaped like a party weiner with little spaghetti limbs, I’d change the anatomy too.

Is this shape an improvement? It is the latest version of the template I use for making other characters, usually fanart. Unless the character is Gamougg himself or a similarly designed character, I use this template. For reference, here are its predecessors:

[Baron_Wasteland]

remember that anime sprite making tutorial I shared recently? yeah that’s not just for “the anime style”, it’s for character design in general.
from what I can see with your new body shape iterations, I think it looks pretty wonky. look up anatomy references! not even real life animation references! there are tons of heavily stylized character who pay attention to anatomy. even sonic the hedgehog has a solid anatomy for that artstyle. With a lot of things, especially in game development, there’s a reason for almost everything, including the style. a weird off brand lego looking character CAN work, but for the theme of the games that you’re making with it, it just makes it look like it was drawn by a kid and feels out of place, quite honestly. I think you’re restricting yourself by not seeing what other kinds of body types might work with your character. it’s like drawing a stick man and trying to make it fit in an anime style

then again, this is more advanced stuff and you shouldn’t feel pressured to do what I’m suggesting, I’m mostly commenting from a more critical design point of view

[John_Shrekinson]