How to draw Top-Down people

Help Requests
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So im making a top-down game but i don’t have a clue how to draw people in top-down so if you could just like post some examples or something that would be great thanks!

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Whole pokemon game series pretty much (please elaborate on specifics @PrismaticTurtle)
top down pixel art - Bing images

3

all the 2D games used a top-down style

they used a tile based movement system, which meant you could only move in 4 directions, but that meant less animations were required

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Here's a good example of movement and a character

Pixelblog - 22 - Top Down Character Sprites — SLYNYRD

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Thanks guys this is a great help

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Insightful, thank you.