Baffy idle animation test (Pixiv Fanbox)

I tried making some sprite art and animation and spent a long time trying to find a good spot between making the sprite aesthetically attractive and also having decent enough animation. The best result that i got without the character deforming too weirdly is by moving each segment of the body by a few pixels and then going in later to draw in the gaps between. No change in perspective, no really cool movements without burning more hours :( Now I realized why all the gorgeous-looking game sprites move so stiffly and the simplest ones have such awesome animations, kudos to those artists that can do both! I am definitely going to simplify her way further and try again. I wanna make some really rambunctious monster scenes with her! Link to the 3 second idle animation in the October megalink!