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[CrewdNBasic]

So as you're drawing each frame, a piece of one isn't bigger than the others so it won't stand out?

[Canned Turkey]

[redsuinit]

Haha. I actually understand his question. This is more of an issue for those of us that struggle with the basics of perspective. My advice to you would be to stop with pixels for now and switch to regular pencil and paper. Learn about perspective and more importantly PRACTICE drawing the same figure in different positions. Don't read that as ANIMATING a figure. I mean draw the same figure sitting down, standing up, leaning against a wall, throwing a punch, etc. Get your mind to start thinking about bone structure and how joints rotate, how that makes something move, and how to get that move to appear without, as you say, growing, bending, shortening, etc. You just need to practice perspective drawing and sketching the human figure with pencil is THE BEST way to practice this.

[Cobralad]

i think i know whats happening
you just make canvas bigger than sprite and every frame should be same size.

[redsuinit]

So as you're drawing each frame, a piece of one isn't bigger than the others so it won't stand out?

Could you perhaps post an example?

[Shipright]

I genre ally don,t and have to go back to the previous frame or play the animation over and over to catch the errant pixels or disproportionate shifts in size. Heeling the moving portions of your character in different layers (arms, legs, head, weapon, etc) can greatly speed up corrections.

Also use the transfer function in your art software. Even if you don't use the end result due to it being a garbled mess, the final snap and orientation is probably close to correct and you can redraw the part over it to maintain scale.

[CrewdNBasic]

I genre ally don,t and have to go back to the previous frame or play the animation over and over to catch the errant pixels or disproportionate shifts in size. Heeling the moving portions of your character in different layers (arms, legs, head, weapon, etc) can greatly speed up corrections.

Also use the transfer function in your art software. Even if you don't use the end result due to it being a garbled mess, the final snap and orientation is probably close to correct and you can redraw the part over it to maintain scale.

Yeah, I was watching a tutorial on spritingon YouTube and this seemed like a good idea.

I don't have anything to show because I don't have a computer at the moment, but thanks everyone.