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[Angelbait]

So I have this sprite


And I have no clue where to start animating it!  So I perhaps want to start out with a skeleton layer, or something less extravagant. 

Its going to be a very fast looking game so I want the animation to be fast and I am just lost my friends(She is also carrying a minigun hence the arm across her chest :D ).  Any help WHAT-so-ever is GREATLY appreciated.

And thanks for the help getting me this far, it has been great fun!

[Relix]

Not sure if you should listen to me but;

I usually start by just moving the limbs and making jerky and derpy animation to get the basic feel of the animation, then start redrawing the final sprites over the frames.

But that sprite has way too many colors, imo.

[bart_the_13th]

Yup, I'm not a pixel artist, but I think the gradation is a little bit too much. Why don't make it cell shaded.
For animation, well... I usually make body parts instead of having the whole character. Then when animating, I put those body parts in wanted position.

[JMickle]

usually you draw some "key frames", which are drawn from scratch in new poses. then you can rotate/move copied bits from the key frames to form the tween frames.

watching how other animators work always helps! here's a video by pietepiet/Paul Veer

[blinkok]

LINK

[Angelbait]

Awesome video!  That helps a lot for watching the process that I mean I have no idea where to start

And the animation movement lines are great too, are they from the Animation Encyclopedia?

As a note, I have been working hard on this project lately and the cow has turned into a two frame running animation that looks... almost acceptable :S  It kinda fits the speed of the game concept.

Thanks for all the super help guys!  Have a great time guys!