So the last animation looked good in Aseprite, but was a little wonky in-game. Decided to call in some backup, and use a nice looking animation in Blender that I plan to reference in Aseprite.

Making progress on the animation, still not quite there with the top down angled look but it's close!

Still some iterations to go, but got that original bandit type character ported to the new shape, hoping to animate soon!

I decided that the animation needed a rework, so I focused on that for a while and plan to overlay the character if this works. How does it look?

Animation progress

Basic for a basic bandit type character is almost there, animation might still have a ways to go though...

Really focused on art lately, making steady progress! Definitely need to learn and work on color theory, but proportions and shading (somewhat) are getting there.

Another one from tonight

Getting a lot better at the pixel art stuff and feeling more confident every hour I work on it that I'll get there eventually! Couple examples from just 1 extra night working on it (absolutely used some references for proportions and lighting and stuff)

By far, the most I have to learn and grow is on the art side, but you gotta start somewhere. First sprite I've ever made:

Getting started in Game Dev as a Solo Indie Developer, my background is in Aerospace Software Dev, so I've got a lot to learn for games, but I can't recommend this Godot tutorial enough, it was awesome and the perfect length for a crash course in a bit of everything! dev.to/christinec_d...