RobertBleyl said:
Walking without weapon

focus on elbows movement

I took a closer look at how Enter The Gungeon is doing it since I really like their art style. I tried a bunch of stuff and ended up with this:

Especially the walking animation turned out to be much better now I think. The main part was that the head and hear just move more, there is more “bounciness” to all of it. And the feet just got smaller, simplifying their animation as well.

What do you think? Where could be improved here?

I think that this is an improvement, indeed! The feet especially look rather decent now, I feel. ^_^

At this point, my main qualm is that the character has a very neutral, blank expression on their face--it might be worth giving them a bit more emotion, perhaps.