and this post is a more in-depth tutorial on creating the walking animations, back sprites, and hair/clothes animations for diagonal facing characters. It's much too large to retype on here as I have it in one note, but have uploaded the tutorial to a google drive as a PDF viewable by anyone and as an attachment on this thread. Please feel free to share, distribute, or do whatever with it!
Note that some of the early steps are brief and hard to interpret as it was mostly going to be just for me but I decided to share it; let me know if you need help with anything! I may also post a video if there's enough interest.
This is all done in Gimp by the way! Totally forgot to mention that in the tutorial
End result (forgot to animate the cape from the back, add head bob, and recolor the face but the general idea is presented):
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Google drive link:
I hope this helps some of you guys out struggling with this! Pixel art is a pain