I think it looks nice! You gotta pick what workflow is good for your commissions. But a battle pose/action animation is great

thats so cool!

Huh. How are you using Blender for this pixel art? Or do you mean just purely sketching out the animations, then going over it and working the pixel art stuff?

The actual process is that I take complicated parts of the character that are going to be used at different angles (in this case, Tatiana's Head, Boobs, Sword and Tail), and make really scuffed 3D models of those parts of the character.

Shader settings help me render them out in a way that I can incorporate them into my drawing process without too much fuss. (Like it lets me skip trying to shade the hair, or fret too much about outline work on the tail, but I shade her top myself, fix the shading on her tail, and go over any egregious errors by hand.)

From there I sketch out whatever animation I need, than animate the individual parts, separated individually into different folders, and work them in as I go.

You could get a similar effect from just animating a full 3D model, and rotoscoping over it, but I can't wrap my head around posing things in a 3D space - so this is easier for me.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gxm1i17n8.....utros.png?dl=0
Example screenshot of the parts for another character, Butros. I'm still experimenting with stuff like torso shapes, but I find the large cyan blocks help me figure out how his shoulders fit into things when I get to the drawing phase.

Oh huh.. That's super fascinating. I'll have to keep that in mind if doing pixel art the old fashion way starts to annoy me haha.

I feel ya. I'm still figuring it all out myself.

Sometimes though it's easier to just... sit down and draw it. So it's kinda hard to figure out which option is right for which scenario @.@

Wow, this is a really neat method :O

how does her boobs not get in the way lol

They absolutely do

She's just really cool about it !

Excellent!! :D She just needs a little more jiggle when settling ;p

I thought about that! But realistically she wouldn't settle back into her idle pose very often, so I'll fiddle around with it and see what works best in the future ;o

Assuming the context of a game or fight animation, perhaps she could have extra "settle jiggle" animation frames when returning to idle, but she can "cancel" out of it early with the timing used here. Like how most fighting games have "recovery" animation after attacks, but they can be interrupted with any input, if that makes sense.

Nice animation :).