Man, you don't have to be a great artist to get a little creative. I wasn't ragging on you anyway. It just seems like you half-assed the stuff that you needed to animate. It contrasts sharply with the other more well rendered elements in the foreground.
The designs I mentioned are bland because they're the same old thing I've seen 100 times before. They just don't seem all that inspired. Why is the wizard a stereotypical wizard? The spaceman looks like any old spaceman. The normal guy has frizzy hair, a circle for a head and stiff clothes.
I just think you could have come up with some ideas that were a little farther from the norm. This IS a game where you fire people out of a cannon, isn't it? Why not apply that sort of whimsy to the way things look?
MRat
You have all these great images for the jewels, and the backgrounds. Why are the character and, I presume, enemy designs so bland?
Starblinky (Updated )
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.. cuz I drew them. I drew the jewels, but I had an artist do the backgrounds. Man I am not an artist, so I did the best I could..
and how are they bland?... I thought I did a really good job.. ah well, we arent all as good of an artist as you are MRat