If no plan for jumping, what about fishing/mining animations? Those wood also be very cool to have in the basic player sprite.
Also, I’d like to know if you could give any suggestions/tips, as for reducing the number of frames from 12 to 6 (same as your NPC’s)?
Which frames would you consider cutting, for the smoothest 6-frame animation with this sprite?
The reason I’m asking is that while 12-frames is very nice to have, it’ll take a lot more time and resources to customize the sprite for that many frames, and as a solo indie dev I sometimes have to be strategically frugal.