Thank you for the suggestions, I already started working on a female version and some other variations. I'm also planning to add other animations mainly running and attack animations. Unfortunately, I can't promise that I can make them in 8 directions, since that would effectively at least double the workload for every animation. They are a lot of work to make as it is, since they are meant to fit in a 32x32-sized tileset, and my priority at the moment is to complete all the animations and make new characters and maybe enemies.