I've always really liked Redshrike's Wartotaur concept* (https://opengameart.org/content/tower-defense-prototyping-assets-4-monsters-some-tiles-a-background-image) and felt sad that it never got a full animation for games using LPC assets.

With summer approaching, I have been getting back at the game projects I was working on, and decided to give it a go. Now, I'm not particularly good with pixel art or animation, so this is a work in progress. Putting it up in case someone finds it useful and in the hope that others will expand on this as well.

So, what did I do:

• I took the forward frame from the sample at https://opengameart.org/forumtopic/next-lpc-animation
• I upscaled the forward frame and the side walk in the original; I envisioned this guy as a boss-type monster, so the larger size seemed appropriate. Next to an NPC base sprite, he's enormous.
• Added a four-frame walk animation for the forward facing sprite, using the Golem as a reference.
• Backward facing frames.
• Death animation
• Recoloured the side-facing frames so their palette matches the forward facing frame.

So now he can walk in four directions.

I also added attack animations for the N/S facings. I recoloured the original animation so it matches better with the colours in the forward facing (although I think it may be a bit too dark now).

I removed the left-facing frames from the uploaded image to keep it compact; they're just mirrored from the right facing ones.

All frames are 128 pixels high (4 tiles, in 32 pixel format). Most are also 128 pixels wide, but the side-facing attack frames are 160 pixels wide (5 tiles).

TODO:

• Retouching some of the upscaled artwork
• Frame 3 & 4 of the N/S frames are just mirrored from frame 1&2.

* I think the name "wartotaur" is awesome too, even if the part of my brain that cares about ethymology is quietly rocking in a corner.