User blog comment:Shimmering Brony/M.U.G.E.N character sprites/@comment-3492324-20121106210722/@comment-3495717-20121108005414

@Metalkong1

I read about an interesting method of sprite making/animating on a sprite tutorial website, that involves drawing an initial image of your character on paper, using that image as a guide for the next frame of animation, then drawing another frame based off the previous frame and so on, then digitally resizing them to "sprite size" via Photoshop or some equivalent, and pixelling-over...basically what Capcom does (although you'll need a Scanner).

As simple as it sounds, I never really thought of doing it that way. It'd definately make walking animations easier to do XD