Wow! Your art is always hyper polished! Would love to see a behind-the-scenes video series on your process and pixel art pipeline!
Such wonderful praise, truly appreciate it! Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), I don't have a video of the process, but it goes something like this:
Start with a silhouette, then use that silhouette to draw the bug I want to animate. Once the design is finished and all the details are in place, I split it into separate parts - the body, head, and legs.
When animating, I assign a different color to each leg segment so I can easily tell them apart. At that stage, those parts don't have any details - they're just solid-colored shapes in the form of the leg.
Once I'm happy with the animation, I go back and add all the details to each leg segment.
