Measured Steps

The theme for the art challenge was "Exploration" with a work period of 48 hours.

At first, the scope of this animation was waaay bigger, and I only had a couple days worth of experience making 16x16 sprites so I had no idea how ridiculously I overscoped.

The initial plan was for something like this to be an introduction scene inside a room, after which I'd animate a chair being pulled and sat on, and then the main scene would be the person touching an unknown object on the table in front of them, trying to figure out what it is, and the object would slowly morph into whatever they think it is at the moment.

Needless to say, it only took a few minutes of work to realize how unachievable that was, so this became the main and only scene, and I'm very happy with how it turned out.

* I added a new version with fixes to the rushed parts, mainly the legs and water