I think I'm going to start doing some animations for Captain America now, but I'll continue to make sprites for other characters while I'm working on Cap hopefully.

Spidey looks really good, but Cage's arms seem too short and stubby.

Agreed. I'm going to fix all of the characters that need fixing.

A very rough, unfinished animation for Cap:

Very good

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I think it could use more actual motion as opposed to just blur.

Well I took the animation straight form MvC3. I removed a few frames from the part where he pulls up his shield, but the part where where he actually throws it is essentially identical.

This is what I was using for reference:


But anyway, as I said, it's rough and unfinished. I'll try to add more frames of motion and see if it flows better.

Both would work ifne, but as you can notice in all the animations, it's very exaggerated, like how he crouches down after the throw. It works really well that way, your version on the other hand, lacks that, and it make it look stiff.

I suggest adding more ending with the exaggerated backlash.

I'm gonna re-do it and make it more like this one ^

Still rough, still unfinished, but more in line with what I want:

Add a frame at the end where the Cap's arm stops to make it move just a tiny bit. It will make it flow a bit better.

Well in the finished animation he's going to get right back up after throwing the shield as seen here:

I don't think that came out how I wanted it to...

Look at these:

Which one looks better and why?