I can find sites to buy assets for my game but they only have left/right walk cycles, any ideas where can I find good looking large characters with 4 or 8 direction walk cycles? I know the ideal is to hire an artist, but at this point I'd rather buy pre-made characters so I'm not paying a premium for custom made graphics.
Thanks!
No idea, but I remember Mouth of war was offering something to that effect...
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=51552.msg636504735#msg636504735 (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=51552.msg636504735#msg636504735)
Maybe you can get a good deal with him and get new characters, don't know, but couldn't hurt asking, no? ;)
Any google image search on Walk cycle" or "pixel art" links to deviant-art a lot of times.
many people there may even offer commissions for pixel art, or make you a high-res flash puppet that animates in 8 directions that you can render in flash and do some low-res-outlining on. or find some free things to practice and modify.
something like
http://drud14.deviantart.com/art/My-Little-Pony-Flash-resource-kit-version-2-4-404815455
may turn into sprites like
http://panzi.github.io/Browser-Ponies/