just made these animations of the cast of Sonic Superstars to use as emotes on my Sonic the Hedgehog discord server, Let's Talk About Sonic, based on (and edited directly from) a silly dance that the characters of Super Mario Maker 2 do when left idle in that game's World Maker mode
incidentally: Mario, Luigi, and the pair of Toads have very slightly different animations for this in SMM2, which i channeled for these animations. Sonic and Amy mimic Mario's motion, Tails mimics Luigi's, and Knuckles mimics Toad & Toadette's
the inspiration to do this (and to have their frames offset so they make a wave when lined up) came from 1-Up World, a public Super Mario discord server with a lot of good emotes
back when i made the original emotes, i tossed in mighty and ray as "hopefuls" because i would lose my mind if they were secret characters in or even dlc for Sonic Superstars. this week i decided i wanted to make more of these lil guys, so i hopped on Metal Sonic and Fang to complete the playable cast of Sonic Robo Blast 2 (Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Fang, Metal Sonic) and later the classic versions of Espio, Charmy, and Vector to complete the selectable cast of Knuckles' Chaotix (Knuckles, Mighty, Espio, Vector, Charmy).
maybe someday i'll figure out how to make Heavy and Bomb do this dance and i'll have the entire Chaotix roster here
and lastly, the three remaining Sonic the Fighters characters! these were the last ones i'd had planned, but some other pixel artists on the server hopped in to do some modern characters--particularly IDW Sonic girls--and i've been taking their work and modifying it to better match the style as i'm doing it and adding them as emotes too. those i might post with permission, but otherwise, this is the last of 'em as i intended






























