Looks very sharp, nice detail and shading!
Cool experiment, it can be a struggle balancing a juicey pallet list with complex animation, woe unto the FA icon limit, at least it's better than DA.

Thank ya much!

Yeah GIFs can be a pain in the butt. I've gotten through full animations only to have to go back and alter the colors after rendering them as a GIF so they don't get all wonky. I usually use Flash but Easy Gif Animator is better about color...just tough on file size.

Flash all the way for me, I now do a test run of the animation before fleshing out details for that reason. Always mo colours mo problems though, on occasion I've used photoshop to edit them down but it's something I really loathe doing. I assume BG animation is much easier since elements can be cut or shortened, but still - the amount of times I've had to cut an icon size in half (or more) is disheartening ;v;

Tell me about it -_- I've had special requests from people and tried to work it out but OOPS the file size is too big...so then I start by cutting frames, limiting colors etc... and by the end it's just...it's not the same as what I first created. It's a bummer. BUT I do the best I can with what I got...and FA's poopy icon size limit. Even just a LITTLE more size allowance would make a huge difference. The number of icons that end up being just a few KB above the limit is frustrating.
EDIT: yeah PS is a pain in the butt and my computer hates it because the program is so ridiculously big.

Gotta be a nightmare for all that frame by frame animation too. My condolences!

Haha, it can be! Some of my icons are animated in pieces that can be moved with very small frame-by-frame additions (to avoid looking too stiff) but then some of them are completely frame-by-frame (or the animated portions are, anyway). Luckily most of the icons I do are simple enough and any complex animations I DO do are rendered as Flash files and not GIF lol...no color issues with that, at least (though a lot of complaints from people who browse on their phones).

Omg I found your art/page again ! Your icons kick ass and I have been a fan forever, someday I would absolutely love to commission you for an icon of my persona !

Love this ;;