happy late birthday dude!
Any tips you can give a person for animating Shantae like that?
Hey sorry this took so long.
I'll try my best to give some advice on how to animate like the way I do. First, I hope you're familiar with the 12 principles of animation as they're very helpful when making any kind of animation. In this instance for character animation, if a character is talking, you're gonna have to animate their facial expressions, (especially if you're doing close-up shots on their faces) their heads, their arms, etc. What this does is that it helps the audience convey what the characters' emotions are and how they're expressing themselves. That's about all I can give you right now. The only other advice I can give you is try not to overdo it and don't half-ass it. I hope all of this was helpful to you.
Still alive?