Hello! I have a question regarding this part of the rules:
have a single alternate movement of a single body part that is drawn differently (head, single arm) so long as it doesn't change the pose
I'm using said single alternate movement of the hand which goes back and forth, and is a loop of 4 frames total. Does it need to be 2 frames only, or is 4 okay? It is pretty much only panning between two positions with a few hand-drawn adjustments to it and two inbetweens to make it look more natural.
The rules say you cannot do extensive animation, but in a previous comment extensive has been defined as 5+ frames.
As a follow-up, I'd also like to ask if it is okay to have an object with a 2 frame animation within the illustration - specifically a candle on the table that however is layered over the sprite part of the illustration. I feel it still counts as the background, but it is technically the foreground...?
I'm sorry if I had missed anything in the rules, I've been reading through them many times but some of the details have been a bit hard to figure out for me. I'm also sorry for asking a bit late in the process, I was sure it was okay until I thought about it some more and got nervous.
Thank you for your patience!