"They're always departing but they never arrive...
No one ever gets on but they're always...
You never see them go, they're always full—
And the ones that do arrive, th-they never leave..."

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Yes! Pixel animation!

No! Horrible ten hour toil because I don't have the foresight for animation!

This is a sprite of a citizen that you see in the beginning of Half-Life 2 in the train station. He paces around in circles rambling about the trains and how they're doing this and that.

I was going to make 12 more frames for him turning around so he'd be walking around in an oval, but I settled for this instead. I suppose I'm lazy... I just wanted to be done with it. When I try to do animation stuff, it usually consists of me fixing mistakes based on mistakes based on mistakes and pushing pixels and... all sort of tedious stuff. Redoing mistakes is the least fun!

But this sprite turned out to be the best one I've done so far, so I guess it was worth it!