Frankly, i think the stance looks fine. It's not that I'm not open to feedback, I just think it looks fine as is. It's already a huge improvement over the original stance, and these sprites are supposed to be a conversion of his Slammasters sprites (but with the FF1 outfit), so I'm not looking to drastically improve the animations. The stance anim I have now for him is easily on par with any SF Alpha-era stance (save for maybe Karin) and looks just fine in game. Also, not to sound rude, but Garuda by far chipped in the most money for the sprites (well over half), and if he thinks it looks good than that's good enough for me. The more time I spend tweaking his stance pixel for pixel, the longer it takes to do the rest, and I just don't think the time spent is worth the result.

His chest also seems to go up and down like if his chest was some type of turtle shell (look closely at his neck.)

The walking anim is looking good, but isn't his back a little too big?

How big is haggar compared tocvs Zangief??