How to make game characters come "alive" ?

Question

⚫ How to make pixel characters for games?

I've made a standing cat pose, I want the cat to be more "lively" (right and left legs can walk, and the position of the legs changes when the cat jumps)

⚫ Do I have to draw a pixel cat in several poses?

For example: cat standing, cat pose facing right, cat pose facing left, right foot forward (to walk), left foot forward (to walk), and the position of the cat's feet when jumping.

Is it true that I have to draw like that?

⚫ Do you have any suggestions as well, what free AI (web/app) can be used to draw pixels (draw a pixel cat In several poses)?

Answer 1

Yes, though you might be able to get an AI bot to draw the different poses for you.

Answer 2

Nasywa
In general, animation or sprite series, is created with somewhere between 12 and 24 unique frames per second ( 1s ) but it depends on what type of activity that you are demonstrating.

Answer 3

maybe this:
https://sanderfrenken.github.io/Universal-LPC-Spritesheet-Character-Generator/#?body=Body_color_light&head=Human_male_light