The Spell of Mastery Progress
The current sprites are actually liked 3rd iteration.
Initially I had this:
https://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/148627.htm
But then I re-drew it to be more fluid looking and less top heavy.
Yet I never noticed that the character's center of mass is not supported from the right.
That led to the feeling that character is falling.
Fixed that be moving the right leg.
One of the reasons I don't use 3d software for pre-renders.
It doesn't really help unless you know what you're doing.
Or you are doing 1-to-1 model, down to mass distribution.