You may noticed the white placeholder characters I used until now in Abstráctomon footage.
I've been too lazy to make pixel art by hand for all human character sprites in the overworld , but now I figured out a more convenient way: Blender!
In case you're not familiar with Blender: It's a free piece of software for 3D modelling + animating.
So I made a simple 3D model in a "chibi" (big head, small body) style, tilted it by about 30° so you can see its face as well as its feet despite the camera being above it (thanks Nintendo for that trick in The Legend Of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds!) and made animations for walking + riding a bicycle.
Then I exported it without anti-aliasing (otherwise it's a blurry mess) at just 32x32 pixels.
You can see the results in this beautiful Wallpaper!
So now I just have to edit the model once per character without having to alter every single frame!