While i'm learning what's new in Blender 2.9 , i decided to create some simple alien-ish lifeforms for animated backgrounds. I'm not entirely sure what those plants/animals can be good for, but i had in mind the early '90 platformers such as Metal Mutant or Duke Nukem, rather than obviously tiled platformers such as Blues Brothers or Prehistorik.

Each plant is seen from 8 different angles, allowing more variety in the backgrounds. If placed carefully on the stages, the rotated clones should give the impression of being different individuals.

In each of the spritesheets a column represent a sprite, as seen in the second preview.

I'm not really happy on how the "Spongy" animation came out, let's say it makes sense ONLY underwater... Or perhaps, (cough! cough!) it's VEEEERY alien XD

Anyway, this is a lot of fun, and i'll make more of those funny alien things.

I added, along with the spritesets and spritesheets, the original renders.