Geez not only have I recently been seeing amazing sprite work on some indie games, but also some artist doing the same here and in other places. Being a kid that grew up on 16 bit stuff more than 8 bit... I just wanna know how the hell do they do this? What are they using? Do they use layers? Each part has to be animated separately right?

Does anyone just kinda have an idea how this goes? I'd like to try my hand at it even if I suck at it I wanna at least try once to say I know what it's like.