Actually one of the reasons I have been pretty quiet lately is I have been working on building a customized app for speeding up animations and coming up with some concepts. unfortunately this does mean that I am going to have to alter the over all layout of the sprite sheets. but here are some sneak peaks of the what's to come: 
Note: the character concepts are very early
If everything works it should make it much easier for me to add a bunch of new hair styles and outfits.