It may also help that there's plenty of references to go off of for what fits in Starbound with the vanilla assets and mods and such

by "make something relatively low effort still look nice" i specifically mean that starbounds art style is verrrrry simple and art looking good in games often is dependent more on style consistency than actual technical skill of the art involved. So if you are making art for a very simple styled game then the best way to make it look good in the context of the game is to also make it look simple

ngl starbounds biggest pro for modding is that you can make something relatively low effort still look nice. the snails for instance have almost zero animation to em. If youd like i can briefly walk you through making your own creature with minimal animation or even just making an addon for the snails? I would also suggest making heads for the creatures already in the game as they have almost no animation to em either

I'd been wanting to make something like this for a long time, but I'm not good enough at animating sprites. Great mod.

so cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!