What happens when the flower is shot out? Will the leaves continue to walk around?
Yes. These sprites will need quite a few variations, such as: Sprout walk cycle normal, Sprout walk cycle empty (As in, no flower bud inside), Flower bud walk cycle, Leaves crumble (when tux jumps on sprout before flower bud is shot out.), Flower bud hit (when the launched flower bud hits tux/ground.), flower bud squished (when tux jumps on the flower bud.).
However, I think fixing up the broken existing graphics in forest should have a priority, because we don't really need to clutter it with more badguys of different behavior.
Many people said they would like this in-game. Here's my "To Do" list.
1: Make forest tiles seamless.
2: Concepts for tropical island.
3: Tiles for tree variations.
4: Sprites for sprout.
5: Other badguy sprites (Wooden jumpy. Forest spiky. Etc)