Spriter

About This Software

Spriter makes it easy for anyone, regardless of experience, to create 2D game animations using a technique called Modular Animation.

Unlike traditional animation which requires each frame to be hand-drawn, Spriter animations are made of individual sprite pieces; these pieces can be rotated, transformed, and tweened along an animation timeline. This allows you to quickly create great looking animations in a fraction of the time while requiring significantly less art.

Spriter also takes advantage of skeletal animation. Create a skeleton using the bone tool, attach images to each bone, and finally animate the bones with Spriter's vast array of user-friendly animation tools. The result: a fully animated sprite using your own graphics.

Spriter is great for animating characters, user interfaces, power-ups, combat animations and more! Even if you've never animated before, Spriter provides you with an easy to understand, yet powerful toolset allowing you to jump right in!

Key Features:

• Use animation data directly in your game.
  
  • Animations are recreated in real-time using the sprite piece images just like in Spriter.
    
  • Animations are much smoother and more detailed .
    
  • Manipulate animations via game events.
    
  • Reuse your animation data for completely new characters or character customizations.
    
  • Saves a lot of memory your game would otherwise take up with spritesheets.
• Using keyframes you can quickly lay out major frame changes. Frames in-between the keyframes are then automatically created. You can then edit individual frames as desired to make your animations really shine.
  
• Animations can be exported as spritesheets, animated GIF files, sequential images and more.
  
• Reuse your previous animations by incorporating them in new ones. Create perfect, smooth transitions and varieties that save time by working with animations you've already created.
  
• Adjust animation easing with several curve settings to help make your animations more lifelike.
  
• Create pixel perfect retro style animations with Pixel Art Mode.
  
• Spawn bullets, particle effects, or anything that requires precise locations and angles.
  
• Set up guide lines and load in background images to work on top of.
  
• Seperate characters into important collision areas.
  
• Inverse Kinematics.
  
• Change a bone's parent, add or remove bones, or even change sprite pieces mid-animation.
  
• Import sound effects and even use lip-syncing with built-in Papagayo support.

Who Uses Spriter?

• Sproggiwood by Freehold Games.
  
• Don't Starve (Mod kit only) by Klei Entertainment.
  
• Our Darker Purpose by Avidly Wild Games.
  
• Bardbarian by TreeFortress Games.
  
• Chronology by osao games.
  
• Crea by Siege Games.
  
• ReVeN by VariaGames.
  
• Hero Generations by Heart Shaped Games.