Sprite Anim Program Question

Greg DAlessandro

I'm thinking of purchasing Spriter Pro, but does anyone know of a better program for sprite animation? Thank you.

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Ben Apuna

Well you can get Spriter in the current Humble Bundle for $12 right now.

If you're looking for other bone based 2D animation apps there's also Spine.

For pixel art style frame based animation programs in no particular order there's:

Graphics Gale

Pro Motion

Allegro Sprite Editor

Pyxel Edit

Pickle

Lamont

I am putting another vote for Spine.

Steve Schulze

I used Spriter for the Global Game Jam a couple of years back and got some pretty good results with a minimal amount of messing about.

Greg DAlessandro

Would you recommend one program over the other?

Zack Maxwell

I haven't actually used them, but I seriously doubt Spine is better than Spriter.
As I understand it from reading the blogs, Spine was created because Spriter was stuck in development for a massive amount of time. The Spine dev got sick of waiting for it to get released, and decided to rush out their own derivative.
I read this a while ago though, so the actual details are a bit hazy.

VPrime

I was really excite to see Spriter part of the current humble bundle. I alwats wanted to buy it, but I just didn't need it. But after getting it, I'm pretty disappointed with it, and glad I didn't pay full price.
It just feels sluggish, and not polished. I think it's mostly to do with the fact that it's cross platform. I used it on a mac, and it just didn't feel right.

DrunkShaman

I am more interested in Spine then Spriter. I'll look in to both though.

Lamont

Spine has the vertex stuff. You can make fluid UAF style animations with it.

Steve Schulze

Looks like you'd need to get the full $290 version of Spine to get a few of the features that Spriter has at $60 (or $12 if you're quick)