2D art workflow questions

bufa

Hi, I'm an old dog that is now working on some 2D games projects and I'm not happy with how we handle the whole 2D art workflow.

We have 2d artists, animators and game designers working on projects, but it takes a lot of time to create the necessary assets for development.

How do you guys work with 2d art? animations? asset creation? etc?

From sketches to game play.

I was talking to one of the devs about workflows and he told me that the most difficult part at this moment is animations. We use spine to create them for convenience in how it exports the animation data, and how we can use that in our 2D engine.

But the whole flow to get those animations is very complicated and time consuming.

I come from a 3d bg long time ago, and always thought that 3D software could export animations for 2D games. Is this accurate? Is there a workflow that would allow 3d model, texture, bones, animations, etc, to be exported into json files or something readable by a 2D engine?

Thanks!

oglu

We use a combo of Spine animation and Sprite Sheets. All 3D assets are rendered and prepared for use in Spine.

http://de.esotericsoftware.com

Oh i see you use spine allready. Whats the problem in this case? Animation takes a lot of time in 2D and in 3D.