Sprite Anim Program Question

Greg DAlessandro · Jul 2015

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 · Jul 2015

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 · Jul 2015

I am putting another vote for Spine.

Steve Schulze · Jul 2015

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 · Jul 2015

Would you recommend one program over the other?

Zack Maxwell · Jul 2015

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 · Jul 2015

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 · Jul 2015

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

Lamont · Jul 2015

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

Steve Schulze · Jul 2015

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)

Sprite Anim Program Question

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