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
I'm thinking of purchasing Spriter Pro, but does anyone know of a better program for sprite animation? Thank you. [ame] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZcAszm9ipI[/ame]
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…
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…