Tool or tip for animating sprites?

[cabfe]

Hello,

I was wondering if there was a tool or anything to help animating sprites.

Having the sprites' animation broken into several places on the sheet doesn't help to make a smooth move or align pixels properly.

I find myself constantly editing-try in RPG Maker-back to Gimp, rinse and repeat.

I know that the Game Character Hub has this nice feature to preview the animation, but I cannot get used to its pixels and layers system.

Maybe I should try again.

How do you manage to get your sprites animations right?

 

[Matseb2611]

I do them mostly in Paint Shop Pro, which has a nice grid when you pick a transparent background. I use the grid to help me align the sprites and animated battlers. It can be tricky with bigger sprites, but still doable.

 

[AwesomeCool]

Try graphics gale, it is good for this sort of thing.

 

[cabfe]

I gave a try at Graphics Gale and besides a few oddities (like not adding an alpha to actually have one?) it seems to work for this particular animation task.

Thanks for the tip.

 

[Sharm]

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Pyxel Edit, the paid version, is also pretty good for animating in. I like it better than Graphics Gale because I can edit and see the animation while I've got the cells set up in sprite sheet format.