Spriter : an intuitive 2D animation
tool for video game makers.
Ever since the early days, game
makers have been creating fully
animated characters by assembling
separate little “body part images”.
Initially, this was simply to save space
on the disk or cartridge that the game was on and to use less of the
system’s precious and tiny bit of ram. However, it evolved into its own
artform, leading to such visual gems as Vectorman and Alien Soldier for the
Sega Genesis and Rayman for PS1, Jaguar etc. Lately, this animation
method can be seen in visually
stunning 2D games such as Odin
Sphere for the PS2 and Muramasa
for the Wii. Because we needed
such a tool to bring our games to
life and there seemed to be no tool
readily available, we decided to
make it ourselves.
Download the
latest alpha
build of
Spriter now
for Windows,
Mac or Linux!
© BrashMonkey 2010-2012
"Seriously, awesome job on the editor."- Tuomas Erikoinen, lead artist of Angry
Birds
"It's very exciting to see something like Spriter available
to more game developers. Something like this becoming
mainstream helps independent developers to overcome
platform issues and alleviate a very frustrating part of
game production. Spriter's interface is easy to learn,
intuitive to work with and can easily be incorporated into
any artists' workflow. I'm excitedly looking forward to the
progress that will be made towards the refinement of this
very promising tool and also to the day when I can
incorporate something like this into my team's day-to-
day tasks."
- Nick Wozniak - Animation Director -
Wayforward
Here’s a handy playlist of
tutorial videos to help get
you started.
Spriter’s data format is
open, so any developer can
create plug-ins or example
code for any development
system to allow for playback
of Spriter files.
Get an example Spriter
SCML file
Get documentation
explaining the SCML data
format in detail
