Hello guys
Could you recommand me a good sprite editor ? The kind of editor that drawed the panther and the greenman in JungleScene in-app Corona project would be great.
I don’t tryhard, a small animation for a bird’s flapping wing in 8 images would be far enough.
Thank you !
If you could afford it adobe illustrator is the best. If not gimp and Inkscape are ok free options.
Depending on the size of your bird a few other options would be to use Photoshop. It includes a “Puppet Warp” option where you can set the bend points and then warp the item and it will shift the pixels for you and you can create multiple frames from it. The Gimp, as Scott mentioned is a free alternative to Photoshop, but I don’t know what all animation features it has.
Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape are vector art tools which may be easier to do animations in since they objects are vectors you can just move the various pen points to re-shape each frame as needed.
If you’re object is more complex you can use Spine (Esoteric software) to do animations. It’s a complete rigging system (i.e you define the skeleton and then the body and it warps the areas much like Photoshop’s Puppet Warp does, but it does it in making the whole animation. We’ve recently added mesh support to take full advantage of Spine’s features (Note this is in beta and we want more testing before we say it’s production ready).
I want to echo Rob’s Spine suggestion.
If you can draw but find animation hard, spine is a wonderful option.
Just draw your object once, cut it into pieces (body, wing, beak etc) then you can animate it in Spine and the animation will look amazing.
There is a learning curve, but imho that learning curve is much smaller than learning to do frame animation in Photoshop for instance.
If you could afford it adobe illustrator is the best. If not gimp and Inkscape are ok free options.
Depending on the size of your bird a few other options would be to use Photoshop. It includes a “Puppet Warp” option where you can set the bend points and then warp the item and it will shift the pixels for you and you can create multiple frames from it. The Gimp, as Scott mentioned is a free alternative to Photoshop, but I don’t know what all animation features it has.
Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape are vector art tools which may be easier to do animations in since they objects are vectors you can just move the various pen points to re-shape each frame as needed.
If you’re object is more complex you can use Spine (Esoteric software) to do animations. It’s a complete rigging system (i.e you define the skeleton and then the body and it warps the areas much like Photoshop’s Puppet Warp does, but it does it in making the whole animation. We’ve recently added mesh support to take full advantage of Spine’s features (Note this is in beta and we want more testing before we say it’s production ready).
I want to echo Rob’s Spine suggestion.
If you can draw but find animation hard, spine is a wonderful option.
Just draw your object once, cut it into pieces (body, wing, beak etc) then you can animate it in Spine and the animation will look amazing.
There is a learning curve, but imho that learning curve is much smaller than learning to do frame animation in Photoshop for instance.