Spriter makes it easy for anyone, regardless of experience, to create 2D game animations using a technique called Modular Animation. Individual sprite pieces can be attached to bones and then easily animated with the powerful, yet easy to use toolset.
User reviews: Very Positive (119 reviews) - 84% of the 119 user reviews for this software are positive.
Release Date: 14 Nov, 2014

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26 March

New content coming soon for RPG Art Pack!

Hi everyone,

We're pleased to announce we've just completed the additional content for the RPG Heroes Art Pack. This means the current early adopter half off sales price will end on April 8th! There are 2 weeks left to grab this robust RPG pack while it's heavily discounted.

Aside from many new art elements to drastically increase the number of possible character design configurations (listed in more detail below), we're also able to announce the addition of several new animations:

  • A fully tweened, subtle breathing/idle animation for the large character portrait for dialogues scenes etc, complete with a blinking version. 
  • A “damaged” image for when characters are unconscious (compatible with RPG Maker MV) for all 3 sprite sizes. 
  • A breathing (and blinking) idle animation for all 4 walking directions for all 3 sprite sizes. 
  • An “activate” animation for when characters open treasure chests or flip levers or switches for all directions for all 3 sprite sizes.

For current owners of the Steam version of the Pack, the files will be updated automatically in roughly one week (around Friday April 1st ), and the update introduces some visual improvements for specific elements to increase cross-compatibility with other elements, so be sure to back up your current version of the Art Pack locally before the update to ensure you can use the older version if needed to keep the exact look of characters you'd previously created.

Similarly, for people who already own the non-Steam version, be sure to back up the current version in case you want to revert back to it to maintain the exact look for character's you've already created.

Here is the list of new art elements:
  • 54 New skin tones to drastically increase the possible number of custom characters. 
  • A new cape style option for both male and female characters for all 3 sprite sizes. 
  • A new head scar option for the female character for the portrait and all 3 sprite sizes. 
  • Several new hair-style options for the female character for the portrait and all 3 sprite sizes. 
  • Several more nose options for the female character. 
  • 2 New eye and eyebrow options for the female character. 
  • A new horned helmet for the female character for the portrait and all 3 sprite sizes. 
  • 2 new hairstyle options for the male character for the portrait and all 3 sprite sizes.. 
  • 3 new eye options for the male character. 
  • More eyebrow options for the male character. 
  • 2 more mouth options for male characters.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hm71NJXLGwg

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19 March

If anyone is still having trouble getting Spriter Pro to start on Windows

If anyone is still having trouble getting Spriter Pro to start on Windows, please try downloading and installing the Visual Studio 2013 runtimes - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40784

You just need the 32 bit version if you're running 32 bit Windows, but you need both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions if you're running 64 bit Windows.

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About This Software

Spriter makes it easy for anyone, regardless of experience, to create 2D game animations using a technique called Modular Animation.

Unlike traditional animation which requires each frame to be hand-drawn, Spriter animations are made of individual sprite pieces; these pieces can be rotated, transformed, and tweened along an animation timeline. This allows you to quickly create great looking animations in a fraction of the time while requiring significantly less art.

Spriter also takes advantage of skeletal animation. Create a skeleton using the bone tool, attach images to each bone, and finally animate the bones with Spriter's vast array of user-friendly animation tools. The result: a fully animated sprite using your own graphics.

Spriter is great for animating characters, user interfaces, power-ups, combat animations and more! Even if you've never animated before, Spriter provides you with an easy to understand, yet powerful toolset allowing you to jump right in!

Spriter Pro includes the Essentials versions of all of our Animated Art Packs, free to use in any of your game projects. Once you install Spriter Pro It they will be located in the following location:
/SteamApps/common/Spriter/Art Packs/Essentials

Key Features:


  • Using keyframes you can quickly lay out major frame changes. Frames in-between the keyframes are then automatically created. You can then edit individual frames as desired to make your animations really shine.
  • Animations can be exported as spritesheets, animated GIF files, sequential images and more.
  • Reuse your previous animations by incorporating them in new ones. Create perfect, smooth transitions and varieties that save time by working with animations you've already created.
  • Adjust animation easing with several curve settings to help make your animations more lifelike.
  • Create pixel perfect retro style animations with Pixel Art Mode.
  • Spawn bullets, particle effects, or anything that requires precise locations and angles.
  • Set up guide lines and load in background images to work on top of.
  • Seperate characters into important collision areas.
  • Inverse Kinematics.
  • Change a bone's parent, add or remove bones, or even change sprite pieces mid-animation.
  • Import sound effects and even use lip-syncing with built-in Papagayo support.

Use Animation Data Directly In Your Game:


  • Animations are recreated in real-time using the sprite piece images just like in Spriter.
  • Animations are much smoother and require drastically less memory as compared to sprite-sheets.
  • Manipulate animations via game events.
  • Reuse your animation data for completely new characters or character customizations. Perfect for characters who gain new clothing, equipment etc.

    Spriter animations can be imported with full feature support in Unity and Construct 2. There are also free, open source, fully featured reference implementations for using Spriter files in C#, C++, JavaScript, and MonoGame. Spriter support on many more programming languages, frameworks, and game authoring tools coming soon!

System Requirements

Windows
Mac OS X
SteamOS + Linux
    Minimum:
    • OS: Microsoft® Windows® XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10
    • Processor: Intel® Pentium® 4 2.0 GHz equivalent or faster processor
    • Storage: 150 MB available space
    • Additional Notes: RAM usage requirements scale depending on the amount of graphics used.
    Recommended:
    • Processor: Intel® Pentium® 4 2.0 GHz equivalent or faster processor
    • Memory: 1 GB RAM
    • Storage: 250 MB available space
    Minimum:
    • OS: OS X version Snow Leopard 10.6.3.
    • Memory: 100 MB RAM
    • Storage: 150 MB available space
    • Additional Notes: RAM usage requirements scale depending on the amount of graphics used. Two-button mouse strongly recommended.
    Recommended:
    • OS: OS X version Yosemite 10.10.
    • Memory: 1 GB RAM
    • Storage: 250 MB available space
    Minimum:
    • Processor: Intel® Pentium® 4 2.0 GHz equivalent or faster processor
    • Memory: 100 MB RAM
    • Storage: 50 MB available space
    • Additional Notes: RAM usage requirements scale depending on the amount of graphics used.
    Recommended:
    • Processor: Intel® Pentium® 4 2.0 GHz equivalent or faster processor
    • Memory: 1 GB RAM
    • Storage: 150 MB available space
Helpful customer reviews
14 of 14 people (100%) found this review helpful
1 person found this review funny
201.7 hrs on record
Posted: 25 November, 2015
Spriter, one of the best softwares that I have came across for 2D game animation, very helpful and the workflow really makes things a lot much easier! finishing a full character animation set in a single day and the ability to change the characters looks without the pain of reanimating it, it is just amazing!, if you need a software that will save you time and effort, this is the one!.

Thank you Brashmonkey!
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11 of 11 people (100%) found this review helpful
1 person found this review funny
40.2 hrs on record
Posted: 24 November, 2015
It makes 2D rigging process really fast so I can focus on animating.
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6 of 6 people (100%) found this review helpful
1 person found this review funny
3.6 hrs on record
Posted: 19 October, 2015
it is very easy to use. there are many tutorials. developer is very helpful and responsive. i could used animations in Unity 5 in ease. i look forward to use coming features. You also should buy DLC Packs. You can learn too much details from those DLC packages.
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6 of 7 people (86%) found this review helpful
56.4 hrs on record
Posted: 15 October, 2015
This is absolutely great! , am not an artist and i did some great animations on it
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4 of 4 people (100%) found this review helpful
33.1 hrs on record
Posted: 13 November, 2015
Good, simple, easy - Very good!
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