What tools you have used to produce sprites used in tutorials?

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Can somebody list out the tools you have used to produce sprites used in Defold tutorials?

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The graphics are made in standard image software, Illustrator and Photoshop. The animations are made in Esoteric Software’s Spine. Defold has native support for Spine json files. See http://www.defold.com/doc/spine

It is easy to animate in other software and export frames and use flip-book animations. I’ve done animation in Toon Boom Animate myself and used in Defold projects.

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These tools are costly. I cannot afford them. do you have any other recommendations?

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For animation? There are quite a few free 2d animation tools out there. I don’t know anyone well enough to recommend, but check out this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2D_animation_software

There’s also on-line tools like http://www.piskelapp.com/ and if you Google around you might find a few others.

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Spriter seems popular and it has a free version. Perhaps it’s enough for your needs?

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Thank You Sicher! Will check it out.

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Thank You birtzl. I have decided to use Spriter. Bought Spriter Pro.

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Is Flash Pro an option?

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No, there is no support for Flash.

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No, but you can if I’m not mistaken export a Flash animation to a sprite sheet and that can be used as a tilesource for flipbook animations.

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That’s what I meant. I didn’t mean direct SWF support. There’s also “DragonBones” for 2D skeletal animation export.

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