Comments on: Sprite animation editor for OS X?

Question: Sprite animation editor for OS X?

wanderingmind — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 10:55:00 -0800

My Google-Fu has failed me. I'm looking for a way to create animated sprites and/or tiles for old-school 16-bit-style games... on a Mac.

TileStudio is exactly the sort of thing I need, but it's Windows-only. Any suggestions for something similar on the Mac side? I don't need any of the fancy tile-mapping capabilities - just something where I can put down pixels and preview animations easily.

By: Rothko

Rothko — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:37:30 -0800

• GIFmation
• GIFbuilder
• BigPicture
• GraphicConverter
• Icongrapher

By: chrismear

chrismear — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:38:29 -0800

Pixen and Reptile from the Open Sword Group might be worth a look, but I'm not sure that they handle animation (yet).

By: NewGear

NewGear — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 20:05:35 -0800

I second chrismear's vote for Pixen. It doesn't do animation, but it does rule, and the developers are super nice and open to suggestions. Pixen would be a good place to draw the sprites; you could then use one of the other programs listed by Rothko to animate them, or animate them in Flash.

I also highly recommend So You Want To Be A Pixel Artist, although it seems to be down at the moment. It's a great tutorial for sprite animation.

By: wanderingmind

wanderingmind — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 20:24:22 -0800

Pixen is absolutely what I was looking for - thank you very much.