Sprite Something

Sprite Something is a drawing, animation and tilemap application for pixel artists and game developers. Draw multiple frames individually, then quickly drag and drop frames into an animation, or use your frames to draw tilemaps for your game levels. Export your creations to PNG, animated GIF's and CSV files (tilemaps).

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Sprite Something - Drawing Tools Walkthru (v1.31)

Sprite Something - Onion Skinning (v1.31)

Sprite Something 1.1

Updates

Update 1.3 is live! What's new:

NEW FEATURE: Tilemaps. Use the frames created in the drawing mode to create maps/levels for your games. All the tools work identical to the drawing tools, except you are using image frames instead of colors. Export as a csv file for game use.
Magic Eraser tool: touch a color to erase all connected matching colors. Think of it like the reverse of the fill tool.
iPad: Undo/Redo buttons separated in navigation bar
Touch and hold for eyedropper timing sped up.

Features

create sprite sheets / tiles for use in games
edit frames individually and conveniently
animation: drag and drop animation frames
supports portrait and landscape views
pan/zoom editing image
add custom GIMP color palettes
HSB color select
scalable preview to see your pixel work at multiple sizes
onion skinning for easy tracing or cloning frame
Place photos behind editing area
Assignable three and four finger swipe gestures
add new or save out your drawings through iTunes file sharing [?]
Export via email
Individual frame export: save and email PNG's of your individual frames
GIF export: save and email gif previews of your animations
Generates Flixel and FlashPunk actionscript
Universal app, works on iPod, iPhone and iPad
iOS 4.0 compatible
Optimized for Retina display

Gestures

Gestures have been added to make common tasks a bit quicker. With the default settings, using three fingers, swipe left or right to cycle the current color through the history of previously used colors. Sprite Something remembers the past ten (10) colors used/selected. With default settings, using four fingers, you can swipe left/right/up/down to change the current frame you are editing.

Three and Four Finger Gestures can be changed in the Settings menu (from the iPad home screen) to any of the following: Color, Tools, Frames, Undo/Redo. Color and Tools are in order of history, left swipes go backwards in the history, right swipes forward in the history.

GIMP Palettes

You can add custom palettes to the color picker view by adding .gpl files through iTunes file sharing [?]. Below are some references for GIMP palettes:

Visibone.com - (download palette)
Spectrum - (download palette)
C64 - (download palette)
ZX Spectrum - (download palette)
Atari 2600 - (download palette)
Game Boy - (download palette)
Color Scheme Designer - under Export, choose GPL, save as palette_name.gpl (palette_name can be whatever you wish)
Gimp Palettes by ~nevit

Troubleshooting/Tips

On iPad, supports PNG files from 64x64 to 512x512
On iPhone, supports PNG files from 64x64 to 256x256
Touch and hold to select color when using pencil, line or fill
here is a list of the buttons with descriptions
Onion skin: press onion button once to set relative onion skin, twice for locked onion skin. Relative will maintain the frame difference between current frame and onion frame, Locked will stay on the same frame if you change current editing frame
retrieve images by connecting your device to iTunes, read more
add your own palettes by adding GIMP (gpl) files to the app
go to Settings to change the three and four finger swipes to your liking
you can toggle on/off the creation of Flixel and FlashPunk .as files in Settings
to learn more about Flixel/FlashPunk, visit Flash Game Dojo

Report Bugs or Request Features

Click here for the current list of known bugs and planned features.
Sprite Something is made by just one guy, so help a guy out. Let me know if there are errors, or what could help make the app better. If reporting an error, please explain as best you can what is going wrong and what you are doing when it happens. Including image size and frame size will probably help.