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).

Download the Sprite Something Manual for iBooks (iPad only) or PDF.

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Video

Sprite Something - Drawing Tools Walkthru (v1.31)

Sprite Something - Onion Skinning (v1.31)

Sprite Something 1.1

Updates

Update 2.01 is live! What's new:

iCloud - sync spritesheets, tilemaps and color palettes across your devices!
Dropbox Import/Export
Photo Library Import/Export
Rectangle and Circle tools
Improved navigation flow (especially on iPhone)
Twitter message integration (not GIF's yet)
Faster Tilemap drawing
Fill/Magic Erase All option
Adjust Select rectangle before choosing Cut/Copy/Delete
Show/Hide tool options (iPad)
GIF's now use compression and display across browsers correctly
Speed improvement when using background image
Add notes to your spritesheets and tilemaps

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
iCloud
Dropbox import/export
Photo Library import/export
add custom GIMP color palettes
RGB/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
GIF export: save gif previews of your animations
Generates Flixel and FlashPunk actionscript
Universal app, works on iPod, iPhone and iPad
iOS 5.0+ compatible
Optimized for Retina display (iPad & iPhone)

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

Supports PNG files up to 512x512
Touch and hold to select color when using pencil, line or fill
On iPad, touch the current tool button to toggle visibility of the tool options
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
to learn more about Flixel/FlashPunk, visit Flash Game Dojo

Documentation

Download the Sprite Something Manual for iBooks (iPad only) or PDF.

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.