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

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
• Universal app, works on iPod, iPhone and iPad

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

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.

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Pixel Art made with Sprite Something

Warewolf via @rexbox

Illustrapedia via @retronator

Articles on Sprite Something

Ars Technica (v1.0)

GameSetWatch (v1.0)

Technabob (v1.0)

iPhones.ru (translate) (v1.0)