About

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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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 - sync spritesheets, tilemaps and color palettes across your devices
• 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)

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