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KittyTac

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A good program to make 20-minute-ish pixel-art animations?
« on: May 10, 2018, 10:35:19 pm »
Title. I have an idea for a project. Preferably not too complicated.
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Re: A good program to make 20-minute-ish pixel-art animations?
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2018, 01:02:33 am »
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Re: A good program to make 20-minute-ish pixel-art animations?
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2018, 04:57:54 am »
Ugh... Gimp is terrible for pixel art. Even MSPaint is superior in terms of actual pixel exactness and total usability.

There are actual programs used for making and animating sprites. I suggest looking for those.
One that has a free version available is Spriter. Never used it, but it looks like it would be very useful for making "jointed doll" type animations, as it does 2D bone animation. Doing it the old fashioned way with individually hand drawn frames will take you the rest of your natural lifetime to make a 20 minute animation, so I suggest using technology wherever you can.

https://brashmonkey.com/download_spriter/

The free version is missing some features, but meh, beggars arent choosers.
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Re: A good program to make 20-minute-ish pixel-art animations?
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2018, 07:43:51 pm »
Aseprite is one of the best i've used, it's not free, but if you know how to compile a copy yourself you can use it for free anyways.
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Re: A good program to make 20-minute-ish pixel-art animations?
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2018, 01:45:47 pm »
piskel https://www.piskelapp.com/ but it is frame by frame so should be done by the time df 60.1 comes out
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Re: A good program to make 20-minute-ish pixel-art animations?
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2018, 04:58:01 pm »
Quote from: wierd on May 11, 2018, 04:57:54 am
Ugh... Gimp is terrible (...)

Fixed that for you.

Aseprite is awesome.
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Re: A good program to make 20-minute-ish pixel-art animations?
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2018, 02:12:47 am »
Quote from: Lunardog15 on May 13, 2018, 01:45:47 pm
piskel https://www.piskelapp.com/ but it is frame by frame so should be done by the time df 60.1 comes out
What is good in it then?
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Re: A good program to make 20-minute-ish pixel-art animations?
« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2018, 04:47:18 pm »
you can copy frames and ...
just check it out ok its cool
realy it is used for pixel art/gifs that are like 1 min. max
may be good for the ISG you abandoned...
(sorry for the guilt trip but do update the thing plz)
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Re: A good program to make 20-minute-ish pixel-art animations?
« Reply #8 on: May 20, 2018, 12:07:07 am »
Quote from: Lunardog15 on May 19, 2018, 04:47:18 pm
you can copy frames and ...
just check it out ok its cool
realy it is used for pixel art/gifs that are like 1 min. max
may be good for the ISG you abandoned...
(sorry for the guilt trip but do update the thing plz)
The good thing about ISGs is, you can revive them basically any time later. And hand drawing animations would probably make me spend my lifetime on the animations.
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Re: A good program to make 20-minute-ish pixel-art animations?
« Reply #9 on: May 20, 2018, 07:19:11 pm »
have you tryed it yet?
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Re: A good program to make 20-minute-ish pixel-art animations?
« Reply #10 on: May 22, 2018, 04:06:37 am »
Quote from: Lunardog15 on May 20, 2018, 07:19:11 pm
have you tryed it yet?
I do not want to draw 20 frames for 3 hours, sorry.
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Re: A good program to make 20-minute-ish pixel-art animations?
« Reply #11 on: May 25, 2018, 01:05:21 am »
Excuse me, a 20 minute long pixel art animation? I'm pretty sure that would take you months and also be the first time anyone's made a pixel art animation that's that long
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