Drawing Sprites

[XxPrOdiGyxX]

I know I could just google some but I wanted to know what people that draw sprites recommend.

 

[Markbnj]

Sprites are just bitmaps, usually with transparent regions, so I assume that professionals use existing paint packages. About the only thing I could see a tool adding to the workflow would be the ability to flip back and forth in the frame set and check the animation smoothness, but I think Photoshop and other paint tools already have some capability for you to do that (i.e. you can quickly save a range of images as an animated .gif and play it back, or something along those lines).

Edit: I also remember tools that used morphing to auto-generate bitmaps between keyframes, so maybe you're looking for something along those lines? Another point: some of the sprite animation you see is actually image-capped from animated 3D models.

 

[BadRobot]

photoshop

 

[invidia]

Paint.NET

GIMP

are some open source alternatives to photoshop.

 

[manko]

Maybe Tile Studio for old school 2D maps, sprites and icons.

http://tilestudio.sourceforge.net/drawing.html

 

[Modelworks]

Very useful texturing app:
http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/index.htm

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

GIMP is very powerful.