Spine - 2D Boned Animation Utility

[finnk]

I pledged this one and Spriter and not really sure which I like more, but I just wanted to say that I don't see the joints/skeleton getting in the way of fully frame-by-framed animation. If you want, you can use these tools to manage your sprites in pieces or as one whole. It would simplify sharing animations across characters if you wanted to modify head/armor/weapons/color separately and just redraw/trace individual parts.

I figured out Spline really fast though. Had to screencapture the animation to use the sprite I made since they have it locked down for the demo. It hasn't crashed on me like Spriter has (Mac). Hope they both work better in release.

[erico]

Here is another anim tool:
http://www.celaction.com/

Again, it seems none I can find is capable of exporting its bones