Smooth out sprite animations - Interprite

This is incredible. Good job!

Have you tried using this on full-scale videoclips?

 

I meant something like the Sonic CD intro As many games from this era have videos like that.

It does have a limited palette and a 'sprite-like' look. Do you need to set a transparent bg color for it to work?

 

I honestly don't see the use for this tool.

Not only do you have to manually select each body part for every frame, but you still have to do a lot of clean up just to make the sprite look right. You're better off just drawing the sprites, as at least then it'll look more natural and you don't have to go through the extra effort to fix the extra frames.

frame interpolation just ain't very epic in general, it makes animations look real unnatural and yucky and tbh i'd rather have a good looking animation at a low frame rate vs a bad animation with a million frames

 

I dunno, I think a tool like this surely -does- have some good use. It'd be very useful for things such as boss machines!

 

Yeah, this will be great for getting the rough versions of animations made, then they can be cleaned up by hand.

 

Well, it was obvious for me that hand cleaning will always end up producing better results, I mean, that shouldn't come as a surprise. What this tool does is saving you all of the previous work, something that surely won't be under-appreciated.

 

This is a pretty awesome tool, and I will definitely find good usage of it for my projects in the long run!
If there is one I will criticize though, I didn't like the fact that all frames had to be the same height and width in order for them to be imported. I would suggest that maybe you add some sort of auto scale, so then sprites can be scaled to match the sprites in the program so then I wouldn't have to spend time scaling them manually.

I dunno about you, but I will definitely find this tool to be pretty useful, since I can't even draw. I also find it to be annoying to learn the skills of drawing just to have the ability to do something that seems very simple yet it becomes really stressful and hard. Even though you might have to clean a couple of frames after creating sprites with this program, I think its miles less time consuming than having to do it all by hand. I personally find it to be a better pay off.

 

I haven't used the tool myself yet (my current project doesn't need any sprite work) but I've been seeing Renhoex on Twitter experimenting with it and the results are really impressive! I definitely foresee me using it for tweening in the future.

 

This will massively speed up my animation process, thanks Markey! This tool is awesome and so are you for creating it.

 

This looks great. I would say the use of this tool is for a specific type of audience. For example, I am (or at least like to consider myself) good at making adjustments to existing images, but I am terrible at "creating" new images, even if using some reference. I don't think I could create an intermediate frame between 2 images at all, but no doubt I can clean an existing frame to make it look the way I want it to. (Assuming the middle ground was minimally acceptable.) So I'd say this is a great tool for people who are at a specific stage in image editing capabilities.

 

Works real nice, I can see myself using this for faster smoothing on a lot of animations w/cleanup.

 

I'd love to see this built into Aseprite like what happened with RotSprite eventually, this is an invaluable tool. Huge thanks for this!

 

Great tool! Any chance you'll cross it to win32-arm so us RT arm users can have access to it?

edit:
Just watched youtube tutorial video. So a author with British accent not supporting British architecture ARM? Maybe I'm not seeing things right?...

 

This is pretty cool! Nice job!

 

Unreal. You're fearless, Markey! Raster interpolation is one of those big unsolved problems in graphics, I'm not even sure there's been an attempt since the 90s. Super curious about the algorithms at work here.