Sprite Puppeteer — rig, animate and play-test pixel-art sprites

Sprite Puppeteer

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Style ·

Feel preset

Animations

Motion

Speed1.00×

Exaggeration100%

Rune glow100%

Stepped frames Motion smears Dust & debris Show skeleton

Facing

Backdrop

Impact & polish

Hit-stop80 ms

Overshoot35%

Weapon drag50%

Hit-stop freezes the pose for a beat when a blow lands. Overshoot lets strikes sail past and settle. Weapon drag makes held props trail fast swings.

Smooth rotation Outline

Remove stray pixels and pinholes

Export

Frame rate Pixel scale

Frames

Directions

Format

Include dust, debris & sparks Show hit and hurt boxes on the stage

Every format carries hurtboxes, hitboxes and events per frame. GIF records the current animation with its backdrop.

Outfits & colours

Outfit

Colours

Skeleton

Body type

Weapon hand (screen side)

Drag the dots onto your character's joints. Skin weights recompute when you let go, so each area follows its nearest bone.

Show weights Preview motion

Joint blend2 px

Parts none painted

Paint over weapons, shields and flowing cloth so they stop stretching with the body.

Attach to Draw order

Brush size6 px

Cut-out parts

Stretching at the joints comes from animating one flat picture. Export the character cut into parts, one layer per bone. Paint in what each part hides behind its neighbours (Aseprite, Photoshop, Krita, Procreate…), then load it back: every part moves as a solid piece.

Keep the layer names. The hidden guides layer circles each joint: fill both parts out to the circle so nothing opens up when they turn.

Face

Mark the eyes and mouth so the character can blink, wince and shout without extra art. For drawn expressions, add a layer and set its role to Swap art.

Pick Eyes or Mouth, then paint over them on the stage.

Automatic expressions (blink in idle, wince when hit, shout on attacks)

Cloth & jiggle motion

Stiffness35%

Flutter100%

Heavy robes: more stiffness, less flutter. Capes in the wind: the reverse. Cloth hangs with gravity; jiggle parts (hair, tails, ears) keep their shape and bounce.

Glow pixels

Runes and energy pulse, flare on attacks and throw sparks.

Rig file

Save the joint layout so the team can reuse it with the same sprite.

Sprite

Camera

Direction

Look

Load a PNG or drop one on the stage. Upscaled pixel art is detected and brought back to its native grid.

Detail (longest side) Colours

Pixel size Background

Views · directions this character is drawn in

This view shows

Have the character split into layers? Load the body first, then add the cape, weapon or shield as extra PNGs of the same size. Hidden areas behind them stay intact when parts move.