[jcoppola]

Update: A free version of the app Animate2D Lite is available on google play. The Lite version will not allow you to save, but it will allow you to test drive the app before deciding whether or it's for you.

Hey fellow game dev'er and artists. Would be nice to do animations for games on the fly right? Whether on a toilet, long road trip, or lunch break at work. There is a tool that will allow you to create character game loops intended primarily for game developers and import that content into a mobile platform. Animate2D available today in google play. And runs pretty sweet on my g nex.

After having a few casual users evaluate the debug build prerelease, I realized I dipped heavily into the technical aspects of animation transformations a bit too far for the average guy. But in the same sense I feel a few more advanced tools will be necessary to complete the app and some tools that overlap both user groups. And they will come soon but I need a break and need to see if there is a market of such a tool to make it worth going forward.

Please let me know what you think of it. You can read more from the blog: http://animate2d.blogspot.com
I'm going on a two week vacation. After getting back I will work on tuning it for the apple review board.

Features include:

• Onion Skinning
• Pinch Zoom
• Angle transformations
• Anchor transformations
• Angle Pinning
• Position Pinning
• Rotate about node
• Rotate self
• Position self
• Rotate self and children
• Position self and children
• Flip X
• Flip Y
• Flip Distance Node Normal
• Z Order Switching
• Xray mode
• Frame Viewer for Navigation
• Propagate Delta Forward - to transform across frames
• Propagate Delta Backward - to transform across frames
• Undo Single Step
• Insert Frame Forward
• Insert Frame Backward
• Step Forward
• Step Backward
• Slow Down
• Speed/Up
• Play/Pause
• Cue First Frame
• Cue Last Frame
• Save
• Animation Collection Explorer - with copy paste trash can functionality
• Cutout Hierarchy Editor
• PNG Import from /sdcard/Download provided PNGs are 90K or less in size.

Development APIs in game usage currently available in WiEngine, more coming soon

Enjoy.