Flipbook Animator

The Flipbook Animator is an avatar that is remixable. It uses a remixable image sheet of several sprites. Sprites are small graphics that are used to produce animated effects.

Remixing this avatar requires the use of an external image editor, preferably one that can do PNG images with a transparent background. Only PNG and GIF image types can have transparency. The Whirled image editor can be used, but will be more difficult to use for detailed editing of the tiny sprite images.

Basic Customization of the Sprites
Sprite sheets are evenly divided into sections for each separate sprite using the width of the widest sprite and the height of the tallest sprite for the size of the cells. The avatar numbers the sprites from left to right and top to bottom.

The default image is 3x6 sprites with a transparent background. The sprite sheet is used for the four default states: Default, Run, Hide, and Cry. Each of those actions uses three sprites in the following sequences:

Default: 1, 2, 3, 2 Run: 4, 5, 6, 5 Hide: 7, 8, 9, 8 Cry: 16, 17, 16, 17, 18, 17

There are two options for quick remixing:

1. Edit the original sprite sheet and fill in the spots with new sprites that are 32x32 pixels or smaller, remembering to keep the background transparent. 2. Create your own sprite sheet image 3x6 sprites in size with a transparent background.

Note that your sheet can have sprites of any rectangular size as long as you update the 'width' and 'height' remix options to your new sheet dimensions.

Tracks
This part of the remix is the animation data file. Tracks refer to sprites on the sheet used to set up animations.

The default tracks information is:





 



By editing the tracks, you can rename states and add more states.

Other Links

 * Open source code of the avatar
 * Discussion thread with questions about the Flipbook Animator avatar
 * - Group for discussing remixable items
 * Charas Remix - A simpler sprite avatar using sprites from the Charas maker website
 * Advanced Flipbook Animator - A more advanced version of the flipbook animator. Featuring different move, speak, and idle animations for each state, transitions, and LSA.
 * - Group for discussing the Flipbook Animator (including the Advanced).