Animated pixel art?

Hello. I have seen beautiful pixel art in the games here. I have been doing pixel art myself for some time, but it was always static. Now I think I should learn animation. I usually used Gimp to create graphics, but Gimp has close to no support for animations. So… what program do you use to create animated pixel art?

Layers, filters, or anything fancy isn’t necessary. All I need is a pencil tool, preferably a color selector, and a dynamic preview to see the animation. It seems like not much, but I don’t know any program like that. Also, I would kind of like it to be free~~~

Thanks in advance.

Comments

Osgeld
18. Jan 2013 · 01:21 UTC
Gimp handles animations fine. Yes you can get sprite animators (google around those lines) but in the end its basically the same.
pythong
18. Jan 2013 · 04:30 UTC
i also recommend graphicsgale. it has a preview for animation, and for learning, there are also a lot of youtube videos
Zelen3d
19. Jan 2013 · 00:00 UTC
Thanks Jacic and pythong for mentioning graphicsgale. Its a great lightweight program. I even worked out of the box in ubuntu using wine!