AniMate

Everything From Art to Animation in One App

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Import & Cut Parts

Bring in a layered PSD and the Character Wizard turns each layer into a body part, matched by name. Or import images, or start from a blank canvas and cut parts with Lasso, Marquee and Magic Erase.

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Skeleton Rigging

Draw bones, build the hierarchy, and attach parts. Add rotation constraints and two-bone IK chains, save and blend poses, and reuse skeletons as templates.

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Keyframe Animation

Pose with touch or stylus on a real timeline. Choose linear, eased, stepped, or custom bezier interpolation. Onion skinning, frame copy and paste, and named frame events for game triggers.

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Mesh Deformation

Stretch and bend parts with a lattice. Bake the result into the art, save it as a part variant, or keyframe it per animation for squash-and-stretch.

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Paintable Lighting

The Shade tool paints metal, lit, and emissive materials plus a height map onto each part, with a live lit preview. Export bakes them into normal maps, so pixel art reacts to light in-game.

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Frame-Synced Audio

Place sound clips on frames, then trim them and shape their volume in the audio editor. On Android, MP4 export mixes them in exactly on the frame.

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Scenes & Attachments

Put several characters and props in one animation, and attach a sprite to any bone so a sword follows the hand. Retarget an animation onto a different character.

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Export Anywhere

Export sprite sheets (horizontal, vertical, or grid), animated GIFs, MP4 video, JSON, or a single-file .animrig bundle for game engines.

From Tablet to Game Engine

AniMate exports .animrig, a single file that carries the skeleton, keyframes, IK chains, part textures, and lighting maps. The free, open-source Godot 4 plugin imports it as a playable character. Drop the file into your project and press play.

The runtime adds what keyframes can't:

Smooth cross-fades between any two animations
Upper and lower body playing different animations, like attacking while running
Limbs that aim at a target while still animating
Cloth and hair physics that react to real movement
Normal-mapped lighting from the maps you painted in the app

View the Plugin on GitHub

Armor painted with the Shade tool, lit in Godot.

Simple Workflow

Build the Sprite

Import a PSD or images from Procreate, Photoshop, or any art tool, and cut your character into parts.

Rig the Skeleton

Draw bones, attach parts, and add IK so limbs move naturally.

Pose keyframes, set easing and timing, and preview playback in real time.

Export

Sprite sheet, GIF, video, or a .animrig ready for Godot.

2D Skeletal Animation,
Built for Tablets