One Product... So Many Solutions

Sprite Studio has been designed from the ground up to provide creative content solutions not just for a single content space, but for the three following key content spaces:

World Wide Web: Create Static and Animated Banners, Web Animations and detailed Still Images in all of the foremost web formats: GIFs, JPEGs, Flash Movies and more... QuickTime: Create new, enhance existing and even custom batch-process QuickTime movies with various effects, transitions, titling, compositioning and more... Interactive Desktop: Create stand-alone, fully-interactive, animation-intensive desktop applications that run on Windows, Macintosh OSX and Classic Mac OS: edutainment, games, kiosks, CD-ROMs, presentations, UI prototypes, simulations, and more...

The Seeds of Creation

Creating content with Sprite Studio is intuitive, streamlined and easy...

Add to Sprite Studio the sound, image, font, movie and animation assets your content projects may need. You can use the following asset file types from many of the industry's leading products, including Photoshop, Flash, Director, QuickTime, Acrobat, Illustrator - even use sounds and images from the Web:

Also use:

• Anti-Aliased System Fonts, Regular, Bold or Italic, in any Size
• Animation Sequences exported directly from your Director Scores

The Breath of Life

Drag-n-drop assets as desired into your project's workspace. For each asset you drop, a sprite is created, plus an entity to hold it.

Independently configure each sprite: adjust its layer, location, opacity, colorization, frame rate, volume, its paused, enabled, visible, and looping states, its mouse and key event handling, its hit-testing, collision-detection, framing, footprint, render mode, shadow and so on.


Jazz it up with Effects

Drag-n-drop various built-in and QuickTime effects. These too become sprites you can manipulate like any other. Configure them, combine them, size them, apply them to other sprites. Blur Box Shadow Brighten Channel Swap Darken Flicker Gradient Grayscale Horizontal Flip Invert Noise Pixelize Posterize Tint Vertical Flip Brightness & Contrast Color Style Edge Detection Emboss Film Noise Fire General Convolution HSL Balance Lens Flare RGB Balance Ripple

Leverage Pre-Fab Items

Drag-n-drop Pre-Fab items, which are fully-built, fully-functional objects such as buttons, menus and scroll bars. Each instance of a Pre-Fab item can be fully customized, both visually and functionally.

Custom Appearance Customize the appearance of a Pre-Fab item by dragging any desired asset onto it. The item now uses the asset for the state you specify. Here, a round arrow image asset is being assigned to the default state of the button. The button's "Default" appearance is now:

Respond to user interaction with a Pre-Fab item through simple scripting. Customize the behavior of any Pre-Fab item by modifying or adding to its scripts.

Create Pre-Fab items of your own: build sprites, entities, even complete scenes, and save them in their entirety as Pre-Fab items you can then drag-n-drop into any project.


Powerful Layout

Visually arrange your pre-fab, effect and asset sprites and their entities to construct compelling scenes, either simple or sophisticated, static or dynamic.

Go further and add multiple sprites to entities - even place entities within entities. For each entity can hold any number of sprites, plus any number of children entities.


This powerful capability enables you to construct elaborate hierarchies, creating entire groups and sub-groups of entities and sprites that are more easily worked with than an unrelated bunch of individual elements.


Move the "Movie Player" entity, and all its contents (everything below it) move with it. Move just the "Theater" entity, and only the "Curtain," "Audience" and "Movie" sprites move with it.

Moreover, all such animation attributes in the hierarchy follow the same model: hide the "Controls" entity and its contents ("Back" and "Play") become hidden. As "Back" and "Play" become hidden, their contents ("Default", "Track In", "Disabled") in turn become hidden.

Location, layer, opacity, colorization, frame rate, volume, paused, enabled and visibility states, plus configuration of mouse and key event handling, all follow this hierarchical inheritance model.


Define Scripts

Define scripts of the various elements of your project. This allows you to programmatically direct and control virtually every aspect of your project: add program flow, logic and math. Respond to user events. Open and close scenes. Create, configure, delete sprites and entities on-the-fly. Orchestrate their movements and interactions, even send and receive messages between objects.

Sprite Studio has fully integrated Lua as its scripting language of choice. Already in use by hundreds of other products, Lua is fast, flexible, full-featured, and has garnered industry praise as both professional and yet easy-to-learn.

Sprite Studio comes with complete Lua Documentation and possesses both a built-in API Reference and an integrated Lua Studio, making it extremely easy to learn Lua and write scripts.

And with over 550 Sprite Studio API calls at your fingertips there's almost nothing that cannot be accomplished with scripts.


Experience Your Content

At any time, "run" your project. This packages and loads your project into Sprite Studio's stand-alone run-time environment, which presents your content in all its glory: your sounds play, your sprites animate, your scripts execute and you see your content fully alive and in motion.

Generate Interactive Desktop Content

If you are creating interactive desktop content, your project as it runs within Sprite Studio's run-time environment is your interactive content.

Run your project as often as you like, excersizing it, testing it, then returning to Sprite Studio to make changes and improvements, and running again. When ready, select "Create Final Build..." and Sprite Studio generates a stand-alone package (per platform) complete with your content and Sprite Studio's run-time, which you can distribute, royalty free, over the web, through email, by disc, etc.

Generate Web and QuickTime Content

If you are creating Web or QuickTime content, you do so by simply capturing your project in action. Think of it as filming your project as it runs.

Simply drag-n-drop Sprite Studio's Pre-Fab Capture Scene into your project, and run it as normal:


Open the capture scene and place and size the mini "capture window" over the content to capture. Move the control panel around as needed.


Press "Begin" and your project's playback is now seamlessly captured to disk, even as it animates. Press "End" to complete the capture, then "Generate" to convert the captured data into your desired output type and - voilà! - you now have your final output:


Output your capture as Animated GIF, JPEG Image Sequence, Sprite Studio Art Strip, Flash Movie, or QuickTime Movie. Define the capture area, rate, quality and bit-depth. Select the codec and set the playback rate and maximum frame count. Gain more precise control by managing the capture process from within scripts.

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