Tool for testing 2D animations

[sos.martin]

Hi,

I'm working on a new platform game for iPhone. There will be several animated characters and objects and I'm trying to find some kind of software for testing animations. I would like to be able to load an image with a set of sprites and create animation based on rectangles of that image.

I'm thinking of creating my own tool for this (will be Windows based)... but there has to be something existing... so if anyone knows about such a tool I would be happy to try it out.

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I found this on a different post...
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/539087245/spriter
Anyone tried it?

[sos.martin]

http://www.aseprite.org/

[Asstasticguy]

http://www.humanbalance.net/gale/us/

You could also try this one =)
Kinda lacking in som aspects but easy to understand and use

[sos.martin]

Thanks Asstasticguy!

Just what I was looking for.

1) Select the combined image
2) Specify how many frames there are
3) Done!