About Juice Pirates:
Amazingly useful tool! This isn’t a typical sprite creator, this is software that you bring in assets from another software (eg. Aseprite, Inkscape, Affinity Designer etc.) and add juice, polish, Awesome Game Feel, whatever you want to call it, via super smooth (I think it could be described as procedural?) animation. The really amazing thing about this software is the fact that you can do so much with single sprites, it makes it perfect as a software for shorter game projects and gamejams, and really perfect for any game project you have a limited time/financial budget which you would rather spend on better things than doing super repetitive animation tasks for 5-10+ hours just to slightly polish a single asset. This program is that it can accomplish that same feat in a matter of several minutes to 30 mins or so depending on how complex the task, and you only need to create the base sprites to work with, saving lots of time there. If you pick this up I advise you to use it alongside another graphic creation software such as Affinity Designer for vector or Aseprite for pixel art (or to be honest whatever graphics software you are comfortable with and like using!), and you will be amazed at how much time you can save on super simple things, well worth the price. And also check out Smear FX it’s an awesome similar tool that can help you automate motion blur and smear and add even more polish and add a different variety to how you can polish your animation really quickly.
