Scratch Game Devlog - Create "Pro" Character Animations with this FREE Software!

I found out how to create amazing character animations to boost my next Scratch video game. This is the first episode of a Scratch Devlog series following my progress as I create a new Griffpatch original puzzle platformer game called simply "Cubes". I create a player walk cycle, an idle breathing animation, a climbing animation, and a pushing animation - What you create is up to you!!! Free Spriter & Spriter Pro let you create keyframe animated cyclic animations far easier than trying to create them by hand. Watch this video and see how I was able to make use of this software for use in my latest Scratch Game - Very excited!!!
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😺 Scratch was developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. See scratch.mit.edu
-------------Video Chapters-------------
0:00 Intro
0:55 Concept Player Art (ChatGPT)
1:49 Rigging & Animating the Player using “Spriter”
3:28 Importing the animation into Scratch
5:00 Playing back the Animations
5:44 Fixing Player Position
6:56 Climbing up a Cube
9:59 Climbing into thin air
10:43 Pushing a Cube
12:31 Outro

[@griffpatch]

Spriter Download (Brashmonkey) - brashmonkey.com/download-spriter-pro/ Scrolling Tile Platformer Series - kzbin.info/aero/PLy4zsTUHwGJIc90UaTKd-wpIH12FCSoLh Scratch Studio - Coming Soon Early Access / Channel membership - www.youtube.com/@griffpatch/join

[@leanne43678]

Hey! I love your games!

[@draxgrek9880]

im on mac and i cant download it ):

[@GDNachoo]

@TimiksOMG youtubers can add custom members-only emojis

[@Your_Average_Stickman_WasTaken]

Put dispenser here

[@Mungus_Man]

Cheese is love cheese is life

[@l.tgamingstudio2162]

I only wanted a smooth animation tutorial and here is the dev log for it. Thanks Griff!

[@stragejason]

Hi Grif, I’m not sure if you will see this, but I wanted to let you know, my son of 9 years old, screamed with excitement about your new series, your videos have inspired and helped him learn scratch and it just blows our minds. Anyways, William say hello and thank you. 😊

[@thatbuckethat]

we need to make griffpatch see this its so wholesome

[@stragejason]

@@thatbuckethat thanks Bucket :)

[@djazzmin1]

Let’s do it!

[@DaWaffleman]

Even though it might be a pain, there is a site that the name starts with vectorize that will make your sprite frames SVGs. This would fix the bitmap issue as said in the video. The best way to tackle the image vectorizer is to convert the frames into a sprite sheet and put it into the site. Then using another site that you mentioned in your first RPG devlog, split the sprite sheet and put into scratch. Just note that vectorizing does not do good with gradients like shadows.

[@slavdecepticon]

or just use scratch addons to upload HD images

[@DaWaffleman]

​@@slavdecepticon That doesn't tend to work, especially in bulk for animations.

[@NowoX3]

Hey Griffpatch! We would love to continue the tile scrolling platformer series! We wanna know what scratch is capable of!

[@mattsnows7971]

Definitely. I would prefer more tools that can be adapted or help with original projects rather than just Mario concepts. Obviously a lot of those concepts give examples on how to make you’re own, but still. Whatever we get will be great though!

[@enderfire3379]

same

[@evanlim9098]

Can’t wait for this to premiere! Looking forward to see how I can up my game quality!

[@GDNachoo]

profily

[@BookInBlackEWOW]

u like BFDI? we can collaborate I can tell you more later

[@evanlim9098]

Holy crap its gdnacho

[@BookInBlackEWOW]

​@@evanlim9098 who? oh guess it's the other one

[@barfy]

the real geometry dash nacho!!?!?!?

[@DevXP]

Wow! Those animations look so awesome! Can't wait to see the next episode!🤩

[@Chrome_Cat]

I always enjoy the dev logs and seeing how you approach problems. You made the sprite animation look quite fun actually and if I didn't have such a tight and far in advance schedule for games I will be releasing I would even consider making a 2D game again just try it myself. I look forward to your next dev log!

[@unimator]

yooo, you are the dude who made the 3D engine in Scratch !!1!1!

[@crazychicken8290]

hey its chrome cat

[@DJLENZ-CODER]

I love the way you animate and the way you make hard things seem much more easier keep on griffpatch

[@digestdig9fiut217]

Even if i dont use scratch anymore i still watch your videos, they are great

[@semtel-ym3lx]

I've been waitin for a video like this for a loong time. Thanks Griffpatch ❤

[@SecondaryGamingYT]

This is exactly the type of video I’ve been waiting for! Good luck in your journey griffpatch!

[@LowerJuggler68]

Whoa! This is so cool! Your coding skills have gone from amazing to unimaginable! I just got to see if I even have good enough animating skills, lol! Thanks Griff! (By the way, love your games!)

[@artupnami4ever]

Thanks, Griffpatch! I've always wanted to animate my characters in my games to make it more lifely. This will be very, very useful for upcoming projects of mine! You're the best :D

[@noob27081]

This is exactly what i need! Thanks for the help griffpatch

[@nayz_playz]

Hi griff! This is awesome! Every video suprises me more each time.

[@ThatCrownedKing]

THIS TUTORIAL WILL BE SO USEFUL TO PEOPLE WHO WANT BETTER LOOKING ANIMATIONS IN THEIR PROJECTS! THANKS GRIFFPATCH!

[@user-qr2sz2wr8n]

Hey Griffpatch! 🌟 Just checked out your latest project, and I'm seriously blown away! 🚀 Your coding skills are next level, man! The way you blend creativity and tech is pure genius. 🎮👨‍💻 Keep rocking those projects - you're a true inspiration to the coding community! 🙌

[@CuriousLog2979]

Keep up the good work griffpatch, I’m glad you’re feeling better! ❤️

[@titiomoaghe1132]

Yay your back! you've been a huge inspiration for me to make games, Thanks Griffpatch!

[@DragonsAreCoolScratch]

I can already see this will be an incredible game! The animations are really smooth and I now want to try making something similar myself!

[@griffpatch]

Go for it!

[@FruityFartLover]

I see u everywhere I am @blackrob183

[@sqk74]

I just started watching and I already know that this will be a masterpiece video as always

[@fantasimos]

WoW, you are a scratch GOD, griffpatch ❤ You Tutorial are awesome. The helps me many times

[@yountenjamtsho7715]

You mean GOD?

[@Abdo-the-dark]

​@@yountenjamtsho7715I think he wasn't muslim🫤

[@AGamerOnScratch-xw9vx]

you mean God? ☝️🤓

[@deepakhatwalne6241]

I have always wanted to make animations on Scratch. Now, because of you, I can Do it! Thanks!

[@rockets4lifegaming]

it's always a great day when griffpatch uploads edit: i tried to install spriter but it didn't work very well (some files were missing) edit 2: griffpatch how did you make it work

[@robinbyr976]

The goat is back, i've been waiting so much for a new video ! 🎉

[@PixelMystic124]

This looks amazing! Great job!

[@jportz69420]

This is so awesome! I love your videos griffpatch, keep up yhe good work 🔥❤️

[@petrosmathis9818]

This is so awesom, lately I've been trying to do animations but you've solved it for me! I have a request that you make a big game out of this and share it on scratch

[@ladywhyte3905]

Even though I've stopped coding on scratch I still watch your vids because they're so good.Keep up the good work

[@slothbunnyyt8289]

WHAT AN AMAZING VIDEO GRIFFPATCH TYSM :D

[@JoshKoledoye]

wowsers griffpatch you're always awesome!

[@AMAQAS_Editz]

Nice Thank you for the help! Now I can add animations to my enemy in my raycasted level you also helped me make!

[@djcervera]

He didn’t forget the tile scroller! Please, bring back the series

[@villeolof2000]

So fun! It’s so satisfying smooth!

[@Acrew_22]

You know griffpatch, you really just seem like an amazing person. I love your videos and scratch games. Thank you for making my day when I’m feeling sad.

[@FeniteFr]

Use this software is an awesome idea! Thank you Griffpatch!

[@elbert1837]

yes, another devlog that griffpatch probably will forget about like the previous ones

[@justin32149]

I've been struggling to find a good animation software and this is just the thing I need Griff patch thanks ❤

[@thatonegamer_4168]

I don’t think that this has much to do with the video but I just want to say thank you for what you do, I can’t imagine making this kind of stuff by myself so thank you for putting the time in for this. You are a good person

[@Me-ji7uq]

Can’t wait, love your content ❤

[@-Sketch-King-]

This game is really unique so far and has some potential. Although I think the blocks just need a little bit more polishing, like some sort of outline. But either way this is sick.

[@SaiponathGames]

Loved the video so much thanks Griff!

[@friz5920]

This is what I was looking for, thank you very much❤

[@sqjrhrod]

I had a combination of flu and covid over the holidays so I understand your pain, oh my god this seems so cool!! Will be tagging along :), may steal the spriter animation software for my recasting game 😭

[@aaravbahadurmathpal]

Wow i really wanted this devlog for looong time

[@leanne43678]

needed this! thanks griffpatch!

[@MintyTheGloop]

This looks so smooth I will download spriter FOR SURE

[@gojo_shadow]

@griffpatch looking forward for your amazing video❤

[@dextertheio2857]

This is accualy pretty cool! keep it up!

[@cringeSpeedrunner]

I saw this on the discord, now it’s here as a video!

[@Inkof9]

This is super helpful! I’ve been looking for a vector animation software

[@raunakqg]

Nice i was looking for this!

[@N8-Squared]

3:52 That pause caught me off guard. Like you are always so professional so to have you stutter was really funny

[@trioOFmischief]

Can’t wait!

[@VeryCrazyDude]

ooh I can't wait to see the final product

[@jennysejinlee]

You always show me the infinite possibilities of Scratch

[@itsmevvezgg5723]

GREAT VIDEO (I need a part 2 IM SO ENGAGED IN THIS!)

[@Jenaispasdinspi]

thank you griffpatch! Always wanted to do real animations for my scratch projects, I made a little yellow robot hopping around :))

[@user-kt1sk1yu3r]

If you make it so that there are two types of moveable blocks. Others are such that when you move a block from under it, it moves with it. Others, on the other hand, are those that keep the X position the same, even if a block is moved from under it. (so that it drips down)

[@Its.a.me.wavey_]

finally a good animation tutorial that wont give me a headache

[@-CosmoCode]

Hello Griffpatch! I reallt liked your mascot so I made my own too! It's currently my logo, a different version if the scratch cat. Do you like it? (Credits to Scratch Team for the original character)

[@griffpatch]

Awesome!

[@-CosmoCode]

@@griffpatch Thank You! This was originally supposed to be my custom emoji but I liked it so much that it became my logo, as well as a mascot

[@alicksukhanov3417]

Thanks for the awesome scratch tutorial!

[@-MEK-]

I can’t believe you actually did the video!

[@eason9]

Thanks man! I always wanted to make vector animations but can't find a free software to do so

[@user-sl6og6ug1h]

I love your tutorials they explain very well

[@CoconutNut100.2.0]

3:34 there is actually a scratch addon called HD uploads to solve that exact problem! It allows you to import images as vector's instead of bitmap's to get better quality.

[@lightenxiao1872]

Exactly what I needed!

[@danielalemrangg15]

you helped me so much griffpatch

[@Hujufugu]

I love your devlogs.

[@Mable321]

The premiere was awesome!

[@alexandracardoso4827]

hey griff! loved the video. i started following you not a while ago, and i consider myself a begginer in scratch, but i wanted to challenge you to make a game. A suika game, i wanted to see what your thought process is because i tried it and i just cant do it. love your work! keep going!

[@DINOCLAYFILMS]

Thanks Griffpatch for introducing this software to me 👌

[@MaliacaKit]

Fantastic video! Can't wait for Geometry Dash #13 (GD#13) It'll be worth the wait!

[@TochedGrass3742]

Hey Griffpatch. Glad your feeling better from Covid. Little off topic but someone stole my geometry dash game. Here’s some context, I made the geometry dash game and added more stuff to it like settings,skin selector and a level selector and basically almost everything else in geometry dash. I made 3 versions. Geometry dash version 1, geometry dash version 2 and my most recent geometry dash version 3. And I’m very proud of them especially version 3 I spent 3 months on it. And now someone stole my project meaning they saved it to their computer and posted it on their profile, I told him to unshare it and he didn’t and all he wrote in the credits was “thx to @(my username) for some of it”. Then it got taken down and then he told his brother to share it on his profile and told him he made it. And then I told him to unshare it but he still wouldn’t then eventually it got taken down and then he reshaped it on his profile again and said the st allowed him. Is this fair? I spent 3 months on that game and he still is getting more views than me like 23K and is telling everybody he made it

[@thatpenguin965]

Dude this is really helpful, could be used even out of scratch

[@DJLENZ-CODER]

I love it 😻

[@user-by2io7zv2t]

That is impressive for a first animation. Not bad!

[@Robloxkid37643]

Nice Job Making a Character Animations!

[@Tech_devv]

Yay a new griffpatch video!

[@Scratcher_developer]

Hey Griff, hope you get better from Covid!

[@user-ee8mz1jn4e]

you helped me griffpatch thourgh to make scratch projects that impresses my 4th other grade students 1 year ago when i was in a 4th grade student

[@Devious_Cone]

I love your videos griffpatch you are my favorite youtuber keep up the good work

[@lupus-griseo]

This man is the icon of scratch at this point

[@sonicandmarioclash]

You’re finally back! I have idea for episode 13 of the Geometry Dash tutorial. What if we could add mirror portals? Mirror portals flip the level backwards!

[@m4ttzz__]

hi Griffpatch!! following your tutorials since 2022 because they help me, even though I've mastered scratch :D

[@griffpatch]

Amazing!

[@RipVanFish09]

I assume you'll be handling the block pushing by having the blocks be tiles, and then remove that tile from the grid list once you start pushing, and having it become a solid tile again once you've finished pushing it across to the next tile. If not, then I can only imagine that objects will have collision, which would be cool to see in this engine after so long!

[@TheComputerCrasher42]

This looks really cool, I'm excited to play the full game when it's finished! By the way, do you know why the sprites were converted to bitmap in Scratch instead of vector? I wonder if the animation "bones" caused Scratch to not recognize the file as vector or something.

[@snelake]

i don’t think you can export from spriter as vector

[@betankreeper]

Holy Roly Poly Crawling in Guacamole, this is very cool

[@VolteonYT]

I really hope you feel better soon Griff

[@leoyuetube]

Never gonna give you up never seen a person like you Griffen

[@kgratia4748]

Ey

[@VXOLET_123]

Amazing tutorial! :)

[@mohammadbousssaboun151]

Hey griffpatch! Love your videos! I have seen in a video that there is à scratch addon that let’s you inport full HD images

[@enderfire3379]

thank you this is rather useful for me currently

[@christaltaylor473]

i realyy like how this game is coming together

[@LittleBlueGamer]

ayo i would love to see a continuation of tile based scrolling platformer series

[@leanne43678]

Love ur projects

[@brandonseupersad7916]

This is soo cool!

[@itsgalacticc]

Griffpatch! Continue your spider cat dev log! I really enjoyed it

[@griffpatch]

Me too!

[@itsgalacticc]

Then why don’t u continue development?

[@sharkygameworld]

He is, it just takes alooonngggg time to code so much just for it to be in a 10 min vid@@itsgalacticc

[@itsgalacticc]

@@sharkygameworld oh

[@ummdana294]

Nice progress