Hopefully I'm posting this in the right place...
I have no idea if this exists, but does anyone know of a tool to do 2D animation mockups from animations in spritesheets?
Right now, we're working on a lot of different kinds of enemies. Whenever creating a new enemy, it's usually a pen and paper process to start with to figure out movement patterns, which animations are needed etc. We usually setup a dummy spritesheet with throwaway sprites in animation tracks and start prototyping things in code to get everything in place. When we're happy with the behaviour, we draw the actual sprites.
It WOULD be much nicer if, given a sprite sheet, we could prototype movements in an animation before even touching the code. Does anyone know if there's a decent tool out there for this?