Hey guys!
So I was wandering, what is a good free program for making animated sprites? Anything cheap or free?
Cheers!
If you’re on windows? GraphicsGale! It’s just over $20 for the full version and it’s fantastic.
i was just really into pixel art and was using aesprite, i dunno why but on pixel level i just could not get along with Gimp but this may have been a mental block, it might have been the deluxe paint nostalgia mind
it draws to pixels, has a grid, and allows a custom palette, something fairly pointless nowadays for anything except pixel art
I found texture packer a pretty good one for packing up an animation. As for making the animation frames themselves? Well, any good animation software is a good idea 
Unless you want to have it cut up and do in-game animations with a skeleton or something.
ASEprite!!!
Pro Motion. 
Though it is a bit more aimed towards pixel artists these days.
We’re also using Illustrator for our sprite artwork.
I don’t do much sprite work these days, but I imagine Photoshop would be a great tool. Aside from just being fantastic with art, it also has an animation window which could really be helpful when designing your animated sprites.
I like Aseprite for animations and things. Pixelthello looks pretty good for tile editing, since Aseprite currently doesn’t have that yet. I haven’t actually used that one however, so I’m not sure if it’s actually as good as it looks.
Promotion. Spiritual love child of DPaint and Cyberpaint, made for making games not for web gifs.
consider this software http://spritetools.com/index.php/software
+1 to Promotion.