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Add to SafariWhen comparing Anima2D vs Creature, the Slant community recommends Anima2D for most people. In the question“What are the best 2D skeletal animation tools?” Anima2D is ranked 4th while Creature is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose Anima2D is:
Everything you could want from a skeletal animation system, free and because purchased by unity promises to be native in future.
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Pros
Pro Purchased by unity
Everything you could want from a skeletal animation system, free and because purchased by unity promises to be native in future.
Pro Free
Pro Spring bones
Much like spring joints native to unity, you can set bones to have dynamic spring animations based on their parents.
Pro Automated animation
One of Creature's strengths is its ability to assign motors on bones which will generate animations based on parameters set on the motors.
Pro Unity runtime always up to date
Among various game engine supported, Unity is the most up to date runtime including the most recent features, many samples, integrating well in the Unity editor.
Pro Easy to use
Creature has a simple workflow structured into 3 steps: Meshing, Rig and Animate.
Cons
Con No longer supported by Unity.
This has been merged into the 2D Animation package.
Con Uses the Unity hierarchy
It's impossible to rename your asset after making your animation, otherwise you lose dependencies.
