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+# QUROGames Animation Tools
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+Tools for creating sprite animations from single-image spritesheets, for use with the MonoGame framework.
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+## Screenshots
+
+### Animation Studio
+![animation studio demo](https://github.com/quinnvoker/quro-animation-tools/blob/master/docs/images/animationstudio.png)
+
+### Sprite Map Editor
+![animation studio demo](https://github.com/quinnvoker/quro-animation-tools/blob/master/docs/images/spritemap.png)
+
+## About
+
+Written between November 2018 and January 2019 as my first foray into desktop application development using Forms. Until developing these tools, I had been hard-coding my sprite information and animation data in my projects and found the process to be very obtuse. I wished to make it more accessible for content creators to create sprite animations for use in MonoGame, so I created these tools to ease the process.
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+While I didn't end up using these tools much (I switched to Godot for game development soon after their completion), I learnt a lot about UI development and the data structures required to build simple 2D animations with multiple components.
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