Spine Showcase

Spine is in use all over the world, from multibillion-dollar publishers to small game studios and indie developers. Below you can explore some of the ways Spine is used in mobile and desktop games, interactive storytelling, filmmaking, cartoons, comic books, special effects, and more.

Spine was the backbone of our art and animation pipeline on Return To Monkey Island. All the animators and artists loved using it, as it really allowed us to focus on our craft, and work fast enough that we could throw in extra ideas and polish. I just don’t think it would have been possible to make Return To Monkey Island, with it’s huge cast of animated characters, locations, and cut-scenes, using any other 2D software!Rex Crowle, Art Director for Return to Monkey Island
Spine is such a dream to use! It has been the perfect tool to bring expressive character animations into Cult of the Lamb. It’s been so great using software that doesn't crash and is well supported. We love Spine!James Pearmain, Art Director
The Spine Mesh system, allowed us to give a convincing 3D look to our designs, and to smear key poses into nervous animations.Magic Design Studios
2D animation performance is very important in Code: HARDCORE. With Spine, we control animations much more efficiently, allowing us to save time and energy building 3D-like 2D animation. We also use Spine for special effects, animation tests, and even interactive cutscenes. Louiky Mu, CEO, Producer, and Art Director
With our small team Spine was a great fit, it allowed us to create multiple fully rigged customizable game assets and actually improved our production quality. Giving us more time to focus on making fun and engaging gameplay for our Zorbit's Math Adventure series.Chuck Murphy, 2D Artist & Animator
Axe in Face 2 needed a lot of animated characters on the screen, without compromising quality or performance. We also needed the ability to change outfits for our main character with minimum effort. We accomplished all of these goals using Spine and we think that it is an excellent animation tool!Søren Lauge Boll, COO & Creative Producer
To make a great impression on kids we needed a natural and expressive animation. Spine with its smoothness and mesh deformation allowed us to achieve this without harming the development flexibility.Vyacheslav Borovik, Animator
We were able to quickly create movements for 2D characters. When revising the motion, it was helpful that we could make adjustments to bones and change timing in the dopesheet without needing to waste time redrawing, as we do for hand drawn animations.Masayuki Onoue, Director
This was our battle of Helm's Deep. Those were mass scenes we never could have done without Spine as the animation tool.Simone Grünewald, Art Director
The ability to deform 2D meshes and give depth to our 2D animations has been a revolution for us. It boosted both our production time and production value considerably.Séverin Larose
Spine is by far the most intuitive animation software I've ever used. No matter the assignment, Spine will be a part of the pipeline.Shachar Tzin, Upopa
Thanks to Spine we've made great performance in our game and minimized the size of the build as much as possible. All the characters together with the animation are less than 6% of the build size.Alexey Gulev & Alexander Titkov, Bring Me Cakes
Spine saved us hundreds of hours and megabytes of shipped assets, thanks to its skeletal animation and skins system. On top of all that, the mesh deformation allowed us to add mind blowing 3D effects to our 2D game easily.Fede Puopolo, Game Designer & Animator
To create Bulb Boy we needed about a thousand of unique grayscale animations, many of them using frame-by-frame technique. The accesiblity and flexibility of Spine made it our best choice.Szymon & Artur, Bulbware
Using Spine, we boosted our production speed while keeping the quality as high as possible.Sabri Nasit Batllo, Bee Square
Our game has dozens of heroes and hundreds of enemies in various configurations, and Spine made it a breeze to create and animate them all.Joel Kinnunen, Senior Producer

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