Hello,

I was wondering if anyone has some resources (videos, websites, books) on different ways to give ‘life’ to sprites that lack various animations or lack any at all (as in a single sprite)

For example:

1. You can make them slightly go up and down to emulate moving or even upside down to make them dead
2. You can use weapon sprites by providing special effects or moving the sprite in particular motions on input
3. You can flip a sprite horizontally if you are missing a left or right direction.
4. Etc.

I was hoping some of you could help me provide a list of several ways to do cool stuff with limited/or no sprite animations.

I'd appreciate the help,

Thank you, and have a nice day.

PS: Perhaps I've done a bad job, but I was trying to search this topic up and didn't find anything of value. I figured someone out there must have provided various solutions and examples for many genres.