Rigster: 2D Skeletal Animation

Rigster is a 2D skeletal animation studio on your phone and tablet. Rig a character with bones, make it talk with lip sync, let hair and clothes wiggle on their own, add animated text and a background, then export a smooth 2D animation as MP4, GIF or a game-ready sprite sheet. Made for indie game developers who need character animation on the go, and for creators who want to turn their drawings into cartoon and puppet animation without drawing every frame. ■ SKELETAL RIGGING WITH BONES • Draw bones on any image, connect joints and set pivots • IK pins keep hands and feet locked to a spot while the body moves • A magnifier zooms in under your finger so every joint and mesh point lands exactly where you want ■ AUTO MESH & BIND • One tap wraps a mesh around your art and binds it to the bones drawn on it • Smart weights follow the shape, so legs that touch at the hips never pull each other • Smart mesh covers only the visible part of the image and skips transparent areas • Choose grid, radial, border and more mesh layouts, plus corrective shapes that blend in as a joint bends ■ SMART CONTROL BONES FOR FACIAL ANIMATION • One control bone drives a whole set of poses: frown, open the mouth, turn the head, swap images or fade parts • Save poses on a dial, then animate a single bone to play them all • Mirror copies a pose to the other side of the face in one tap ■ WIGGLE PHYSICS • Hair, tails, capes and skirts swing on their own as the body moves • Hair, Tail and Cloth presets, with stiffness, damping, strength and max angle controls • No keyframes needed, and the result is identical in preview and export ■ LIP SYNC & BLINKING • Switch layers hold several images on one layer • Built-in mouth set with 10 talking shapes, plus open, half and closed eyes • Tap a state on the timeline to make your character talk and blink ■ KEYFRAME ANIMATION TIMELINE • Dopesheet with one track per object • Keyframes for position, rotation, scale and image swaps • Onion skin, looping, nested animations, curve editor and undo/redo ■ ANIMATED TEXT • Add titles and captions right on the canvas, with 19 fonts • Solid or gradient colors, letter spacing, line height, bold, italic and alignment • 8 text effects: shadow, glow, echo, outline, background, neon and glitch • 12 text animations such as typewriter, bounce, pop, slide and zoom, by letter, word or line ■ BACKGROUNDS & SLIDESHOWS • Solid colors, linear or radial gradients, or your own photos • Build a photo slideshow with cut, fade, slide, push, zoom and wipe transitions • 18 ready-made backgrounds included ■ BRING IN ANY ART • Import PNG, JPG and GIF from your gallery; GIFs split into frames • Import PSD and PSB files: every layer becomes a body part • Start from ready templates: characters, props, houses and effects, some already rigged • Swap skins to reuse one bone rig for many character designs • GIF loop turns any image into a flipbook with per-frame timing ■ DRAW INSIDE THE APP • Pen, marker, pencil, brush and pixel tools, eraser, shapes and fill • Multiple frames and layers • Smart mesh warp: drag any point to stretch your drawing smoothly ■ EXPORT FOR VIDEO, SOCIAL AND GAMES • MP4 video, animated GIF and PNG sequence • Sprite sheet, atlas strip, Lottie and JSON runtime for game engines and apps • Project files to back up or move your work • Output scale from 25% to 200% ■ WHO USES RIGSTER • Indie game devs making sprite animation and game assets • YouTubers and TikTokers making talking characters and cartoon shorts • Animators who want a 2D puppet rig away from the desk • Students learning character animation Your projects stay on your device and save automatically while you work. Draw the bones, set the keys, press play. Start your first 2D skeletal animation today.

Rig 2D characters with bones, IK & mesh. Export GIF, MP4, sprite sheet & Lottie