Sprite Animation

Sprite animation typically refers to an animated movie, mostly made up of 2D assets (sprites) extracted from video games. Due to that focus, sprite animations may be considered yet another type of fan work (fangames being a very similar idea), though that isn't always the case—some sprite animations do use completely original assets, though those often are inspired by video games anyway.

Sometimes, they are also called "sprite movies", or fairly generic terms such as "video game parodies".

= Other uses of the term =

Elsewhere (that is, outside of the circles discussed in this wiki), "sprite animation" may refer to different (although related) concepts. One example is in game development, where it may usually refer to a system geared towards displaying image sequences or "flipbooks":
 * https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/2d/2d_sprite_animation.html
 * https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/introduction-to-sprite-animations
 * https://defold.com/ref/sprite/