Of Mice and Pen: Pirate Art - The Game Maker's Companion: Game Development - page 231

Figure 10-9. Anime Studio Debut version 7 provides a cheap way of creating great-looking 2D animations
Figure 10-10. The animation pipeline for Shadows on Deck
Anime Studio renders each animation as a movie file that you can then import back into
Photoshop and render it out again as a sequence of .png images compatible with Game Maker.
Figure 10-10 gives an overview of the overall process, but we show you how to do it step-by-step
in the section on Art Integration.
Environments
The asset pipeline for environment art is a little more straightforward than for animated
characters. In fact, you can just resize some of the artwork and export it as .png files that will load
straight into Game Maker. Nonetheless, a significant portion of the background artwork needs to
be put into a format that is compatible with Game Maker's tileset system. This means breaking