Animation & Spritesheets
A sprite is a single graphic image. It can be moved around the screen, stretched, rotated, skewed, faded and tinted. A spritesheet is a collection of sprites into a single texture file. This makes it easy to animate a single sprite by changing the sprite's displayed frame in sequence over a specified duration. Just like a movie reel, a spritesheet can create the illusion of motion. A benefit of packing your sprites into a spritesheet is that you can really optimize the texture memory required by your game. Extra spacing around your sprites can be automatically trimmed from the texture and then