Sprites:
Sprites are just 2d graphical objects, they are essentially basic textures but they uses special techniques to increase the efficiency and the convinienece of use.
Two ways of using Sprites:
- By Using Single Image Sprites
- By Using Sprite Sheets
Sprite Sheet:
A Sprite sheet is a texture containg small images with a transparent background.
Sprite Animation:
The concept of Sprite animation comes from the classic paper flip animation concept, In Sprite Animation two or more than two images gets rendered sequentially in a continuoes manner which inturn gives an animated single object.