Make 8-Bit Art! VS Juice FX

I used a website called Make 8-bit Art to make the 8-bit stuff and Dream by WOMBO to make the painting-like backgrounds. Source: almost 2 years ago

I design everything on paper, then use Krita to draw the assets. I am learning how to use Juice FX to make some simple animations for the game, too. Source: almost 2 years ago

I really like JuiceFX from CodeManu, awesome little tool to add a bunch of basic animations to sprites. I am not great at art and my current project is still very early, but even with my stupidly simple sprites, adding some animations makes it feel way closer. Source: almost 2 years ago

Most likely https://codemanu.itch.io/particle-fx-designer and https://codemanu.itch.io/juicefx :). Source: almost 2 years ago

You could probably get away with using something like https://codemanu.itch.io/juicefx to generate the explosion then you just use that sprite. Source: about 2 years ago

I think Juice FX might work for this. Not quite as easy as how you describe, but also much more powerful than just rotating. That said, unless you’re trying to do pixel perfect rotations, probably best to do it in engine as others have said. Source: over 2 years ago