# Animate sprite from reference animation spritesheet
**URL:** https://community.aseprite.org/t/animate-sprite-from-reference-animation-spritesheet/27447
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [September 22, 2025, 4:48am UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/animate-sprite-from-reference-animation-spritesheet/27447 "2025-09-22T04:48:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@TurboD](https://community.aseprite.org/u/TurboD)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2025, 4:48am UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/animate-sprite-from-reference-animation-spritesheet/27447/1 "2025-09-22T04:48:50Z")
I bought an animation spritesheet. Now I try to animate my character sprite as it is animated character in reference spritesheet. Is there any tutorial how to do this, or even a script to help with animating from animation sequence (PixelLab has this, but is not free 🤨 ).
Thx.
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### Author:  [@smeargletail](https://community.aseprite.org/u/smeargletail)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2025, 2:21am UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/animate-sprite-from-reference-animation-spritesheet/27447/2 "2025-09-23T02:21:38Z")
I think I know what you mean. File\>import\>import sprite sheet\> then you just have to divide the sprite by how many sections there are like if you have 4 sprites in a collomn and 4 in a row you’d set it to that then press import.
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### Author:  [@TurboD](https://community.aseprite.org/u/TurboD)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2025, 6:54pm UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/animate-sprite-from-reference-animation-spritesheet/27447/3 "2025-09-23T18:54:17Z")
No, I didn’t mean this. I want to animate my sprite according to the animated character template ( [2D Pixel Art Character Template Asset Pack by ZeggyGames](https://zegley.itch.io/2d-platformermetroidvania-asset-pack) ). I want to move my sprite the same as the character from the template.