Sprites now have preDestroy method, which is called automatically by destroy. The method destroys the Animation component, unregistering the remove event in the process and freeing-up resources. Fix #4051

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 ### Bug Fixes
 
 * GameObjects added to and removed from Containers no longer listen for the `shutdown` event at all (thanks Vitali)
+* Sprites now have `preDestroy` method, which is called automatically by `destroy`. The method destroys the Animation component, unregistering the `remove` event in the process and freeing-up resources. Fix #4051 (thanks @Aveyder)
 
 ### Examples, Documentation and TypeScript
 

src/gameobjects/sprite/Sprite.js

@@ -153,6 +153,20 @@ var Sprite = new Class({
         //  Extra Sprite data is added here
 
         return data;
+    },
+
+    /**
+     * Handles the pre-destroy step for the Sprite, which removes the Animation component.
+     *
+     * @method Phaser.GameObjects.Sprite#preDestroy
+     * @private
+     * @since 3.14.0
+     */
+    preDestroy: function ()
+    {
+        this.anims.destroy();
+
+        this.anims = undefined;
     }
 
 });