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Lospec News9 hours ago

New Ads System, No More Third Party Ads

I have created a new system for ads on Lospec, which might not sound very exciting or cool, but I promise it will improve your expirience!

Before this we had programatic ads from various ad networks, and there's a few problems with that: they track you, they're completely irrelevant and often scams, they force annoying cookie confirmation popups, they cause weird page loading bugs, they don't fit the layout of the site well, they are distracting. And ads just suck, they are so annoying. I didn't want them either, but unfortunately websites cost money to run.

At first it was worth it because they were making a decent amount of money which helped offset server costs, but over this year the amount they earned was steadily declining. It was getting harder and harder to justify how annoying they were.

So now they have been removed and replaced with a new system! A much less annoying system!

The New Ad System

The new Lospec ad system is built into the site, and powered by our existing patreon subscriptions. Patrons can upload a 256x256 image ad with a link to their website that will get shown in various places across the site. To keep the ads relevant, we are restricting them to things that use low-spec art, or are related to art or games.

Site wide ads are for now restricted to the top patreon tier (dragon), but users of any tier can upload an ad to be displayed on their own profile and content they submitted. A small percentage is also reserved for Lospec-related self ads.

Ads views are divided up evenly between all dragon-level patrons, and then between all of their active ads. There is a new ads page where you can manage your ads and see how many impressions and clicks they each got.

If you are interested, check out the sponsor page. If you want to ensure your ad is suitable before joining, you can submit it through that page and wait for it to be approved, or you can contact me through email or discord for more information.

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Latest CollabApril 8, 2025

Collabers check out the next collab, over in our new bulletin-board channel!

# https://discord.com/channels/506164002003484673/1359143258017501265

all future collabs will take place there, and you can now more easily host your own!

you can also receive pixels for starting collabs here: 100P+ Host a Collab

this channel will soon be archived.

Collab discussion takes place on our discord, join the server to participate!

Discord Thread

ArticleOctober 17, 2024

The Final Nail In X's Coffin - Rise of the Bluesky

I'm sure by now you've heard of the downfall of twitter, one of the already most controversial websites. In April 2022, the 2nd generation Apartheid billionaire Elmo Musk bought the website for $44 billion dollars.

Since then, Leon has made a series of changes to the site, which made it clear his mission was never to improve the website, but instead mold it into his own personal playground, that reflected his world views and prioritized protecting "free speech" (hate speech) and

With each change he made, the site got more toxic as more good people left, and now it has become far more toxic than it ever was before (and it already had a reputation for being a horrible place).

Yesterday Twitter announced some changes to their Terms of Service which removed the ability for users to opt out of allowing their content to be used to train twitters AI product, Grock.

In response, Lospec has decided to remove it's social media links to these platforms. So if you look at the footer of Lospec now, you'll see Bluesky and Mastodon have replaced the Twitter and Reddit links. We've also changed the hashtag links on palette pages to prioritize other social media websites - and will remove X in a few months when the last few stragglers finally admit that it's dead.

In the meantime, we highly reccomend moving your social media presense to Bluesky - which has had a huge bump in users over the past day due to these changes - or Mastodon another great well-established option.

For similar reasons (forced AI training, shutting down of APIs, toxic user behavior) we've also shut down the /r/Lospec feed on Reddit, disassociated from /r/PixelArt and will no longer cater to that website.

If you log into Lospec via Twitter or Reddit, I highly reccomend you switch to using another platform such as Discord or Reddit, just to be safe.

Hopefully this is not the end of good social media, but rather the beginning.

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Latest News

New Ads System, No More Third Party Ads

posted by skeddles 9 hours ago in lospec-updates 0

I have created a new system for ads on Lospec, which might not sound very exciting or cool, but I promise it will improve your expirience!

So now they have been removed and replaced with a new system! A much less annoying system!

The New Ad System

New Gallery Thumbnails and Palette Linking

posted by skeddles November 4 in lospec-updates 4

I've done an overhaul of thumbnails for art pieces on Lospec! Thumbnails used to be forced to exactly 256x256, which was very rigid and too large for places other than the homepage. It also meant saving enlarged versions for pieces that didn't need it, and multiple sizes for things like notifications. They also didn't stay pixel perfect on monitors with different DPRs.

Better Scaling

Now thumbnails are no longer scaled up, but instead just cropped to the pixels that you see, and scaled up via code. This also lets them be displayed at different sizes, so they can stay perfectly crisp on any DPR, and fit better on other pages. I've also added some half-size rows to the homepage, so we can surface more art, instead of it quickly getting buried in the gallery list. This also fixes a bug on the homepage where if you pinned the new sidebar menu open, the thumbnails would get pushed into more rows than they should.

Not important, but they also now have curved corners, like most other elements on the site. Cute, huh?

Art on Palette Pages

Yes, we finally have gallery pieces on the palette list! On every palette page you will see a new Art Using This Palette section, which lists the best art using that palette, with a link to see more.

No More Broken Thumbnails

I've also fixed a longstanding bug that was a major cause for broken thumbnails: their paths included your username, so if you changed your username, all the thumbnails in your gallery would break. Now it moves them to your new username.

Text Editor and Formatting Updates

posted by skeddles October 2 in lospec-updates 5

I've done a few updates to the editor that's used for long pieces of text in forms across the site.

Formatting Bar

First, the formatting bar at the top will now stick on screen as you scroll down, so you don't have to keep scrolling up while formatting a long post.

New Buttons

Next I've added a few new buttons to the formatting bar: headings and lists. Headings have two sizes, H2 and H3. I didn't allow H1 because that's typically generated automatically at the top of pages. You can also now create lists, both numbered and unnumbered. These are currently only enabled in a few places:

Articles (like this one)
Software Page Descriptions
Software Update Posts

I feel they aren't really necessary to have on other places like gallery pages, but they could be enabled anywhere if needed.

You can create these with the new buttons, or type in the shortcuts at the start of a line such as a number or dash, or ## / ### for headings.

Emoji Picker

Lastly, the emoji picker has had a visual update. It's now larger and cleaner, plus there's a search bar for finding emojis by name. And if you hadn't noticed lately, it also now imports all of the emojis from our Emoji Archive. The other emoji styles feel a bit inadequate now, so I may either remove them or try to expand the selection with new sets.

Lospec Website Navigation Menu Overhaul

posted by skeddles September 19 in lospec-updates 6

The navigation menu on the top of the website has been completely redone. It now stretches across the full width of the page. Lospec was designed in an era when most monitors were the same size, and we had only a few pages. The pages that did exist were all made to conform to this small width, which was optimized for articles. As we’ve added more pages, more and more broke free from this standard page width, so the top navigation being that wide mattered less. We’ve also added more and more links which get hidden because only a few could be seen at the top. You will now see many more links across the top. Unless you’re on mobile, then you’ll see less, haha.

I’ve also added an entirely new sidebar menu. Once you click the menu button (the three lines icon that looks nothing like a hamburger), you’ll see that the extra links no longer open below the top menu, but instead on a vertical menu that pops in from the right. This gives a place for all the important links on Lospec, including everything that was in the menu before, plus everything on the resource page and footer. If you scroll down, even more links will be loaded. Some say it goes on forever. If you want, it can be pinned open so it’s always there when you need it (like a good drug).

This new navigation works much better on mobile. It also replaces our previous PWA sidebar, and the secret mod menu that you’ve never heard about before.

This is part of an ongoing project to improve Lospec’s experience on mobile devices. Maybe we’ll even get a real app one day.

The Lospec Low-Spec Software Page Is Now Live!

posted by skeddles September 12 in lospec-updates 5

The Pixel Art Software List was a popular Lospec page that's been around since the beginning. It was a simple list of pixel art editors, with a list of their features. It wasn't super special, but it seemed to get a lot of use over the years. Unfortunately it was hand coded which made it a pain to update, especially with images. When we launched there was only a small handful of pixel editors, but that number has grown significantly over the years, and shows no signs of slowing down. We also had a similar Voxel Art Software List along the same lines.

Today we launch the Lospec Software page. This allows anyone to submit a page for low-spec related software of any kind. This supports not just pixel art and voxel art, but also chiptune, textmode, and more. And there are lots of subcategories so it's not just the big editors, but any related tools. Artists can follow the software pages to get updates and also attatch a piece of software to each submission in the Gallery. Their art will then be featured on the software page.

Users can also submit their own screenshots to any software page.

Please help us fill out this list by submitting additional software, liking and commenting on your favorites, and submitting screenshots!

If know a developer of some low-spec software, tell them about our new page! When a software is claimed by the developer, it allows them to post updates which notify all the followers, as well as approve and change the order of screenshots.

This update also brings some quality of life updates to all Lospec search forms. First, they now have a global search field, where you can search not only for content by name, but also by filters which prefill in the fields for you. We also allow you to hide these fields for a cleaner expirience. Next sorting options have been moved to the top right of the results, rather than being grouped with the filters. There you'll also see an option to change the loading mechanism from infinite autoload to pagination, if you prefer. And lastly on some pages (just software for now) there will be multiple ways to display the content you're looking at, and there will be dropdown there to switch. Note that these changes do not affect the palette list, as it's still on the old system, but we're now one step closer to Palette List v2.

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Pixel Art Tutorials

500 tutorials!

The biggest collection of pixel art tutorials on the net! Search by topic, author or medium to find the perfect article, video, image or book for you.

Palette List

4500 palettes!

A searchable collection of palettes for pixel art. Every palette can be downloaded in 6 different formats, and imported into nearly any software used to create pixel art.

Discord Community

An active community of all kinds of low-spec artists. Get feedback, share progress, join our daily art streams, play games, argue about the definition of pixel art, and much more!

Twitter Pixel Art Uploader

This tool makes uploading pixel art to twitter a breeze! Paste or drop your pixel art and we'll scale it, add transparency to prevent JPEG compression and then generate a tweet which you can post with the click of a button!

Pixel Art Image Hosting

Upload your pixel art to Lospec and share it without compression! Viewers will be able to easily zoom in and out on your art right in their browser, on a clutter-free interface that focuses on your image.

Pixel Art: Where to Start

An introduction to pixel art for complete beginners, it guides you through the basic steps to begin creating pixel art and improving from there.

Pixel Art Software List

A list of popular pixel art creation software to help you compare and choose the right one for you.

Pixel Art Communities

A list of the biggest and best online communities where you can find and post pixel art.

PNG Crusher

Compresses PNG files to get the smallest filesize and optimized display in all browsers.

Pixel Art Scaler

Scale up your pixel art without blurring for easier sharing. Now faster and easier to use! Also experiment with different scaling algorithms.

Pixel Art Rotator

New!

Rotate your pixel art to any angle without the noisy edges of normal rotation, using clean algorithms like RotSprite and cleanEdge.

Parallaxer by Jaman

Create a scrolling pixel art animation out of a few layers!

Palette Quantizer

Reduce an image to a specific palette.

Palette Identifier

New!

Upload an image or paste colors to find out which existing Lospec palette it matches.

Dither Pattern Generator

New!

Generate a grayscale dithering ramp from any number of shades and pattern.

Procedural Pixel Art Generator

Create a template to generate randomized sprites.

DawnBringer Palette Analyser

Gain insight into how a palette covers the color spectrum.

Censor Palette Analyser

Another take on visualizing how the colors of a palette are distributed.

Lospec Blender Toolkit

A collection of tools for creating art in blender, such as pixel art filters, materials, generators and more.

Voxel Art Software List

A list of popular voxel art creation software to help you compare and choose the right one for you.

You can also find these organized by category on our Resources page!

What is Lospec?

Lospec is an independent website, created in in 2017 by a bird named skeddles. It was founded on the idea that the internet needs a more modern place to share pixel art, and other similar but less represented art forms. When we launched we only had the palette list and the Lospec Pixel Editor, but over the years we've added many more tools and features. In January of 2020 we launched our first kickstarter, to help fund the Lospec Gallery. After 2 years the gallery was finally released in January of 2023, and continues to be updated with new features and improvements. Our mission to continue to improve the site and add new tools and features that help people create and share art. We are funded mainly by donations, so if you believe in what we're doing please considering becoming a member of our patreon (which will let you browse the site ad-free). (Learn Even More)

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Perler Bead Maker

Web tool that converts an image into a fuse-bead (Perler/Hama) grid preview.

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Perler Bead Maker
Web tool that converts an image into a fuse-bead (Perler/Hama) grid preview.

Free Pixel Art Converters & Scalers Active

Web tool that converts an image into a fuse-bead (Perler/Hama) grid preview. Input formats are JPG, PNG and WebP up to 8 MB. Grid presets are 29×29, 58×58 and 87×87. It has an adjustable color limit, optional edge enhancement, and near-white background removal (beta). It uses a 103-color approximate community bead palette. Preview modes are bead and pixel. Processing happens in the browser. The free export is a watermarked PNG preview; no full chart or PDF export.

Features:image conversion palette

Web Browser

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Pixel Art Bench

Free browser pixel art studio — draw, convert images to pixel art, and export sprites.

Free

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Pixel Art Bench
Free browser pixel art studio — draw, convert images to pixel art, and export sprites.

Free Pixel Art Converters & Scalers Lighting & Normal Map Tools Editors Unknown

Pixel Art Bench is a free web-based set of pixel art tools that runs in the browser. It includes a pixel art editor for drawing on a grid with brush, eraser and colour picker tools, a converter that turns uploaded images into pixel art, a tool that converts sprite sheets to GIF files, and a normal map generator. Drawings can be exported as PNG files with nearest-neighbour scaling. Processing takes place locally in the browser.

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Make Sprite Sheet

A browser-based sprite sheet maker, splitter, and GIF converter for 2D pixel art.

Free

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Make Sprite Sheet
A browser-based sprite sheet maker, splitter, and GIF converter for 2D pixel art.

Free Pixel Art Animation Tools Converters & Scalers Utilities Active

Make Sprite Sheet is a browser-based utility for assembling, splitting, and converting 2D sprite sheets locally without uploading files to a server.
It supports packing up to 256 PNG, WebP, or GIF frames (up to 20 MB per file) into a grid layout, adjusting columns, padding, and spacing, previewing frame-by-frame animations at custom FPS, and exporting a transparent PNG sprite sheet alongside a JSON atlas compatible with 2D game engines such as Godot, Unity, and Phaser. It also includes tools for converting animated GIFs into sprite sheets and splitting existing sprite sheets back into individual frames.

Features:sprite sheet animation gif converter sprite splitter json atlas

Web Browser

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Spritefold for Aseprite

Exports RPG Maker MV and MZ battler and character sheets from tagged Aseprite animations.

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Spritefold for Aseprite
Exports RPG Maker MV and MZ battler and character sheets from tagged Aseprite animations.

Paid $5 Pixel Art Converters & Scalers Active

Spritefold for Aseprite adds two commands to Aseprite's File > Export menu for RPG Maker MV and MZ.
RPG Maker Battler Sheet reads an animation's tags by pose name (Idle, Attack, Hurt, Spell, Victory, Dead and the other side-view poses, plus alternative names such as Slash or KO) and arranges the 18 poses, three frames each, in RPG Maker's 9 x 6 side-view battler layout for the img/sv_actors folder. Poses without a tag use the Idle frames. Options: flip art that faces right, pad cells to 64 x 64, and scale 1x to 4x. A preview plays the poses at RPG Maker's battle speed.
RPG Maker Character Sheet turns walk tags (down, left, right, up) or a 12-frame timeline into a single-character sheet, or into one slot of an eight-character sheet. It reads 3-, 4- and 9-frame walk cycles and can use the left walk flipped for the right. It can also name the file with RPG Maker's ! prefix, which marks objects such as doors.
It needs Aseprite 1.3 or later and does not modify the sprite.

Features:sprite sheet export animation preview rpg maker

Windows macOS Linux Aseprite Extension

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SpriteLathe

Builds a small 3D model from front, side and top pixel-art views and draws it as an 8- or 16-direction sprite sheet.

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SpriteLathe
Builds a small 3D model from front, side and top pixel-art views and draws it as an 8- or 16-direction sprite sheet.

Paid $9.99 one-time; free browser try without the sheet export Pixel Art 3D Tools Active

SpriteLathe builds a small voxel model from the views you draw (front, side and top, plus the back and the other side if you have them) and draws it from every angle as one sprite sheet.
It has two build modes. ROUND is for props: each height level follows the top view's outline, scaled to that row of the front and side views, so pots, barrels and columns stay round from every angle. CARVE is for characters and boxy objects: it keeps the voxels where all your views agree.
The export is a PNG sheet of 8 or 16 equal frames in one row, with the empty pixels kept so every frame lines up, plus a JSON file with the frame size and each frame's angle. Options: a camera angle from 0 to 60 degrees, an optional 1 px outline in the darkest colour, and export scale 1x to 8x. Only colours from your drawings are used, and no shading is added.
It runs offline as a single HTML file in a desktop browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari), and nothing is uploaded.
Limits: one pose per sheet (no animation frames). In ROUND mode, handles and spouts become a ring around the body. Details drawn only on the front show from every side. In CARVE mode, a part drawn in only one view can come back trimmed.
The code was written with an AI assistant. The tool doesn't use AI on images: the 3D shape comes from your pixels by geometry.

Features:8 directions 16 directions sprite sheet voxel model round mode outline palette preserving json export

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Chameleon – Sprite Recolor & Palette Tool for Aseprite

Your Sprites. Your Colors. Your Control.

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Chameleon – Sprite Recolor & Palette Tool for Aseprite
Your Sprites. Your Colors. Your Control.

Paid Pixel Art Editors Palette Tools Active

Hey everyone!

I’ve been working on an Aseprite extension called Chameleon, designed to make recoloring sprites faster, easier, and more flexible.

Chameleon allows you to automatically transform sprite colors using 12 different filters, with adjustable intensity and customizable settings.

✨ Features

* 12 color transformation filters.
* Adjustable effect intensity.
* Custom color adjustments.
* Color Locking: Protect specific colors so they won’t be affected by the recoloring process.
* Automatic recoloring of multiple pixels.
* Outline color control and customization.
* Preview your changes before applying them.
* Designed to speed up your pixel art workflow.

Whether you’re creating alternative character palettes, experimenting with different color schemes, or recoloring existing sprites, Chameleon gives you more control while saving time.

I’m sharing it here because I’d love to hear your feedback and see what other pixel artists think!

🦎 Get Chameleon here:

https://felipemartinsdev.itch.io/camaleão

Thanks for checking it out! ❤️

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Chromaticity

JAB color picker and gradient maker

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Chromaticity
JAB color picker and gradient maker

Free Open Source Palettes Palette Tools Palette Creation Tools Unknown

Chromaticity is a color picker that allows selection in the popular RGB space, and also the more perceptually uniform color spaces CIE Lab and Jab. The software has the ability to create gradients in any of these three color spaces, which makes them look more realistic.

Web Browser

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Pico Image Tool

Small image conversion, resizing, color reduction, palette conversion tool for retro game development.

Free

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Pico Image Tool
Small image conversion, resizing, color reduction, palette conversion tool for retro game development.

Free Pixel Art Palette Tools Converters & Scalers Utilities Active

PicoImageTool is a lightweight, portable application designed for preparing graphics for retro computers, embedded systems, and other hardware with limited display capabilities.
The application provides tools for image resizing, color quantization, palette management, and dithering, allowing modern images to be converted into formats suitable for low-color and indexed graphics systems.
PicoImageTool was originally developed in late 2025 as a small internal utility for Raspberry Pi Pico (hence the name) projects using VGA output.
The initial purpose was to convert PNG images into raw indexed graphics data while maintaining a separate, unified palette.
What began as a simple hand written project-specific tool has since evolved into a more versatile image conversion utility, with an improved interface, additional processing algorithms, and support for retro image formats. Currently its mostly vibe coded using Codex.
It's completely free and requires no installation.
Requirements: .NET 10 Desktop Runtime x64

Features:palette manipulation image conversion dithering png export retro constraints color replacement color reduction

Windows

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Spritefold

Browser tool that rearranges character sprites from other layouts into RPG Maker MV and MZ character sheets.

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Spritefold
Browser tool that rearranges character sprites from other layouts into RPG Maker MV and MZ character sheets.

Freemium Free in the browser; $9 full version Pixel Art Converters & Scalers Active

Spritefold rearranges character sprites into the sheet layout RPG Maker MV and MZ use: three frames by four directions per character, up to eight characters per sheet.
It starts from a common layout (4-frame walk strips, LPC walk rows or RPG Maker order) or a custom grid where you pick which cell plays each frame, and previews the walk at RPG Maker's default speed. 32 px art can be padded to 48 x 48 or scaled 2x. The right-facing row can be the left row flipped. It reads PNG, GIF and WebP and exports PNG with transparency.
It runs in the browser. The free version on its itch.io page exports one character at a time; the paid version, an HTML file that also works offline, adds batch export of a whole pack, eight-character sheets, saved mappings and object sheets.

Features:sprite sheet export animation preview rpg maker

Web Browser

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Pixlove

A free browser pixel-art editor with animation, an offline mode and a community gallery.

Free

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Pixel Art

Pixlove
A free browser pixel-art editor with animation, an offline mode and a community gallery.

Free Pixel Art Editors Animation Tools Active

Pixlove is a pixel-art editor that runs in the web browser and can be installed as an offline app (PWA), so drawings stay on the device without an account. It covers the usual sprite workflow: layers, animation frames with onion skinning, a timeline, palettes, selection and transform tools, and editable text layers set in pixel fonts. Work can be exported as PNG, GIF or sprite sheets, or saved in its own project format.
With a free account, finished pieces can be published to a community gallery, entered in weekly challenges or drawn on together in live rooms. A built-in Academy teaches pixel-art basics in short step-by-step lessons, which makes it a fit for beginners. The interface is available in 10 languages.

Features:layers animation onion skinning text sprite sheet export gif export offline community

Web Browser

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Pixel Galion

Pixel art and animation editor that runs in the browser, part of the free GalionToon art suite.

Free

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Pixel Art

Pixel Galion
Pixel art and animation editor that runs in the browser, part of the free GalionToon art suite.

Free Pixel Art Editors Animation Tools Tile & Map Editors Active

Pixel Galion is a pixel art and animation editor that runs in the web browser. It is one of the tools in GalionToon, a free art suite made by a solo developer.
It covers sprite drawing with pixel-perfect lines, symmetry and dithering, layers, frame-by-frame animation with onion skinning, indexed color palettes, lighting, tilesets and sprite sheet export.
No account is required. It can be installed as a web app and used offline, and files stay on the user's computer. The interface is available in English, Spanish and French.

Features:layers animation onion skinning indexed color dithering symmetry tilesets sprite sheets pixel perfect

Web Browser

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Pixelithra

Pixel art and animation editor with editable curves, shapes and linked fills.

Paid

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Pixel Art

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Pixelithra
Pixel art and animation editor with editable curves, shapes and linked fills.

Paid $9.99 once. Free 14-day trial. Free student licenses. Pixel Art Editors Animation Tools Active

Pixelithra is a pixel art and frame animation editor for Windows. It combines raster drawing with editable lines, curves and shapes. Linked fills follow changes to their boundaries, so artists can adjust an outline without rebuilding its fill. Native .pxlithra projects preserve these elements alongside layers, palettes, animation frames and timing.
Drawing tools include Pencil and Eraser with Pixel-Perfect options, palette-step shading, fills, gradients and dithering. The editor also provides selections, raster transformations and a workspace with docked panels or freely arranged floating modules.
Export options include PNG, JPEG, animated GIF, sprite sheets and PNG sequences. Photoshop PSD/PSB and Aseprite ASE/ASEPRITE import and export support subsets of those formats. Editable paths and linked fills are rasterized in external copies, while native projects keep them editable. Tilemaps are not supported.
Pixelithra is a portable Windows x64 application with interfaces in English, French and Japanese. A one-time purchase provides a permanent license with all future updates included.
The free 14-day trial includes all tools, saving and export, and works offline without an account. Purchased licenses work offline after initial itch.io activation.
Students can request a free permanent license for personal or commercial projects, with all tools and future updates included. The license remains valid after their studies.

Features:layers palette manipulation sprite sheet export onion skinning custom brushes dithering sprite editor gif export png export animation

Windows

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pxl.party

a website for drawing pixel art, and playing pixel-based canvas games.

Free

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Pixel Art

pxl.party
a website for drawing pixel art, and playing pixel-based canvas games.

Free Pixel Art Editors Active

A free collaborative website to draw pixel art and other pixel-related mini games. It does make isometric lines easy because it ONLY draws straight or isometric lines, but also supports shapes. It's more of a website for a game, or just putting pixel art on a shared canvas, but you can make your own art anywhere and can download what you make in png.

Features:color picking and isometric only lines undo limited palette

Web Browser

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Asemode

Draw and edit textmode art directly in Aseprite with native tools.

Free

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Asemode
Draw and edit textmode art directly in Aseprite with native tools.

Free Open Source Textmode Editors Font & Charset Tools Utilities Viewers & Players Maintained

Asemode is an Aseprite extension for character-cell drawing and textmode animation. It lets you paint glyph stamps directly on the canvas with native Aseprite tools, primary and secondary clicks, stamp transforms, and transparent cell backgrounds to layer textmode over pixel art. Each textmode layer can use its own bundled or custom TrueType font, and artwork can be imported and exported as portable .textmode.json files.

Features:animation layers custom fonts export

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Pixel Character Generator

Browser tool that generates animated 32x32 pixel art characters and exports them as sprite sheets.

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Pixel Character Generator
Browser tool that generates animated 32x32 pixel art characters and exports them as sprite sheets.

Freemium Pixel Art Procedural Generators Active

Pixel Character Generator is a browser tool that builds animated 32x32 pixel art characters for games. It has eight preset roles, such as knight, mage, rogue and archer, and options for body type, skin, hair, headgear, outfit, colours, cape, weapon and shield. A seed makes results repeatable, and a crowd button rolls twelve characters at once. Each character has idle, walk, attack, hurt, jump and die animations in a side view, plus front and back views. Shading uses hue-shifted colour ramps and a coloured outline. It exports a sprite sheet with JSON frame data. The free version allows three exports a day at 1x and 2x scale. The paid Pro plan adds 4x and 8x scale, a 4-direction top-down sheet, front and back frames, Godot 4 SpriteFrames files and crowd ZIPs. It is part of GameShipKit, a collection of browser tools for game developers.

Features:character generator sprite sheet animation randomizer 4 directions godot

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Pixel Monster Generator

Browser tool that generates animated 32x32 pixel art monsters and exports them as sprite sheets.

Freemium

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Pixel Art

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Pixel Monster Generator
Browser tool that generates animated 32x32 pixel art monsters and exports them as sprite sheets.

Freemium Pixel Art Procedural Generators Active

Pixel Monster Generator is a browser tool that builds animated 32x32 pixel art enemies for games. It has nine monster types: slime, bat, ghost, floating eye, mushroom, spider, wisp, biting plant and rock golem. Each type has three body shapes, width and height sliders, colours, eye styles, patterns such as spots and stripes, and extras such as horns or a crown. A random button and a seed field make new monsters, and a horde button rolls twelve at once. Every monster has idle, move, attack, hurt and die animations on one sheet. It exports a sprite sheet with JSON frame data. The free version allows three exports a day at 1x and 2x scale. The paid Pro plan adds 4x and 8x scale, Godot 4 SpriteFrames files and horde ZIPs. It is part of GameShipKit, a collection of browser tools for game developers.

Features:monster generator enemies sprite sheet animation randomizer godot

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open-source pixel art editor with extensive format support and features useful for game development

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voidsprite
open-source pixel art editor with extensive format support and features useful for game development

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void◆sprite is an actively developed cross-platform, open-source pixelart editor.
Has features useful for game development, such as split sessions (multiple files on one canvas) and previews of spritesheet animations, tilesets or 3D cubes.
Other unique features include: layer variants, on-canvas comments, custom patterns, templates and real-time LAN collaboration.
Supports many image formats, including some specific to other editors like Aseprite and GraphicsGale.
Most common color palette formats are supported too, and can be used in a separate indexed editor mode.

Features:animation layers palette manipulation sprite sheet export online tilemaps 2d tiles cross platform sprite editor image conversion c collaboration

Windows macOS Linux Android Web Browser

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Aseprite

The most popular dedicated pixel art editor, with animation, tilemaps and a scripting API.

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Aseprite
The most popular dedicated pixel art editor, with animation, tilemaps and a scripting API.

Paid $19.99, free trial Pixel Art Editors Animation Tools Tile & Map Editors Active

Aseprite is a pixel art editor built around sprite work: an indexed-color workflow, onion skinning and a timeline for animation, tilemap layers, custom brushes, and export straight to sprite sheets. Extensions and Lua scripts add anything it lacks. It is the editor most Lospec artists reach for first.

Features:layers animation onion skinning tilemaps custom brushes palette manipulation scripting sprite sheet export

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PixiEditor

A node-based open source editor with Lospec palette integration.

Free

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PixiEditor
A node-based open source editor with Lospec palette integration.

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PixiEditor is a 2D graphics editor for creating and editing raster, vector, and procedural graphics. It supports pixel art, digital painting, vector shapes and paths, animation, and node-based image processing within the same document.

The editor uses a layer-based workflow combined with a node graph. Layers, effects, and other parts of a document can be represented as nodes and connected to create custom processing pipelines and procedural graphics.

Toolsets

PixiEditor includes several toolsets for different types of 2D work:

Pixel Art - tools designed for pixel-perfect drawing and editing.
Painting - brushes, shapes, and other raster painting tools.
Vector - vector shapes and paths.

These toolsets can be used together in the same document, allowing raster and vector content to be combined.

Animation

PixiEditor includes a timeline for creating frame-by-frame animations. Nodes can also be used to build procedural animations and animate custom effects.

Node Graph

Each document has an associated node graph used to define how its contents are generated and processed. Nodes can represent layers, effects, inputs, and other operations.

The node system can be used for non-destructive editing as well as procedural graphics and animations.

Features:layers palette list integration palette manipulation animation onion skinning sprite sheet export custom brushes texture painting extensions

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Simple Pixel Art Editor

Free in-browser pixel art editor: sprites, animation, auto-tiling tilesets and tilemaps, exports for Godot and Tiled.

Free

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Simple Pixel Art Editor
Free in-browser pixel art editor: sprites, animation, auto-tiling tilesets and tilemaps, exports for Godot and Tiled.

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Simple Pixel Art Editor is a free pixel art editor that runs in the browser, with no install or account needed. It covers sprite drawing with layers, mirror drawing and selections, frame-by-frame animation with onion skin and frame tags, and exports to PNG, GIF and sprite sheets.
It also includes tools for game assets: a tileset editor that generates Wang-16 and blob-47 auto-tile terrains from a base tile and exports Godot 4 TileSet (.tres) and Tiled (.tsx) files, a tilemap painter with an isometric mode, a palette library and an image-to-pixel-art converter.
It suits beginners and hobbyists making sprites and tilesets for small 2D games. The source code is MIT-licensed.

Features:animation layers onion skinning sprite sheet export gif export png export engine export tilemap export tiles isometric palette manipulation image conversion custom brushes

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The free 3D suite, widely used for low-poly modelling and 3D-to-pixel-art workflows.

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Blender
The free 3D suite, widely used for low-poly modelling and 3D-to-pixel-art workflows.

Free Open Source Other Low-Spec 3D Tools Animation Tools Procedural Generators Active

Blender is the free 3D suite, and it turns up constantly in low-spec work: modelling and texturing low-poly assets, rendering 3D scenes down to a pixel-art sprite sheet, and building the turnarounds that hand-pixelled animation is traced from. Its add-on ecosystem covers most of the rest.

Features:animation scripting 3d model export

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Godot Engine

A free, open source 2D and 3D game engine with excellent pixel art support.

Free

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Godot Engine
A free, open source 2D and 3D game engine with excellent pixel art support.

Free Open Source Programming Game Engines Active

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Features:2d 3d gdscript pixel snapping tilemaps

Windows macOS Linux Web Browser

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Novaboard

A web-based pixel art editor that also runs on the desktop.

Free

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Novaboard
A web-based pixel art editor that also runs on the desktop.

Free Pixel Art Editors Animation Tools Active

Novaboard runs in the browser and as a desktop app, with layers, animation and effects.

Features:animation layers palette manipulation 3d model export onion skinning online sprite sheet export 2d custom brushes effects sprite editor cross platform

Web Browser

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Gribble

Cross-platform Pixel Editor with Cloud Storage and Community Features

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Gribble
Cross-platform Pixel Editor with Cloud Storage and Community Features

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The pixel art editor
Gribble is a pixel art and animation editor that runs in the browser (gribble.app) or as an Android or iPhone app. One account syncs projects between all devices.
Website: gribble.app
Android: Play Store
iOS: App Store

Layers with opacity and 15 blend modes. Frame-by-frame animation with onion skin, frame tags and playback.
Every stroke is recorded, so a finished artwork can be exported as a timelapse.
The community features includes a global gallery with museum frames, a profile page, followers, likes and achievements.
Tools
Brushes, eraser, bucket, dither gradient, color picker, global color picker, ellipse tool, square tool, line tool, square select, lasso select, magic wand, dither, shading, outline, gradient, symmetry, smudge.
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Features:animation layers palette manipulation sprite sheet export onion skinning 2d image conversion export online sprite editor dithering cross platform gif export color reduction apple pencil palettes timelapse javascript autosave png export sprite sheets

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Piskel

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Piskel
A simple online pixel art and animated sprite editor.

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Piskel is an open source editor that runs in the browser, with layers, animation and a public gallery. Development has stopped, but it still works and is a common first editor.

Features:layers animation online

Web Browser Windows macOS Linux

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Blockbench

A low-poly 3D modeling program

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Blockbench
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Blockbench is a free and open source editor for low-poly models with pixel art textures. Models can be exported into standard 3D formats, to be shared, rendered, 3D-printed, or used in game engines or games line Minecraft. Modeling, UV mapping, texturing with pixel-art tools, rigging and animating, can all be done in the program.
Blockbench has a clean and beginner friendly interface, but also offers lots of customization and advanced features for experienced 3D artists. Plugins can extend the functionality of the program even further.

Features:low poly model export animation layers palette manipulation 3d model export onion skinning cross platform rigging texture painting collaboration normal maps plugins uv mapping 3d modelling reference plane

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picoCAD 2

A tiny low-poly modeller that also handles animations.

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picoCAD 2
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Features:low poly texture painting model export 3d model export 3d modelling turntable render animation sprite sheet export

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picoCAD
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Pixel Composer
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GrafX2
A DOS-era bitmap editor inspired by Deluxe Paint, still going.

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GrafX2 was made for DOS and has been ported everywhere since. It has tools no other program does, constraints for retro platforms, and an antiquated interface.

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LÖVE

A free framework for making 2D games in Lua.

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LÖVE
A free framework for making 2D games in Lua.

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The most popular voxel editor: fast, small, and with a renderer good enough that most voxel art you see was rendered inside it.

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Avoyd edits and renders voxel scenes with billions of voxels, with a custom smoothing algorithm and imports for Minecraft maps.

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Particubes

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Particubes
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The professional voxel editor used on Crossy Road and Trove.

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Qubicle
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Sproxel

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Sproxel
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VoxEdit

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VoxEdit
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Voxel Max
A voxel editor for iPad, iPhone and Mac

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Voxel Max is a voxel editor for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Models are built in a workspace of up to 256×256×256 voxels using SDF-based brushes, with a full undo history. Earlier operations keep editable control points, so a shape can still be adjusted after it has been placed. Input is handled through touch, Apple Pencil, keyboard and mouse.
Colour uses a 255-colour palette combined with eight material layers, so the same palette index can carry different roughness, metalness, emission or transparency. The viewport renders those materials in real time with ray-traced lighting, and finished models can be viewed in augmented reality on device.
Larger scenes are assembled from multiple objects through a scene editor and asset manager. Projects import and export as MagicaVoxel .vox, Qubicle, USDZ, GLB/glTF, FBX, OBJ, STL, DAE and PNG, which covers most game and rendering pipelines. A feature called Foundry AI generates voxel assets from images and 3D scans.
It is aimed at voxel artists and game developers who want to model away from a desktop machine, though the touch controls and the official tutorial series also make it approachable for people new to voxel art. The interface is English only, and the Mac version requires Apple Silicon.

Features:sdf brushes editable control points undo history material layers real time rendering ray tracing ar preview apple pencil scene editor asset manager vox import usdz export gltf export obj export fbx export image to voxel

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