[v1.3.13] Aseprite – Animated sprites & pixel art editor

Aseprite (full name: Allegro Sprite Editor) is a lightweight application dedicated to making pixel-style animation. Its function is basically like similar software, such as brush, onion skin, animation frame editor, etc. Here, AppNee recommends 2D pixel/retro style game character designers to try it.

Of course, among the same type of pixel character/animation drawing tools, GraphicsGale is pretty good too. For Aseprite, you can just give it a try. In addition, its official website provides very comprehensive tutorials. So, in this post, AppNee won't repeat that, this is not just because we are not professional enough.

Key Features

• Create, copy, move, drag & drop layers.
• Create, copy, move, link, drag & drop frames or cells.
• Include several animations in the same file tagging sections.
• Loop a section in forward, reverse, ping-pong modes. Change preview speed.
• See other frames as reference to animate.
• Choose different onion skin modes.
• Copy & paste. Drag & drop. Resize palette.
• Palette entries with alpha value.
• Select color harmonies.
• Create light and shadows with the shading ink.
• Create perfect strokes for pixel-art.
• Avoid extreme pixel distortions when rotating tiny sprites.
• Create patterns repeating the image in a 3x3 grid.
• Create custom brushes for dithering.
• Composite layers to create color effects.
• Open or save a sequence of images
• Create animations and save them as .gif files.
• Export your work to sprite sheets in .png and .json files.
• Recovery your sprites in case of crash.
• Integrate Aseprite in your assets pipeline with the command-line interface (CLI).
• Store several animations in one texture atlas.

Official Demo Video

Edition Statement

Related Links

• Aseprite Keyboard Shortcuts list
• Aseprite Official Video Tutorials
• Aseprite Official Online Help
• Aseprite F.A.Q.

Download URLs

Version	Download	Size
for Windows
v1.3.13		12.6 MB
for Mac
v1.3.13		18.9 MB
for Linux
v1.3.13		13.6 MB