Aseprite
Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool

Aseprite is a dedicated pixel art editor designed for creating 2D animations and sprites for video games. It supports layered editing, frame tagging, onion skinning, and a variety of color tools tailored to pixel-art workflows. Users can export their work as animated GIFs, PNG sequences, sprite sheets, and texture atlases.
Aseprite provides a dedicated editor with layering, frame-based animation, onion skinning, color palette management, and export options for sprite sheets and animated GIFs.
Game developers and pixel artists
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- one-time
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