Pixelorama

Unleash your creativity with Pixelorama, a powerful and accessible open-source pixel art multitool. Whether you want to create sprites, tiles, animations, or just express yourself in the language of pixel art, this software will realize your pixel-perfect dreams with a vast toolbox of features.

Features:

• Wide Range of Tools: Customize your workflow by dynamically mapping tools to the left and right mouse buttons, making your creation process faster and more intuitive.

• Advanced Animation Support: Create animations with a timeline composed of layers and frames, including features like onion skinning, audio synchronization, frame tags, and the ability to draw while the animation is playing.

• Pixel Art Focused: Perfect pixel lines, indexed mode, and rotation and scaling algorithms tailored specifically to pixel art, like cleanEdge, OmniScale, and rotxel.

• Seamless Tilemap Creation: Use Pixelorama's tilemap layers to create tiles for your games.

• Powerful Layer System: Utilize clipping masks and non-destructive visual effects like outlines, gradient maps, drop shadows, and more. Perfect for experimenting with styles and compositions, as changes can be applied without altering your original artwork.

• Palette Management: Bring color into your canvas by choosing from pre-made palettes, importing your own, or creating custom ones inside the software to suit your unique style.

• Visual Effects: Multiple image effects for fine-tuning your artwork.

• Advanced Canvas Options: Utilize guides, rectangular and isometric grids, and tile mode to ensure seamless and precise pattern creation.

• Automatic Backups: Stay safe with auto-saved backups to recover your work in case of unexpected software crashes.

• Highly Customizable UI: Tailor the interface to your needs for maximum efficiency and a smooth workflow.

• Export & Import: Support for various formats such as PNG, animated PNG, spritesheets, GIFs and even videos.

• 3D Layer Support: Break the barrier between dimensions by bringing 3D models and shapes into your 2D canvas for unlimited creative possibilities.

• Command Line Automation: Automate file exports using the command line interface for bulk exporting and streamlining workflows.

• Project Metadata: Attach custom user data to layers, frames, and cels, making it easy to integrate with game development and other creative processes.

• Extension Support: Benefit from free, community-made extensions, such as tools that convert your 2D pixels into 3D voxels.

• Fully Open-Source: Pixelorama is open-source, licensed under the MIT license, guaranteeing free updates forever!