Stipple Effect - Pixel Art Editor & Animator

Features

• Projects consist of layers and frames
  • Layers can be static or dynamic 
• Advanced brush modes
• Granular undo/redo
• Animation playback
• • Onion skinning
  • Edit during playback
• Import and partition sprite sheets to animations directly
• Palettes
  • Import and export palettes
    
  • Sort palette colors by hue, saturation, or value
  • Palettize project (entire project, layer, frame, or layer-frame) i.e. snap pixels in scope to nearest color in palette
  • Extract project contents to a palette
  • Easily modify palettes with color addition and removal options
• Intuitive and powerful outlining utilities
• Family of selection tools designed for pixel-perfect selection
• And much more!

Motivation

I initially built Stipple Effect as a private tool. I had been using Paint.NET for pixel art for years, but as I became a more experienced programmer and artist, I realized that Paint.NET was not conducive with the kind of workflow that I wanted to cultivate to improve my work and to be more efficient. Furthermore, Paint.NET has no utilities or features for animation, and it is painstaking to draw animation frames without being able to quickly cycle through them as one works. These two reasons came to be overwhelming enough that I abandoned the program and started working on my own replacement.

Over the course of weeks of development, I started to feel good enough about Stipple Effect to flesh it out and make it publicly available. I hope you get as much use out of the program as I do!

Additional

Check out the source code here or the changelog and list of planned features here!

For questions, feedback, bug reports, or anything else, please consult the community tab. I will do my best to check it consistently.

If you get a lot of use and value out of the program, please consider supporting my work by leaving a donation below. The more I make from Stipple Effect, the more time I can dedicate to its improvement.

You can also support me by becoming a Patreon patron.

Thank you :)