Piskel

Piskel is a super handy graphic editor that's perfect for creating 2D animated sprites for your games. It makes the whole process smooth and easy! You can even preview your animations and export them as GIFs or other formats. How cool is that?

Getting Started with Piskel

When you open Piskel, you're ready to dive right into making a new sprite animation. All you have to do is create a new frame and use the built-in drawing tools. You've got options like a pen, vertical mirror pen, paint bucket, eraser, stroke, rectangle, or circle at your fingertips!

Tools and Features

Piskel isn’t just about drawing; it also has selection tools, a color picker, plus lighting and dithering tools to give your sprites that extra pop. To speed things up while editing, Piskel offers hotkeys for most functions. There's even a handy panel that shows you these shortcuts until you memorize them.

Layering for Amazing Effects

One neat feature of Piskel is its support for multiple layers in the same frame. This means you can create some really interesting effects! Plus, it has transformation options where you can flip or rotate images or clone layers—very useful!

Preview Your Work

If you're wondering how your animation looks so far, Piskel includes a preview area where you can watch your frames play out at different speeds from 0 to 24 frames per second. It's great to see how everything flows together before finalizing!

Exporting Your Creations

Once you're happy with what you've made, exporting is easy! You can save the sprite sheet as PNG files in various scales or generate individual PNG files per frame packed into a ZIP archive. If you prefer GIFs, those are available too with customizable resolutions.

Saving Online with Piskel

You can also log into piskelapp.com using your Google account to save your sprites online. This feature comes in handy if you want to share projects with friends or teammates. Just remember to set any private projects accordingly!