Pixel art & sprite animation studio for Windows. Layers, frames, selections, and one-click store exports.

PixelCraftz is a focused pixel-art and sprite animation studio.

Draw with pencil, eraser, fill, line, rectangle, ellipse, and triangle tools. Animate across multiple frames and layers. Select with rectangle, lasso, or magic wand; move, transform, flip, and copy pixels with nearest-neighbor precision. Import reference images, export PNG, sprite sheets, GIFs — plus square thumbnails and scaled screenshots for itch.io and Gumroad.

how to install :

Just extract the zip file and run the pixelcraftz.exe

Features

• Drawing tools: pencil, eraser, bucket fill, line, rect, oval, triangle

• Layers with opacity, visibility, merge down, reorder

• Frame-based animation with adjustable FPS

• Selection tools: rectangle, lasso, magic wand (add/subtract)

• Transform (rotate / scale) with nearest-neighbor sampling

• Text tool (hard-pixel, no anti-aliasing)

• Full color wheel + hex field + palette (import/export GIMP .gpl)

• Pixel-perfect mode for clean diagonals

• Live preview window

• Import images (PNG/JPG/BMP/GIF/WebP) as new document, layer, or cel — with fit / stretch / canvas-resize options

• Export: PNG, sprite sheet, GIF, square thumbnail (for store covers), 2×/4× store screenshots

• Project format: .pcz (JSON + embedded frames)

• Light, clean UI

Who it’s for

Indie game developers, pixel artists, and anyone who wants a small, fast sprite tool without a bloated UI.

System

Windows 10/11 (64-bit). Built with Python / PySide6 / Pillow.

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