PixelCraft - Retro Pixel Art

Unleash your creativity and build timeless 8-bit and 16-bit graphics with PixelCraft, the dedicated offline pixel art studio and frame-by-frame sprite animator. Designed for indie game developers, digital illustrators, and retro gaming enthusiasts, PixelCraft delivers precision drawing tools and fluid animation capabilities directly to your fingertips—anywhere, anytime, without requiring an internet connection.

🎨 Precision Pixel Art Studio

• Customizable Grid Dimensions: Choose between standard sprite dimensions ($8\times8$, $16\times16$, $32\times32$, and $64\times64$) to fit your game design workflow.
• Complete Tool Suite:

Pencil: Accurate single-pixel placement with crisp responsiveness.

Eraser: Instant cleanup and alpha clearing.

Bucket Fill: Quick flood-fill algorithm for contiguous color areas.

Eyedropper / Color Picker: Sample existing colors right off your canvas.

Dithering Brush: Create classic checkerboard shading and vintage textures effortlessly.
• Fluid Pan & Zoom: Interactive touch canvas supporting pinch-to-zoom (up to 10x magnification) and smooth panning for meticulous detail work.

🎞️ Frame-by-Frame Animation & Timeline

• Dynamic Animation Carousel: Add, select, and duplicate frames on an intuitive horizontal timeline.
• Adjustable Frame Rate: Preview your animations in real-time with an interactive FPS slider ranging from 1 to 30 frames per second.
• Onion Skinning: Enable ghosted layer outlines of preceding and succeeding animation frames to ensure fluid motion and seamless walk cycles.

🕹️ Authentic Retro Color Palettes

Stay true to historic hardware constraints with curated indexed palettes:
• Pico-8 (16 Colors): Iconic warm, vibrant fantasy-console palette.
• Game Boy (4 Colors): Classic nostalgic monochrome green shades.
• NES (54 Colors): Legendary 8-bit console color spectrum.

🔒 100% Offline & Private

• No Internet Needed: PixelCraft is built from the ground up to operate completely offline.
• Absolute Privacy: No user tracking, no third-party analytics, no background data collection, and no account requirements. Your creative artwork remains safely stored on your local device.

Bring your 2D characters, tilemaps, items, and game sprites to life with PixelCraft!

Recent changes:
• Welcome to the initial release of PixelCraft!
• Multi-grid sprite canvases: 8x8, 16x16, 32x32, and 64x64.
• Full creative suite: Pencil, Eraser, Flood Fill, Color Picker, and Dithering Brush.
• Frame-by-frame animation timeline with real-time playback and FPS control (1–30 FPS).
• Onion skinning visualizer for fluid sprite animation.
• Authentic retro palettes: Pico-8 (16), Game Boy (4), and NES (54).
• Completely offline experience with zero data collection.