Aseprite

Aseprite is a sprite editor that lets you create 2D animations for videogames. It can be used to create pixel-art, retro style graphics, and whatever you like about the 8-bit (and 16-bit) era. Some included features are:

• Compose sprite using layers & frames as separated concepts.
• Create RGBA, Indexed (256 colors), or Grayscale images.
• Open/save GIF animations, sequence of PNG files, ICO files, etc.
• Undo/Redo for every operation.
• Animation tools: Timeline, real-time animation preview, onion skinning.
• Draw patterns and textures with the tiled mode.
• Multiple editors/views for the same sprite.
• Pixel art specific tools: pixel perfect traces, filled contour & polygon, RotSprite rotation.
• Tag frames (from v1.1)
• Export/import sprite sheets
• Command line interface

With your purchase you will get:

• A Windows installer and a portable .zip application, signed by David Capello, lead developer of Aseprite
• A Mac OS X .dmg package, signed by David Capello, a registered Developer ID
• Updates up to v1.9. See the roadmap for more information about new features that will be included in v1.x version series.
• Priority support via email (support@aseprite.org)
• More information.

More information in www.aseprite.org and in the release notes.

DEMO VERSION: http://www.aseprite.org/trial/