About This Software

ALTUSPIXEL — PIXEL ART THAT ENDS UP IN YOUR GAME

Draw, shade, and animate. Rig a character right on the canvas and watch it

move. Then let every save deliver game-ready files straight to Godot or Unity —

no plugin, no re-slicing, no export ritual.

One price. Every update free, forever. No subscription, no DLC, no credit

meter. No generative AI — it invents nothing. Made by one developer who reads

every review.

RIG A CHARACTER ON THE CANVAS

Click your sprite to place a joint; hold, and a bone grows along the arm. The

bone captures the pixels near it — drag the limb and ONLY that limb moves.

Pull the hand and the elbow sorts itself out; this reach-and-follow posing is

a paid tier in the big rigging tools, and here it's simply included.

In a hurry? Drop a ready-made Arm, Leg or Tentacle rig — it lands fitted to

your art and immediately shows you its move. The arm waves. The tentacle sways.

Then Record to Frames: poses become real, editable, grid-crisp frames that

export like any other art. Verified end to end — the exported file drops into

a stock Godot project and just plays.

EASY TO START

On open you see paint, erase, fill, move, colors and layers — everything else

stays tucked away until you want it. Lost? Press Ctrl+K and type what you're

trying to do ("make it shade itself", "rig a character") — Wayfinder hands you

the exact tool and even switches it on. Plain-language tooltips on everything.

ANIMATION THAT DOES THE BORING PART

Frame-by-frame with onion skin, playback, and GIF export — plus an engine

underneath. Paint a background once and every frame follows. Pick a start and

an end and the in-between frames draw themselves, straight or along an arc.

Drop in a ready-made move that plays in front of your art. Cycle a ring of

colors and a waterfall flows. A timeline shows every layer against every frame.

SHADING WITHOUT THE HARD PART

Pick where the light comes from and Auto Shade bands crisp shading onto your

flat colors — the hardest beginner wall, one dialog. Drag Chameleon across

finished art to recolor it while every highlight and shadow survives. And

Juice Forge writes game-feel impact — the flash, the shake, the freeze —

straight into your frames, with a built-in photo sensitivity check.

ALSO IN THE BOX

• Pick "Erase" like a color — the brush, fill and shapes un-paint until you pick a real color again.

• A full palette suite: even shade ramps, a library, Lospec import, and colorblind preview.

• Shaded shape starters, radial symmetry, and bending a straight strip into a clean curve.

• Tiles that update every placed copy when you edit one.

• Macros: record a cleanup once, run it on a whole folder.

• Pixel Doctor art check-up, blur-free social export, one-click session timelapse.

• One self-contained app on Windows and Linux (SteamOS included). Offline. No account. Your work stays on your machine.

ONE PRICE, FOREVER

Buy once. Every new tool and update is free for as long as AltusPixel exists.

MADE FOR: indie game devs, beginners who find other tools overwhelming, and

anyone tired of renting their software by the month.