Aseprite (GPL fork)
Copyright (C) 2001-2016 David Capello
Introduction
Aseprite (GPL fork) is an open source program to create animated sprites. Its main features are:
- Sprites are composed by layers & frames (as separated concepts).
- Supported color modes: RGBA, Indexed (palettes up to 256 colors), and Grayscale.
- Load/save sequence of PNG files and GIF animations (and FLC, FLI, JPG, BMP, PCX, TGA).
- Export/import animations to/from Sprite Sheets.
- Tiled drawing mode, useful to draw patterns and textures.
- Undo/Redo for every operation.
- Real-time animation preview.
- Multiple editors support.
- Pixel-art specific tools like filled Contour, Polygon, Shading mode, etc.
- Onion skinning
Authors
- David Capello davidcapello@gmail.com
Programmer, designer, and maintainer of the original Aseprite version (he is not involved with this fork)
http://davidcapello.com/ - Ilija Melentijevic
New GUI skin for Aseprite v0.8. A lot of good ideas.
http://ilkke.blogspot.com/
http://www.pixeljoint.com/p/9270.htm - Contributors
https://github.com/aseprite-gpl/aseprite/graphs/contributors
Thanks to all the people who have contributed ideas, patches, bugs report, feature requests, donations, and help me developing Aseprite.
Credits
Aseprite includes color palettes created by:
- Richard "DawnBringer" Fhager palettes, 16 colors, 32 colors.
- Arne Niklas Jansson palettes, 16 colors, 32 colors.
It tries to replicate some pixel-art algorithms:
- RotSprite by Xenowhirl.
- Pixel perfect drawing algorithm by Sébastien Bénard and Carduus.
And it uses the following third-party libraries:
- Allegro 4 - allegro4 license
- FreeType - FTL license
- Google Test - gtest license
- XFree86 - XFree86 license
- curl - curl license
- duktape - MIT license
- giflib - giflib license
- libjpeg - libjpeg license
- libpng - libpng license
- libwebp - libwebp license
- loadpng - zlib license
- modp_b64 - BSD license
- pixman - MIT license
- simpleini - MIT license
- tinyxml - zlib license
- zlib - ZLIB license
License
This program is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2, which means that compiled versions can be generated under GPL terms.