Разработчик: Nevercenter
Описание
Pixelmash allows artists and game makers to craft pixel art and animations using a completely new technique, based on painting or importing an image in a high-resolution layer, while non-destructively pixelizing and applying other layer effects to create incredible pixel art. This makes several traditionally difficult pixel art tasks much easier:
- Making outlines, shading, and dithering easily adjustable by having them applied non-destructively as layer effects.
- Creating animations using layer transforms (rather than having to paint every frame pixel-by-pixel).
- Easily creating different resolutions and color variants of the same image.
- Converting photos or other hi-res artwork into pixel art using layer effects and the resolution slider.
- And much more!
It's a brilliant new art tool for game makers, artists, hobbyists, kids, and lovers of the 8-bit and 16-bit era.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7 or newer
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Storage: 100 MB available space
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Mac
- OS: MacOS 10.9 or newer
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Storage: 100 MB available space
Linux
Отзывы пользователей
As one of my favourite pixelartists use this, I do warmly recommend this, but I cannot say I am a master of this software but that this software surely is very good based on his workflow. It can achieve very neat results indeed.
Good for pixel art! I like dynamic res
I like ui.
missing somethings but it can be improved.
Planning to use it often now that it now has animation!
EDIT: 6 months later there is still no modifier key to choose a colour from the image unlike every other art package in existence, instead the devs are more concerned with advanced features like animation rather than getting the basics right :(
Please..this is the only thing keeping me from using the tool. :(
This is almost amazing! 8/10
Does a lot of things right but there are some basic missing features. Note: These are all quite minor and I have no problem in recommending the program !! I'm posting them here in the hope that the devs eventually read them and one day address them.
-There is no way to have a temporary colour picker for quick colour selection, the tool is selectable via the 'i' key and keys cant be configured. It should be a modifier key. I am using to just holding alt temporarily when I want to select a colour. The 'i key is way over to the right and so its just annoying to use.
-When working with mirror you should be able to work in either side of the image. Currently you can choose to work in either the left or right but this just leads to confusion.
-Auto Shade is an incredible tool but there should be more options. Currently there is just rounded and directional but we need different kinds of bevel options like flat, bevelled, curved edge along with bevel widths etc.
-Vector and pixel layer should just work as one layer type without the confusion.
-Cant seem to flatten layers.
-No fast way to clear the contents of a layer as far as I can tell
-No Merge layers
-It would be really nice to be able to change the background colour of the transparent working area and the preview window.
- It seems a bit confusing that if you want to add a noise effect to a new child layer that you first need to fill the child layer with a colour before applying the effect, otherwise you font see any change.
-Would be nice if the temporary brush effects would appear in the preview window as they do in the main window. ie what the image will look like after I click the tool (erase, paint etc))
The trailer is very cleverly edited. This is a bare-bones product. They are over selling features that in reality arnt as easy to use. The support on the community page is almost none. Are posts from july and june that no one answered. Skip this. Get asperite. Or pixeledit. Or both.
A wonderful full featured lightweight sprite editor. Pixelmash receives regular updates along with new features very often. The interface is well thought out and intuitive, with useful tools sets to help unlock the full power of editor.
The program is damaged and buggy cannot open its own saved file.
After update 2025
I thought about what to write about pixelmash. Practically a simple program in which I have been working for several years. I admit that for a long time the program was very unstable, especially when you work with more than 50 layers on the scene, but after several patches of pixelmash it is more stable. Now it rarely freezes. The program is it's great for animations because of its simplicity, even though people write it's not a tutorial, but I think that everyone can master pixelmash in some time. If you want to know what the program can do, all my rpg maker tilesets and animations, I did my work in it, you can find it on steam under Neonpixel or neonpixel itchio
Pixelmash is my favorite pixel art tool. It's like a swiss army knife for pixel art and keeps getting better with every update. It's not overly complicated and offers everything I need to make great pixel art, sprites and gifs.
This is THE BEST pixelart software I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot.
I've been looking for vectorial pixelart so much, it really takes away much frustration cause I'm very slow at drawing.
I adore how easy and powerful it is, and will recommend it to everyone I know.
If you are casual or an expert THIS IS A MUST GET!
El mejor programa de Pixelart por lejos, y eso que he visto muchos.
IMPERDIBLE si te gusta el pixelart de forma casual o profesional, te vas a ahorrar horas y horas, con resultados excelentes.
What kind of art program lacks a line tool or shortcut? If one is present, I sure couldn't find it.
Tried in vain to make some simple pixel works and grew increasingly frustrated.
There are plenty of free art programs and even pixel programs out there with significantly larger tools and accessibility. I rarely leave negative reviews, but this deserves it.
This is an awesome tool, that allow you to get into pixel art quickly with great results, that not means that you can create greate pices without effort and dedication, but believe me, it makes it more easy and quick because it have great features that really makes you save time and achieve effects in a very effective way. Very recomended, you should try it.
TLDR: If you are unsure, try the trial, just please don’t skip this software due to those top-voted 3 year old downvotes when the software is being continued to be updated with major versions by the developers.
Now for the review:
Definitely need to use this software more (have used it for more hours off of steam, but even so, my hours are small). I would wholeheartedly recommend it as a useful tool. It continues to be updated with some really interesting unique features, while already having a pretty much unmatched toolset from the start.
The dynamic pixel art feature is an interesting spin on the pixel editor formula; how it works is the document is stored at a higher resolution (IE if you want to work at 32x32 pixels, the documents actual behind the scenes painting can be stored at 320x320 and so have the potential for 10x as much detail).
Meaning that if you work with dynamic mode on, you don’t have to worry if you at some point decide to increase/decrease the resolution of your assets (in most cases), it’s just a case of moving a slider and getting a different resolution, based on scaling the pixelation of the stored image.
The dynamic FX (there are many!) features mean this program could just be sold on the aspect of using it as a High-Resolution art to pixel-art converter, you could bring in vector art, 3D rendered animations or hand drawn/painted art, and have a nice pixel art effect with one of the best in industry downscalers.
With features like quantizing/restricting colors to a palette, it’s way easier to get a nice pixel art render from this than any compositor in any 3D software I have used (if you are going for a Dead Cells effect from 3D rendered art).
But, before you buy, you may have a question: The top rated reviews are negative you might say… well true, but did you stop to read the date that those were reviewed at?
Upvoting those reviews is doing a disservice to the developers, as it’s been 2-3 years since either of those reviews were put up, and many issues listed in those have been worked on by the developers (with multiple 2020, and now onto 2021 large versions since) that these old reviewers with all these upvotes haven’t even seen and taken into account. To put that into perspective, it’d be like upvoting a game reviewer scoring a fully released game based on their experience with it’s alpha.
So please don’t upvote old news anymore, instead check out the newer reviews, including a positive one (the most recent before mine) with 375 hours in the software.
Honestly I really despise the way it’s possible to get stuck in a endless loop of mixed reviews undeservedly, because less new people are willing to try and give the software a chance after the initial launch, and thus there will be less positive reviews coming in to outweigh the negative.
In software categories on Steam it’s especially harsh, as you get way less overall reviews by default, as it is a comparatively niche section. This software is undeserved of that fate, as the developers continue to improve it significantly.
Definitely check out the trial on the developers website if you are unsure whether to buy.
And (importantly) don’t just judge this program as inferior to Aseprite because the built-in pixel editor might not be as obviously easy to use. You are discounting the other unique features if you do (which to me are the main selling point of this software), and for the record, I would like to see you dynamically scale vector animations/3D renders and limit them to a chosen pallete (IE, make them into nice pixel art) with Aseprite compared to Pixelmash and see the results as well as time spent. @ me on Twitter if you prove me wrong with your proof included, and I will be shocked.
I wonder why, and I say why, there are so many negative reviews on this product?
All these reviews, please note, are for the early stage of the program. Now in 2022 it has grown up in features enormously, so it is wise to check the recent ones. This said, for the first time in my life (and I'm doing computer graphics from more than 20 years up today) using the main program tutorial on Youtube, the one in the help section of the program, in just half an hour I learned all the main features of a graphics software.
And what graphics software.
Pixelmash has a truly new approach to pixel art, introducing the dynamic resolution. This means you can paint in hires, add the effects you want from a wide selection, and then dynamically lower the resolution to obtain your pixel art. In practice, the program stores the data in hires, so you don't need to worry about detail loss when rotating an object and so on.
Obviously the effects are cumulative and appliable at any resolution.
Just about objects: the software is object oriented, moving and rotating small parts permit to do animations and construct more complex sprites in minutes (I am reviewing the software after 2 hours because in just 2 hours I did some nice animation effects, while other softwares need weeks of practice to learn, not to mean how many to master them). And please note the other pixel art software are very good too, someone is incredible and I will continue to use them all. But this is just more intuitive, and has some nice features like arrays and masks, so it is a very welcome addition.
It lacks some other features (Bayer type dithering for example, and antialiasing at the present date august 2022) but the program is growing and I am confident new details will be added.
EDIT: the newly added vector layers and curves creation, are simply REVOLUTIONARY in speeding up pixel art creation and animation processes. I am very excited about these features and I am very happy for the growing features of this software. Today, as 6th of august 2022, I finally have a Pixelart Tool that make me focus on what is important of animation and gives me immediate feeling, no more need the terrible process of manually cancel and hand redraw every single keyframe I was used with all other software. The object oriented nature of this software, along with its exceptional vector editor. I have created some nice animations in a couple of hours, like never before. Then I retouch all fine details of my frames in Aseprite (another wonderful must have pixelart software) and the job is done.
It's a shame Stem reviews doesn't allow tho share images and animations to show what can be done in few minutes with this program. I really hope it will continue to have the support it deserves.
So far, so good! I like some of the nifty little things I can do with this pixel art program. I feel like if I got some practice with it, it could speed up some of the more laborious aspects of my workflow that I normally do with other programs. Some earlier reviews mention frequent crashes, I haven't experienced one yet so hopefully that means development has since patched a few things.
This pixel editor is quite awesome. The best part about it is the object based editing, that always keeps the original objects and only applies the pixelizing operations on the fly so that you can always operate on the original objects. The possibilities to animate simple objects is good.
This software allows pixel-art-beginners to get easy and good results.
Though the interface lacks some minor usability tweaks and hopefully there will be a bit more editing features. But overall a nice pixel-editor.
Used this horrible program 3 times. Each time, it crashed within 15 minutes, losing all progress. Is this the 90s? Trash!
This is the most complex software (with a very good algorithm) for pixel art. Either if you need to pixelate pictures, to make sprites or animated gifs, Pixelmash has all the tools you need.
Highly recommended for all pixel art aficionados. 10/10
Might not seem much, but the simple gif I made with Pixelmash for this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRVtxP31ILY - was just the right element to give it a cool vibe. I made the gif (Deadpool on a scooter) in 30-45 min in Pixelmash (also my first try with the software) from a jpg file.
WOW,
Just messed with this for 10 minutes and its going to speed up so much of my artwork for a 2D game I'm working on. Mainly with textures and simple background animations. A must have for PIXEL ART !!!!
Very cool concept! Also, very frustrating. Concepts are simple, yet this program works VERY VERY slow with my tablet and pen. Drawing is not smooth, the modes of drawing change constantly back and forth (free hand vs a point-to-point type line), and some times a line drawn is not registered at all. Undoing an action can take multiple clicks of CTRL Z when it should take one, and there is no Redo option as far as I can tell. Program crashes when you add too many layers or spend too much time drawing one object. Drawing one simple thing with a tablet pen can take hours due to all the bugs in the program. VERY VERY frustrating, because this program has so much to offer and shows so much potential.
I used to like this program, but it's just not as good as it could be, and I feel like the devs have given up.
Even the simple things you expect in most programs like it don't do what you expect.
For example, if you select a few pixels and press ctrl+c you expect it to copy those pixels, right?
NOPE! This program copies the ENTIRE LAYER!!! Why they bother to have a copy/paste layer is beyond me, especially when you have a duplicate layer action, and they all do the same thing.
This copy/paste also applies to external programs. If you draw something in another program, the only way you're getting it into PixelMash is if you save and import. No copy/pasting between programs here.
I've owned this program for many years, and while it's better than it used to be, it's simply not a good program if they can't even get the basics right.
I'll leave you with another example... say you want to rotate a character's head slightly... how would you do that? Drag a select box around the head then use the transform tool to move it? No, don't be silly!
Instead, you have to duplicate the layer, then erase the head from the one layer, and the body from the other. Then place them over one another and THEN use the transform tool.
Why do things in 2 seconds when you can take 2 minutes?
Really nice and quirky piece of software that makes pixel art extremely easy to get into, highly recommended for anyone interested in pixel art.
Ehmmm, 25mb...
The tool is fine, but the help is worse.....
And the shade effect just 2 kinds now...
The big problems is:
The tutorial is absent.......
The trail can't be accessed.....for China(You got that why)
So, Just need much more built-in guide for me.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Nevercenter |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 16.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 67% положительных (33) |