Bit - Animation Editor
Compose and Design Animated Pixel Art
A pixel art composition tool! Design pixel-art paintings, art pieces, game assets, and compose interesting animations and combinations from sprites or sprite sheets with powerful export options.
Key Features
Asset Management
Import pixel-art parts and sprites, configure sprite sheet tiles, and compose new sprite sheet animations with ease.
Scene Editor
Highly performant scene editor that lets you focus on composition while running sprite sheet animations and custom tweening animations simultaneously.
Powerful Asset Configurations
Layer scenes, smart mirroring, pattern repetition, tweening animations, color tinting, alpha rendering, and simple rotations for complete customization.
Palettes and Colorization
Replace colors and combine assets under one color schema. Import and export color themes between projects.
Strong Export Targets
Export as pictures, time-lapses, animation sequences, GIFs, MP4 videos, standalone desktop apps, or JSON data packages for game engines.
Unity Integration
Export data packages and import your compositions directly into Unity with the free Unity plugin.
Bit - Animation Editor - About the Game
Bit - Animation Editor is a powerful composition tool designed to make animated pixel art. This is not a drawing tool - it's used for composition and animation. You import pixel art into the editor and use that to create your scenes, combining sprites and sprite sheets into complex animated compositions.
The tool features a highly performant scene editor that lets you focus on composition while running sprite sheet animations and custom tweening animations at the same time. With powerful asset configurations including layering, smart mirroring, pattern repetition, and built-in tweening, you can bring your compositions to life with ease.
Bit - Animation Editor excels at exporting your creations. Export to GIF with customizable frame settings, create MP4 videos, generate PNG sequences, build standalone desktop applications, or export JSON data packages ready for game engines. The free Unity plugin makes it super easy to import your compositions directly into your Unity projects. Originally created as an internal tool for creating animated art and exporting assets to games, Bit - Animation Editor is now refined and available for everyone.
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Bit - Animation Editor - Developer Comment
I created Bit to compose high-detailed, complex pixel art animations that loop forever for art installations and game projects. It's a niche composition tool where you combine small animated sprite parts using tweening and easing to create intricate artwork.
Instead of coding everything manually, the tool lets you work visually and exports rendering instructions, GIFs, or MP4s directly.
If you need perpetually looping pixel art compositions with precise control, it handles a workflow that's otherwise tedious to do by hand.