Gator Sprite Studio is a complete pixel art and animation workspace built directly into Godot by Blackwater Gator Studios. Draw, animate, organize, preview, and export sprites without leaving your project. Gator Sprite Studio combines familiar Aseprite-inspired workflows with direct Godot integration, so your artwork is ready to use in-game the moment you finish it.

Create pixel art with pencil, eraser, fill, picker, line, rectangle, gradient, dithering, pattern fill, tile stamp, custom brushes, symmetry, and tiled drawing. Work with layers, groups, frames, selections, transformations, palettes, tilesets, tags, slices, and pivots in one editor-native workflow.

Key features:

• Layered, frame-by-frame pixel animation timeline
• Animation preview with adjustable FPS and tag-based playback loops
• Aseprite-style tags for named animation ranges such as Idle, Walk, Jump, or Attack
• Onion skinning, pixel grid, zoom, and pixel-perfect nearest-neighbor display
• Selections with move, copy, paste, add/remove selection, transforms, rotation, scaling, skewing, and mirroring
• Custom brushes, brush export, pattern fills, gradients, dithering, and color replacement
• Indexed-color mode, palette locking, built-in retro console palettes, and custom palette creation/loading/saving
• Tilemap and tileset workflows, tile capture, tile stamping, and tileset PNG export
• Layer visibility, layer groups, frame duplication, deletion, and reordering
• Slice and pivot metadata support
• Import .ase and .aseprite files through the included Aseprite Importer extension example
• Export individual PNG frames, PNG sprite sheets with JSON metadata, custom brushes, tilesets, and Godot SpriteFrames resources
• One exported Godot animation per timeline tag
• Aseprite-inspired default shortcuts with in-editor shortcut customization
• An extension API for commands, toolbar/menu integration, dock panels, file dialogs, notifications, selection and clipboard access, undo/redo transactions, exports, shortcuts, lifecycle cleanup, and document import workflows
• Included extension examples: Sprite Report and Aseprite Importer
• Unsaved work remains available while switching between Godot editor tabs
• Gator Sprite Studio is designed for game creators who want a focused pixel art workflow that lives where their game does: inside Godot.