Gator Sprite Studio 2.0

Gator Sprite Studio is a complete pixel art and frame-by-frame animation workspace built directly into Godot.

Draw, animate, organize, preview, import, and export sprites without leaving your project. It provides an Aseprite-inspired workflow while keeping artwork directly integrated with Godot.

Version 2.0 highlights

• Linked cels
• Layer folders with collapse, visibility, locking, opacity, and drag-and-drop organization
• Layer blend modes
• Reference-image layers with transforms and export exclusion
• Spritesheet importing and slicing
• Multi-frame and multi-layer selection
• Drag-and-drop frame and layer reordering
• Live Draw during animation playback
• Adjustable square and circle Pencil/Eraser brushes
• Improved large-canvas drawing performance
• Save As, unsaved-change protection, and crash recovery
• Four automatically loaded official extensions

When upgrading from an older release, backup any recovery files and delete the existing res://addons/gator_sprite_studio/ folder before installing Version 2.0.

Drawing

Includes Pencil, Eraser, Fill, Picker, Line, Rectangle, Gradient, Dithering, Pattern Fill, Tile Stamp, custom brushes, symmetry, tiled drawing, selections, transformations, mirroring, skewing, and colour replacement.

Animation

• Layered frame-by-frame timeline
• Multi-frame selection and dragging
• Linked cels
• Animation tags
• Onion skinning
• Adjustable FPS preview
• Tag-based playback
• Live Draw
• Godot SpriteFrames export with animations generated from tags

Layers

• Normal layers
• Reference-image layers
• Collapsible groups
• Multi-layer selection
• Visibility and locking
• Layer and group opacity
• Normal, Multiply, Screen, Add, Subtract, Overlay, Darken, and Lighten blend modes

Import and export

Import:

• PNG, JPG/JPEG, WebP, BMP, TGA, and SVG
• Spritesheets
• .ase and .aseprite
• .gpl palettes from GIMP and Aseprite

Export:

• Individual PNG frames
• PNG spritesheets
• JSON metadata
• Godot SpriteFrames
• Custom brushes
• Tilesets

Included official extensions

• Gator Motion Lab: tween generation, easing, motion paths, transform interpolation, frame insertion, regeneration, and embedded preview.
• Gator Ink Lab: outlines, shadows, glow, highlights, silhouettes, colour adjustments, cleanup tools, and extraction to new layers.
• Gator Brush Vault: brush library, categories, search, thumbnails, presets, spacing, randomized stamping, and brush capture.
• Aseprite Importer: imports Aseprite layers, groups, linked cels, timing, tags, palettes, slices, pivots, opacity, locking, and supported blend modes.

Gator Sprite Studio also includes a public extension API for custom commands, shortcuts, panels, exporters, file dialogs, undo transactions, document importers, and other editor integrations.

Licensed under the MIT License.