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Pixels Are Back, Baby

Introducing the PopCraft Pixel Studio — a full sprite editor, animation timeline and sprite-sheet exporter living right inside your design file.

SDSpace Devin · Founder●September 8, 2026●1 min read

The request I kept getting wasn't dark mode or a new export format. It was a single sentence, in a hundred different phrasings: "Can I draw my sprites in here too?"

Today the answer is a very loud yes.

A pixel canvas is just another layer

Drop a pixel canvas anywhere on your page. Set its size — 16×16 for an icon, 320×180 for a title screen — and double-click to start drawing. Everything else in your file keeps working around it: frames, components, comments, collaborators.

DRAW

Pencil, line, shapes, bucket and contour fill, with pixel-perfect strokes that never double up on corners.

ANIMATE

Frames, tags, onion skin and playback, with a layer × frame grid that will feel instantly familiar if you've used Aseprite.

EXPORT

PNG at any integer scale, SVG, animated GIF, and sprite sheets with Aseprite-compatible JSON for your engine.

The trick we're proudest of

Put text, shapes or images inside a pixel canvas and the GPU renders them straight to the pixel grid — thresholded to hard edges and snapped to your palette. Type a label in a real font and watch it become crunchy, palette-perfect pixel text. Change the font later and the pixels update.

Try it now

Pixel Studio is available today on every plan, including Starter. Open the editor, add a pixel canvas, and make something that goes blip.

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