OSX Pixel Art Application (like "Sprite Something")?

[Megadooomer]

Could someone recommend a very simple pixel/sprite editor for OSX that I could use to draw low-res sprites for games?

Something like the "Sprite Something" app for iPad? I have tried Photoshop/CS5, but its a real pain to create with and doesn't seem to be able to do very low-res, basic retro/pixel-block design.

 

[Mal]

In PhotoShop, have you tried just creating the document with a very low resolution, say like 15ppi, instead of the usual 72? Then you can use the pencil tool to easily just fill in a pixel at a time.

I apologize though, I don't know of any other programs to do that. I'm sure something exists, though.

jW

 

[AppleMactablet]

Pixen-free
Paintbrush-free
sketchbook exprees free

I even got ms paint to work using wine but there's no copy/paste
and its not an easy install

Personally I just want ms paint but a mac version

 

[0098386]

Photoshop is terrible for pixel art. The right mouse button contextual menu slows things down - though it is great for alpha channels and scaling without filters.

For pure pixel art I use the art editor in a PC app called MMF2. Other pixel artist buddies used to use Graphics Gale, I believe that used to be the standard.

Unfortunately these are all PC only. Though I imagine they could be emulated under OSX just fine.

 

[tedge]

PikoPixel is a free pixel-art editor:
http://twilightedge.com/mac/pikopixel/

 

[fierywater]

Aseprite is excellent: http://www.aseprite.org/

The UI takes a bit of getting used to, but it's quick and powerful.

 

[mariogt]

Updating this thread after 7 years!

I have ported the original PikoPixel to a Universal Binary (Intel and Apple Silicon Native App)

This project is on my Github repository, where you can download the 1.5b release and all the source code. If you are a programmer you can help me to add new features, fix bugs, and modernize the code. Still are some API calls to update, and I have to find a method to update the really old NIB interface files to XIB files.

You can get PikoPixelM1 from here:

https://github.com/mariogt/PikoPixelM1