Pixel Portrait Studio

Pixel portraits that move, recolour and drop into your engine.

Build a character in your browser. Pay once and keep every update.

Try it in your browser

Windows, macOS, Linux and your browser.

Three steps from blank to in-game.

  1. 1

    Pick a style and parts

    Choose hair, eyes, mouth, outfit and ears from a style's parts.

  2. 2

    Recolour everything

    Every part has its own colours, with shading that follows them.

  3. 3

    Export to your engine

    Save a PNG, a GIF or an Aseprite file now. Engine exports arrive during early access.

Colours with real shading

Change a colour and its light and shadow tones change with it. Lock the ones you like.

Bring your own art

Import a PNG or an Aseprite file. Its colours become ramps, and you recolour them the same way as the built-in parts.

Portraits that move

Every character you build breathes. Blinking and talking arrive during early access.

More than one style

Switch between the anime style and Blocky. Each pack adds a whole look.

Made for game engines

Ren'Py, RPG Maker, Godot, Unity and GameMaker exports arrive during early access.

Packs

Each pack is a whole style or theme. It keeps getting new parts, with updates for at least a year after it comes out.

A character in the Blocky style

Blocky

In the pack today

  • 15 hairs
  • 14 outfits
  • 17 eyes
  • 16 mouths
  • 3 ears
  • 1 bodies

What's coming

Coming in early access

These arrive whatever sales do.

  • Ren'Py layered-image export and RPG Maker face sheets
  • Godot, Unity and GameMaker exporters
  • Signed desktop builds for Windows and macOS

Funded by sales

Each goal adds an extra when enough copies have sold. Everything already promised arrives whatever the count.

… copies sold

  1. 50Random with per-slot lock; export at 1×–4×
  2. 150Anime Earth pack
  3. 250Headwear, glasses, beards and scars
  4. 400More expressions for every face family
  5. 600Second theme pack, chosen by owners
  6. 1,000v1 and the Steam release
  7. 1,300Older faces and more body types
  8. 1,600In-game generator for your own game
  9. 1,800Developer API for batch creation
  10. 2,000Aseprite extension
  11. 2,500Big expansion: a new body type, age set or race set
  12. 3,500v2: full-body idle, walk, run and attack

Pricing

Pixel Portrait Studio

$14.99 · €14.99

Early access with the anime style. Version 1 and version 2 are free when they come out.

Blocky pack

$9.99 · €9.99

A second style for the app.

Bundle

$17.99 · €17.99

The app and every pack released so far.

Yearly pass

$24.99 · €24.99 a year

Every pack while you're subscribed. Packs released while you paid stay yours.

Buy

Prices are in US dollars plus tax, or in euros with VAT included. The app needs an internet connection once, to activate. After that it works offline on up to 3 computers.