Stipple Effect

What it does

Animation

Features include onion skins, splitting sprite sheets into animation frames, stitching animations into sprite sheets, and editing while playback runs.checked 11 Oct 2026

Audience

The maker highlights 2D game developers with many similarly structured animated assets as a use case, and says the editor can also be used without scripting or programming experience.checked 11 Oct 2026

Automation

Automation scripts can programmatically execute most program actions, including batch operations on open projects.checked 11 Oct 2026

Demo limit

The downloadable demo provides all features except saving and exporting.checked 11 Oct 2026

Integrations

The maker links a Visual Studio Code extension that provides syntax highlighting for Stipple Effect's DeltaScript dialect.checked 11 Oct 2026

Live previews

Preview scripts transform project contents for display and rerun when the project is edited; their output can be converted into projects.checked 11 Oct 2026

Painting

Painting features include a two-color system, dither, blend and noise brush modes, a shade brush, palettization, and a script brush.checked 11 Oct 2026

Product

Stipple Effect is a pixel art editor with animation and scripting support, designed for iterative creation of video game assets and other artwork.checked 11 Oct 2026

Project size limit

The documentation states that project dimensions are currently limited to 1920 by 1080 pixels.checked 11 Oct 2026

Runtime requirement

The Java program requires Java 17 or later; the Windows installer includes the runtime, while the cross-platform build requires a separate JRE installation.checked 11 Oct 2026

Supported systems

The editor is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux; the maker says it is developed and most thoroughly tested on Windows.checked 11 Oct 2026

Updates and support

Updates are not automatic, and the FAQ directs users to GitHub issue reports for bugs and feature requests.checked 11 Oct 2026