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Pixel Puppets: Pixel Art Maker

Draw and animate your own pixel puppets

A calm pixel art and animation studio, designed for children aged 8 to 12. Draw a character square by square, dress it up on its own layers, then bring it to life frame by frame.

Coming soon to the App Store Coming soon to Google Play
The promise

Room to create, with nothing in the way

  • No ads, ever. Nothing interrupts a creative idea.
  • Never lose a drawing. Every stroke saves itself.
  • Pay once, only if you want more. Every tool is free.
For grown-ups

For parents and teachers

Pixel Puppets is designed for children aged 8 to 12. There are no accounts and nothing to sign in to, and nothing leaves the device: every puppet is saved only where it was made, and the app sends nothing anywhere. Purchases, links out of the app, and saving or sharing a picture all sit behind a grown-ups question, so children never see a price.

In the studio

Draw it, dress it, make it move

Draw
A pixel canvas in 16×16 or 32×32, and the big 64×64 in the full studio. Pencil, rubber, fill, line, box and mirror, custom colours, and undo and redo always in reach.
Layers
Up to 8 layers, so the body, the outfit and the extras stay separate.
Animate
Up to 60 frames, played back straight away, and up to 12 animations for each puppet. Onion skin shows the last frame faintly, so movement is easy to get right.
Stamps
Stamps for hats, outfits, pets and props, colouring pages for quick wins, and Surprise me!, which starts a new puppet with a surprise name and outline. Any drawing can be saved as a stamp of its own.
Save
Pictures (PNG), animated GIFs and posters of every frame, crisp and sharp, saved or shared by a grown-up.
Devices
iPhone, iPad, Android phones and Android tablets, in any orientation.
A look inside

On phone and tablet

On a phone

  • Draw and animate with no ads, ever. A puppet called Zigzag on a 32 by 32 grid, a figure in a blue top under the sun and a cloud, with the frames of its Walk animation and the drawing tools below
  • Every stroke saves itself. Bramble, a hedgehog under a rainbow, part way through, with undo and redo beside the tools
  • Pay once. No subscription, no coins. My puppets, the gallery of saved puppets Zigzag, Bramble and Captain Toast, with the New card marked Full studio
  • No accounts. Your art stays here. Captain Toast, a pixel pirate on a beach, filling the screen

On a tablet

  • Onion skin makes animation easy. Zigzag on a tablet, with the last frame showing faintly in pink behind the new one
  • Hundreds of stamps in the full studio. The stamp library on a tablet, open at Pets: a puppy, a kitten, an owl, a frog and many more
  • Colour in, or start from scratch. Bumper, a red car colouring page, on a tablet, with the fill tool chosen
  • Save GIFs, pictures and posters. The Share window on a tablet, with Zigzag ready to save and the note A grown-up helps with this bit
The price

Free to start, one purchase for the full studio

The free version is complete and stays free: every tool, layers, animation, onion skin and every kind of saving, with room for 3 puppets, 4 colour palettes and 32 ready-made stamps, plus any stamps a child makes.

The full studio is one purchase of £2.99, made once: unlimited puppets, all 8 palettes, all 614 stamps (62 colouring pages and 50 backdrops among them), the big 64×64 canvas, and every stamp pack, palette and colouring page added later. No subscription and no coins.

The deal No ads. No tracking. Pay once.
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