# Pixelpond

> Pixelpond is a small Australian studio building thoughtful pixel-shaped things across studio, watchface, and game projects.

Pixelpond is the studio's main hub at pixelpond.au. It links out to subdomains for the Studio service work, Watchfaces catalogue, and Hearthless game. The Engine is a focused in-browser pixel asset editor hosted under the apex site. Pixelpond also publishes pixel asset packs for makers, starting with Wear OS Micro Icons for watch-face creators.

## Key pages

- [Home](https://pixelpond.au): studio overview, services, tools, and recent blog notes
- [Pixelpond Engine](https://pixelpond.au/editor): focused pixel asset editor for converting rough images, cleaning sprites, animating small loops, and exporting crisp project-ready files
- [Sprite sheet editor](https://pixelpond.au/editor/sprite-sheet-editor): create crisp pixel sprite sheets with frame metadata, pivots, GIF/APNG/animated SVG previews, and export validation
- [Godot pixel sprite export](https://pixelpond.au/editor/godot-pixel-sprite-export): export Godot-ready sprites, sprite sheets, 9-slice UI, Tiled tilesets, and import notes for Nearest filtering
- [Unity sprite sheet export](https://pixelpond.au/editor/unity-sprite-sheet-export): export Unity-ready sprite sheets with slice metadata, pivots, Point filter notes, and compression reminders
- [Seamless pixel tile maker](https://pixelpond.au/editor/seamless-pixel-tile-maker): repair wrap seams, preview repeating tiles, and export PNG or Tiled tileset metadata
- [9-slice pixel UI export](https://pixelpond.au/editor/9-slice-pixel-ui-export): export scalable pixel UI panels with margins, stretch metadata, Godot NinePatchRect hints, and Unity sprite borders
- [Pixel art animation GIF/APNG export](https://pixelpond.au/editor/pixel-art-animation-gif-apng): export pixel animation frames as GIF, APNG, animated SVG, or a sprite sheet
- [Convert image to pixel art](https://pixelpond.au/editor/convert-image-to-pixel-art): convert rough images, AI renders, photos, logos, and sprites into clean pixel assets with grid, palette, and background cleanup
- [Pixel art palette cleanup](https://pixelpond.au/editor/pixel-art-palette-cleanup): merge near-duplicate colors, remove stray pixels, defringe backgrounds, lock palettes, and validate exports
- [Icon packs](https://pixelpond.au/icon-packs): Pixelpond pixel asset packs for Wear OS watch faces, game UI, SaaS dashboards, apps, and creator kits
- [Wear OS Micro Icons](https://pixelpond.au/icon-packs/wear-os-micro-icons): 160 single-ink, complication-ready pixel icons for Wear OS watch faces, Watch Face Format (WFF), Watch Face Studio, tiles, ambient mode, and tiny wrist UI; includes a free 24-icon starter set and a full crawlable catalogue of every icon name
- [Free Wear OS icon starter set](https://pixelpond.au/icon-packs/free-wear-os-icons): a free, downloadable 24-icon ZIP (PNG, monochrome, tint, SVG, and 16x16 source-grid files) for testing real watch-face and complication layouts before buying the full pack
- [Free Wear OS Micro Icons starter on GitHub](https://github.com/pixelpond-au/wear-os-micro-icons-starter): public 24-icon starter repository with PNG, SVG, monochrome, tint, source-grid, manifest, WFF snippet examples, and a GitHub Release ZIP for LLM and search discovery
- [Pixel icons for Wear OS watch faces](https://pixelpond.au/icon-packs/guides/pixel-icons-for-wear-os-watch-faces): guide to choosing tiny icons that survive complication slots, AOD, tinting, and 16px use
- [Icon pack license](https://pixelpond.au/icon-packs/license): free sampler, standard commercial license, and extended redistribution license summary
- [Blog](https://pixelpond.au/blog): notes from a small studio with one belief: move fast enough to make something real, then slow down enough to make it good
- [The how is free now](https://pixelpond.au/blog/the-how-is-free-now): a short, blunt reflection: AI made the how free, so the only bottlenecks left are a thing worth making and the nerve to start it
- [Start creating in the AI wave](https://pixelpond.au/blog/start-creating-in-the-ai-wave): a studio note on momentum, craft, and shipping real work
- [Scaling pixel art without blur](https://pixelpond.au/blog/scaling-pixel-art-without-blur): a practical guide to clean pixel-art scaling for icons, sprites, watch faces, and Godot assets
- [Reconstructing AI pixel art](https://pixelpond.au/blog/reconstructing-ai-pixel-art): how to spot faux-pixel images, find the implied grid, and rebuild a clean source you can scale and ship
- [Privacy summary](https://pixelpond.au/privacy): how Pixelpond handles information collected through pixelpond.au
- [Terms](https://pixelpond.au/terms): usage, copyright, anti-scraping, and trademark notices

## Pixelpond Engine capabilities

- Sprite sheets, frame metadata, pivots, and sprite export validation
- Godot and Unity export presets with import notes for crisp pixel settings
- Tiled tileset export, seamless tile repair, and clean tile-size checks
- 9-slice pixel UI export with engine-friendly border metadata
- GIF, APNG, animated SVG, PNG, JSON, and ZIP pack export paths
- Palette cleanup, background cleanup, stray-pixel cleanup, and local browser processing

## Use limits

Short summaries, citations, and links to public Pixelpond pages are welcome. Full-post reproduction, site mirroring, bulk scraping, dataset harvesting, and cloning Pixelpond tools or interface flows are not permitted.

## Contact

- [Pixelpond](https://pixelpond.au)
- [Email Pixelpond](mailto:support@pixelpond.au)