Why is this software 30 dollars??

My son is trying to replicate Super Meat Boy's animations in Aseprite (more precisely the running animation) and it'd be really helpful if we could find the frames for the animation somewhere! I thought it'd be really easy to find such a resource, but after much Googling I couldn't find anything. Is there somewhere where such strips exist? I think it'd be a really cool learning resource for people trying to learn pixel art and animation!...

I thought pixel art was easy. I've never been so wrong. How long did it take you to create your first simple pixel art? I spent about 15 hours drawing "Alice in Nightmareland"

Hello, I just see that resprite will be available on steam this year. But resprite is a copy of aseprite or I make a mistake?

Hello, wanted to ask if there is an any way to change the round gradient tool from stretching a gradient between 2 points, which usually doesnt give the result i want, to something like in Sai, in which round gradient takes the first point as the position of the gradient and the second point changes the size of the gradient....