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24 alternatives to Matte Paint

Reference photography

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Matte Paint launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Juice FX▲120

    Easily turn your pixel art into VFX for your video game.

    2019 · codemanu.itch.io · its alternatives →

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    Free textures to add depth and realism to your renders

    2021 · icons8.com · its alternatives →

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    Luma AI▲124

    3D render products, landscapes and scenes wherever you are

    2023 · lumalabs.ai · its alternatives →

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    Create graphics like a pro without being one

    2023 · playgroundai.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi-res 3D scanned objects library for Games, VR and VFX

    2021 · wireshape.com · its alternatives →

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    Scenery▲220

    Showcase your designs with premium product photography.

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    We all need a swiss army knife for images. A tool for really getting in there and dealing with the pixels precisely. You might be combining images into a sprite sheet, you might be matting images to squares, cutting out solid backgrounds, re-tinting graphical elements. For a website, a video game, for an app. There's a million photo editors, there's a million design tools, and Mojave Paint can do those things in varying degrees but "graphical asset production" is its first and primary mission. It's cheap! $9.99 (one-time, sad I even have to say that) for the "Pro" version. It's Mac-only, and…

    Jul 2026 · mojavepaint.app · its alternatives →

  9. 9IR

    After 25 years of writing software, I was feeling nostalgic for the kinds of things that got me into programming in the first place: the old DOS demoscene. I spent a weekend seeing if I could recapture some of that INT 13H VGA magic using today's web tech, but with the old-school constraints of doing it from scratch. The result is this portfolio of ten classic effects running in a single HTML file. It's all vanilla JavaScript writing to a element, with no external libraries. It was a fun challenge to implement things like: * The color palette cycling and smooth fading in the Plasma demo. *…

    2025 · jdfio.com · its alternatives →

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    DLSS 5▲180

    The GPT moment for real-time computer graphics

    Mar 2026 · nvidia.com · its alternatives →

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    ActionVFX▲100

    Free high-quality footage for VFX training and education

    2023 · actionvfx.com · its alternatives →

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    Procedural Sprite Generator

    2018 · crysoftware.itch.io · its alternatives →

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    Simple 3D shapes for artists to study and practice, online

    2021 · shadingreference.com · its alternatives →

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    Convert any VR180 video/photo to 6DOF or Unreal Engine

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

  15. 15PV

    2016 · guillaumechereau.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Simple site for color inspiration

    2015 · willstanley.co · its alternatives →

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    Powerful VR sculpting & painting tool

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Pxl▲87

    Single div CSS illustrations made easy!

    2020 · pxl.netlify.app · its alternatives →

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    Voxel model cleaner, exporter & add-on for Blender

    2022 · thestrokeforge.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Production-ready high end 3d scanned assets

    2020 · digiprops.io · its alternatives →

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    Create a virtual canvas to layout, inspect & compare images.

    2019 · einsteinslegacy.com · its alternatives →

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    Transform your ideas into stunning artwork with ImageFX

    2025 · imgfx.dev · its alternatives →

  23. 23QA

    Hi! This is my little project introducing quasicrystals animations with some parameters. It uses a custom shader to allow higher resolution. Not all combinations look equally good. For example the "Spectrum" color palette IMO makes sense only for low values of "Tempo" and "Pattern Density". If you have VR googles, I recommend trying the WebXR version - it's really nice.

    Aug 2026 · hypnagogic-quasicrystals.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Turn reference images into pixel-art game assets,for indie game developers. - See-Sol-Lab/Picxel

    Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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