With Pixel FX Designer you can create awesome particle effects with the ability to giving them a pixelart feel by tweaking several options and render them to .png sprite sheets or .gifs. You can export the original particle render just disabling any pixelation or palette limitation. Or you can add effects like Glow, Outline,etc... all works in real time to see the final FX visual.There's a lot of settings to make sure the output matches the aesthetic of your game or animation: restricted pallettes, custom dithering patterns, draw-your-own particles, and so on.
Tool to create pixel art particle effects
Davit Masia, creator of Pixatool (previously), has created another app for pixel artists—this time with the focus on movement. Pixel FX generates particle effects such as clouds, smoke, fire and fog.