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Unleash your artistry with hyper-realistic painting software
and groundbreaking technology

WHAT is Rebelle?

Rebelle is the award-winning, hyper-realistic painting software with phenomenal oils, acrylics, watercolors, and other wet and dry media. Paint pigments color mixing, oil thickness, watercolor diffusion, and NanoPixel technology convincingly mimic the way natural media interact with the canvas and itself.

WHO is it for?

Rebelle is designed for everyone who wants to explore their artistic skills using digital technology, no matter the level of proficiency. Its state-of-the-art tools will certainly change the mind of every digital art non⁠-⁠believer.

WHY was it created?

The unique watercolor simulation was created by artist Peter Blaškovič as one of his experimental drawing projects. The vision is to keep developing versatile software with the most natural painting tools. Artists can explore all kinds of very realistic painting techniques working with a wide range of media.

Painting

Transfer your ideas into digital canvas using traditional painting techniques. Phenomenal oils, acrylics, and watercolors convincingly mimic the way natural media interact with the canvas.

Illustration

Tell your story in a visually captivating way, using vibrant colors and intricate details. Whether you are an accomplished illustrator or just a student, Rebelle has all the tools you need.

Concept Art

Elevate your concept artistry with Rebelle, merging digital innovation and artistic expression for captivating and imaginative visuals.

Kuzayova Illustrator
I have never used more advanced software for real-media mimicking than Rebelle. People were surprised to find out my art was digital.
Simon Lovell Illustrator and Designer
I was blown away by the watercolor and paper interactions in Rebelle. There really is no other software that as closely emulates the real world of watercolor.
Nick Sorbin Renderosity Magazine
If you want digital art software that provides results as close to real-world painting as possible, Rebelle should be on your radar.
ImagineFX Magazine
Rebelle is an excellent, affordable program replicating traditional painting techniques with absolute authenticity.
Karen Bonaker Digital Painting Educator
Rebelle is incredibly user-friendly and packed with mind-blowing features that bring my paintings to life in the most realistic way imaginable.
Pete Smith Traditional and Digital Artist
Rebelle's natural media simulation is as real as it gets and with no mess to clean up afterward!
Tom Gallovich Digital painting instructor
No other software can duplicate the spontaneous movement and color mixing the way Rebelle does! The traditional painting effects with the “Ctrl + Z” digital advantage.
Odessa Sawyer Illustrator
Rebelle is the best software for getting a true, realistic feeling of traditional painting. I love the brushes and every medium.
Rob Salkowitz Painter and educator
Rebelle offers the most realistic natural materials yet for drawing and painting. You're not just buying the software, you're also buying Escape Motions' tireless commitment to improving it.
Matthew Stern Traditional and Digital artist
Rebelle oils are magnificent. Stunning! They offer an exquisite example of “technology so advanced it appears to be magic”.
Craig Mullins Leading Concept Artist
Get Rebelle. It is very well designed, and powerful but simple at the same time, quite a feat in software design.
Georg Ireland Digital painter
As a digital artist, no other software brings me closer to traditional painting techniques as Rebelle does.
Carles Carbonell Bernado Illustrator
Rebelle art surfaces and structures are outstanding in emulating traditional painting and are a joy to use, especially for landscape painting.
Ian Dean Editor of CreativeBloq
Escape Motions isn’t just chasing realism for realism’s sake; it’s building digital painting tools that respond to your intuition, whether you’re sketching a loose concept or layering oils for a gallery piece.
Georg Ireland Digital Painter
Digital oil painting in Rebelle 8 Pro is breathtaking. It feels like stirring the brush in physically realistic paint and feeling the creamy consistency of the colours. I’m just thrilled!
Gwen Patton Artist
Rebelle delivers jaw-dropping support for creating beautiful, precise digital art, preserving the familiar feel of real-life painting while making it easier and cleaner.
Elisabeth Harmonie Painter
Since I switched to Rebelle, I can finally create my paintings as if they were traditional. The fluidity of watercolor, with the option to blow the paint around, is truly enjoyable.
Ludovico Clovis Traditional and Digital Artist
I really love Rebelle 8! It sets an entirely new tone for what will be possible in the near future. And in the present, it's exactly what I would want in a painting software!
Carles Carbonell Bernado Illustrator
The Bristle brushes impasto is astounding. But it is also the thin brush strokes. The new blending/smudging of bristle brushes is much more realistic.
Daniel Ibanez Artist and Educator
The new brush engine has changed everything about this app for the better! It's the most wonderful painting app on Earth!
Daniel Murray Artist
Seriously this is THE best watercolor emulation software I've ever seen.

Key Features

Bristle Brushes

PRO Powered by the new particle brush system mimicking each strand, enjoy richer, more dynamic strokes and unlock a new level of creative expression.

RealShader with SoftShadows

PRO Get richer impasto and more life-like brushstrokes using the advanced rendering using environmental maps and shadows.

Oil and Acrylic Impasto

Oil and Acrylic Impasto

Try dynamic painting technique in Rebelle that offers variety in appearance and creates beautiful impasto effects.

Real Watercolor Simulation

The unprecedented watercolor DropEngine enables creating beautiful dripping effects. Let the paint flow in different directions using the Blow Tool.

NanoPixel 2

PRO Macro-zoom into the canvas in real⁠-⁠time to see infinite features of the painting. Export 400x larger artworks with sharp details.

Mixed Media Interactions

Unleash a mesmerizing dance of oils and watercolors on canvas, as they mingle and merge in breathtaking harmony.

Metallic Materials

PRO Create beautiful lifelike-looking metallic strokes and structures, and paint with gold, silver, emerald, and other colorful and shiny surfaces.

Ruler and Perspective Tool

Useful assistants for precision drawings with an innovative approach of a Free Hand effect. The perspective tool allows expressing depth in 1, 2, or 3 point perspective.

Symmetry Tool

Symmetry Tool

Create perfectly mirrored artwork with the new Symmetry Tool, supporting all painting tools.

Consistent Painting Experience

Enjoy seamless creativity with Rebelle, minimizing delays and latency for a remarkably smooth and ultra-responsive artistic journey.

Fractal Image Processing

PRO Keep the image quality while transforming and deforming layers or whole canvas using fractal resizing algorithm based on machine learning.

Transform & Warp Tools

Transform your image or deform specific objects with the Warp tool. Modify proportions to achieve desired shapes.
PRO Works with Fractal Image Processing in Pro edition.

Liquify Tool

Retouch or deconstruct your image and create exciting artistic effects. Push, expand, pinch, or twirl your artwork with the Liquify tool.
PRO Works with Fractal Image Processing in Pro edition.

Brush Line Stabilization

Use “Moving Average” or “Pulled String” tools to paint the perfectly smoothed line.

Reference Image Guides

Reference Image Guides

Show and transform reference images directly on the canvas. Use additional guidelines and master the positioning and proportions.

Record Time-Lapse

Record and export your painting process as a video and use it for your presentation on social channels.

Realistic Brushes

  • Hyper-realistic painting tools
  • Wet tools: Oils & Acrylics, Express Oils, Watercolors, Gouache & Inks
  • Dry tools: Pencils, Pastels, Markers, Airbrushes
  • Bristle Brushes NEW PRO
  • RealShader with SoftShadows NEW PRO
  • Pigment color mixing PRO
  • Metallic Materials PRO
  • More than 260 brush presets
  • Favorite & Recent Brushes NEW
  • State-of-the-art watercolor simulation
  • DropEngine for watercolor drips
  • Wet, dry and blow the wet painting
  • Tilt the canvas to get flow effects
  • Transparent, semi-transparent, and opaque watercolors
  • Watercolor granulation
  • Impasto engine for thick painting
  • Dirty brush for oils & acrylics
  • Multicolor brush for oils
  • Blend, Smudge and Liquify tools
  • Volume presets
  • Powerful Brush Creator
  • Brush line stabilization

Layers, Tools & Colors

  • Full-color ultra-realistic papers, canvases, and other art surfaces
  • Masking tools - Clipping Masks, Layer Masks
  • ‘Masking Fluid’ layer
  • Layer Settings NEW
  • Layer groups
  • Filter Layers
  • Color harmonies NEW
  • Gradient slider NEW
  • RYB color wheel NEW
  • Paint selection NEW
  • Selection tools & Magic wand
  • Clone and Fill tools
  • Patterns and Gradients
  • Gamma correction
  • Canvas and Image resize
  • Transform and Warp tools
  • Fractal image processing PRO
  • Color management PRO
  • Color soft proofing and Gamut warning PRO
  • Color filters and Color range
  • Image color tracing

Intuitive Interface

  • Intuitive customizable interface
  • Light and Dark UI
  • Instant Paper Preview NEW
  • Color mixing palette
  • Multi-touch gestures
  • View at print size NEW
  • Straight line, Ruler & Perspective tools
  • Multiple reference images
  • Reference image guides
  • ‘Preview’ panel
  • Custom keyboard shortcuts
  • Support for Retina touch displays
  • Full-screen mode
  • English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Greek, Finnish, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian, Russian, Arabic, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese

Files

  • Share & download favorite brushes
  • Drag & Drop image from folder or web
  • Import and export with alpha channel
  • PNG, JPG, TIF, BMP, WEBP and REB files
  • Advanced PSD Import & Export NEW PRO
  • Photoshop plug-in PRO
  • Record Time-Lapse
  • Iterative save
  • Image file thumbnails
  • MotionIO animation scripting tool PRO
  • WebSocket Control Input NEW PRO
  • Publish artworks in Gallery
  • Publish artworks on social media
  • Windows & Mac OS
  • Native Apple Silicon (M-series) compatibility
  • Compatible with Tablet Pro
  • Yuify Export
Intuitive customizable interface
Multi-touch gestures
Save sequentially numbered versions of an artwork. The first time Iterative Save is used, \"_1\" is appended to the file name. Each subsequent time the number increments by 1 and a new sequentially numbered file is created.
You can see the Rebelle image file thumbnails in every file browser or file dialog together with an image preview when available.

System requirements


Minimum:
Intel i5 or equivalent AMD processor,
4 GB RAM,
1,5 GB hard disk space,
a graphics card with 1 GB RAM (OpenGL 3.3 required for Rebelle Pro),
Windows 10 (64-bit) or Mac OS 10.15

Recommended:
Intel i7 (6th gen or newer), equivalent AMD processor, or Apple Silicon (M-series) chip,
16 GB RAM,
1,5 GB hard disk space,
a graphics card with 2 GB RAM:
NVIDIA gtx760 for FullHD, NVIDIA gtx1060 for 4K screen, or equivalent graphics card,
Windows 10 (64-bit) or Mac OS 11 and newer, Wacom or Windows Ink compatible tablet.

If you aren't sure your system meets Rebelle 8 requirements, you can download a free Trial version first.

Internet connection is required for activation.

A Whole NEW LEVEL of Painting Experience

Compare Rebelle versions

Experience artistic authenticity with Rebelle. Dive into painting with phenomenal oils, acrylics, watercolors, and diverse media. Advanced features like pigment color mixing, oil thickness control, metallic materials, and NanoPixel technology will enhance the realistic interaction on the canvas. Try new Rebelle 8 bristle brushes, photorealistic lighting of oil paintings with realistic shadows, or instant paper preview. Whether you're a novice or an experienced artist, Rebelle caters to all skill levels.

For a detailed comparison of all features in Rebelle 8 and previous versions, please see the table below.NEW marks added features and improvements to existing features.

Rebelle - Comparison table

Rebelle 8

Rebelle 8 Pro

For private individuals, enterprise and schools, commercial use. For private individuals, enterprise and schools, commercial use.
The award-winning painting software with intuitive interface that lets you create realistic oil, acrylic, watercolor, wet and dry media artworks. State-of-the-art solution for artists seeking the hyper-realistic behavior of various painting mediums supported by the latest technology.
Key features: All Rebelle 8 features, plus:
Hyper-realistic Oils & Acrylics, Express Oils, Watercolors, Inks, Pastels, Pencils, Markers and Airbrushes Bristle Brushes
State-of-the-art watercolor simulation with granulation and realistic drips RealShader
Impasto painting for thick textures SoftShadows
260+ brush presets NanoPixel 2 for 400x larger image export
5 paper presets Pigments color mixing
Powerful Brush Creator Smooth scaling
Color Mixing Palette Metallic materials
Filter layers Fractal Image Processing
Masking tools Advanced PSD Import & Export
Rulers, guides, and grid tools Escape Motions Connect - Photoshop plug-in
Symmetry tool Color management
Time-lapse recording Motion IO
Intuitive customizable interface WebSocket Control Input
Commercial use Commercial use
Lifetime license with 1-year FREE updates Lifetime license with 1-year FREE updates
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Refund policy

30-Days Refund Policy

Auto Updates

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Unconditional money-back guarantee.
If for any reason you are not satisfied with Rebelle 8, you can obtain a full refund within 30 days.
If you purchase Rebelle 8 now, your refund period ends 30 days after the release of the full version, currently planned for September 2025.

Get an Educational License and Save 40%

We firmly believe that everyone has the potential to be an artist. With this belief in mind, we are committed to providing tools and resources that help individuals explore their creative abilities and express themselves. If you are a student or teacher looking for an individual Rebelle license, or a school wanting a volume license for the classroom, find out more about our educational offer.

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