Jan 14 · 6 min read · Sprite sheets are a concept traditionally used in game development and UI engineering. They represent a design pattern in which multiple small assets—each describing a different aspect of an object—are assembled into a single, indexed structure. This...
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Jul 29, 2025 · 2 min read · SpritedDX’s vision is to make a tool that will create animated and working platformer characters from text prompts. In yesterday’s post, we created Comfy workflow for Stage 1 to generate character reference. Today, we strive to build Stage 2. Stage 2...
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Jul 28, 2025 · 2 min read · Previously, we looked at bunch of background removal options to use after we generate a sprite animation using video gen AI tools. There were some options that were promising but still fell short in edge cases. Well, background removal is all about t...
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Jul 26, 2025 · 1 min read · Today, we finally have a preview of a demo character generated by the SpriteDX pipeline. To recap, the pipeline look like this: User types in prompts describing the character and its style. Image generation model generates a pixel art character bas...
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Jul 23, 2025 · 2 min read · Dev Log to keep myself sane mostly… Goal for today was to create/generate a demo character sprite sheet that I can use for SpriteDX demonstration. Trial #1 Starting character reference image was generated by using series of chained image generation ...
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Jul 18, 2025 · 3 min read · TL;DR: Not really. Perhaps with right fine-tuning it would but not out of the box. Doing a short experiment to see if spritesheets generated by Universial LPC Spritesheet Generator can be remixed using image-to-image generative AI pipelines. Source i...
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Jul 18, 2025 · 3 min read · Design Principles it just works simple instant First Time User Experience First time user comes in, I want the user to be able to try out pre-generated CC sprite characters without any configuration. These examples are compelling demo samples th...
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Jul 17, 2025 · 6 min read · I’m a scrappy ex-FAANG dev surfing the AI wave and finally going independent. I’ve hit a temporary level of financial escape velocity—enough runway to work full-time on the weird stuff I actually care about. As I mentioned in my past post, the curren...
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Jul 17, 2025 · 2 min read · I tried out Seedance 1 Pro for Sprite Animation for Walk Cycle Generation. You can try this model out using Scenario (paid). Base Image: Prompt: Walk Cycle for Pixellated NPC character sprite walking towards right for Machi game. This seems rathe...
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Jul 17, 2025 · 3 min read · Can off-the-shelf VAEs reconstruct 1024×1024 sprite sheets with 100% accuracy? Short answer is a NO, because VAEs are meant to be lossful compressors. It is trivial to make truly loss-less compressor but resulting compression won’t be that good. Toda...
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