Hand-drawing pixel art sprite sheets for 8 or 16 directional character movement is one of the most repetitive, time-consuming tasks in indie game development.
Now you can generate them automatically from a single 2D image directly in your web browser.
PixZels turns 2D dot pictures into editable 3D pixel models.
Once your model is generated, you can tweak geometry voxel-by-voxel and automatically export full 8 or 16-direction sprite sheets, OBJ models, and animated GIFs.
If you make retro or 2.5D games, do you prefer hand-crafting every sprite frame, or would you use 3D voxel generation to speed up your pipeline?
PixZels is a free program for making top-down and isometric pixel art using a 3D workflow. It is aimed at pixel artists and game developers who want clean, hand-made sprites and scenes (the creator notes it is not AI-based).
You can try PixZels for free . It’s great for quickly prototyping 2.5D retro game assets, vehicles, and character turnarounds!
Creator: pixel_Salvaje · Price: Free · Get it: itch.io