« BackShow HN: How I generate animated pixel art with AI and Pythonsarthakmishra.comSubmitted by sarthak_drool 2 days ago
  • vunderba 2 days ago

    Nice job! I also did some pixel art experiments several weeks ago with grid-based constraints via Img2Img with Gemini 3.0 Pro that might be of some interest:

    https://mordenstar.com/other/nb-sprites

    FYI there are several nice tools for quantizing to a grid as well as reducing to a smaller discrete color palette that I recommend using as well (unfake [1] and pixel-snapper [2]).

    [1] https://github.com/jenissimo/unfake.js

    [2] https://github.com/Hugo-Dz/spritefusion-pixel-snapper

    • sarthak_drool 2 days ago

      Thanks! Those before-after visualizations on your post look great btw.

      unfake.js looks like a much cleaner solution than the custom Python script I cobbled together for this. Definitely going to check that out.