Can I use the sprites in a commercial game?

Yes. Sprites you generate are yours to use in your games.

Do I get animation frames?

No, one idle frame per run. Use it as the reference for walk and attack frames in your pixel editor.

How do I keep it crisp in my engine?

Import with point (nearest-neighbour) filtering and no compression, then scale by whole numbers.

Game Dev template · free to try

Pixel Art Sprite Generator

Describe a character and get a pixel art game sprite

Try it free

Free to try · takes about 20 s

Describe it in one sentence. About 20 s later you download a pixel art game sprite as PNG, ready to use in your game. No 3D skills needed.

Try it

Make pixel art game sprite

Describe a character and get a pixel art game sprite. The prompts and settings are already done for you.

Example 1 of 4

Describe your character0/160

Style

PoseOptionalIdle

Quality

~20 s · 8-bit, 16-bit or hi-bit · PNG · free to try

Examples

Made with this template

The card in the corner shows what went in.

8-bit fox rogue sprite

16-bit slime king sprite

Hi-bit cyberpunk hacker sprite

Each example is an actual run of this template at Standard quality, made from a typed idea or a sketch.

How it works

From idea to file in about 20 s

Type what you want, then wait while the AI runs. Nothing to set up.

Typed
“A young knight with a blue cape and a too-big sword”
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You
You describe it
Or upload a sketch of your character
Image Studio2
AI
AI draws your idea
Image Studio draws one full-body character in an idle pose with hard square pixels, a dark outline and a limited palette, on a flat background that's easy to remove.
PNG
3
Yours
You download the file
As PNG. You can use it however you like.

After the download

What people do with the image

You download it as PNG.

FileEditAssets▶ Play

Scene

Main Camera

Directional Light

Pixel Art Sprite

Terrain

X Y Z

In your game engine

View in your room

On a phone, in AR

Drop it into your engine

Export presets set the format, scale and texture size for each engine.

Prototype in minutes

Fill a level with props before you commit to final art.

Keep one style

Every asset uses the same locked style, so a whole set looks like one game.

Edit it in Blender

GLB opens in Blender if you want to tweak, rig or re-texture it.

Behind the scenes

How this template works

Image Studio draws your character as an idle game sprite in the pixel style you pick. Use the same style for the hero, the shopkeeper and the slime and they'll match.

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Step 1 · Image Studio
Draw the sprite
Image Studio draws one full-body character in an idle pose with hard square pixels, a dark outline and a limited palette, on a flat background that's easy to remove.
Nano Banana 2.1 (text) or GPT Image 2.5 Flare (sketch)
Open Image Studio

Do it yourself for more control

Remove the background in Image Studio for a transparent sprite.
Use the sprite as the reference for walk and attack frames in Aseprite.
Make the whole cast with the same style option so the palette stays consistent.

New here

What is 3D AI Studio?

3D AI Studio is a web app that makes 3D models, images and sounds with AI. It runs in your browser, so there is nothing to install.

A template is a saved recipe. It runs a fixed set of AI tools with settings we've already tested, so all you add is a photo or a sentence.

Runs in your browserPhone or computer

Inside this template

Step 1
Image Studio
Draws a picture from a sentence or a sketch.

Before you start

What you need

One sentence or a sketch
No prompt skills needed
3D software or skills
Not needed. It all happens in the browser
A free account
Sign up with Google or email

Free to try

16-bitDefault

16-bit era pixel art, the character about 48 pixels tall, a limited palette of around 16 colours with clean shading ramps.

8-bit retro

8-bit era pixel art, the character about 24 pixels tall, a tiny palette of 4 to 6 flat colours, very simple readable shapes.

Hi-bit

modern hi-bit pixel art like contemporary indie games, the character about 96 pixels tall, a rich palette with detailed shading and highlights, still hard pixel edges.

Your download

The files you get

PNGA normal image file.

Use it anywhere: print, web, socials or a game.

Best results

How to describe it

Describe one character with one standout detail: a huge hat, a glowing eye, a pet on the shoulder.
8-bit works best for simple silhouettes; hi-bit for detailed heroes.
A sketch works too; the design and colours are kept.

Good to know: You get one idle frame, not an animated sprite sheet; the pixel grid is approximate, so clean it up in a pixel editor for pixel-perfect assets.

MCP connector

Run this template from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Connect the 3D AI Studio MCP to your AI assistant and paste the brief into the chat. It runs the same steps with the same prompts and settings, shows you the result in the conversation and saves it to your library.

Style

Pose

Connect the MCP once in your account settings. It's included in every paid plan.
Copy the brief and swap the example in the first line for your own.
Paste it into a new chat. Your assistant runs every step and shows you each result.

Tools it calls

generate_image_nano_2_1upload_imageedit_image_gptget_generationshow_generation

What the MCP connector does Setup guides

Chat brief · Pixel Art Sprite

Use the 3D AI Studio MCP to run the "Pixel Art Sprite" template (https://www.3daistudio.com/templates/pixel-art-sprite-generator) for me.

My idea: A young knight with a blue cape and a too-big sword
Style: 16-bit
Pose: Idle

Follow these steps in order. The prompts and settings are the template's own, so use them word for word and only put my idea where it says {MY IDEA}.

1. Draw the sprite
Call generate_image_nano_2_1 with aspect_ratio "1:1", resolution "1K", output_format "png" and this prompt:
"""
Character: {MY IDEA}. Style: 16-bit era pixel art, the character about 48 pixels tall, a limited palette of around 16 colours with clean shading ramps. One single full-body game sprite of the character in a neutral idle pose, facing three-quarter front like a classic RPG or platformer sprite, centered with an even margin. Crisp hard-edged square pixels on a clear pixel grid, no anti-aliasing, no blur, no gradients, a clean 1-pixel dark outline around the character. No background scene, no ground, no text, no UI. Plain flat light grey (#E6E6E6) background.
"""
If I want to start from a sketch or reference image instead, call upload_image so I can hand it over, then call edit_image_gpt with the upload in images, quality "low", output_format "png" and this prompt:
"""
Turn the character in the reference image into a pixel art game sprite, keeping its design, outfit and colours. Style: 16-bit era pixel art, the character about 48 pixels tall, a limited palette of around 16 colours with clean shading ramps. One single full-body game sprite of the character in a neutral idle pose, facing three-quarter front like a classic RPG or platformer sprite, centered with an even margin. Crisp hard-edged square pixels on a clear pixel grid, no anti-aliasing, no blur, no gradients, a clean 1-pixel dark outline around the character. No background scene, no ground, no text, no UI. Plain flat light grey (#E6E6E6) background.
"""

After each generation call, keep polling get_generation with its task_id until it completes, then show me the result with show_generation before you start the next step.

Or automate it with the API

The same tools are available through the 3D AI Studio API. Call them from your own code to make hundreds at once, build them into your app or run them in your pipeline.

API docs Get an API key

Pixel Art Sprite: questions & answers

3D AI Studio is a web app that makes 3D models, images and sounds with AI. It runs in your browser, so there is nothing to install. A template is a saved recipe. It runs a fixed set of AI tools with settings we've already tested, so all you add is a photo or a sentence.