AI in the Editor

The editor's AI panel (the AI tab on the left) draws pixel art with PixelZ Core v1, our own pixel-art model. Create draws from a prompt; Edit changes what you already drew, the way you describe; Style draws something new in the style of a reference sprite. Image generation with other models, animation, effects and 3D have their own pages, starting with Generate.

How it works

Optionally press J (or Select area in the panel) and drag a rectangle on the canvas; without one, the whole canvas is used. Write your prompt, hit Generate, then pick the variants you want — each lands as a new layer, centred on the area at its own pixel size. Right-click a frame, cel or layer in the timeline and choose Use as AI reference to hand it to the panel.

Create

• Prompt — describe the subject: "a wooden park bench"
• Type — character, creature, item, food, effect, vehicle, UI, portrait, tile or background. Sprites come cut out on a transparent background; tiles and backgrounds fill the whole picture. With Default, a prompt that names a tile or a background is drawn as one.
• Reference images — up to 4: an upload, the active cel or frame, or one of your assets
• Variants — 1 to 4 images in one request

Edit and Style

• Edit takes the whole frame or the active layer (inside the area, if you marked one) and changes it: "give him a red scarf", "raise the sword". The result lands on a new layer on the same spot.
• Style takes the first reference image and draws a new sprite in its palette and outline: "a park trash can". The reference should be pixel art at its own size, up to 256 px.

Generation size

Size comes from the area you mark, or the canvas — there's no width/height field. Create draws sprites in any shape up to 160 px a side and up to about 3:1, and tiles and backgrounds as squares; an area it can't draw exactly is shrunk to the closest size it can, and the bar above the prompt shows what you'll get. Style draws squares up to 128 px; Edit keeps the size of what you edit.

Credits

Each plan refreshes credits every 30 days:

• Free — 9 credits / month
• Starter — 220 credits / month
• Pro — 500 credits / month
• Max — 1,100 credits / month

Each image costs 3 credits on Create, 3 on PixelZ Edit and 3 on PixelZ Style, whatever its size.

Writing good prompts

• Name the subject and the view: "an old man with a cane, side view facing left"
• Pick the Type instead of writing it into the prompt
• Generate 2–4 variants in one request and pick the best one
• Keep edits to one change at a time