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No-fluff tutorials that take you from a blank canvas to finished, animated sprites — written for the tools you'll actually use.

A mage charges water in a staff, sends a spiral stream at a training dummy and traps it in a floating water sphere

Pixel Art VFX in Your Game with an AI Agent

Free pixel art effects for your game. Add them with Claude Code or Codex, fit them to your sprite, and make your own with Opus 5.5.

4 min readRead
An astronaut sprite on the canvas of the PixelZ editor

How to Make Your First Pixel Art

From a blank canvas to a finished sprite in the PixelZ editor: canvas size, palette, the four tools you need, outlines, and shading.

10 min readRead
Three AI-generated pixel art sprites: a knight, a goblin merchant and a potion

How to Generate Pixel Art That's Actually Usable

Real prompts, real results: the Type, the prompt structure, variants, and references that turn AI output into sprites you can use in a game.

5 min readRead
A small sprite looping a two-frame breathing idle

How to Animate Pixel Art (The Right Way)

Frame-by-frame animation on the PixelZ timeline: a two-frame idle, onion skinning, a four-frame walk cycle, the shortcuts, and GIF export.

7 min readRead
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