u/RyanJM2003

I’ve run into an issue that I think a lot of first time game devs face which is finding a reliable workflow for creating consistent 2D sprites.

The problem isn’t creating a spritesheet or aligning individual frames, I already created a workflow for that using. The real issue is generating the singular sprites themselves consistently.

I’ve tried several sprite generator sites, including sorceress.games, AutoSprite.io, spritely.studio, as well as Gemini Pro and using GPT 5.5 in the CLI to generate each sprite via imagegen following a detailed prompt sheet. The results are usually inconsistent with colours changing between frames, animations don’t sync up properly and character details shift.

So far, the best approach I’ve found for animating a sprite smoothly is generating a video, extracting each frame, and then turning those frames into a spritesheet. However, even with Gemini Pro (Nano Banana 2), the character often extends beyond the video frame (shown in the video), and I haven’t found a reliable tool for extracting frames. I tried spritely.gamemaker.academy, but it never seems to finish creating the spritesheet.

Has anyone found a reliable workflow, tool, or prompt structure for creating consistent animated 2D sprites? Any advice would be greatly appreciated! For reference I have a GPT Plus subscription and a Gemini Pro subscription.

I purchased this amiibo and the classic 8 bit one on vinted from the same seller, but noticed this amiibo moves quite a bit in box then realised it’s covered in dust in box. Was this maybe opened and resealed? The classic 8 bit had no dust on the figure.