I don't see how animations would work with the current crop of image generation tools. If you feed in 5 frames of a character swinging a sword pixel art you'll get five wildly different renditions of the character, not one character with a smooth tweening of the sword swing.

That's why an artist is still needed to smooth it out and make it coherent, but at least 90% of the work is already done.

"Hand drawn" is a huge misnomer there - it wouldn't be hand drawn at all, that's the point.

Square Enix: Is it possible to learn this power?

Get out of my head!

I literally just registered spritesheet.ai yesterday.

and I've already had mild success training a model on spritesheet data.

Someone put out a really compelling one a couple months ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/yj1kbi/ive...

Nice. Thanks!

I've been sending emails to the creators of mid journey to scrape the entire archive over at spriters resource to create a custom model specifically to generate pixel sprite sheets.

https://www.spriters-resource.com

Fingers crossed.

I'm interested in following your project if you have a blog or anything.

I only just recently started building things for fun again (Thanks AI) so I haven't had a blog in many years.

But I'll be launching one on alexbrown.io sometime in the next few weeks to document my projects.