Photo to game sprite.
Upload a photo and get a game-ready sprite in minutes — a 4-direction walk-cycle pack (4×4 sheet, transparent frames, and walking GIFs) that drops straight into Godot, Unity, or the web. $5 a sprite.
How to turn a photo into a game sprite
There are a few ways to make a sprite from a photo, and most are a pain: hand-pixel it in Aseprite (hours of work), run a generic image-to-pixel filter (it mangles the person), or describe a character to a text-prompt AI tool (you get a sprite, not your person). PixelForge starts from the actual photo and keeps the cues that make someone recognizable at 48 pixels, then hands back clean, engine-ready files — not a raw model dump.
Upload a photo
One clear, front-facing portrait of a single person.
We forge + QA it
An AI model generates the sheet; deterministic code cleans and aligns it.
Download the ZIP
Sheet, frames, strips, and walk GIFs — drop it straight into your engine.
Your photo, in the game.
→ your sprite
Photo to sprite, the honest way
Plenty of tools now accept a photo. The difference is what comes out: most return a single static frame, while PixelForge returns a recognizable character you can actually move in four directions.
| PixelForge | Filter / text-prompt tools | |
|---|---|---|
| Starts from | your real photo | a prompt or a blunt filter |
| Output | a 4-direction walk pack | one static frame or a raw sheet |
| Engine-ready | transparent PNG + sliced frames | usually not |
| Pricing | one-time $5, no subscription | credits / monthly plans |
What's in your $5 pack
Works on any photo
You, a friend, a teammate, your favorite streamer — one photo each becomes a playable character sprite.
Frequently asked questions
Upload one clear, front-facing photo. PixelForge generates a 4×4 sprite sheet, removes the background, aligns the feet, and packages a 4-direction walk-cycle sprite you can drop into your engine.
Yes — that's the whole point. We keep what reads at sprite size (hair, glasses, shirt color, body shape) so it actually looks like you.
A transparent PNG 4×4 sheet, 16 individual frames, 4 direction strips, and 4 looping walk GIFs — engine-agnostic, ready for Godot, Unity, Phaser, or the web.
Yes — the pack is yours to ship in commercial and non-commercial games, with no per-title or royalty fees. See our commercial use & licensing page for the details.
One clear, front-facing portrait of a single person. Avoid group shots, tiny distant people, and heavy blur — our checker rejects no-face and multi-face photos before you pay.
$5 per sprite, one-time. No account or subscription, and you're refunded if a pack fails QA (handled manually during beta).
Put anyone into your game.
$5 · one photo · 4-direction walk pack · no subscription
Make a sprite — $5