Unity character sprites from a photo.

The missing piece of a 2D Unity game

Unity gives you the Sprite Editor, the Animator, Cinemachine, tilemaps — everything except the character. If you can't draw pixel art, your options are asset-store characters that look like everyone else's, commissions that cost real money and take days, or prompt tools that generate someone rather than the person you actually want in the game.

PixelForge's answer is a photo, not a prompt: upload a picture of a real person — you, a friend, your whole team — and the pack that comes back survives Unity's import gauntlet on the first pass. The frames sit on an exact grid sized for one Grid-By-Cell-Size slice, the alpha is real (no painted checkerboard for the Sprite Editor to choke on), and the feet share a baseline so the sliced sprites' pivots behave.

Built to survive the Sprite Editor

The pack is engineered around the three settings that make or break pixel art in Unity:

Because every frame sits centered in its cell with feet on a shared baseline, the sliced sprites animate without bobbing and the pivot behaves — no per-frame nudging in the Animation window.

Four clips and you're walking

Unity's drag-to-animate shortcut does the tedious part: select the four frames of the down row in the Project window, drag them into the Scene, and Unity creates the GameObject, the animation clip, and the Animator Controller in one move. Do it four times (down, left, right, up), set the clips to ~8–10 samples, and wire them to Animator.Play or a blend tree.

We keep a complete click-by-click Unity import walkthrough — from raw PNG to a character walking under WASD — if you want every step spelled out.

Your photo, walking in Unity

→ your sprite

What makes it worth slicing: the character is recognizably the person in the photo — the hair, the glasses, the build all read at 96 pixels. The same pack also ships direction strips and looping GIFs, so your itch page and devlog get assets for free.

What's in the $5 pack