How to keep a consistent art style across AI game assets

To keep a consistent art style across AI game assets, settle on one image that defines the look, then generate every other asset from that same image as a style reference instead of prompting each one from scratch. In Ludo.ai's Image Generator that is the Generate with Style mode: the reference sets the visual style and your prompt sets the subject, and Edit Image corrects an asset that drifts without regenerating it. To keep one character on-model, work from the same character image: Change Pose re-renders it in a new pose or camera view, and the Sprite Generator animates it using that image as the first frame.

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1. 1Create or pick the anchor image

   In the Image Generator, leave the Generation Mode on Generate New, choose an Art Style (32 styles plus Any style, such as Cel-Shaded, Hand-Painted or 16-Bit), a Perspective and an Aspect Ratio, and generate until one image has the look of your game. Save it: that image is the anchor for everything else. If you already have art, you can use your own image as the anchor instead.

2. 2Generate new assets with Generate with Style

   Switch the Generation Mode to Generate with Style and put the anchor in Image 1. Pick the image type for the new asset (a sprite, an item icon, a background) and describe only the subject, such as "badger town guard holding a spear". The Art Style picker is hidden in this mode because the reference defines the style.

3. 3Keep the other settings the same

   Perspective and Aspect Ratio stay available in Generate with Style, so set them to match the anchor for every asset of the same kind, for example the same top-down perspective for all characters and props. Mixed perspectives read as a style break even when the rendering matches.

4. 4Fix an asset that drifts with Edit Image

   When one result is close but off, open it with Edit Image and describe the change in plain words ("make the outline thinner", "use the muted greens of the forest"). You can add the anchor as Image 2 (optional) so the edit has a reference. To change only one area, use Edit with Mask; to cut out a subject, use Remove Background.

5. 5Keep a character on-model with Change Pose

   For a sprite, open Change Pose instead of generating the character again. The New tab takes a Pose Preset such as idle, walk, run, crouch or attack ready, plus additional instructions; the View tab re-renders the same sprite from another Angle and Elevation; the Reference tab copies the pose from a reference image of a person. See how to make an 8-direction sprite sheet for a full turnaround.

6. 6Carry the style into animation

   Use Generate Spritesheet on a sprite result, or open the Sprite Generator and add the image as the First Frame in Animate; in the Sprite Generator, Use in Animation on a new pose does the same. The animation starts from your image, so the character and its style carry into every frame. For tighter control, put posed versions of the same character in Keyframe Animation, as in how to turn an image into a sprite sheet.

7. 7Batch the rest of the set through the API (optional)

   To generate many assets, call generateWithStyle with the anchor as style_image, a prompt and an image_type for each asset, and up to 4 variations per call with n. The same tool is available through Ludo.ai's MCP server. Pass the same anchor every time rather than the previous result.