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Generate unique sprites from text, bring them to life with AI-powered animation, and export game-ready sprite sheets in seconds. Create characters, items, and effects for your 2D games faster than ever.

You can generate animations for **characters, creatures, items, objects, UI elements** and **VFX** (special effects). The tool supports creating these **from scratch** using **text** prompts or by **uploading** your own static images to be animated.

What game assets can I generate animations for?

Yes. The tool uses a specialized "Pose Editor" and keyframe system to ensure that characters retain their **proportions, style****, and **details** across different frames and animations. It also offers specific style filters (like Pixel Art) to maintain a **cohesive look**.

Does the tool keep object permanence and style consistency?

Animations can have a maximum of **3 seconds**. The exported spritesheet can have **up to 64 frames**, with each individual frame **up to 512x512** pixels resolution.

How many frames do the animations have? At what resolution?

You can generate and animate sprites in **any art style**. From retro pixel art with large pixels, to highly detailed cel-shaded art with fine lines, and anything in between. The animations will strictly follow the art style of the image you upload. And if you generate your sprite with Ludo, we offer a vast number of art styles for you to choose from.

What are the supported art styles?

**Minimal to none**. Most sprites are generated with transparent backgrounds and are ready to drop directly into game engines. For more complex animations you may want to generate multiple versions and choose the best one. You can also **download** the **individual frames **in a zip file, or download a **video/GIF** of the animation.

How much manual cleanup is required after generation?

The free trial includes **30 credits**, which allows you to create approximately **3 to 6 animations** depending on your workflow.
**6 Animations** if you upload your own existing art and use the "Animate Sprite" feature (5 credits per animation).
**~5 Animations **if you generate a new static sprite from scratch (0.5 credits) and then animate it (5 credits).

How many animations can I generate during the free trial?

Yes. The tool is designed to produce **high-quality, professional** 2D assets suitable for **indie and commercial games**. It automates complex animation processes (like walk cycles or attacks) that usually require manual keyframing. We have **thousands** of users are actively importing Ludo spritesheets directly into their game.

Does it generate professional quality animations?

Minutes. The workflow is designed to be intuitive:
1) Describe/Upload,
2) Animate with a text prompt,
3) Export.
No prior artistic or animation skills are required.
Our technology rarely more than a few tries to get it right.

How long will it take me to be proficient with the tool?

Yes. In addition to the Enterprise plan, we offer a dedicated **Developer Tools & Integration** option for users building on top of the platform. This provides API access for custom integrations and MCP (Model Context Protocol) support for AI workflows. Please **contact us** for more information.

Does the tool offer a stable and affordable API for large-scale production?

The standard output is a perfectly formatted, **transparent PNG** sprite sheet.

What's the output file type?

Very easy. You can export animations as sprite sheets with **customizable frame counts, layouts, and sizes** in just a few clicks. These files are designed for a seamless "drop-in" experience for engines like Unity, Unreal, Godot, and GameMaker.

How easy is it to export the animation frames into a game-engine-ready sprite sheet?

Yes, absolutely. The Sprite Generator has an "Animate Sprite" tab specifically designed for this. You can **upload** your own existing character art (static images) and then use a text prompt to describe the motion you want (e.g., "walk cycle," "attack," "jump"). The AI will animate your drawing and generate a sprite sheet for you.
For the best results, it is recommended to upload an image that contains **only the sprite**, although the tool can automatically remove backgrounds.

Is it possible to upload characters that I have already drawn and animate them?

Go from a still image to a moving character by typing simple commands like "run cycle," "idle," or "sword attack." Animate objects to build dynamic worlds. Our AI automates the complex animation process, so you can generate sprite animations for your games without manual keyframing.

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Breathe Life into Characters and Objects with AI-Powered 2D Animation

Skip the drawing board and start creating immediately. Describe what you want to create and let AI take it from text, to static sprite to 2D animation. It’s the fastest way to get high-quality 2D animations for your game without lifting a pen.

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Create Unique 2D Animations with Ludo.ai’s Text-to-Sprite feature

Download your animations as perfectly formatted, transparent PNG sprite sheets. Customize frame counts, layout, and sizes to fit your specific engine requirements, ensuring a seamless drop-in experience for Unity, Unreal, Godot, or any 2D engine.

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Generate Professional 2D Animation Assets with Instant Sprite Sheet Export

Apply the exact movement from a reference video or animation directly onto your sprites. Capture specific movements—from a complex martial arts combo to a unique dance—and apply that exact animation to your generated character. It’s the perfect tool for bridging the gap between complex or realistic motion and 2D art.

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Replicate your Favorite Movement with Ludo.ai’s Motion Transfer

Visuals are only half the battle. Instantly generate and attach matching sound effects to your new animations directly within the tool. From heavy footfalls to magical chimes, create a cohesive audio-visual asset package that is ready for implementation the moment you download it.

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Complete the Experience with Integrated Audio Generation

Fine-tune your assets without ever leaving the platform. Use powerful built-in AI editing tools to perfect your static sprites before you animate them. Adjust colors, clean up details, or modify shapes to ensure your character matches your game’s specific aesthetic perfectly before setting it in motion.

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Refine Your Vision with the Integrated Image Editor

Write a prompt to generate a new static sprite from scratch, or upload your own image.

Describe or Upload

Provide a text instruction or upload a reference video to transfer specific motion to your sprite.

Animate with AI

Preview the animation, generate audio, and export a game-ready sprite sheet to use directly in your project

Export and Use

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Create unique, game-ready 2D assets in minutes. Go from a text description to a fully animated character with a downloadable sprite sheet — no artistic or animation skills required.

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Master the rhythmic axe throw of a cybernetic Viking warrior in a high-score challenge, navigating an endlessly generated digital wasteland.

**Core Loop:** The player controls the Yellow Cyber-Viking in a perpetual runner format. The core loop involves timed taps to throw a glowing axe to destroy obstacles and enemies, which instantly returns. Precision and rhythm are key to maintaining speed and combo multipliers.

**Setting:** A visually striking, high-contrast digital environment dominated by black, chrome, and electric yellow accents. The player character is a hulking half-robot Viking, perpetually running through a collapsing data highway.

**Key Innovation:** A rhythmic, boomerang-style axe mechanic that requires precise timing for maximum score chaining and obstacle destruction.

**Progression:** Players earn currency to unlock new cosmetic axe skins and powerful temporary augments. Progression is primarily tied to global leaderboards and completing high-score challenges.

Axe Throw Jarl

Gameplay

The player can intentionally miss non-essential obstacles to build up a temporary "Defrag" meter, enabling a brief invulnerable speed boost.

**Core Function:** Missing green/gray data packets (minor obstacles) fills a meter; activating the meter triggers a short burst of extreme speed and invulnerability.

**Strategic Purpose:** Introduces risk/reward; players sacrifice minor score points by missing items to gain strategic invulnerability for passing dense obstacle clusters or covering distance quickly.

**Key Details:**
* The Defrag meter requires 5 consecutive misses to fully charge.
* Activation grants 2 seconds of speed and destroys all subsequent obstacles instantly without a throw.
* Activation immediately resets the current combo multiplier.
* Cooldown period of 15 seconds after use.

Data Defrag

A precision timing mechanic where catching the returning axe at the absolute apex of the rhythm window grants a temporary score boost.

**Core Function:** If the player taps the throw button exactly 50ms before the axe automatically returns, the Jarl catches it with an "Overclocked Return," doubling the score value of the next three obstacles destroyed.

**Strategic Purpose:** Enhances the core rhythmic loop by introducing a "Perfect Catch" element, rewarding superior timing and increasing the potential for massive score chains.

**Key Details:**
*   Requires a successful hit (not a miss) to trigger the return window.
*   The window is visually indicated by a rapid flash of electric yellow on the Jarl's cybernetic arm.
*   Failing the catch (tapping too early or too late) results in the standard axe return with no penalty.
*   The score boost is consumed on the next three successful throws.

Overclocked Return

Game World

A relentless, high-contrast aesthetic merging brutalist Viking iconography with sharp, digital cyberpunk architecture.

**Aesthetic:** 'Synthwave Cel-Shade'. Angular, fractured geometry defining the environment. The Jarl is heavily armored, with visible seams and glowing internal components. Hard, deep black shadows are a structural design element.

**Color Palette:** Dominated by absolute black and reflective chrome. Primary accent is electric yellow (hazard stripes, axe glow, interface elements). Secondary accents are limited to magenta and deep cyan to signify data corruption.

**Core Principles:**
* Utilize high-frequency texture detail (rivets, circuitry) rendered with flat, hard-edged shading to maximize contrast.
* Ensure all light sources (neon, axe glow) are primary drivers of the electric yellow palette.
* Geometry should appear impossibly sharp and fractured, reflecting the collapsing digital nature of the environment.

Glitch-Forged Neon

A colossal, cylindrical data repository that has catastrophically failed, leaving behind a spiraling, gravity-defying path composed of massive, shattered data shards.

**Atmosphere:** Visually overwhelming and vertigo-inducing. The path is littered with static-charged magenta and cyan debris, illuminated by the blinding, rapid pulses of the failing central core deep below.

**Narrative Significance:** This location houses the deepest, most corrupted errors (high-value enemies). Success here signifies the Jarl purging a critical, ancient vulnerability in the Midgard mainframe.

**Key Interactions:** The player navigates rapidly shifting vertical and horizontal planes. Obstacles often appear on the 'ceiling' of the cylinder, requiring quick targeting and rewarding the strategic use of the Defrag boost to bypass dense, high-risk fields of debris.

**Key Features:** The path spirals downward, forcing rapid changes in perspective. High density of large, structural enemies that require multiple precise axe throws.

The Midgard Core Dump

A densely packed field of towering, impossibly sharp data monoliths, originally designed as a defensive firewall, now corrupted into a maze that only the nimble Skadi Protocol can efficiently navigate.

**Atmosphere:** Constricting and claustrophobic, dominated by sheer verticality. The air crackles with electric yellow energy discharges between the spires, creating a constant high-frequency hum.

**Narrative Significance:** This is a known staging area for the hostile code entities. Skadi must use her high-speed capabilities to map and bypass this defensive grid to reach the Security Hub hidden within.

**Key Interactions:** The environment forces frequent, tight turns and immediate obstacles, demanding constant use of the Rapid Defrag Calibration (3 misses) to avoid collisions and maintain momentum through the dense clusters of spires.

**Key Features:** Narrow pathways that suddenly open into small, brief arenas. The walls (spires) are lined with minor, non-essential green/gray data packets, encouraging players to intentionally miss for frequent Defrag charges.

The Skadi Spires

A colossal, heavily armored maintenance bot awakened by the data corruption. Jörmungandr moves with deliberate, slow power, built for enduring catastrophic structural failure. It lacks the Jarl's speed but compensates with sheer resilience and the ability to clear massive obstacles efficiently.

**Gameplay Role:** Tank / Obstacle Destroyer

**Key Abilities:**
* **Impact Overload:** When Jörmungandr destroys a large, structural enemy (multi-hit required), the successful hit automatically grants one stack of the Overclocked Return score boost, regardless of catch timing.
* **System Fortification:** The Defrag meter charges slower (requires 7 consecutive misses), but when activated, the invulnerability duration is extended to 3 seconds (up from 2), allowing it to safely navigate longer, denser fields of debris.

**Narrative Goal:** To systematically repair the corrupted pathways of the Midgard Core Dump, following its core programming directive to maintain structural integrity, even if that means destroying the errors within.

Jörmungandr Unit

A segmented chrome gauntlet that locks onto the returning axe's data signature, extending the perfect catch window.

**Type:** Augment (Arm Slot)

**Function:** Increases the duration of the Overclocked Return score boost from 3 throws to 5 throws.

**Source:** Found in high-level Midgard Core Dump caches.

**Synergies:** High-score chaining builds.

**Rarity:** Epic

**Detail:** Extends the visual yellow flash window by 15ms.

Chrono-Stabilizer Grip

A volatile, humming data capacitor salvaged from a crashed firewall drone.

**Type:** Temporary Augment (Core Slot)

**Function:** If Defrag mode ends within 50ms of an obstacle being destroyed by the Jarl's axe, the player gains a 3x score multiplier for 1 second.

**Penalty:** If Defrag mode ends and no obstacle is destroyed within 100ms, the Jarl suffers a 50% speed reduction for 1 second.

**Synergies:** High-risk runners, Skadi Protocol (due to frequent Defrag cycling).

**Rarity:** Epic

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A corrupted power core that metabolizes missed data packets into pure kinetic energy.

**Type:** Temporary Augment (Core Slot)

**Function:** Successfully destroying an obstacle immediately after exiting Defrag mode grants a temporary 2x speed multiplier for 1 second.

**Source:** Purchased using high-score challenge currency.

**Rarity:** Rare

**Synergies:** Skadi Protocol builds, rewarding rapid Defrag cycling.

**Penalty:** Increases the Defrag cooldown period by 5 seconds.

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Command a legendary unicorn hero using devastating magic to clear endless waves of undead hordes in fast-paced, cel-shaded arena combat.

**Core Loop:** Players maneuver a highly stylized unicorn in a closed arena using simple tap-and-drag controls to avoid enemy attacks. Combat involves activating powerful, cooldown-based abilities (e.g., Rainbow Charge, Glitter Bomb) to clear waves of 'zom-brutes.' Success depends on tactical movement and managing ability cooldowns to maximize score.

**Setting:** A colorful, ruined fairytale kingdom rendered in highly detailed cel-shading. Vibrant magic effects and flat, saturated colors sharply contrast with the grotesque, decaying zombie masses, creating a visually dynamic atmosphere.

**Key Innovation:** A unique Cel-Shaded gore system where zombie parts explode into vibrant, flat-colored shards upon critical hits.

**Progression:** Players unlock new magical Unicorn Riders and upgrade their core abilities, specializing in crowd control or single-target damage to climb global leaderboards.

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