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Card art

AI Card Art Generator

Generate the illustrations a card game lives on - dragons, heroes, spells, and units - in a consistent style across the whole set, ready to drop into your card frames.

fire dragon breathing flames
Creature card
Digital Painting

What is an AI card art generator?

An AI card art generator produces the illustrations a card game lives on - dragons, heroes, spells, and units - from a text prompt, in one consistent art style. Ludo generates matched card-art sets at high resolution, ready to drop into your card templates and frames. It can also animate the same illustration, so the art on a digital card moves the way players expect a premium card to move.

Updated September 2026
Made with Ludo

Card art generated with Ludo

Creatures, heroes, and spells in any style - or lock one style across your whole set with a reference.

fire dragon
Creature
Digital Painting
fire dragon
holy paladin knight
Hero
Comic Book
holy paladin knight
dark necromancer
Villain
Cel-Shaded
dark necromancer
forest spirit guardian
Creature
Digital Painting
forest spirit guardian
lightning elemental
Spell
Neon
lightning elemental
shadow assassin
Unit
Noir
shadow assassin
stone golem
Creature
Stylized 3D
stone golem
magical girl warrior
Hero
Anime/Manga
magical girl warrior
Animated card art

Animated card art for digital TCGs

Ludo can animate the card illustrations it generates, giving a digital trading card the kind of motion players read as a premium card: lightning crackling behind the subject, runes flaring, a creature breathing. Describe the motion in a sentence and the animation comes back as a sprite sheet, an animated GIF, or individual frames. Card art is a full illustration rather than a character sprite, so the motion is written rather than posed: the named motion presets are for sprites.

Prompt: "lightning bolts flicker and crackle across the stormy sky, the blue runes on the stone pulse with light, storm clouds drift slowly, the drake breathes". 25 frames on a 5x5 sheet, about 2 seconds, generated and animated as card art.
  • Storm and spell effects crackling behind the subject
  • Runes, gems, and enchantments flaring and pulsing
  • Drifting clouds, smoke, and falling embers
  • A creature breathing, shifting its wings, or opening its mouth

API & MCP Integration

Connect Ludo's generative AI to Claude, Cursor, or your own apps. Automate asset creation and streamline your game development pipeline.

Images & Animation

Generate sprites, icons, UI assets, textures, and backgrounds. Create spritesheet animations from your art.

Video & 3D

Generate videos from images with motion prompts. Convert 2D art into textured 3D models.

Audio

Create sound effects, music tracks, and character voices. Clone voices for text-to-speech.

How it works

Describe the card

The creature, hero, or spell - "fire dragon breathing flames", "shadow assassin" - in your set's style.

Keep the set consistent

Use a style reference so every card illustration matches.

Drop into your frames

Composite the art into your card templates and layouts.

What devs build with it

Dragon card artGolem card art

Trading card games

Creatures, units, and heroes for a full TCG set.

Lightning spell card artNecromancer card art

Spells and abilities

Dynamic art for spell and ability cards.

Paladin card artAnime hero card art

Any set style

Painterly fantasy, anime, and more.

Frequently asked questions

Can I keep a whole card set in one style?

Yes - generate with a style reference so every illustration in the set shares the same look.

What kinds of cards can it illustrate?

Creatures, heroes, units, spells, items - any subject, described in plain language, in 30+ styles.

Does it produce the card frame too?

It generates the illustration; you composite it into your own card template and layout.

Can AI card art be animated?

Yes. Ludo animates the card illustrations it generates, so the art on a digital trading card moves: lightning flickering across the sky, runes pulsing, clouds drifting, a creature breathing or opening its mouth. You drive the motion with a text prompt describing what should move, and the animation comes back as a sprite sheet, an animated GIF, or individual frames. The named motion presets and the reference-video workflow are built around character sprites, so they do not apply to a full card illustration.

How many frames should an animated card idle use?

Animated card art comes back as a sprite sheet on a square grid of 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, or 64 frames. A subtle idle, embers drifting or runes pulsing behind the subject, reads smoothest at the higher counts, while a quick flourish fits in 9 or 16 frames. Loop mode trims the sequence so the last frame leads back into the first and the card can sit on screen indefinitely, and frame sizes from 32 to 384 px plus max-resolution and AI 1.5x upscale modes cover full-art cards.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes - card art you generate with Ludo is yours to use in commercial games.

Experience the future of game creation

Free to try. No credit card required.