I am using ChatGPT to animate my characters, in less than 5 minutes. Here is how you can do it too:

I have been experimenting a lot with ChatGPT and DALL-E 3. You can create:

🌟 Game Characters/Assets
🌟 Game Logo
🌟 Game posters/marketing materials
And now, Sprite-sheets, so you can add more life to your game.

Here is an example:

Here is how to do this:

🌟 Start a new chat with ChatGPT & Select GPT-4 & DALL-E Plugin

🌟 Prompt:

🌟 Revisions

You will not get the perfect result on the first go. You need to provide feedback and train the chat.

State the problem & ask it to ‘fix it’.

Now this is great! But we want 16 frames.

Finally, we have our desired Sprite sheet!
You will not have the perfect sheet here. This is good for experimentation and visualizing different characters.

The next step is to ‘slice’ this sheet and generate a GIF. There are 2 ways you can do this:

ChatGPT — Data analysis

Simple and straightforward but not very flexible to customize. It slices the image by dividing the image into 5×3 frames.

HuggingFace Spritesheet editor

I prefer this as you can customize the boundaries and specify how many frames in each row exist.

Our final result!

And another one!

You can generate as many characters or item animations are you like.

Btw, I generated a famous trending game entirely using ChatGPT! Check it out here!

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Summary

With ChatGPT & the new DALL-E 3, the possibilities are endless. The end result may not be perfect, but it is far better than what it was a year ago.

With upcoming improvements, we will be able to nail pixel-perfect results that we can use in the game!

Stay tuned as I experiment more with gen-AI tools for game dev!

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