Image to pixel art converter
for real game sprites.

Open a picture — drop it on the tool, paste it or choose a file — and a 64-pixel, 16-colour result appears at once. Choose the size, the colours or a palette, then download. It pixelates the whole picture; it does not blur or censor part of a photo.

It is free, with no account, no credits and no watermark. An account is only for the AI tools; the converter never asks for one.

No. It is processed on your device and never leaves it; we keep no copy, so download your sprite before you close the tab. Like every page on this site, this one is counted as a page view, and the tool adds three usage counts through the site's analytics: that a picture was opened (as a file, a paste or the sample), that a file was downloaded, and that a link to another tool was followed. Nothing about the picture itself is sent — no name, size, colours or pixels. No analytics cookies are set on your device unless you accept them in the cookie banner.

No. The converter does not use AI. It measures your pixels; it does not redraw them. The AI tools on AnnoMotion are separate, for when you need original art.

16 × 16 suits items and tiles, 32 × 32 most characters, and 64 × 64 detailed characters and portraits. The converter makes sprites from 8 to 512 pixels.

Yes: the size you choose, keeping the picture's shape or as a square. Square offers Fit, which adds transparent bars, or Fill, which is a centred crop. The file has exactly that many pixels. It never enlarges a picture that is smaller than the size.

The engine is smoothing it. Import the 1:1 file and set filtering to point or nearest. In Unity, set Filter Mode to Point (no filter) and Compression to None; in Godot 4, set the default texture filter to Nearest.

Yes. Under My palette, paste hex colours or load a .hex file, up to 256 colours, and every pixel is matched to the nearest one.

From the picture gives the closest match. A built-in palette gives a period look: there are nine, among them “Handheld · 4 greens”, “CGA · 16” and “1-bit · black and white”. The four community palettes are credited to their authors: Sweetie 16 by GrafxKid, Endesga 32 by ENDESGA, DawnBringer 16 by DawnBringer and Resurrect 64 by Kerrie Lake.

Transparent areas stay transparent, with a hard edge. Background → Remove takes out a flat backdrop from the edges inwards, so the same colour inside the subject survives; you can pick the colour and set the tolerance. Tick Also clear enclosed areas for patches the edges cannot reach — the gap inside an arm on a hip, the holes in letters. It starts off, because a same-coloured detail inside the subject would go too; very small patches are left, and the status line says when enclosed areas were kept. It is for flat backdrops, not busy photographs.

Often. Press Find the pixel grid; it suggests a grid when it can find one, and you can set the block size by hand. A clean enlargement saved as a PNG is usually offered the snap as it opens, with a preview; for a JPEG or anything else, press the button. Pictures over about 4 megapixels (2048 × 2048) are not measured.

Dithering mixes two palette colours in a pattern to suggest a third. Off is right for small sprites; Pattern is stable from frame to frame and across tile seams; Blend suits photographs at larger sizes, on a palette made from the picture, and can scatter stray colours on a small sprite or a fixed palette.

Convert the first, press Lock this palette, then open the next: the size, the shape and the locked palette carry over, one picture at a time. Nothing is stored, so use Copy palette as hex to keep the palette for another day, or load your game's palette under My palette.

Yes, one at a time. Untick Trim empty edges — or press Keep every frame’s framing when the tool offers it — so every frame keeps the same framing, and press Lock this palette so they share their colours. Then build the sheet in the Sprite Sheet Toolkit.