🎨 AI Art Generator for Aseprite

Generate pixel art with AI directly inside Aseprite using natural language!

📖 The Story

This was originally a  commissioned project for a client who wanted seamless AI art generation in Aseprite. After a few days of development, they bailed out. Rather than waste it, I'm giving it away completely free to the pixel art community

✨ What You Get

• 🎮 Aseprite Extension
• 🖥️ Local AI Server - Stable Diffusion runs on your computer (no subscriptions!)
• 💬 Natural Language - Just type "create a cute robot" and it generates
• 🎨 Pixel Perfect - Auto-converts to pixel art with color reduction

🚀 How It Works

1. Install extension (File - Preferences - Extensions - Install) 
2. Run AI server (double-click Start Server.bat)
3. Click "AI Art Copilot" button in Aseprite
4. Type what you want: "generate a magical sword"
5. Watch it create pixel art directly in your sprite!

📋 Quick Install

System Requirements

• Windows 10/11
• 8GB+ RAM, 10GB+ storage
• NVIDIA GPU recommended (CPU works but slower)

Installation

Aseprite Extension:

1. Just install .aseprite-extension like any other extension

AI Server:

1. Double-click Start Server.bat
2. Follow setup wizard (auto-installs everything)
3. Choose AI model → wait for "Server ready!"

• AI Models download on first run from Hugging Face:
  • SDXL Model: ~7GB download
  • SD 1.5 Model: ~4GB download
  • LoRA files: ~100-500MB each

🎯 Usage Examples

"pixel art create a cute cat character" "pixel art sci-fi robot with glowing eyes" "pixel art magical forest background" "pixel art food item, top-down view, colorful"

Features:

• Multiple sizes: 32x32, 64x64, 128x128, 256x256
• Color palettes: 8, 16, 32 colors
• Background removal with AI
• Seed control for reproducible results

🔧 What's Included

• ✅ Complete Aseprite extension
• ✅ Local AI server with auto-installer
• ✅ Stable Diffusion XL + pixel art models
• ✅ No subscriptions, runs 100% offline
• ✅Add your own loras from hugging face into the server loras folder

💝 License

• Completely free for personal and commercial use
• No attribution required (but appreciated!)
• Modify and improve as you wish

🐛 Common Issues

Server won't start? Run as Administrator, check 10GB free space Extension missing? Restart Aseprite, check all files in ZIP Slow generation? First run downloads models (10min), GPU recommended

🎁 Why Free?

The client bailed, but the pixel art community deserves nice things! Create amazing art and share what you make! This is a tool is not perfect expect some manual work, if more people get interested in this ill update it to add other features and etc for free

🎉 Ready to generate pixel art with AI? Download and start creating!

From a dev who believes in free tools for artists 💖