Image to Pixel Art

Upload the image in /app/image, pick Seedream 5.0 Pro and ask for “16-bit pixel art, same subject, limited palette, crisp pixels”. Seedream 5.0 Pro kept subjects recognisable in our tests, from a portrait to a puppy in sunglasses. Say the era — 8-bit, 16-bit or 32-bit — and name a game genre such as retro RPG or arcade for the mood.

Yes, to start. A new Kenerate account gets free starter credits on sign-up, and Flux 2 Dev, which renders up to 2048 px, is on the free plan. Bigger jobs, like 2K conversions on Seedream 5.0 Pro, use one-time credit packs rather than a subscription, and credits never expire. Downloads have no watermark.

Yes. Describe the scene and say “16-bit pixel art” or “32-bit style”, plus a limited palette, as in the castle, cyberpunk street and isometric cafe examples on this page. Use isometric for rooms and buildings and square ratios for sprites and avatars. Recraft 20B also includes a pixel-art style among its 26 presets.

Partly. Ask for a blocky, Minecraft-inspired pixel style and the model paints that look as an image. For exact block builds you'll still need to place blocks by hand, because the output is a picture, not a game file. Ask for a limited palette and crisp pixels, and name the colours you want so the palette stays small.

Yes, with one extra step. The model paints a pixel-art look at 2K, so downscale the result with nearest-neighbour resampling to the grid you need — for example 32 or 64 pixels wide — and each pixel becomes one square of the grid. Ask for a limited palette and crisp pixels first, so the grid has few colours and clean edges for beads, cross-stitch or sprites.

Seedream 5.0 Pro renders at 2K with a pixel look, not at true sprite size. For game sprites, downscale the result with nearest-neighbour resampling to the exact grid you need, then clean up by hand. Flux 2 Dev renders up to 2048 px on the free plan, and the same downscaling step applies.