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Anul Agarwal
Anul Agarwal

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

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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:

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Here is how to do this:

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

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🌟 Prompt:

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🌟 Revisions

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

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State the problem & ask it to β€˜fix it’.

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Now this is great! But we want 16 frames.

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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 β€˜slice’ this sheet and generate a GIF. There are 2 ways you can do this:

ChatGPT β€” Data analysis

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Simple and straightforward but not very flexible to customize. It slices the image by dividing the image into 5x3 frames.

HuggingFace Spritesheet editor

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

Our final result!

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And another one!

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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!

Subscribe to my YouTube, where I shared how I earned $10k from an AI-generated game!

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!

You can connect with me on LinkedIn where I talk about gen-AI tools, earning $$ from games and game industry trends.

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Jasper

Looks like the GIF's you uploaded only came out as PNG's. A shame we couldn't see the final result!

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Anul Agarwal

Ah no! MY bad :( I am still new to this platform!

Here is my Medium friend link where you can see the GIFs:

medium.com/@anulagarwal12/i-am-usi...

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Jasper

They look really good, thanks for the cool post!

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Anul Agarwal

Thank you for reading it!!