patch-gg/pixelfx

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# pixelfx.

**<!-- count -->244<!-- /count --> pixel art effects and animations, every one a small piece of code.** Fire,
explosions, magic, weather, UI, pickups, critters and more. Play them live, recolor and mirror them, drop them into
a browser game, or export sprite sheets for any engine. Plus a Claude Code skill that makes new ones the way a
picky pixel artist would: draft, render, look, refine.

Every effect that involves a character is **acted out**: he winds up, lets go, freezes on contact and recovers, and a
target takes the hit. Twelve whole moves chain the effects into attacks from wind-up to recovery.

**[open the gallery](https://patch-gg.github.io/pixelfx/)** · [catalog](docs/CATALOG.md) · [acting](#acting) ·
[the skill](#the-skill) · [make your own](#make-your-own) · [how it works](#how-it-works)

The method is [Hugo Duprez](https://x.com/HugoDuprez)'s, from [How to make (good) pixel art effects with
Claude](https://www.spritefusion.com/blog/how-to-make-good-pixel-art-effects-with-claude): code is clay, trust your
eyes, feed your references. His [open-source effects](https://www.spritefusion.com/pixel-art-vfx) at Sprite Fusion

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