Sylph Sprites

Bring your pixel art to life!

Layer effects like waves, particles, color pulses, and warps. Preview the loop in real time, then export a sprite sheet when it feels right. No install needed.

Features:

• Effects: Animated waves, particles, colors, transformations, and more!
• Real-time preview and playback
  
• Timing controls for sequencing
• Auto‑loop helper for seamless cycles
• Up to 6 layers per project
  
• Sprites up to 256x256 pixels
  
• Export sprite sheets (PNG)
• Save and load projects

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Getting Started:

Upload Art

Click any layer’s upload button and drop in an image up to 256x256px. Your sprite appears on the canvas immediately.

Controls for Effects

Play with settings to get a feel for how they change the animation!

Controls are grouped into four tabs:

• Move Tab: Basic motion like position, velocity, acceleration, and rotation. Smear can be used with velocity and acceleration to indicate fast motion. Float with low values can be helpful for idle animations.
• Wave Tab: Oscillating motion for waves, scaling, stretch, and skew animations. Waves are great for fabrics, water, fire, and many more effects. You can anchor supported wave effects to an axis on the canvas for more controlled motion.
• Effects Tab: Color-shift, spin, shine and other stylistic effects.
• Dissolve Tab: Particle effects. Dissolve sprites into particles or pull them back together. Control particle size, motion, and fade. Play with time to control the speed of the effect, or reverse for "restore" effects.

Time Controls

Set overall FPS and duration.  "Layer Delay" controls the seconds before a layer begins animation. "Layer Offset" shifts the selected layer layer within the overall loop.  "Find Loops" auto-nudges values for seamless cycles.

Manage Project

Save your work, reload it later, or change the canvas background (solid color or transparent).

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Feedback:

I’d love to hear about your experience with Sylph Sprites! Please share any feedback or suggestions. Comments are welcome.

Licensing:

License

Sylph Sprites: End-User License

Copyright © 2025 Velectrian. All rights reserved.

Permission

You may access and use Sylph Sprites on its itch.io page for any personal, professional, or commercial purpose, free of charge. Streaming or otherwise showing its output is allowed; credit is appreciated but not required.

Prohibited actions

• Download, re-host, copy, mirror, bundle, sell, rent, or otherwise redistribute the software or its assets.
• Claim the software (or any part of it) as your own work.
• Distribute modified versions without my prior written consent.

(Statutory rights - e.g., reverse-engineering for interoperability - are unaffected.)

Third-party components

This EULA does not apply to components distributed under separate open-source licenses; those components remain governed by their respective licenses.

No warranty / liability

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS,” WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY. VELECTRIAN SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE ARISING FROM ITS USE.

Revisions

I may update these terms for future releases.

Contact

Questions or permission requests? Send me an email at velectrian.help@gmail.com.