pixel-art

To convert a photo into retro pixel art, apply a hardware-accurate named palette like NES, Game Boy, or PICO-8. The process uses Pillow-based image enhancement and Floyd-Steinberg quantization to produce a deterministic PNG output with your chosen retro aesthetic.

Yes, you can animate pixel art into short looping MP4 or GIF animations. The Skill uses ffmpeg encoding to add looping scene effects like rain, snow, fireflies, embers, lightning, and neon pulses directly to your converted pixel images.

Floyd-Steinberg dithering is an image quantization technique used to distribute pixel error, creating retro pixel art aesthetics. It is applied during the Pillow-based conversion process to map source image colors accurately to restricted hardware palettes like C64 or PICO-8.

Yes, it supports custom color palettes alongside hardware-accurate named palettes. You can use adaptive color quantization to generate different retro aesthetics, allowing flexible palette control for avatars, posters, and social graphics.

Yes, you need both Pillow and ffmpeg installed. Pillow handles the initial image enhancement and Floyd-Steinberg quantization, while ffmpeg performs the encoding required to produce deterministic MP4 and optional GIF animated outputs.

Adaptive color quantization generates retro pixel art without strict hardware-accurate limitations, which means results may vary. Unlike named palettes like Game Boy or NES that enforce specific historical color counts, adaptive quantization prioritizes aesthetic variation over strict retro console accuracy.