A downloadable tool

Need idle animations for twenty enemies and NPCs and no time to draw them? Pick a preset, press Generate: Idle Motion Maker turns the sprite you already drew into a looping idle animation using only its own pixels (no blur, no new colours), tagged idle.

  • Bob or Breathe, 4 frames, 1 px, tagged idle
  • First frame is your untouched sprite, so the loop is seamless
  • RGB, indexed and grayscale sprites, Aseprite 1.3+; one Ctrl+Z undoes it

Lite: two effects at fixed settings. The full version adds Sway (hair, plants, banners) and Hover, 4/6/8/12 frames, amplitude, easing, anchor row and an all-layers mode: Idle Motion Maker.

Tested in real Aseprite 1.3.18 (headless). Commercial use of the resulting artwork is allowed; no credit needed.

More Aseprite tools by the same author: Smear & Squash Studio, Selective Outline Studio, Pixel Sky & Cloud Generator.

Disclosure: the code was written with an AI coding assistant; the effects are plain pixel maths, no image AI.

Published 3 days ago
StatusReleased
CategoryTool
Authormst_9
Tags2D, Animation, Aseprite, extension, gamedev, Idle, Pixel Art, script, tool
AI DisclosureAI Assisted, Code