Retro Diffusion's pixel art models are now on Replicate

Retro Diffusion have crafted a beautiful set of models and styles for creating game assets, character sprites, tiles, and other wonderful retro graphics. These models are trained specifically for grid-aligned, limited-palette pixel art. And now you can run them on Replicate.

Retro Diffusion have four models on Replicate:

• rd-fast: replicate.com/retro-diffusion/rd-fast
• rd-plus: replicate.com/retro-diffusion/rd-plus
• rd-tile: replicate.com/retro-diffusion/rd-tile
• rd-animation: replicate.com/retro-diffusion/rd-animation

These models have tons of different style presets to play with, and most of them support arbitrary width/height, input images, palette images, background removal, and seemless tiling.

rd-fast: Fast pixel art image generation

retro-diffusion/rd-fast is optimized for speed and supports 15 styles, from portraits to Minecraft-style items.

import replicate

output = replicate.run(
    "retro-diffusion/rd-fast",
    input={
        "prompt": "knight character, retro game asset, side view",
        "style": "game_asset",
        "width": 128,
        "height": 128,
        "num_images": 1,
        "remove_bg": True,
    },
)
print(output)

rd-plus: High quality and authentic pixel art image generation

retro-diffusion/rd-plus is the higher quality text-to-image model, with styles for scenes, maps, UI, and icons.

import replicate

output = replicate.run(
    "retro-diffusion/rd-plus",
    input={
        "prompt": "top-down forest path with trees and rocks, classic jrpg map",
        "style": "topdown_map",
        "width": 256,
        "height": 256,
        "num_images": 1,
        "tile_x": True,
        "tile_y": True,
    },
)
print(output)

rd-tile: All the tools you need for generating pixel art tilesets

retro-diffusion/rd-tile focuses on tiles and tilesets, including single tiles, variations, and scene objects.

import replicate

output = replicate.run(
    "retro-diffusion/rd-tile",
    input={
        "prompt": "grass and dirt path tileset with stones and flowers",
        "style": "tileset",
        "width": 32,  # tile width
        "height": 32,  # tile height
        "num_images": 1,
    },
)
print(output)

rd-animation: Style consistent animated pixel art sprite generation

retro-diffusion/rd-animation generates animated sprites or spritesheets with consistent framing and low frame counts that match common game engines.

import replicate

output = replicate.run(
    "retro-diffusion/rd-animation",
    input={
        "prompt": "small pirate character with parrot, walking animation",
        "style": "four_angle_walking",
        "width": 48,
        "height": 48,
        "return_spritesheet": True,
    },
)
print(output)

These examples use Python, but you can also call the models from JavaScript and other languages with Replicate’s SDKs.

Wizard hats off to Atropulse, nerijs, and the rest of the team for creating Retro Diffusion.