Phluxel tutorials

Short, practical guides for animating pixel art with rules instead of frames. Every one uses a rule that ships with the app, so you can follow along in the browser demo without installing anything.

Phluxel · Windows · a free edition covers everything in these guides

Guides

EffectsAnimate rain over pixel artRain that falls behind your objects instead of erasing them, from one rule. EffectsAnimate falling snowFlakes that drift over a finished scene and restore what they leave. EffectsAnimate fire from a still drawingPaint an ember core once and let the flames rise, flicker and loop. ImportConvert an image into pixel artSmooth downscaling, hard edges, and locking the result to a Lospec palette.

New to Phluxel?

The short version: you paint a pixel grid, write a one-line rule, and the rule animates your artwork in real time on the GPU. There is no effects layer — the simulation runs on the pixels you painted, which is why a fire rule can read the embers you drew and a rain rule can fall behind your objects.

The full reference lives in the Phlux language docs, and the app ships with 65 rule templates and 62 one-click starters if you would rather begin from something that already moves.

Try it without installing anything

Phluxel runs in the browser as a demo, and the free desktop edition has every feature with a watermark on exports.

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