pixelfx: 244 pixel-art effects + effect-making skill — workflow skill for animation & motion graphics

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244 code-drawn pixel-art effects (fire, explosions, magic, weather, UI, pickups) you can recolor and export as sprite sheets, plus a skill that makes new ones:

• Type: Workflow · Animation & motion graphics
• Slug: pixelfx-pixel-effects
• Status: live
• Publisher: patch-gg (community)
• License: MIT
• Source: https://github.com/patch-gg/pixelfx
• Works in: Claude Code, Codex
• Requires: Node, a browser for the gallery
• Adoption: 3,445 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-11-02)

What it does

Library at scale of Hugo Duprez's method for pixel-art VFX with Claude (code is clay, trust your eyes, feed references). Effects involving a character are acted out (wind-up, release, contact freeze, recovery); twelve whole moves chain effects into attacks. Live gallery, recolor/mirror, drop into a browser game or export sprite sheets for any engine.

Use when

• game VFX, retro pixel overlays or sprite-sheet effects
• pixel-art loops for shorts or UI
• you want effects that look hand-tuned, not generated

Not for

• photoreal VFX
• vector motion graphics

Install

• Claude Code: /plugin marketplace add patch-gg/pixelfx && /plugin install pixelfx@pixelfx
• Codex: npx skills add patch-gg/pixelfx
• Any agent, with the vargai CLI: vargai install pixelfx-pixel-effects

Example output

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/patch-gg/pixelfx/main/docs/readme/montage.gif — A montage of pixelfx effects (README) (credit: patch-gg (README), https://github.com/patch-gg/pixelfx)

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