Walk Cycle Generator

Why walk cycles are hard

A walk reads as a walk only when the body stays in place and the legs do the moving. If each frame is drawn independently, the character drifts a few pixels left and right and bobs up and down, and in the engine it looks like it is skating.

SpriteDock draws a starting pose first, aligns it to the character's feet, generates the frames from that pose, then registers every frame back to it: across by best silhouette overlap, and down to the same feet baseline.

How it works

1. Describe the characterOne line is enough: who it is, what it wears, side view. SpriteDock paints it on the grid in your palette.
2. Pick its movesIdle, walk, run, jump and attack, as one Platformer set. Each starts from its own pose, aligned to the character's feet.
3. Export for your engineDownload frames, a sheet with atlas JSON, GIFs, an Aseprite file, or Godot, Unity and Phaser files.

What you download

• PNG framesEvery frame as its own transparent PNG, at the sprite's real resolution.
• Sprite sheet + atlas JSONOne uniform-cell sheet and a JSON map of every frame and animation.
• GIF previewsEach animation as a looping GIF, for a devlog or a store page.
• Aseprite fileAn .aseprite with your palette embedded and one tagged clip per animation.
• Godot SpriteFramesA .tres resource beside the sheet: set it on an AnimatedSprite2D.
• Unity clipsThe sheet's .meta, already sliced with point filtering, and one .anim per animation.
• Phaser 3 atlas + animationsA Phaser 3 JSON atlas of every frame and a JSON of every animation, beside the sheet.

Keep going

• Idle animation generator
• Attack animation generator
• Platformer character sprites
• AI sprite sheet generator