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I just added 3D low-poly model generation to Retro Diffusion!
Create super high quality low poly models with pixel art textures in minutes. Then animate them however you want with just a prompt!
Check it out on the site and the API/MCP!
Astropulse retweeted
If you use assets in your game (AI or not) - you might find that they still look FLAT.
Here are some tricks you can ask your AI to get things looking nicer.
Retro Diffusion was impacted by the ongoing Railway incident btw. We managed to rotate all keys before any severe losses, but as a result, since deploys aren't back, the site is in maintenance mode.
We just fully migrated to Railway like a few weeks ago too... ouch.
Astropulse retweeted
What Higgsfield is doing should be illegal, you should not be allowed to scam normal unaware users like this.
"Genjutsu Lite" is Wan 3.0.
"Genjutsu" is Seedance 2.5.
They rename other companies' models and sell them as their own. Here is every proof, from their own API docs
-> Genjutsu Lite = Wan 3.0
• Pricing: 480p $0.05 / 720p $0.10 / 1080p $0.20 per sec
• Out of 40+ models on their API, only ONE other has this exact pricing: Wan 3.0
• Resolutions: 480p / 720p / 1080p, same as Wan 3.0
• References: Lite takes 1 video + 8 images. Wan 3.0 takes 5 videos + 10 images. Lite is Wan 3.0 with a fixed prompt and settings locked
-> Genjutsu = Seedance 2.5
• Reference images: Genjutsu takes up to 30. Seedance 2.5 takes exactly 30. Wan caps at 10
• Video length: Genjutsu takes 4–30s. Seedance 2.5 is exactly 4–30s
• Price: $0.318 / $0.681 / $1.632 per sec, which is Seedance 2.5 video-edit pricing + ~20–30% markup
-> It's not just Genjutsu
• Cinema Studio 4.0: $0.2057 / $0.4623 per sec
• Seedance 2.5: $0.2056 / $0.4622 per sec
• That's Seedance 2.5 again
• "3.5x cheaper" isn't a breakthrough. They swapped Seedance 2.5 for Wan 3.0, a cheaper model, and called it "Lite"
• Real Wan is listed as alibaba/wan-3.0. The same model is sold as higgsfield/genjutsu-light
• They never tell you what's underneath
I have never seen such a big company being untruthful to their users outright like this.
Astropulse retweeted
I just made Retro del Sol - a beautiful, low-poly pixel art world.
Powered by Retro Diffusion for the art assets
(yes, it does 3D & is amazing!)
Highlights:
→ Fully persistent MULTIPLAYER world
→ Day-night cycles
→ Vehicles
→ Character customisation
You can deliver parcels to earn money or simply travel around the different islands.
Play it: retrodelsol.com
Works right in your browser and on mobile.
Its funny, one of the things about having built almost everything AI pixel art needs before anyone else even came into the space is that I just completely forget to advertise things that seem like a given.
Like obviously it does exact sizes, thats a basic requirement.
Three other AI generator tools are hyping their ability to get exact requested pixel sizes...
Retro Diffusion has had this feature for 4 years, because it's made for pixel art.
12px -> 256px, any size or aspect ratio in between.
Use Retro Diffusion :)
retrodiffusion.ai/
Three other AI generator tools are hyping their ability to get exact requested pixel sizes...
Retro Diffusion has had this feature for 4 years, because it's made for pixel art.
12px -> 256px, any size or aspect ratio in between.
Use Retro Diffusion :)
retrodiffusion.ai/
Astropulse retweeted
Do you ever wish there was a dedicated place to send your complaints about the world? I made a music video where people from 1403 to 2153 sing their life problems.
Thanks to @RealAstropulse for the AI-friendly pixel art generator. @HopeExistential, maybe this is your thing? 🧵
Been building my own harness the past few days and wow everything generic sucks.
Guys just make harnesses for the workflow and projects you actually have. It makes everything faster and more efficient and way cooler.
Here's an example of how I help companies and services use Retro Diffusion in a cost effective way to make tens of thousands of unique art pieces :)
David does some of the best work in the color space- go show some support if you love colors as much as I do!
"Pick Your Poison" 🧪 now belongs to @RealAstropulse
One of 4 colors he adopted on ColorNames as a founding patron. Thank you for keeping 31,000+ color names and the API free ♥
ComfyUI offering $10k to effectively kill higgsfield is such good news lmao
Higgsfield promised to open-source their entire platform. They didn’t.
Let's help them.
For the next two weeks, Comfy and our partners are putting up $25,000 in prizes for the best open-source builds on the Comfy Developer Platform.
Partners: @NVIDIAAI, @runpod, @MiniMax_AI, @ltx_io, @bfl_ai
→ $10K grand prize
→ RTX 5090: Most Innovative
→ RTX 5090: Most Viral
→ RTX 5090: Open Weights Only
→ 10 runners-up: $250 in Comfy credits
Better to just use Retro Diffusion where you can generate assets, scenes, tiles, and animate them super easily :)
So after substantial work to try and make it good, Gemini 4 Argon falls into the same traps that Opus 5.5 does for pixel art.
Low detail or nonsensical patterns, flat regions, poor animation, and extremely high cost with long gen times.
Finally people waking up to how trash gpt image is at pixel art.
Use Retro Diffusion, I've been building it for 4 years, its best-in-class, trained by a professional pixel artist, and designed for all different kinds of game art.













