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I gave Claude Opus 5.5 a 32-pixel sprite from a game I made years ago, and it gave me back the hero for its 3D remaster The usual route is hiring a 3D artist, then an animator, then rebuilding half the game around them. This one starts with the PNG that's already sitting in your repo A remaster always sounds like a "maybe one day, if the game makes money" project, because the hero has to be rebuilt from scratch in a completely different medium. But every stage between a picture and a playable 3D character now has its own tool, and Claude can walk your sprite through all of them in one evening The trick is that a 32-pixel sprite isn't something a 3D generator can read, so Claude doesn't feed it the sprite at all. It feeds it a clean redraw What happens to the sprite: → Claude studies the sheet and redraws your hero as one full-body, front-facing A-pose concept, keeping the palette and silhouette people remember → an image-to-3D tool like Meshy or Tripo turns that concept into a mesh, and you can ask for low-poly if you want the retro feel to survive → the mesh gets auto-rigged with a real skeleton, so it can bend the way the pixel version only pretended to → idle, run, jump and attack clips get attached under the same state names your old animation rows used, so the logic you already wrote still knows what to play → Claude loads the GLB, fixes its scale and orientation on load, and drops the hero into a 3D blockout of your first level You can use it for a Steam trailer that shows the remaster before it exists, for testing whether a 3D sequel even feels right before you commit a year to it, or for giving that old game jam entry a second life Which old game of yours would you remaster first? The full sprite → mesh → rig → game pipeline, with a free tool next to every paid one, is in the article below Read it before you open Blender 👇🏽