Pixel Town
Premium 16-bit pixel art — you, perfectly recognizable, inside a cozy fantasy town.
What it does
Repaints the entire photo — you and the world together — as ultra-detailed 16-bit SNES-style pixel art with layered depth and glowing fantasy lighting, while keeping your face and pose unmistakably yours.
When to use it
- Statement social-media portraits with a premium retro RPG identity.
- Profile pictures and avatars that turn your own face into a recognizable pixel sprite.
- Couple, family, and friend group photos restyled as SNES-era adventure stills.
- Birthday, milestone, and travel pictures gift-wrapped in 16-bit fantasy storytelling.
- Pixel-art posters or prints for fans of cozy retro RPGs and indie pixel adventures.
- Themed event invites — birthdays, gaming nights, retro parties — built around a cohesive pixel scene.
When not to use it
- Professional headshots that must stay photoreal.
- Documentary or journalistic images where the environment cannot be stylized.
- Product or e-commerce photos that need an undistorted real-world look.
- Very small or tightly-cropped subjects with almost no environment to reinterpret.
How it works
Upload a photo where you and your surroundings are clearly visible. The model locks your facial geometry, pose, framing, perspective, and lighting direction, then converts every surface in the image — including your skin, hair, and clothing — into cohesive 16-bit pixel art. A cozy retro fantasy town is composed around you with layered depth, glowing windows, lanterns, and lush pixel vegetation, while subtle doodles drift through the scene. The output keeps the original aspect framing of your photo so the composition still reads as a portrait.
Updates
- v1May 27, 2026
Initial release
Specifications
- Approach
- Full 16-bit SNES-style pixel conversion of the entire image, with strict facial-identity preservation.
- Stylization
- Premium pixel art with layered depth, expressive shading, subtle gradients, glowing windows, lanterns, and warm cinematic atmosphere — not flat sprite art.
- What stays
- Facial geometry, eye spacing, nose, jawline, hairstyle silhouette, pose, framing, perspective, camera angle, and lighting direction.
- What changes
- Every surface in the frame — skin, hair, clothing, props, background, sky, ground — is re-rendered in cohesive pixel art.
- Differs from Retro Pixel
- Retro Pixel leans 8-bit NES purist with flat shading and a strict palette. Pixel Town is 16-bit SNES with layered depth, glowing lighting, and scene-rich cozy fantasy world-building.
- Ideal source
- A photo with a clear subject and a meaningful environment — a street, a balcony, a bench, a room, a park.
- Maximum input
- Up to 25 MP per image
- Supported formats
- JPEG, PNG, HEIC
- Output format
- PNG — keeps crisp pixel edges, subtle gradients, and doodle detail intact.
- Pricing
- 3 credits per image
Frequently asked questions
Will my face still be recognizable as me?
Yes — that is the core promise of this model. Your facial geometry (eye spacing, nose structure, jawline, mouth, eyebrow shape, hairstyle silhouette) is locked. Only the rendering resolution simplifies — your identity does not.
How is this different from Retro Pixel?
Retro Pixel is a strict 8-bit NES-era look: limited palette, flat shading with 1-2 tones per surface, no gradients, no glow. Pixel Town is a 16-bit SNES-era look: layered depth, subtle pixel gradients, glowing windows, lanterns, and a cozy fantasy town built around you. If you want a purist sprite, choose Retro Pixel; if you want a premium cinematic pixel scene, choose Pixel Town.
Does it add HUD, score bars, or game menus?
No. The output is intentionally cinematic and artistic — no health bars, no XP, no minimaps, no dialogue boxes, no inventory UI. It looks like a still from a 16-bit fantasy adventure, not a game screenshot.
Will the pose, framing, or composition change?
No. The original pose, framing, crop, camera angle, perspective, and lighting direction are locked. Only the rendering style of every surface changes — the geometry of your scene stays the same.
What kind of source photo works best?
A clear, well-lit photo where you read as the main subject and there is a meaningful environment around you. Both indoor and outdoor work; the more readable the original setting, the richer the pixel town that gets built around it.
Can I use the result commercially?
Yes — generated images on upsa are yours to use for personal and commercial purposes. We recommend you keep the consent and rights to the source photo as well, since the output preserves the identity in it.
How long are my photos stored?
Source uploads and generated results are stored for 48 and then automatically deleted from upsa's storage. We don't train any model on your photos.
AI results vary
Each generation uses a different random seed, so your result may not exactly match the example shown. If the first try doesn't fit what you had in mind, run it again — output differs noticeably between runs.
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