Pixel Wind - wind sway for pixel art, minus the shimmer

Drop a PNG sprite, get a seamless wind loop.
Your pixels, your palette, frame 1 untouched. It runs right here: hit Run tool above. Nothing leaves your browser.

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Why it doesn't shimmer

Most wind effects rotate your sprite. Rotation resamples every pixel, so the leaves boil and new in-between colours show up. Pixel Wind moves whole leaf clumps by whole pixels instead. It just... sways.

Left: typical rotation sway · 48,406 px change per loop
Right: Pixel Wind · 7,732 px change per loop (about 6× calmer)

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Checked on every export

• Frame 1 is byte-identical to your sprite
• No colours or transparency levels that aren't in your sprite
• Everything below the pin line (the trunk) never moves
• At most 1–3 px sideways and 1 px vertical
• The last → first step is as smooth as every other step

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How to use

1. Hit Run tool, then drop a PNG sprite (or try the demo tree)
2. Pick strength (1–3 px), frame count and FPS. Shuffle wind rolls a new gust
3. Download: GIF, sprite sheet + Aseprite JSON (with a wind tag for Godot, Unity or Aseprite), or a ZIP of single frames

Free, no sign-up, no watermark on your own sprites. Only the demo tree is marked.

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Support

Pixel Wind is free and stays free. If it saved you some animation time, you can support more tools like it on Patreon.

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Links

Full-page web version: pixel-wind.vercel.app
Source code (MIT): github.com/getcakedieyoungx/pixel-wind
Contact: monkeytax407@gmail.com

Demo tree art © 2026 yalpo, all rights reserved. The code is MIT; the tree is not.