I don't see how animations would work with the current crop of image generation tools. If you feed in 5 frames of a character swinging a sword pixel art you'll get five wildly different renditions of the character, not one character with a smooth tweening of the sword swing.

"Hand drawn" is a huge misnomer there - it wouldn't be hand drawn at all, that's the point.

Square Enix: Is it possible to learn this power?

Get out of my head!

I literally just registered spritesheet.ai yesterday.

and I've already had mild success training a model on spritesheet data.

Actually, one day we will be able to do this not just with sprite sheets, but whole games.

you could probably build this w/ current img-gen model tech! totally agree, absolutely crazy.