Summary

It makes the art and hands you back an id — everything downstream of that is still your job.

Nothing here imports sprites into Unity or Godot, wires an animation state machine, or keeps versions of what you generated. The two character tools are ordered rather than interchangeable: animate_character needs a character that create_character already produced, so a redo of the base sprite means redoing its animations. And this is a client for a commercial hosted service, not an open-source generator — the code is all rights reserved, and generation happens on PixelLab's servers behind your token.

What it is

PixelLab MCP is PixelLab's hosted Model Context Protocol server for pixel art. Connected to Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code, Zed, Cline, Gemini CLI or another MCP client, it turns a written description into game-ready assets: characters with 4 or 8 directional views, animations layered onto a character you already made, Wang tilesets for terrain that meets cleanly, and individual isometric tiles. The assistant calls it while you are writing game code, so the art arrives in the same session as the code that uses it.

What you get

create_character turns a description into a pixel art character, with 4 or 8 directional views.
animate_character adds movement — walk, run, idle and similar — to a character you already generated, referenced by its character_id.
create_tileset generates Wang tilesets from a pair of terrains, an upper and a lower, so the edges tile seamlessly.
create_isometric_tile makes a single isometric tile from a description, at a size you set.
An interactive setup page writes ready-made configuration for 15+ AI coding tools, including Claude Desktop, Windsurf, Continue, BoltAI, LM Studio, Perplexity Desktop and Kiro.

Requirements

A PixelLab account: sign up at pixellab.ai for an API token, which goes into your client's MCP config as an Authorization bearer header. Nothing runs on your machine — the server is hosted at api.pixellab.ai and speaks HTTP transport, though the published one-liner starts it through npx for clients that expect a command. PixelLab's setup page will generate the config block for your editor if you would rather not hand-edit it.