simonw/pedalican

Per Simon Willison's documentation, he created a custom animated pet for Codex Desktop — a pelican riding a bicycle. The process involved multiple rounds with AI image generation to create animation-ready sprite assets, with the system even coming up with the name 'Pedalican.' Willison shared his entire workflow on GitHub, including generated images, sprite sheets, and open-source code for others to create custom pets. He framed the experiment as a look at how AI image generation can be used to create simple, game-ready sprites.

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