Coming to YouTubeBuild 09 · Walk into the picture
A layered pixel art painting you can walk into
A forest path at golden hour opening onto a valley: a river and mill, a village, patchwork fields, a castle and alpenglow mountains. It looks flat until the camera walks into it.
- AI agent
- Claude
- Built with
- SpriteRelay CLI
- Files
- 1
- Frames
- 64

Real exports
Look closer
Move over the picture to zoom into the pixels.

What makes it work
Inside the file
- 19 layers, each one depth plane, with its distance in the name (Castle · z=40).
- Pixel and tilemap layers: the mill wheel turns, banners stream, smoke drifts.
- 640×360, so it scales by exactly 3× to 1080p and 6× to 4K.
How it was built
Step by step
- Paint in planesSky, mountains, haze, hills, castle, fields, village, river, meadow and forest edge.
- BuildStep by step through SpriteRelay CLI, compared with the design after every step.
- CameraThe video places each real layer export at its distance and moves the camera.
The files
What was built
| File | Canvas | Frames | Layers | Tags | Slices | Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Walk into the picturevale.aseprite | 640×360 rgb | 64 | 19 (12 tilemap) | 2 | — | 1.2 MB |
Read from each file's own record (SpriteRelay's file summary of the final .aseprite where one was taken).
How it was checked
- Every build step matches the design exactly.
- Every plane on screen is a real export of one layer.
Labels and honesty notes
- The camera move is done by the video, reading each layer's depth from the file.
Watch
The videos
Every frame on screen is cut from the file's real exports.
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