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ARTWORK FIELD GUIDE · 01

One canvas.
Every layer in place.

Your collection is a stack of pictures. Keep the character still, draw each trait in its final position, and export the whole square every time.

Download the aligned PNG practice kit

Free · six transparent 2048 × 2048 PNGs · no wallet needed. Practice artwork from the GenFT sample, included to practise aligning layers.

Try your own artwork in the free workspace →

Rust character base, centred on a transparent square
01 / BASEThe fixed character

This pose and scale stay the same throughout the collection.

Eyes and smile on an otherwise transparent full size square
02 / EXPRESSIONOnly the changing marks

The empty space is part of the file. Keep it when exporting.

The expression aligned over the same character base
03 / COMPOSITEThey meet without moving

Both files share a canvas, so the eyes land exactly on the face.

IN YOUR ART APP

Export the canvas, not the cutout.

  1. Set up a 2048 × 2048 document.

    Put your base on a locked layer. Keep its position, scale and pose fixed. Use a transparent background if you want backgrounds to show behind the character.

  2. Draw variants on separate layers.

    Make a folder per category: Expression, Outfit, Headwear. Place every variant where it should appear over the base. Hide the base and all other variants before exporting a trait.

  3. Export each full square as PNG.

    Keep transparency on. Turn off “trim transparent pixels”, “crop to content” or similar export options. Each file must remain square and under 8 MB. Smaller square canvases are resized by the studio; using the same 2048px canvas avoids that rescaling.

✓ Full canvas

Expression/happy.png
2048 × 2048, with the expression in position and transparent padding intact.

✕ Cropped artwork

A tight rectangle around the eyes loses their position. Making that crop square later still changes the scale and alignment.

TRY THE INCLUDED KIT

Six files. Six combinations.

Unzip the practice kit. In a project, upload base.png as your original artwork, review it, and lock it. Set a supply of six when creating this practice project. Then add these two categories:

Practice kit category settings
CategoryLayer orderPresenceUpload together
Outfit30Requiredhoodie.png, varsity.png
Expression40Requiredhappy.png, shades.png, laser.png

The locked base sits at order 10. Higher numbers paint in front. Select all PNGs in each category folder; the studio fills their names from filenames. Review names and weights, then upload the queue.

With no exclusions, 2 outfits × 3 expressions make 6 unique combinations. At a supply of six, every combination appears once; changing weights cannot make a seventh unique token. For rarity experiments, use a smaller supply or try the free planner.

BEFORE YOU RENDER

Check the joins.

An optional AI base does not create aligned trait layers. You still prepare those overlays against your final locked base.

Experiment with the free planner →