I've made a Pixel Art Character Creator Generator for students + newbie Jammers! https://kingbell.itch.io/pixel-sprite-mixer
The BU-GD Jam allows use of assets. It has over 100 Animations and Over 300 Items, to fit almost any game genre for pixel art games. You can export Sprite Sheets or specific animations to fit your game. You don't have to do it all yourself. It was a labor of love to push other students, indies, newbies and devs forward.
I graduated DePaul game development program and know we can't all do it alone. This can help speed up your game designs, art and protoypes.



