Here's a quick trick for image transformation using Flux 2:

Try prompting it with "Turn this photo into a pixel style game" - works surprisingly well.

One thing I noticed: crowded images with tons of people? They tend to produce noisy results in video generation. Simple fix - just add "make it less crowded" to your prompt.

Pro tip: Generate a start clip and an end clip for each section you're working on. Gives you way more control over the final output.

Flux 2's image-to-image capabilities are pretty solid for this kind of style transfer. The pixel art conversion maintains decent detail while simplifying the scene enough for cleaner video gen downstream.