Looking for a way to *easily* scale a sprite

[UnexpectedMaker]

Hey folks - I'm wanting to animate a arbitrary sprite getting bigger - think zooming in a static UI etc.

is there a "known way" to do this other than a complicated loop of reading the pixel data of the main full sized sprite and re-sizing it on the fly into smaller dynamically created sprites, where each gets bigger and bigger until it's the full sprite size?

I can't find anything on google on here about a better way to do it.

Cheers!
Seon

[UnexpectedMaker]

No one with any ideas on this?