Pixel art effect guides
Each guide starts from a ready Pixelbolt recipe that opens in the browser playground with one click. Change a few named values, then download a sprite sheet, an atlas for your engine or a GIF. Pixelbolt is free and MIT-licensed, and the playground needs nothing installed.
Pixel art fire animation: campfire and torch sprite sheets in your browser
Fire: a campfire, a torch and a hand-drawn flame.
Pixel art explosion animation: make an explosion sprite sheet in your browser
Explosions: a fireball with smoke and sparks, and small particle bursts.
Pixel art smoke and steam animation: smoke puff, steam vent and dust cloud
Smoke and steam: a cartoon smoke puff, a steam vent and a dust wave.
Pixel art water animation: waterfall, splash and drip sprite sheets in your browser
Water: a waterfall, a splash, a drip and a dam break.
Pixel art slime and honey animation: squash, burst and drip sprite sheets in your browser
Slime and honey: a squashing slime, a bursting slime, pouring honey and a honey drop.
Pixel art magic effects: a spell swirl and a bubbling potion in your browser
Magic: a spell swirl and a bubbling potion.
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Elemental FX is a pack of 27 animated pixel-art effects made with Pixelbolt: elemental powers, impacts, fire, smoke, goo, lava and magic, as transparent sprite sheets with JSON atlases and Godot 4 SpriteFrames files. $4.99 or more on Gumroad.