32 animated spell impacts covering the eight elemental schools an RPG, roguelike, deckbuilder or action game needs first: fire, ice, lightning, poison, holy, shadow, wind and earth. Four separate animated variations of each effect, so the same spell does not play the identical burst every cast.

These are 2D sprite animations. Every effect is a flipbook of drawn frames, not a 3D particle system and not a VFX Graph asset. You play them on a sprite, a quad or a UI image, which is why they behave the same in any engine and need no per-engine setup.

How this pack is organised: the pack is one theme. The theme holds 8 effects, and each effect comes as 4 separate animated variations of itself, so the same effect does not play identical frames every time it fires. 32 animations in total.

Every variation ships in four formats, ready for whatever your engine prefers:

frames/001-024.png - numbered RGBA sequence, 512x512

sheet.png - one 5x5 spritesheet, 2560x2560, RGBA

anim.png - lossless animated PNG with alpha, for web and UI

preview.gif - small looping preview for quick browsing

The eight effects:

Fire Burst - roaring flame burst with embers and rolling smoke

Ice Shatter - pale blue crystal burst with shards flying outward

Lightning Strike - forked bolt with a hard white flash

Poison Cloud - sickly green cloud that billows and disperses

Holy Light - radiant golden burst with rising light shafts

Shadow Rift - violet void tendrils tearing outward

Wind Gust - curling white air spiral sweeping through

Earth Crush - shattered rock and dust slamming outward

The Unity download is a real .unitypackage exported from the editor, so the textures arrive as Sprites with alpha kept, no compression, and each 5x5 sheet already sliced into its 24 frames. UNITY_README.txt walks through turning a frame sequence into a playing clip, and which additive material to use. The zip of PNG frames is there too, for every other engine.

It also carries a demo scene. Open Demo/ElementalSpellVFXVol1 Demo.unity and every effect in the pack is laid out on a ground plane, playing at 24 fps with its name beside it, each one already wired up with a SpriteRenderer, an Animator and an additive material to copy straight into your own scene.

These are additive effects: authored on black, with alpha derived from their own brightness. In Unreal use a Translucent material with Blend Mode Additive plugged into Emissive; in Unity a Particles/Standard Unlit material in Additive mode. Normal alpha blending also works and reads slightly flatter. Every animation is 24 frames at 24 fps, 512x512, and ships as a numbered PNG sequence, a 5x5 spritesheet, and an animated PNG.

Authored at 24 fps. Every animation was measured for motion, loop closure and edge artefacts, then reviewed by eye; nothing here is a raw generator dump.

Royalty-free for commercial and personal projects, with no attribution required. No resale or redistribution as an asset pack; full license text is included in the download.