30 royalty-free contemporary characters for visual novels, RPGs and narrative games, each with 6 expressions - 180 sprites in total. Rendered in a comic-illustration style with a consistent palette and framing across the whole cast: students and teachers, doctors and nurses, baristas, bartenders and waitresses, office workers and managers, mechanics, couriers and construction workers, plus streamers, photographers, tattoo artists and grandparents. Every sprite ships as a transparent PNG in four ready-to-use variants.

All characters are AI-generated and manually refined, color-corrected and quality-checked by the author.

🎨 What's Included

- 30 characters x 6 expressions = 180 unique sprites

- Expressions: neutral, smile, sad, angry, surprised, thoughtful

- 180 full-body sprites at 1024x1024

- 180 full-body sprites at 512x512

- 180 cropped portraits at 512x512 for dialogue boxes and menus

- 30 RPG-Maker-style facesets at 576x288 (six 144x144 cells)

- PNG with alpha channel throughout

- Unity package with import-ready sprites, plus the plain PNG files as additional download

🎯 Perfect For

- Slice-of-life visual novels, dating sims and otome games

- School, workplace and coming-of-age stories

- Detective, mystery and crime adventure games

- Management, tycoon and life simulation games

- RPG Maker projects (facesets included)

- Dialogue systems, shopkeepers and NPC portraits

- Game trailers, cutscenes and cinematic sequences

- YouTube content, Twitch streams and indie short films

📜 Full Character List

01 - Art Student

02 - Barista

03 - Bartender

04 - Basketball Player

05 - Bookseller

06 - College Student

07 - Construction Worker

08 - Courier

09 - Doctor

10 - Emo Student

11 - Fitness Trainer

12 - Florist

13 - Grandfather

14 - Grandmother

15 - Librarian

16 - Manager

17 - Mechanic

18 - Music Student

19 - Nurse

20 - Office Worker

21 - Photographer

22 - Police Officer

23 - Retiree

24 - Streamer

25 - Student Female

26 - Student Male

27 - Tattoo Artist

28 - Teacher

29 - Veterinarian

30 - Waitress

🛠️ How This Pack Was Made

The artwork is generated with AI tools, then every single sprite is reviewed and finished by hand in Photoshop - artifact repair, color correction, consistent framing and palette, transparency cutouts, correct sizing and clean file naming. Anything that doesn't meet the bar gets regenerated or fixed by hand.

🎮 Shipping on Steam?

Steam asks developers to disclose pre-generated AI content. You can simply paste this into your disclosure: "This game uses licensed AI-assisted 2D art assets, manually reviewed and refined by the vendor (AssetSmithy)."

💡 Notes

Every file is named <character>_<expression>, so switching an expression in code is a single string swap. All six expressions of a character share the same framing and baseline, so swapping never shifts the sprite on screen. The portraits are cropped to head and shoulders and stay readable at small sizes, while the facesets follow the RPG Maker MV/MZ layout in the order neutral, smile, sad, angry, surprised, thoughtful.

Credit is appreciated but not required: Characters by AssetSmithy

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