Cartoon Magic Wand Trail: Cartoon magic wand trail: a spinning cel-shaded star loops a figure eight, leaving a pink tapering ribbon and tumbling stars that pop into twinkles.

Cartoon Magic Wand Trail

Cartoon magic wand trail: a spinning cel-shaded star loops a figure eight, leaving a pink tapering ribbon and tumbling stars that pop into twinkles. Seamless loop.

Cartoon Magic Wand Trail is an HD effect that loops seamlessly every 2 seconds, drawn on a 512 by 512 canvas. It is built from 5 particle emitters.

Colour

Recolours the preview and the free downloads.

Free download with a transparent background, cropped to the effect, 60 frames at 30 fps. Use it in commercial games, no credit needed.

Licence: use it in any project, including paid commercial games such as a game sold on Steam. There is no per-project licence to buy and no credit needed. Terms.

Roblox: the download is a flipbook for a ParticleEmitter. Set FlipbookLayout to Grid8x8, FlipbookMode to OneShot and Lifetime to 2, then emit one particle per cycle. Roblox setup.

REMIX WITH AI

Try:

Left empty, it just opens in the agent, free. Each change is one AI build, and you start with free builds.

Engine data for Unity, Godot, GameMaker and Aseprite comes with a plan: open it in the studio.

OPEN IN THE STUDIO

Change the colours, timing or size, or export for Unity, Godot 4, GameMaker, Phaser, PixiJS and Aseprite.

Try variations: new colours, motion and shapes of this effect, free in the studio.

FRAME BY FRAME

8 evenly spaced moments across the 2 s loop.

Cartoon Magic Wand Trail at 8 moments, from 0 s to 1.75 s

HOW IT'S MADE

Cartoon Magic Wand Trail is a compact effect made from 5 particle emitters. Techniques worth a look: sub-emitters set off by other particles, paths and post filters (outline).

Every layer emits continuously and the 2 s loop closes seamlessly, so it can run for as long as you need. To change its colour, select "Ribbon" in the studio and edit the Colour over Life gradient. Size on the same layer sets how big its particles are. The colour swatches by the downloads recolour every layer at once.

Layers, in draw order

  1. RibbonparticlesA steady stream of dots. The emitter itself travels along a path. They shrink as they age. Colour runs from white to magenta over each life.
  2. Ribbon CoreparticlesA steady stream of dots. The emitter itself travels along a path. They shrink as they age. Colour: white.
  3. Falling StarsparticlesA steady stream of stars. The emitter itself travels along a path. They set off "Star Pops" when they die, fall under gravity, swell and then shrink away and spin. Colour runs from white to orange over each life.
  4. Star PopsparticlesSparks set off by "Falling Stars". They swell and then shrink away and spin. Colour runs from white to gold over each life.
  5. GlitterparticlesA steady stream of shards from a disc. The emitter itself travels along a path. They fall under gravity and shrink as they age. Colours range between white and pale pink.
  6. Wand Star Shadow, Wand Star, Wand Star ShinespriteA placed shape. Extras: spin and path ride.

DETAILS

Length
2 seconds, seamless loop
Canvas
512 x 512, HD
Layers
5 emitters
Blend
Mostly normal
Colours
whitegoldpale pinkpink
Sprites
Built-in shapes only
Tags
magic wand, trail, cartoon, fairy, stars, cursor, sparkle, magic

USING IT IN YOUR GAME

Phaser, PixiJS
The PNG sheet is a plain grid of frames that both can slice. A TexturePacker JSON atlas comes with a plan, from the studio.
Unity
Import the PNG sheet as a Sprite with Mode set to Multiple and slice it, or open the effect in the studio for a ready-made grid.
Godot 4, GameMaker, Aseprite
Open it in the studio and pick your engine in Export: with a plan, it writes the files that engine imports.
Web and chat
The GIF plays anywhere; the APNG keeps soft edges on any background.

Step by step: Unity, Godot 4, Roblox, GameMaker, Phaser and PixiJS, Aseprite, Web games (live runtime).

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