Cat Eyes Blinking in the Dark: Green cat eyes open in a dark alley, blink lazily, widen their slit pupils and glance aside while a second, smaller pair opens and slips away.

Cat Eyes Blinking in the Dark

Green cat eyes open in a dark alley, blink lazily, widen their slit pupils and glance aside while a second, smaller pair opens and slips away. Eyeshine halos and low fog. A seamless 2D night ambience loop.

Cat Eyes Blinking in the Dark is an HD effect that loops seamlessly every 4 seconds, drawn on a 512 by 288 canvas. It is built from 2 particle emitters.

Colour

Recolours the preview and the free downloads.

Free download with a transparent background, cropped to the effect, 120 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 4, 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 4 s loop.

Cat Eyes Blinking in the Dark at 8 moments, from 0 s to 3.5 s

HOW IT'S MADE

Cat Eyes Blinking in the Dark is a compact effect made from 2 particle emitters. Techniques worth a look: sprite modules, keyframed parameters and post filters (bloom and vignette).

Every layer emits continuously and the 4 s loop closes seamlessly, so it can run for as long as you need. To change its colour, select "Low fog" in the studio and edit Colour A and Colour B. 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. Low fogparticlesA steady stream of smoke puffs across a box. Colour: deep blue.
  2. Eyeshine, Eyeshine, Eyeshine +1sprite / additiveA placed glow. Extras: keyframed motion.
  3. Cat eye, Cat pupil, Cat eye +5spriteA placed image. Extras: squash and stretch, hit flash and keyframed motion.
  4. Dust motesparticles / additiveA steady stream of soft glows across a box. They sway from side to side. Colour: grey.

DETAILS

Length
4 seconds, seamless loop
Canvas
512 x 288, HD
Layers
2 emitters
Blend
Mostly normal
Colours
greydeep blue
Sprites
Kenney Smoke Particles by Kenney (CC0)
Tags
cat eyes, eyes, glowing eyes, night, blinking, stealth, spooky, loop

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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