Clock Wipe Transition: Clock wipe transition: a golden clock hand sweeps once round the screen with the dark following it, holds with glowing clock ticks, then a second turn uncovers the next scene.

Clock Wipe Transition

Clock wipe transition: a golden clock hand sweeps once round the screen with the dark following it, holds with glowing clock ticks, then a second turn uncovers the next scene. Radial 2D wipe for time skips; seamless loop.

Clock Wipe Transition is an HD effect that loops seamlessly every 2.4 seconds, drawn on a 512 by 288 canvas. It is built from 3 particle emitters and 2 glowing strokes. Most layers blend additively, so it glows on dark backgrounds.

Colour

Recolours the preview and the free downloads.

Free download with a transparent background, cropped to the effect, 72 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 2.4, 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 2.4 s loop.

Clock Wipe Transition at 8 moments, from 0 s to 2.1 s

HOW IT'S MADE

Clock Wipe Transition is drawn with 2 glowing strokes, lines with a hot core and a soft glow traced along their shapes, plus 3 particle emitters. Techniques worth a look: keyframed parameters and post filters (bloom).

It loops seamlessly every 2.4 s, and 2 of its layers fire in bursts, so it pulses instead of flowing evenly. Start times are staggered from 0 s to 1 s, so the layers arrive one after another. To recolour the line, select "Clock ticks" and change Core and Glow; Start and End set how much of it is drawn. The colour swatches by the downloads recolour every layer at once.

Layers, in draw order

  1. Clock coverparticlesA single particle every 0.02 s. Colour: black.
  2. Clock ticksstroke / additiveA glowing line traced along a circle. Its start and end are keyframed, so it writes itself on and off. It is drawn as dashes.
  3. Clock facestroke / additiveA glowing line traced along a circle. Its start and end are keyframed, so it writes itself on and off.
  4. Clock handsprite / additiveA placed image. Extras: keyframed motion.
  5. Hand sparksparticles / additiveA stream of soft glows along a line, its rate keyframed over the loop. They fall under gravity and slow down with drag. Colours range between pale gold and orange.
  6. Hold pulseparticles / additiveA single particle at 1 s. It grows as it ages. Colour: gold.

DETAILS

Length
2.4 seconds, seamless loop
Canvas
512 x 288, HD
Layers
3 emitters and 2 glowing strokes
Blend
Mostly additive (glows)
Colours
goldorangepale gold
Sprites
Kenney Particle Pack by Kenney (CC0)
Tags
transition, clock wipe, radial wipe, time skip, clock, screen, scene change

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.
Blend mode
This effect is made of light. For the same glow in your game, draw the sprite with additive blending, or export it on black from the studio for additive shaders.

Step by step: Unity, Godot 4, Roblox, GameMaker, Phaser and PixiJS, Aseprite, Web games (live runtime). Drawn with additive blending: see glow effects without a black box.

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