Item Icons Pop In: Item icons pop in: eight glowing icons made in the Sprite Maker pop onto inventory tiles one after another with a twinkle burst each, the animated ones play, then all shrink away.

Item Icons Pop In

Item icons pop in: eight glowing icons made in the Sprite Maker pop onto inventory tiles one after another with a twinkle burst each, the animated ones play, then all shrink away. For unlock screens, reward reveals and menus. 16:9 loop.

Item Icons Pop In is an HD effect that loops seamlessly every 5 seconds, drawn on a 1280 by 720 canvas. It is built from 8 particle emitters. 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, 150 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 5, 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 5 s loop.

Item Icons Pop In at 8 moments, from 0 s to 4.38 s

HOW IT'S MADE

Item Icons Pop In stacks 8 particle emitters, each with its own job. One technique stands out: keyframed parameters.

It loops seamlessly every 5 s, and 8 of its layers fire in bursts, so it pulses instead of flowing evenly. Start times are staggered from 0.3 s to 2.26 s, so the layers arrive one after another. To change its colour, select "Pop 1" 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. GridspriteA placed image.
  2. Tile 1, Tile 2, Tile 3 +11sprite / additiveA placed image. Extras: keyframed motion.
  3. Toon Flame, Toon PuffspriteA placed image. Extras: keyframed motion.
  4. Pop 1particles / additiveOne burst of 9 image sprites from a ring at 0.3 s. They swell and then shrink away, spin and slow down with drag. Colours range between white and pale blue.
  5. Pop 2particles / additiveOne burst of 9 image sprites from a ring at 0.58 s. They swell and then shrink away, spin and slow down with drag. Colours range between white and pale blue.
  6. Pop 3particles / additiveOne burst of 9 image sprites from a ring at 0.86 s. They swell and then shrink away, spin and slow down with drag. Colours range between white and pale blue.
  7. Pop 4particles / additiveOne burst of 9 image sprites from a ring at 1.14 s. They swell and then shrink away, spin and slow down with drag. Colours range between white and pale blue.
  8. Pop 5particles / additiveOne burst of 9 image sprites from a ring at 1.42 s. They swell and then shrink away, spin and slow down with drag. Colours range between white and pale blue.
  9. Pop 6particles / additiveOne burst of 9 image sprites from a ring at 1.7 s. They swell and then shrink away, spin and slow down with drag. Colours range between white and pale blue.
  10. Pop 7particles / additiveOne burst of 9 image sprites from a ring at 1.98 s. They swell and then shrink away, spin and slow down with drag. Colours range between white and pale blue.

One more layer is in the studio.

DETAILS

Length
5 seconds, seamless loop
Canvas
1280 x 720, HD
Layers
8 emitters
Blend
Mostly additive (glows)
Colours
whitepale blue
Sprites
Built-in shapes only
Tags
icons, inventory, unlock, reward, ui, pop, twinkle, sprite maker

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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