Pixel Art Claw Slash: Pixel art claw slash: three curved claw strokes rake down across the target one after another, leaving glowing scratch marks, red sparks and falling straw.

Pixel Art Claw Slash

Pixel art claw slash: three curved claw strokes rake down across the target one after another, leaving glowing scratch marks, red sparks and falling straw. Use it for werewolf, beast and monster attacks; it plays once and fades, then loops.

Pixel Art Claw Slash is a pixel art effect that loops seamlessly every 0.8 seconds, drawn on a 384 by 384 canvas at 3x pixels. It is built from 10 particle emitters and 10 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, 24 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 0.8, 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 0.8 s loop.

Pixel Art Claw Slash at 8 moments, from 0 s to 0.7 s

HOW IT'S MADE

Pixel Art Claw Slash is drawn with 10 glowing strokes, lines with a hot core and a soft glow traced along their shapes, plus 10 particle emitters. Techniques worth a look: collisions, particles stretched along their motion, keyframed parameters and post filters (bloom and colour grade). 3 scene layers (ground and props) show in the studio for context and stay out of every export.

It loops seamlessly every 0.8 s, and 10 of its layers fire in bursts, so it pulses instead of flowing evenly. Start times are staggered from 0 s to 0.19 s, so the layers arrive one after another. To recolour the line, select "Scratch mark 1" and change Core and Glow; Start and End set how much of it is drawn. Pixel size in the Pixel art panel sets how chunky it looks. The colour swatches by the downloads recolour every layer at once.

Layers, in draw order

  1. Floor lightparticles / additiveA single particle at 0.15 s. Colour: red.
  2. Scratch mark 1, Scratch mark 2, Scratch mark 3 +6stroke / additiveA glowing line traced along a path. Its start and end are keyframed, so it writes itself on and off.
  3. Claw sparks 1particles / additiveOne burst of 8 streaks at 0.12 s. They fall under gravity, bounce when they hit something and slow down with drag. Colour runs from white to red over each life.
  4. Claw glint 1particles / additiveA single particle at 0.12 s. It shrinks as it ages. Colour: white.
  5. Claw sparks 2particles / additiveOne burst of 8 streaks at 0.15 s. They fall under gravity, bounce when they hit something and slow down with drag. Colour runs from white to red over each life.
  6. Claw glint 2particles / additiveA single particle at 0.15 s. It shrinks as it ages. Colour: white.
  7. Claw sparks 3particles / additiveOne burst of 8 streaks at 0.19 s. They fall under gravity, bounce when they hit something and slow down with drag. Colour runs from white to red over each life.
  8. Claw glint 3particles / additiveA single particle at 0.19 s. It shrinks as it ages. Colour: white.
  9. Straw bitsparticles3 timed bursts of pixels from a disc, 15 in all. They fall under gravity, bounce when they hit something, spin and slow down with drag. Colour: gold.
  10. Hit ringstroke / additiveA glowing line traced along a circle.

2 more layers are in the studio.

DETAILS

Length
0.8 seconds, seamless loop
Canvas
384 x 384, pixel art at 3x
Layers
10 emitters and 10 glowing strokes
Blend
Mostly additive (glows)
Colours
whiteredgoldpale red
Sprites
Built-in shapes only
Tags
pixel art, claw, slash, scratch, beast, monster attack, melee

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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