Pixel Art Dissolve Burn

HOW IT'S MADE

Pixel Art Dissolve Burn is pixel art, drawn at 3x pixels so it sits on the same grid as your sprites, and built from 15 particle emitters. Techniques worth a look: a sprite dissolve, collisions, turbulence, particles stretched along their motion and post filters (bloom). 3 scene layers (ground and props) show in the studio for context and stay out of every export.

It plays once over 3.2 s: "Soot" goes off first, and "Last soot" joins at 1.88 s. To change its colour, select "Flame tongues" in the studio and edit the Colour over Life gradient. Size on the same layer sets how big its particles are. 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 lightsprite / additiveA placed glow.
2. Front lightsprite / additiveA placed glow. Extras: keyframed motion.
3. SootparticlesA steady stream of smoke puffs from the sprite's dissolving edge. They float upward, wander on turbulence, grow as they age and slow down with drag. Colours range between dark grey and grey.
4. Ember edge glowparticles / additiveA steady stream of soft glows from the sprite's dissolving edge. Colour: orange.
5. Flame tonguesparticles / additiveA steady stream of soft glows from the sprite's dissolving edge. They float upward, sway from side to side and swell and then shrink away. Colour runs from pale gold to red over each life.
6. Licking flamesparticles / additiveA steady stream of streaks from the sprite's dissolving edge. They float upward and sway from side to side. Colour runs from white to red over each life.
7. Rising embersparticles / additiveA steady stream of streaks from the sprite's dissolving edge. They float upward, wander on turbulence and slow down with drag. Colour runs from white to deep red over each life.
8. Ash flakesparticlesA steady stream of pixels from the sprite's dissolving edge. They wander on turbulence, spin and slow down with drag. Colour runs from gold to dark grey over each life.
9. Falling ashparticlesA steady stream of pixels from the sprite's dissolving edge. They fall under gravity, bounce when they hit something, spin and slow down with drag. Colour runs from pale gold to dark grey over each life.
10. Popping sparksparticles / additiveA steady stream of streaks from the sprite's dissolving edge. They fall under gravity, bounce when they hit something and slow down with drag. Colour runs from white to red over each life.

7 more layers are in the studio.