Pixel Art Quest Complete Banner

HOW IT'S MADE

Pixel Art Quest Complete Banner is drawn with 11 glowing strokes, lines with a hot core and a soft glow traced along their shapes, plus 11 particle emitters. Techniques worth a look: styled text animated letter by letter, sprite modules, particles stretched along their motion and keyframed parameters.

It loops seamlessly every 3.4 s, and 9 of its layers fire in bursts, so it pulses instead of flowing evenly. Start times are staggered from 0 s to 0.63 s, so the layers arrive one after another. To recolour the line, select "Light ray" 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. Banner glowparticles / additiveA single particle at 0.56 s. Colour: orange.
2. Light ray, Light ray, Light ray +8stroke / additiveA glowing line traced along a path. Its start and end are keyframed, so it writes itself on and off.
3. Star burstparticles / additiveOne burst of 12 stars across a box at 0.56 s. They fall under gravity, swell and then shrink away, spin and slow down with drag. Colour runs from white to orange over each life.
4. Star glintsparticles / additiveOne burst of 14 sparks across a box at 0.58 s. They fall under gravity, swell and then shrink away and slow down with drag. Colours range between white and pale gold.
5. Twinklesparticles / additiveA stream of small shapes across a box, its rate keyframed over the loop. They swell and then shrink away. Colours range between white and pale gold.
6. Left tail, Right tail, Left roll +1spriteA placed image. Extras: keyframed motion.
7. RibbonspriteA placed image. Extras: shine sweep, hit flash and keyframed motion.
8. QUEST COMPLETEtextThe words "QUEST COMPLETE" in Press Start 2P. Its letters pop in one after another. At the end they fade away.
9. Letter glintsparticles / additiveA stream of sparks on the letters of the text, its rate keyframed over the loop. They swell and then shrink away. Colours range between white and pale gold.
10. Ribbon flashparticles / additiveA single particle at 0.56 s. Colour: white.

5 more layers are in the studio.