Pixel Art Rainbow Sparkle: A pixel art rainbow writes itself across the sky over green hills, then glitters with sparkles and drifting rainbow glitter before it fades.

Pixel Art Rainbow Sparkle

A pixel art rainbow writes itself across the sky over green hills, then glitters with sparkles and drifting rainbow glitter before it fades. Loops, for the moment rain clears in cozy and farming games or as a reward.

Pixel Art Rainbow Sparkle is a pixel art effect that loops seamlessly every 3.2 seconds, drawn on a 384 by 384 canvas at 3x pixels. It is built from 7 particle emitters and 6 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, 96 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 3.2, 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 3.2 s loop.

Pixel Art Rainbow Sparkle at 8 moments, from 0 s to 2.8 s

HOW IT'S MADE

Pixel Art Rainbow Sparkle is drawn with 6 glowing strokes, lines with a hot core and a soft glow traced along their shapes, plus 4 particle emitters. Techniques worth a look: flipbook sprites, keyframed parameters and post filters (bloom). 8 scene layers (ground and props) show in the studio for context and stay out of every export.

It loops seamlessly every 3.2 s, and one layer fires in bursts, so it pulses instead of flowing evenly. To recolour the line, select "Rainbow band 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. Rainbow band 1, Rainbow band 2, Rainbow band 3 +3strokeA glowing line traced along a circle. Its start and end are keyframed, so it writes itself on and off.
  2. Rainbow glitterparticles / additiveA stream of image sprites from a ring, its rate keyframed over the loop. They slow down with drag. Colour runs from white to pale violet over each life.
  3. Pastel twinklesparticles / additiveA stream of rings from a ring, its rate keyframed over the loop. They play a flipbook animation. Colour: pale red.
  4. Big twinklesparticles / additive7 single particles at set times. They play a flipbook animation. Colour: white.
  5. Drawing sparkleparticles / additiveA stream of image sprites, its rate keyframed over the loop. They fall under gravity. Colour runs from white to pale violet over each life.

DETAILS

Length
3.2 seconds, seamless loop
Canvas
384 x 384, pixel art at 3x
Layers
7 emitters and 6 glowing strokes
Blend
Mostly additive (glows)
Colours
whitepale blueredorange
Sprites
Built-in shapes only
Tags
pixel art, rainbow, rainbow sparkle, sparkle, glitter, weather, cozy, loop

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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