Turn to Stone: Petrify effect for a 2D character sprite: grey stone creeps over it mid-song until it sets into a cold grey statue frozen in pose, with grit falling and a stony sheen, then it shakes and cracks free in a burst of chips and dust.

Turn to Stone

Petrify effect for a 2D character sprite: grey stone creeps over it mid-song until it sets into a cold grey statue frozen in pose, with grit falling and a stony sheen, then it shakes and cracks free in a burst of chips and dust. Loops. Swap in your own sprite. Sprite made with SpriteLab.

Turn to Stone is an HD effect that loops seamlessly every 3 seconds, drawn on a 320 by 320 canvas. It is built from 8 particle emitters.

Colour

Recolours the preview and the free downloads.

Free download with a transparent background, cropped to the effect, 90 frames at 30 fps. Use it in commercial games, no credit needed.

Roblox: the download is a flipbook for a ParticleEmitter. Set FlipbookLayout to Grid8x8, FlipbookMode to OneShot and Lifetime to 3, 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 STUDIOUSE MY SPRITE

Drop in your own character with Use my sprite: it takes the hero's place at the same height and the whole effect follows it. Change the colours, timing or size, or export for Unity, Godot 4, GameMaker, Phaser, PixiJS and Aseprite.

FRAME BY FRAME

8 evenly spaced moments across the 3 s loop.

Turn to Stone at 8 moments, from 0 s to 2.63 s

HOW IT'S MADE

Turn to Stone plays on a character sprite, with 8 particle emitters around it. The hero itself gets hit-stop, bounce, colour adjust, colour flash, outline, shine sweep and shake. Techniques worth a look: sprite modules, an emitter shaped like an image, collisions, keyframed parameters and post filters (bloom).

It loops seamlessly every 3 s, and 5 of its layers fire in bursts, so it pulses instead of flowing evenly. Start times are staggered from 0 s to 2.3 s, so the layers arrive one after another. To change its colour, select "Crack Flash" in the studio and edit Colour A and Colour B. Size on the same layer sets how big its particles are. To see it on your own character, press Use my sprite in the studio: every layer follows the new sprite. The colour swatches by the downloads recolour every layer at once.

Layers, in draw order

  1. Music Notesparticles / additiveA stream of icon sprites, its rate keyframed over the loop. They sway from side to side and grow as they age. Colours range between gold and pale gold.
  2. HerospriteThe character sprite. Extras: hit-stop, bounce, colour adjust, colour flash, outline, shine sweep and shake.
  3. Stone CreepparticlesA stream of soft glows in the shape of an image, its rate keyframed over the loop. They grow as they age. Colours range between light grey and grey.
  4. Setting PuffparticlesOne burst of 12 smoke puffs along a line at 1.35 s. They grow as they age, spin and slow down with drag. Colour: grey.
  5. Falling GritparticlesA stream of squares across a box, its rate keyframed over the loop. They fall under gravity. Colour: grey.
  6. Crack Flashparticles / additiveA single particle at 2.3 s. It grows as it ages. Colour: pale gold.
  7. Stone ChipsparticlesOne burst of 34 debris in the shape of an image at 2.3 s. They fall under gravity, bounce when they hit something and spin. Colour: grey.
  8. Stone ChunksparticlesOne burst of 7 debris in the shape of an image at 2.3 s. They fall under gravity, bounce when they hit something and spin. Colours range between light grey and grey.
  9. Crack DustparticlesOne burst of 14 smoke puffs in the shape of an image at 2.3 s. They grow as they age, spin and slow down with drag. Colour: grey.

DETAILS

Length
3 seconds, seamless loop
Canvas
320 x 320, HD
Layers
8 emitters
Blend
Mostly normal
Colours
greypale goldlight greygold
Sprites
ParticleFX Originals by ParticleFX Studio (CC0), Cast (Free to use)
Tags
petrify, stone, statue, curse, medusa, greyscale, freeze, debuff, bard, sprite, character

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.

Step by step: Unity, Godot 4, Roblox, GameMaker, Phaser and PixiJS, Aseprite, Web games (live runtime).

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