Free modern soldier / war fighter sprite and sprite sheet for use in platformer or side scroller

Having released some unused / available fantasy sprites recently, we decided to continue in that vein and look at sharing the output of our art and production development in other ways.

The art here was for no specific project, just an output of us wanting to try out a few art and animation methods - as well as an excellent excuse to try out Zwoptex for the first time.

It's themed around a Modern Warfare / Warfighter / Splinter Cell style contemporary soldier, armed with a pair of USP .45-style pistols, kevlar and flak jacket and balaclava.

So, free for any use (under Creative Commons Attribution) here are a couple of sprite sheets (one large, one small) with running, jumping and shooting animations for a generic soldier charater.

The various useful bits:

• The original layered Modern Soldier Photoshop PSD
• The large Modern Soldier (256px sprite) sprite sheet
• Reference XML plist co-ordinates for the large sprite sheet
• The small Modern Soldier (128px sprite) sprite sheet
• Reference XML plist co-ordinates for the small sprite sheet

The spritesheets were produced with the wonderful Zwoptex - if you need different resolutions or alterations, export from PhotoShop using the File > Scripts > Export Layers To Files option.


If you're interested in more of the development and art side of these, check out / follow our lead artist on Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/goosemouse.

Frames in the spritesheet are referenced and tagged as per the layers in the PSD - all frames can be flipped, default direction is facing frame right - see below for note on turning.

Reversed animations are shown with frame order reversed.

• standing - default stance
• prepshoot1-3 - moving from standing to shooting position (run once)
• prepshoot3-1 - return to standing from shooting
• shooting1-7 - shooting itself, can be looped
• running1-10 - running, can be looped
• jump1-6 - jumping up in the air
• jump7 - hold position for top of jump
• jump6-1 - descending from jump

Turning (to face frame left) has dedicated frames (turn1-3) that be should be run as:

• turn1
• turn2
• turn3
• turn3 (flipped)
• turn2 (flipped)
• turn1 (flipped)
• standing (flipped)

Ray Wenderlich has an excellent post on using sprite sheets in Cocos2d - the co-ordinate plists above, combined with the .png spritesheets will get a significant way to having a fully animated soldier running in an iOS / Cocos2d game.

We're interested in feedback on how useful this stuff is to the community - while we've got some (development and technical) objectives of our own in producing these shared assets, it'd be useful to know what people are looking for and/or struggling to find.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

35 free fantasy creature designs and spritesheets

These are version 1 assets for a now-abandoned project that would have been home for around 35 fantasy creatures.

All are free to use for commercial and non-commercial purposes, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Use them for what you like, how you like just so long as you provide attribution to www.36peas.com.

Exported spritesheets with basic animation and tinting (on some creatures) are available here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/goosemouse/sets/72157624644713562/. These were created by exporting the right layers from the photoshop originals (see below) and organising with illustrator. All are transparent-backed PNGs.

Full-size sprite concepts / portraits are available here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/goosemouse/sets/72157624410426985/

Original layered sprite .PSD (Photoshop CS4) files are available here - http://productivityballoon.com/browse/36peas/turmoil/. Some have tint layers for adjusting colour, some also have basic animation frames.

Originals are all 1000px+ in the longest dimension and 72ppi.

A preview of all the images is shown below, and below that is a list of each of the creature types themselves - follow the links above for portait originals, spritesheets or Photoshop PSDs.

If you're interested in the AI design from the same game - see the newer post Draft AI design/spec for Chaos-like turn-based tactical game.

• Daemonette (hooved purple devil woman)
• Beastman (goat-like half man/beast creature)
• Cerberus (Egyptian annubis-like beast)
• Elf (sexy bow-wielding female)
• Female shamen (fantasy fire mage)
• Goblin (cave-dwelling savage green skin)
• Golem (stone giant man)
• Male warlock (hooded fantasy wizard)
• Minotaur (fantasy bull-like beast)
• Orc (warrior savage orc/ork)
• Sorceress (sexy witch/mage/spell caster)
• Skeleton (undead boney legion)
• War bear (armoured beast)
• Angel (guardian knight or holy warrior)
• Crocodile (scaly reptile)
• Deamon (evil winged satanic beast)
• Dire wolf (or werewolf)
• Ent (wooden man / tree man)
• Faun (playful dancing faun)
• Ghost (spirit / spectre)
• Giant (large hill giant or brute)
• Zombie (walking dead)
• Centaur (horse man / half man)
• Hydra (fantasy snake monster)
• Vampire (dracula-like evil undead)
• Griffon (winged beast)
• Harpy (sexy naked fantasy woman)
• Horse (hooved stallion)
• Manticore (scorpion / lion hybrid)
• Ogre (brutish troll)
• Red dragon (fantasy welsh dragon)
• Spectre (wraith or apparition)
• Troll (cave-dwelling ogre-like troll)
• Water nymph (trident / goddess)
• Wizard (robed warlock)
• Wraith (evil spirit / ghost / skeleton)

See links above for full-size portraits, spritesheets and layered photoshop originals.

As said above, these are all free - for any use. Just let us know what you do with them.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.