Gravebound — 4 Necromantic Spell Effects

Give your dark magic a presence.

A soul vortex pulling inward. Ivory spires breaking the ground. A spectral claw closing around its target. Cyan ghostfire rising into the dark. Gravebound brings four distinct necromantic effects to your 2D fantasy game, with rich painted detail and animated soft glow at a native 256 × 256.

Four effects, distinct motion

• Soulwell — summon, seamless sustain loop and release; spiraling violet energy with three mint spirit masks.
• Ossuary Rise — staggered bone eruption, seamless hold loop and retraction; five ivory spires with luminous fissures.
• Wraithgrasp — materialize, grasp and dissipate; a five-finger spectral claw with a curling wrist trail.
• Corpsefire — a complete two-second ghostfire burst with ignition, turbulent rise and dissipation.

Try a complete effect free

Download Corpsefire Free Sample below: all 49 frames, its padded sheet, timing data, commercial-use license and an offline preview. It is the same effect included in the full pack.

Inside the full download

• 268 transparent RGBA PNG frames, native 256 × 256, at 24 fps.
• 10 padded sprite sheets: 8 columns, 260px cells with 2px padding; JSON frame rectangles and phase timing.
• Two seamless sustain loops and six matched phase joins.
• Offline animated viewer with light/dark/moss backgrounds, speed, pause, scrub, size and pivot controls.
• Four original high-resolution source illustrations, generation prompts, animation/export source and setup instructions.
• README, import notes, file manifest and commercial-use license.

Designed for centered effects

These are fixed, upright target/ground overlays with a center pivot at (128, 128). They are not traveling projectiles or eight-direction camera views. Use Soulwell for a persistent area, Ossuary Rise for an eruption, Wraithgrasp for a targeted hit and Corpsefire for an impact or cast.

Before you buy

Painted soft-glow art, not hard-edge pixel art. Fine detail reads best at 256px. No character, audio, gameplay logic, collision, engine project, normal/emission maps or separate front/back actor-occlusion layers are included. PNG sheets can be imported into suitable engines, but this release has not been certified in Unity or Godot.

License & creation

Use and modify the assets in personal or commercial games and other finished projects; credit is appreciated, not required. Do not resell, redistribute or repackage the source assets as an asset library. See the included license for details.

Created by Vesper using original AI-assisted illustrations, custom animation code and visual review. Includes no extracted third-party game artwork. Need help? Contact Vesper through Ko-fi messages.