Sketch Hit Effects
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12 hand-drawn impact and effect sprites for light interfaces — off-white paper
with ink blue accents. SVG plus transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x.

Sketch Hit Effects is a set of 12 impact and effect sprites drawn in the
hand-drawn style, where every edge is sampled and nudged, so no line is truly
straight. It contains a hit spark and a critical burst, an impact ring and a
ground shockwave, a slash arc, a glow orb and a sparkle, a heal mark and a
shield bubble and a dust puff, a lightning bolt and rising embers.

Every other kit in this catalogue draws the interface. None of them draw the
moment one thing hits another, which is the first thing a combat system needs
and the last thing a solo developer gets to. An effect sprite also has no
outline to hide behind: it lives on top of the game for a few frames and then
it is gone.

The wobble is deterministic rather than random: the same box wobbles the same
way every build, which is what lets it live in version control. Shading is
cross-hatching, because a gradient under a drawn line reads as a filter rather
than as a hand.

Inside that style this is the Sketch reading of it: a light interface on a
off-white paper palette with ink blue accents, built around two concentric
frames, square-cornered buttons at 132x46, banded bars divided into 10
segments, and outlined icons on a 32px grid. Those measurements are why two
families can share an art style without being interchangeable: the style
decides how an edge is drawn, the numbers decide what the interface is for.

Every sprite is centred in a square canvas and symmetric about that centre, so
the engine only has to scale and fade — an effect anchored off-centre drifts
sideways as it grows, and that reads as a bug rather than a burst. The bodies
are single-colour with no outline, because an outlined spark reads as a piece
of interface rather than as light. The glow orb is built from stacked discs at
falling opacity rather than a blur filter: a filter is rasterised differently
across engines and turns to mush at 4x.

Every sprite ships as an editable SVG and as transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x,
so you can drop the PNGs straight into an engine or open the vector and change
a colour. Built to the same measurements as the rest of the Sketch family,
which means this kit and the Sketch panel kit line up without either being
resized. A good fit for notebook and storybook games.

HOW TO USE

  - Anchor every effect at the centre of its sprite and scale from there;
    these are drawn symmetric so that scale and fade is the whole animation.
  - Play the hit spark for two or three frames at most. An impact that lingers
    stops reading as an impact.
  - Tint by multiplying rather than replacing the colour — the sprites carry
    their own light-to-dark falloff, and a flat colour replace throws it away.
  - Use additive blending for the spark, burst, glow and sparkle, and normal
    blending for the dust puff and embers, which are matter rather than light.

License: CC-BY-4.0 — see LICENSE.txt
Page: https://www.colorosse.com/assets/2d/vfx/sketch-hit-effects
More free assets: https://www.colorosse.com
