Hellfire Creatures Starter – Top-Down 8-Direction Character Sprites (HD)

Four HD hellfire beasts for top-down games. Hellhound, Hellfire Bear, Hellfire Sabre-tooth and Hellfire Rhino: charred hides split by glowing magma cracks, with heat haze and ash smoke rising off them. Every animation in all 8 directions, 238×226 px, 242×222 px, 244×220 px and 250×210 px frames (plus 128 px copies), and an ash death for every character.

Hellfire Creatures Starter: this page includes Hellfire Undead next to the original download, as separate ZIP files, at no extra cost for anyone who already owns it.

Also in the Monsters & Elementals Set (Hellfire Beasts) and the Undead & Cursed Set (Hellfire Undead).

Also in this download: Hellfire Undead

Four HD hellfire undead for top-down games. Hellfire Skeleton, Hellfire Skeleton Thug, Hellfire Undead Warrior and Hellfire Plague Hulk: charred bone and armour split by glowing magma cracks, with heat haze and ash smoke rising off them. Every animation in all 8 directions, 212×226 px, 218×222 px, 238×222 px and 266×286 px frames (plus 128 px copies), and an ash death for every character.

Colour variations: every hellfire undead in Frost Fire, Toxic Fire and Void Fire.

Hellfire Beasts: colour variations

12 colour variations: Hellfire Bear in Frost Fire, Toxic Fire and Void Fire; Hellfire Rhino in Frost Fire, Toxic Fire and Void Fire; Hellfire Sabre-tooth in Frost Fire, Toxic Fire and Void Fire; Hellhound in Frost Fire, Toxic Fire and Void Fire. Every animation in all 8 directions, the same sheets and Godot 4 SpriteFrames, plus recolour masks and a small Godot 4 shader for your own colours (optional ColourVariations folder).

Recolour shader: pick any colour at runtime. Give the AnimatedSprite2D a ShaderMaterial with ColourVariations/godot/recolour_mask.gdshader, attach recolour_masks.gd, set masks_dir to the character's mask folder and choose colour_main.

Attacks and an ash death

Bite, claw, pounce and horn attacks, each in all 8 directions, aimed where the character faces. Every character also has an ash death: the cracks spread and the body burns away into embers behind a glowing edge, ending on empty frames so you can remove the character without a pop. The regular death is in the pack too.

Animations (8 directions each)

• Hellhound: idle, walk, run, attack, attack2, attack3, bite, hurt, death, ash death (244×220 px)
• Hellfire Bear: idle, walk, run, attack, swipe, hurt, death, ash death (250×210 px)
• Hellfire Sabre-tooth: idle, walk, run, attack, charge recovery, charge, hurt, death, ash death (242×222 px)
• Hellfire Rhino: idle, walk, run, attack, hurt, death, ash death (238×226 px)

What's in the download

• Transparent PNG sheets and every frame as a separate PNG
• 128 px copies of every sheet and frame
• JSON with frame size, feet pivot, FPS and looping
• Godot 4 SpriteFrames, ready for AnimatedSprite2D

Goes with

The same characters in their original version: Wolves and Hyena, Bears, Prehistoric Beasts. The Complete Edition has every pack and boss in the series. Want to try the style first? Grab the Free Knight. Every pack is on my page.

Need effects too? The Effects Complete Edition has every effects pack in one download.

Quick import

1. Godot 4: copy the character folder into your project and assign its SpriteFrames to an AnimatedSprite2D.
2. Other engines: slice the PNG sheets using the cell size, row order (S, SE, E, NE, N, NW, W, SW) and FPS from the JSON.
3. Keep the supplied feet pivot so characters stand on the ground in every direction.

License

• Use in unlimited personal and commercial games; modify freely.
• Credit appreciated, not required.
• No reselling or sharing the sprites as assets, original or modified, and no use in datasets or NFTs.

Full text: LICENSE.txt in the download.

FAQ

Which size should I use? The native size (listed above) or the 128 px copies; pick one scale for your camera.

Do they match the other packs? Yes: the same camera angle, scale and light direction as every character in the series, so the hellfire versions can fight next to the originals.

Anything added to this pack later is free if you already own it.

Version 1.1.0.