Skeleton free 3D model & sprite sheet

A chunky skeleton with a big skull, dark eye sockets and glowing pupils. Its Idle clip is a hunched sway with the jaw chattering now and then, and its Walk is a stiff, stooped walk in place. Both loop and are rendered at 48 pixels from eight sides.

Every bone shell is rigidly skinned to one bone of a humanoid armature, and an extra jaw bone gives the chatter. The armature’s bones are named for Pixor’s motion library, so library clips such as run and attack fit it too, with no retargeting. A dark hollow inside the ribs and pelvis shows between the bones.

Skeletons are dungeon regulars in roguelikes, action RPGs and tower defence games. Use the eight sides for full top-down movement, Walk while patrolling and Idle when waiting. Library attack clips give it a way to fight back, and the chattering jaw in Idle adds life while it stands guard.

Change the Eye glow material for a red or blue-eyed variant, or the Bone material for an older, stained look. Several recoloured skeletons make a whole undead squad from one file. It belongs in a dungeon beside the wall torch, the dungeon door and the treasure chest it guards.

Use it in your game

• Godot 4: godot/skeleton-selout-48.tres is a SpriteFrames resource with 16 animations (Idle_South, Idle_Southeast … Walk_Southwest): drop it on an AnimatedSprite2D and play Idle_South.
• Aseprite: aseprite/skeleton-selout-48.aseprite has a tag for each of those, 192 frames in all, to touch up by hand; its .json sits next to it.
• Unity, GameMaker and the rest: sprites/selout/skeleton-48px-8-sides.png has 16 rows of 48×48 px cells, one per action and side, South (front) first. A 4-side sheet and the 32 and 64 px sizes are next to it.
• Posts and devlogs: the GIFs above, also in the zip’s gifs/ folder.
• 3D: the GLB opens in Blender, Godot, Unity and three.js. The .blend keeps its modifiers, named parts and materials.