Magic portal free 3D model & sprite sheet

A stone arch of bevelled blocks on a plinth, with a rune on its keystone, filled with a glowing veil. Three spiral arms and a broken ring swirl in front of it, turning in opposite directions. The Swirl clip loops over twelve frames at 96 pixels, from a three-quarter view.

The arch is built from bevelled prism blocks laid along a curve. The veil is a glowing plate, and the spirals are tubes on objects that rotate against each other with linear keys, so the loop has no easing and joins seamlessly. Colour cycling adds the shimmer you see in the sprite.

Portals mark level exits, fast-travel points, boss doors and summoning circles in RPGs, roguelikes and dungeon crawlers. Play the loop while the portal is active and hold a single frame when it is closed or waiting to be unlocked. At 96 pixels it is large enough for a character to step into.

Change the Magic glow and Arcane glow materials to red for a hellgate or green for a nature shrine. The portal fits with the blue crystal and magic staff in a mage’s tower, and with the dungeon door and wall torch at the end of a dungeon.

Use it in your game

• Godot 4: godot/portal-selout-96.tres is a SpriteFrames resource with 8 animations (Swirl_South, Swirl_Southeast … Swirl_Southwest): drop it on an AnimatedSprite2D and play Swirl_South.
• Aseprite: aseprite/portal-selout-96.aseprite has a tag for each of those, 96 frames in all, to touch up by hand; its .json sits next to it.
• Unity, GameMaker and the rest: sprites/selout/portal-96px-8-sides.png has 8 rows of 96×96 px cells, one per action and side, South (front) first. A 4-side sheet and the 32, 48 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.