Lightning bolt free 3D model & sprite sheet

A free lightning bolt for pixel-art games: a low-poly 3D model (714 triangles) with its Blender file, and pixel-art sprite sheets rendered from it by Pixor at 96 px. It comes with a strike animation, rendered for every side.

Built in Blender with jagged tubes, stepped (constant) scale keys, glow materials and colour ramps. Parts and materials are named, so you can recolour it by changing a material’s colour, or edit it before rendering your own sprites.

Good for fire, water and effects in fantasy and action games. It stands on the ground at real-world size, centred, facing the front, so it drops straight into a scene next to the other props.

Use it in your game

• Godot 4: godot/lightning-selout-96.tres is a SpriteFrames resource with 8 animations (Strike_South, Strike_Southeast … Strike_Southwest): drop it on an AnimatedSprite2D and play Strike_South.
• Aseprite: aseprite/lightning-selout-96.aseprite has a tag for each of those, 48 frames in all, to touch up by hand; its .json sits next to it.
• Unity, GameMaker and the rest: sprites/selout/lightning-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.