Bow free 3D model & sprite sheet

A wooden longbow with horn nocks, a leather grip and a white string. Its one clip, Draw, pulls the string back while the limbs bend, and it plays once rather than looping. The sprites are drawn side-on at 64 pixels, so the curve of the stave and the pull of the string read clearly.

Each limb is a tube bent along a curve. The draw is made with shape keys on both the string and the limbs, so they move together the way a real bow does. Part priority keeps the string as a clean 1-pixel line in every frame, which a thin cord would otherwise lose at this size.

The origin is at the grip, the right place for a hand bone, so an archer character can raise and draw it in Blender. Rendered alone, the Draw frames make a charge-up meter or an aiming animation for a top-down shooter, a hunting game or a tower defence archer. Use frame one as the inventory icon.

Play the clip once when the player holds the button and release on the last frame. The bow arms a ranger naturally, and its wood and leather tones sit comfortably next to the sword and round shield.

Use it in your game

• Godot 4: godot/bow-selout-64.tres is a SpriteFrames resource with 8 animations (Draw_South, Draw_Southeast … Draw_Southwest): drop it on an AnimatedSprite2D and play Draw_South.
• Aseprite: aseprite/bow-selout-64.aseprite has a tag for each of those, 56 frames in all, to touch up by hand; its .json sits next to it.
• Unity, GameMaker and the rest: sprites/selout/bow-64px-8-sides.png has 8 rows of 64×64 px cells, one per action and side, South (front) first. A 4-side sheet and the 32 and 48 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.