Animated Isometric Ichtian

Animated Isometric Ichtian:

•  Animated in 16 directions with 22.5 degree step - very smooth look
• 28 animations: Attacks 11;  Idle; Braggage; Walk R/L/F/B; Hits 3; Deaths 2; Run Back/Forward; Crouch sit + Transition; Jump; LevelUp;
• Separate shadow layer to adjust shadow and sun positions to your map (shadow sprite can be distorted/transformated according to sun direction) and to create effects like ice/water mirroring, fly away, lightning day/twilight/night effects. Or you can use your own static ellipse shadow sprite for lesser disk space cost.

• x180, x256, x320 pixels frame-size highly optimized RGBA4444 game-ready spritesheets
• Separate uncompressed frames for advanced cases, edit, downscale and build your own spritesheets
• 2 modes: Ichtian assembled with weapon / Separate weapon sprites
• Minimal possible itch price: just on coffee

Important! Shadows for both variants are in Assembled version zip's.

How to use: 

1. Assembled version is better to use only one weapon. Very high disk cost if use all 4

2. Second version consists of all Ichtian animations but without weapon. First you place shadow (of Ichtian+Axe 1,2 or Sword 1,2) layer, then Ichtian, and on top of this - weapon of same animation. All three layers must be centered in same point - offsets are already made within the frame. To change, just load a new shadow and weapon of same type. No need to worry about Z-order overlap - weapons have gaps in place of intersections with Ichtian:

3. You can apply effects and particle systems on Ichtian or weapon sprites apart. Handy for recolor/lightning/fire/smoke/poison/glow/ghost effects and etc.

Important! Very good practice is to dynamically load/preload/unload and cache single animations to prevent high RAM usage. Optimization is care of developers )

Handy for RPG, Tower Defence,  RTS, Turn-by-turn games and other.

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Sprite pack can be used in both commercial and non-commercial projects. Quantity of projects not limited, feel free. Also you can modify these sprites for your needs.

Credit: haridon, Nikolai cgnewbie, Sepand Jahrominejad

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Example of separate shadow layer usage to simulate dynamic shadows: