Graveyard & Chapel — Animated Pixel Art Props (Arcane Curiosities Vol.4)

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Lock the crypt, ring the bell and let the dead stir: 12 animated graveyard and chapel props for top-down games.

Arcane Curiosities Vol.4 by Aurum Nocturne includes 12 props and 33 animations for Halloween jams and October updates, sharing the 32-colour palette and top-left lighting of Vol.1, Vol.2 (Dungeon Mechanisms), and Vol.3 (Tavern & Market).

What makes it different

• Chaining without pops: Every one-shot action ends on the first frame of the following loop, pixel for pixel (open → open-idle, rise → idle, toll → idle, blessing → idle).
• 32-colour palette: Variants swap ramps within the 32 colours; never new colours.
• Godot 4 ready: SpriteFrames and scene per prop, floor-point node origins, demo project.
• Any engine: Horizontal sprite strips and JSON (frame size, fps, loop, anchor) at 10 fps.
• AI-agent ready: SKILL.md and catalog.json detail props, animations, chains, and anchors for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex.

Contents — 12 props, 33 animations

• Tombstone, 48x48: idle (mossy stone with ring-cross rune, grass sways, pale soul-wisp circling behind), cracked (split and leaning, pulsing violet light from crack), rise (one-shot: grave mound bulges and bursts with clods and dust).
• Open grave, 64x48: idle (cut soil walls, spoil heap, planted spade with flickering lantern, trickling soil), dig (one-shot: spade digs by itself, flinging clod onto heap).
• Crypt door, 64x64: closed (mausoleum facade with winged-skull pediment, iron-banded doors, seeping fog, pulsing violet sigil), open (one-shot: doors swing in onto soulfire-lit tomb), open-idle (soulfire breathes, fog rolls down steps).
• Cemetery gate, 64x48: closed (wrought-iron gate between urn-topped stone piers, swaying padlock and chain, skittering dead leaves), open (one-shot: padlock drops, gate swings open), open-idle.
• Coffin, 48x48: closed (interior knocking, dust puffs from seams), open (one-shot: lid slides off onto floor), open-idle (velvet lining, breathing violet glow, rising wisps).
• Bone pile, 48x32: idle (skull eye sockets pulse faint green), rise (one-shot: skull rattles up out of pile, chattering jaw, flaring eyes, drops back).
• Dead tree with raven, 64x64: idle (raven cocks head, dead leaf spins down), caw (one-shot: wings half-spread, beak wide), empty (tree only, lost feather on ground).
• Cemetery lantern on a crook post, 32x64: soul (blue soulfire), fire (warm candle), witch (violet witchfire); cage throws light bars on ground.
• Chapel altar, 64x48: idle (candles flicker on gold-trimmed crimson frontal, open tome, chalice), blessing (one-shot: pages flare gold, ring of light rises), desecrated (candles snuffed, cloth torn, violet glow).
• Stone font, 48x48: idle (water ripples and glints), glow (gold water with rising motes — healing or save point), cursed (bubbling green).
• Bell frame, 48x64: idle (rope sways), toll (one-shot: bronze bell swings twice with sound rings).
• Stained-glass window, 32x64, wall piece: day (shimmer and coloured light shaft with dust motes), night (moonlit), broken (shattered panes, shard glints).

Free sample on this page: complete tombstone, cemetery lantern, and bone pile.

Pairs well with

• Dungeon Mechanisms
• Arcane Curiosities Vol.1
• Magic Circle VFX Vol.2 (summoning and necro circles)

License

Commercial and non-commercial games OK; modify freely. No reselling or redistributing the assets; no AI training; credit appreciated.

How it's made

Made with Tessarune, a deterministic pixel-art compiler: every shape, ramp and frame is authored as code; no image-generation model involved. The programs were written with AI assistance.

More from Aurum Nocturne

• Tavern & Market (Vol.3) — animated town and tavern props, same palette
• Dungeon Mechanisms (Vol.2) — animated traps, doors and levers
• Magic Circle VFX Vol.2 — spell circles that cast and loop, Godot 4
• Ashveil — 32px dark-fantasy tileset
• Tessarune — the tool these were drawn with
• Sprite Sheet Kit — free: GIF → sprite sheet + Godot SpriteFrames