Aurelian - Heroes

Aurelian - Heroes is two things in one pack: three fully animated pixel-art Roman heroes, and the rendered-metal chrome to present them like a premium game does. Put a hero on a golden plinth inside a jewelled slot for your hero-select screen, drop a pixel bust into a wreathed portrait ring for the HUD, and mark the selected unit with a beaded ground ring in the field. It matches Aurelian - Premium Card Frames & UI Kit and Aurelian — Ranks & Medals, and works just as well on its own.

The heroes

• Crimson Praetorian — sword and tower shield
• Ivory Triarius — spear, white wolf-fur cloak
• Obsidian Marksman — bow, black cloak
• Each with idle, walk, attack, hit and death in 8 directions — 256 frames per hero, 768 in total
• Uniform 128 × 128 sheets, one row per direction, one column per frame, plus a JSON guide with frame counts, suggested frame rates and the ground-contact point
• Native size and 4× nearest-neighbour copies, pixel busts pre-masked for both portrait frames, GIF previews

The chrome (bronze, silver, gold, imperial black-gold)

• Hero slot with open window, keystone gem, nameplate and laurel — also as a locked sprite
• Plinth at the classic 3/4 angle, with a foot anchor so any sprite stands on it correctly
• Round and square portrait frames (+ locked), with 7 swappable enamel backs
• Selection ring, 3-slice nameplate, sword / spear / bow role badges
• Additive selected and legendary glows, spotlight, selection-ring glows (gold / ally / enemy), foot shadow
• 12 baked hero cards for menus that do not need animation
• @2x, @1x, @0.5x (and @4x in the HD download), PNG and WebP; Cinzel + EB Garamond bundled (SIL OFL)
• A live HTML demo that shows the exact layer order

The round portrait frame shares its 280 × 280 frame and centre with Ranks & Medals, so that pack's glow and sparkle overlays line up with it.

Good to know

• The death animation is a kneel-and-stay-down pose, not a full collapse.
• Sheets + JSON guide only in this version — no engine-specific importer.

Licence

Use in unlimited personal and commercial projects; modify and recolour freely. No resale or redistribution of the assets themselves. One purchase per person or studio. Full text in the download.

How this was made

The chrome is rendered in Blender (Cycles) from procedural geometry. The three heroes were generated and animated with the PixelLab AI pixel-art service, then curated, checked frame by frame and re-packed into uniform sheets. The build scripts and this page were written with the help of an AI coding assistant.