Modern People

What it does for your game

Your cast stops looking cloned: 243 layer sheets stack into your own characters, so your crowd stops being the same three sprites walking in circles.
Picture your city street: A courier walks past, a student sits at a desk, an office worker checks a phone and a grandma strolls by, all different people.
Layers that always fit: 20 ready-made characters, 4 directions x 10 frames with sit and phone poses, and compose.py, checked by the build to give the same pixels.

Top-down 16x16 pixel art people in modern clothes, made to mix and match: 243 layer sheets and 20 ready-made characters. For modern RPGs, life sims, office and city games, detective and school games.

Licence in one line: use it in your commercial games; do not resell the files. No credit required.

What you get

20 ready-made characters: Office Worker, Business Woman, Student, Jogger, Barista, Builder, Security Guard, Doctor, Gamer, Grandma, Grandpa, Teen, Hipster, Tourist, Courier, Punk, Winter Walker, Artist, Vlogger, Manager.
243 layer sheets that stack into your own characters: 5 skin tones, 8 hair styles (short, long, ponytail, spiky, bob, bun, curly, buzz) in 8 colours, 8 tops (T-shirt, tank, hoodie, sweater, shirt & tie, blazer, dress, coat) in 12 colours, 3 bottoms (pants, shorts, skirt) in 7 colours, shoes and boots in 6 colours, beards and moustaches, glasses, sunglasses, caps, beanies, hard hats, headphones and backpacks.
Every character and every layer: 4 directions x 10 frames: idle (2), walk (4), sit (2) for chairs, sofas and desks, and phone (2).
A "tint" version of every coloured layer (light greys) to recolour in your engine.
compose.py: a short Python script that stacks layer sheets into one character sheet. Our ready-made characters were made with the same layers, and the build checks that compose.py gives the same pixels.

Files

One sheet per character and per layer, all with the same layout: 10 columns (idle 1-2, walk 1-4, sit 1-2, phone 1-2) x 4 rows (down, left, right, up), 160x64 at 1x.
Every frame of the ready-made characters as its own PNG; JSON maps with the frame rectangles and suggested speeds; layers.json with the slots and the stacking order.
1x, 2x and 3x (the 2x and 3x are scaled copies). Palette files (.hex, .gpl). README and LICENSE.

Why this pack

Layers that always fit: each pose is a map of body parts and each layer paints parts, so every hair style, top and hat fits every frame. Layers outline only what sticks out of the body, so a stack never gets dark lines across it.
A strict 16x16 grid, the same as Gridwright Modern Town, Modern Office & Home and our other top-down packs.
Sit and phone animations in all four directions, not only walking.

Good to know

The town and office in the screenshots are Gridwright Modern Town and Gridwright Modern Office & Home. They are not in this pack.
Not included: run or attack animations, children, RPG Maker format sheets, engine project files. Left is the right-facing frames mirrored.