Pixel Portraits

What it does for your game

No more frozen talking heads: Every expression has blink and talk frames, so faces move while your text types out and the scene feels alive.
Picture your dialogue scene: The wizard frowns in thought, the innkeeper beams, and the knight's mouth moves through its talk frames as each line types out.
36 characters, 1,152 frames: 8 expressions each at 64x64, plus 330 layers and compose.py, checked by the build to rebuild every ready-made character exactly.

64x64 pixel art dialogue portraits: 36 ready-made characters, each in 8 expressions, and every expression with blink and talk frames. Plus 330 mix-and-match layers to make your own. For RPGs, visual novels, adventure, space and life-sim games.

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

What you get

8 expressions each: neutral, happy, sad, angry, surprised, thinking, scared, hurt. The elderly, orc, alien and android characters get all 8 too.
4 frames per expression: still, blink, talk 1, talk 2. Loop the talk frames while your text types out. 1,152 frames in all.
330 layers to build your own characters: 18 bodies (9 skins incl. green, blue and metal, round or pointed ears), eyes and mouths in 9 colours, 13 hair styles in 8 colours, 5 beards, 67 outfits (plate armour, leather armour, robe, tunic, noble dress, cloak, uniform, flightsuit, spacesuit, sci-fi armour, cyber jacket, tshirt, hoodie, shirt & tie, suit, sweater, leather jacket, labcoat, police, chef), 37 headwear (crowns, wizard hats, helmets, hoods, caps, headsets, goggles...) and 15 face accessories (glasses, eyepatch, monocle, cyber eye, scar, earrings, war paint, tusks, bandage).
compose.py: a short Python script that stacks any layers into one character sheet. Our ready-made characters are built from the same layers, and the build checks that compose.py gives the same pixels for every one of them.

Files

One sheet per character: 4 columns (still, blink, talk 1, talk 2) x 8 rows (expressions), 256x512 at 1x, with a JSON map of every frame.
Every frame as its own PNG (1,152 per scale). The layers: animated sheets for eyes and brows, single 64x64 images for everything else; layers.json with the slots and the order.
1x, 2x and 3x (the 2x and 3x are scaled copies). Palette files (.hex, .gpl). README and LICENSE.

Why this pack

Talk and blink in every expression, not one talking face per character.
A layer kit, not just finished faces: make the rest of your cast in the same style. Layers never cover the eyes or mouth (the build checks every frame), except the accessories made to.
Fits our UI packs: the 64x64 cell sits in a 76x76 9-sliced frame of Gridwright Fantasy RPG UI, Sci-Fi HUD or Casual Game UI.

Good to know

The dialogue boxes and scenes in the screenshots are Gridwright Fantasy RPG UI, Sci-Fi HUD, Casual Game UI, Medieval Village, Sci-Fi Interiors and Modern People. They are not in this pack.
Not included: side views or full bodies, backgrounds, RPG Maker faceset layout, engine project files. Front view only.