TINY QUESTERS — Elf Archer

Top-Down Pixel Art Hero — Elf Archer

A fully-animated top-down pixel-art ranged hero built around the bow — idle, walk, dodge roll, attack and hit in all 4 directions, a dedicated draw → shoot → recover bow combo, a rapid-fire attack and four death animations. Drop it into any 2D RPG, roguelike, or top-down project and give your party a nimble archer.

From "Tiny Questers — Complete Pixel RPG Asset Pack." Drop-in compatible with the free Warrior, the Mage, the NPC packs and the Monster packs — same feet-center pivot, same animation workflow.

🏹 28 animation clips · 334 hand-drawn frames — idle · walk · dodge roll · attack · hit in 4 directions, a full bow draw/shoot/finish combo, a fast-fire loose and four deaths.

🎞️ Two timing versions in one download — a smooth 75 ms version at full frame rate and a classic 150 ms version (half the frames, double the delay). Same animations, same length — pick the frame rate your project prefers.

✏️ Editable .aseprite source files included — every clip ships with its original Aseprite file, so you can recolor, re-time, or extend the archer yourself.

The Animations

Movement — idle, walk & dodge roll (4-direction)

Idle and walk in all 4 directions (down / up / left / right), with the up view drawn as a true back view. Loop them from your move vector and fall back to the matching idle when the archer stops. Plus a 4-direction dodge roll for evasive dashes. Left and right are mirrored for walk, attack, hit and the knockback deaths, while idle and the dodge roll carry their own per-side art.

Bow attacks — 4-direction + combo

A 4-direction bow shot (attack down / up / left / right), plus a full bow combo — loading (draw & aim), shot (release) and finish (recover), drawn for the right-facing view (mirror it for left) — and a fast-fire rapid loose. Chain the combo for a charged shot or use the 4-direction one-shot attacks for quick fire.

Hit — 4-direction 

A short 4-direction hit reaction with a white-flash frame to sell the impact — play once when the archer takes damage.

Death

A standard death fall (with a mirrored variant that drops the other way), plus left / right knockback deaths that send the archer tumbling back across a wider 124×80 canvas — play once on defeat.

What's Inside

• ✅ 28 animation clips · 334 hand-drawn frames — idle · walk (4-dir) · dodge roll (4-dir) · attack (4-dir) · bow loading / shot / finish (right-facing) · fast attack · hit (4-dir) · die (standard, mirror + left/right knockback)
• ✅ Two timing versions — smooth/ (75 ms/frame) and classic/ (150 ms/frame), same art in both
• ✅ Editable .aseprite source files — one per clip, in the aseprite/ folder
• ✅ Consistent feet-center pivot — 80×80 for idle / walk / death, 64×64 for attack / hit / dodge roll, 124×80 for the knockback deaths, so clips swap at runtime without the archer shifting
• ✅ PNG single frames + horizontal atlases (with POT-padded copies for mobile / older GPUs)
• ✅ GIF previews (1× and 5×) for every clip, in both timing folders
• ✅ Engine-agnostic — Unity, Godot, GameMaker, Construct, RPG Maker and more

Bonus — Extras

Included free in the extras/ folder, on a transparent background:

• ✨ Arrow projectiles — the loosed arrow in all 4 directions (arrow_down / up / left / right.png, 32×32). Spawn the matching facing on the bow release for a ready-made projectile.

🏹 Update — Diagonal Idles Added (the archer now stands 6 ways)

Two idle poses that should have shipped on day one are now in the pack. The Elf Archer picks up hand-drawn diagonal 3/4 idles — idle_down_left and idle_down_right — so she no longer snaps back to a flat front-facing stance the moment she stops on a diagonal.

💡 Already own the Elf Archer? Re-download for the new files — free, as always. Nothing was renamed or moved, so the update drops straight in next to your existing clips.

✨ What's New

• 🎯 Hand-drawn idle_down_left / idle_down_right — 8 frames each, the archer turned toward the lower-left / lower-right while still facing the camera. Drawn per side, not mirrored.
• 🧭 Idle now covers 6 facings — down, up (true back view), left, right, plus the two new diagonals. Enough to drive a full 8-direction idle: reuse idle_left / idle_right for the two upper diagonals, or just hold the nearest facing.
• ⏱️ Both timing versions, as usual — smooth/ (8 frames at 75 ms) and classic/ (4 frames at 150 ms). Same loop length, same art.
• 🖼️ Full export set for each new clip — single PNG frames, horizontal atlas, POT-padded copies of both, and preview GIFs at 1× and 5×. Same 80×80 canvas and the same feet-center pivot as the rest of the idle set, so nothing shifts when you swap clips.
• ✏️ Aseprite Source Edition gets the two new .aseprite sources as well — 31 source files now.

📊 Updated Numbers

• ✅ 30 animation clips · 350 hand-drawn frames (was 28 · 334)
• ✅ Idle in 6 facings — down / up / left / right + 2 diagonal 3/4 poses
• ✅ GIF previews (1× and 5×) for every clip, in both timing folders — 30 per folder

License — please read

• ✅ Use in unlimited personal and commercial projects once purchased
• ✅ Credit appreciated but not required
• ✅ Modify and edit freely to fit your game (.aseprite source included)
• ❌ Do not resell or redistribute the assets on their own, or as part of another asset pack
• ❌ Do not use these assets to train AI / machine-learning models

In short: use it in your games as much as you like — just don't repackage and sell the art itself.