Animated Hand Cursor (Patreon)

Hello! Today's release is something a bit different-- and I think it's fun!

This weekend I was putting some time into a fun little prototype idea-- you can see it in the preview animations above and below.

The hand cursor is based on something that I originally made quite a while ago, but I revisited it and did a lot of work to clean it up and improve it-- including making some new special animations.

(Note: I did release a pixel-icon style hand cursor in 2019. This is not that one, it's something different.)

I thought that it would make for a fun patron release-- something a bit different. Some patrons have asked for more UI stuff in the past; maybe this could be useful for that.

The preview .gif above shows the primary animations for the hand cursor, clicking and grabbing. I also made something new which is also a part of the animation sheet:

Maybe you want to flick things! 🤣 

(If you use this flick, you can re-use the "open hand" frame at the end of the animation for when the pose relaxes back into shape. I didn't want to duplicate the frame on the sprite sheet.)

Download:

• Hand Cursor Sheet (.png)

I'm also going to include one more hand-cursor as a bonus. You might recognize the base of this sprite from that old post I mentioned above. Of course, it's been improved quite a bit since then. 

This is the menu cursor that I would want to use in my own games. I originally made it for my own use, but decided that it would work as a fun bonus that fits the theme of today's release.

There's nothing too fancy about this one, but you might find it useful.

Download:

• Hand Menu Pointer (.png)

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Okay, that's it for now. I'll be back later this week with something from the request thread. See you then.

Thanks!