That Particle was then combined with the original book using a Blend node. The Book is the background, The Particle Node from before is the foreground. I hide the particle until the frame I want the burning to start (It so happens, after the spark comes from the quill we made in a previous post)

I then added a Draw Shape node and animated it, just a simple diamond that grows, to act as the radius for the fire. I ran that through a blur node to soften the edges. That shape acted as a mask for blending the book, burnt texture and the book to slowly reveal a burned area.

I then animated the hand with some slight movement, and used a Particle node to generate a spark at the end of the quill for when the fire starts. The particles have a very slight gravity applied to them so they rise and fall slightly over their lifetime. They also fade out over time.

I wanted to make a thread explaining how I put together a complex closeup scene for our point and click adventure game, Castle Dornstein, using @aseprite.org and @makham.itch.io's excellent Pixel Composer.

This scene takes place about midway through the game. Pretty dramatic. Let's take a look 🧵👇

A little cozy scene I've been working on for Castle Dornstein <3 (Also just wanted to test how Screen2Gif worked for exporting to blusky, huge win!)