10+ Blood/Horror FX Elements [free]
A downloadable asset pack
What's in the downloads:
Various blood elements, both physical IRL photography elements and simulated material.
As the more experienced compositors here will already have figured out just based on the .GIF preview, this video can be layered onto a horror/action shot in a cutscene or video project, using a blend mode like 'darken' or with a luminance key.
UPDATE (FEB 2026) : It continues to be abundantly clear that this asset pack, despite being quite likely one of my weakest listings on itch, is also somehow among my most popular.
Over 10,000 views by now. Well upwards of a hundred downloads.
That is crazy - and it likely has much to do with it being free, and being connected to the horror genre which has proven immensely popular on the itch platform.
So I posted an update with even more free content added to this pack, and will probably do so again later with some new fluid sim blood spray elements.
Right now I've got various clips of 'blood' oozing through fabrics, dripping and gushing, as well as a bloody handprint .png decal. I advise using the .png with a 'multiply' blend mode over your existing texture.
I have a list of dozens of other asset ideas that could be added to this. It's actually a somewhat disturbing list covering a whole gamut of creepy, scary, disturbing horror elements that in some cases may make people genuinely uncomfortable. (there is a fair amount of blood and body horror in the mix but also plenty of more general-purpose spooky/creepy stuff.
If anybody here wants more horror stuff added, though, this should be music to your ears (or mind-melting eldritch shrieking?) A new horror pack is arriving in a matter ofhours, as of the time of this update [5:45 pm, Feb. 13, 2026]
If this continues successfully drawing views and downloads to other related asset packs I'll probably continue adding updates to it.
There are other freebies around here too - like on the free explosion effect page. I also have a free snow overlay clip if you want that, plus an 'Autumn/Halloween' mini pack for free now as a bonus addition posted on the 'Forests & Flowers' asset pack page! And even some spooky cobweb elements on the horror teaser page already, plus some 3d holiday decor I'm about to post tonight. Browse my itch pages on matthornb.itch.io and you'll find a lot of freebies like these mixed throughout along with the paid asset collections.
NEXT SALE is Valentine's Day 2026 - 97% off, just $1.24 for all 5000+ asset files across more than a dozen paid packs. Check my main page for the most current info as these individual subpages are not updated as often as that main page is.
While donations are welcome here, I'd rather you buy my paid collections instead as you'll gain far more for the money as a result!
Anyway, thanks for all the support you all have given so far, and I hope you find some of my stuff useful. If you download or buy a few of my items, any ratings/review/comments would be great too and will give future viewers of these pages more of an idea of what to expect from these collections.
One more thing: If you do decide to leave feedback anywhere on any of my product pages [either my free or paid product pages], i.e. a review, star rating, comment, question, a suggestion maybe for future updates... well, that'd not only be helpful to me and others browsing these pages, but your suggestions might actually impact what gets added or changed in the future! So go ahead and feel free to post here!
Thanks!
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Development log
- To anyone looking for freebies...Nov 24, 2018
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I have used the handprint in my game: https://beeshoyz.itch.io/the-illusion-choice and I added you to the credits
Thank you! It's great to see that people are finding this material useful. You didn't need to credit me [per the notes in earlier post] but all the same thanks so much for doing so. :)
I'm a little behind schedule on it but a few new elements should be added to this pack very soon as well. As in, animated blood stuff that is actually pretty realistic, built with physics accurate liquid shader and fluid simulation. I'm working on that right now in between wrapping up the furniture 'electronics' update and getting ready to post that additional stuff to the furniture/interiors pack.
Also the horror asset pack listing here will see a batch of .PNG cobweb decals added for free really soon too. The full release is pushed back to Sept. 2025 but that free part at least should be accessible by mid August. Still amazed by the supportive feedback from you and many others and in the case of the horror collection, it's not even launched yet but already somehow got a five star rating (!?) so between that and the obvious value of horror assets to itch creators it's clear that is a collection that needs to be fast tracked, with some free and paid 3d and 2d files made available as soon as possible.
Definitely trying to build on all the resources here because people like you are clearly using them. Makes the work more rewarding, knowing people like it and find uses for it in all sorts of awesome projects.
For the credits, it's just the least I can do. For this pack, I actually was looking for a bloody item for a long time, and by luck I found this, and it really is amazing.
For the horror pack, it sounds cool. Finally, the assets are really amazing and that's why we are using them. Thanks so much for them!
Hi! Great stuff man! What license are these in?
Thanks for your query Tegurd.
Not any formal license here but basically with all the existing asset packs:
-any use in a derivative work - commercial or noncommercial, pretty much no restrictions on that and modifying the assets for a specific use case is fine or using assets unmodified, in a work that builds on them in some new way, new form like a game level, 3d art render, VFX shot or sequence, etc.
- no crediting of author required, but:
-only real restriction is don't redistribute entire asset collections as is or try to claim you made them, try simply to resell a pack I made, etc.
Essentially common sense applies and in most situations you will likely to be able to use this however you want to, but if a specific ambiguous case occurs you can certainly ask about it.
As for the query some may have: Yes, I do have plans to expand this pack a bit with a few more elements soon. But a few other things which are now nearly done are going to be prioritized and those updates released first. I am optimistic no fewer than five asset packs should be seeing updates in the next 12 days. Some useful new material is pretty close now.
Hi Matthew! Thanks for the clear response and thanks for the great assets!