[Free] Ruins Background Illustration (Vertical) — Free Commercial Use for copainter Users

We’re distributing ruins background illustrations (vertical / 9:16) for free. These tall assets are ideal for smartphone-focused works. They also include time-of-day variations, making them especially convenient. Please use them for webtoons, games, manga, and even advertising. Commercial use is allowed and free of charge, and you may trace, edit, and modify them.

Please save the images shown on this page as-is and use them. For licensing details, see the end of this article.

File Overview

• Format: PNG (non-transparent)
• Aspect ratio: Vertical (optimized for smartphone viewing)
• Resolution: 768 px (W) × 1344 px (H)
• Download: Please save each image below directly (we do not provide a bulk ZIP)

Ruins Manga/Anime Background Illustrations (Downloadable)

Ruined City with Blue Sky and Dome Remains | Post-Apocalyptic Background

A free anime-style background depicting a bright daytime apocalypse city with a collapsed elevated roadway and a towering dome structure covered in vines.

Dome-Shaped Ruined City in Sunset Glow | Twilight Post-Apocalyptic Background

A dramatic ruins background perfect for twilight scenes, featuring dome remnants and abandoned buildings lit by an orange sunset.

Dome Ruins Under the Full Moon | Starry Night Ruined City Background

A fantastical night ruins background where a full moon and star-filled sky softly illuminate dome-like ruins and a decayed overpass.

Collapsed Overpass and a City Swallowed by Greenery | Daytime Ruins Street Background

A bright daytime post-apocalyptic city street with cracked ground, a collapsed overpass, and buildings overrun by greenery.

Sunlit Ruined Downtown | Twilight Ruins Street Background

Under a sunset sky, a path through ruined buildings and a red-tinted road stretches into the distance—great for a visual novel climax scene.

Abandoned Streets Beneath the Stars | Quiet Night Ruins Background

An anime-style night background where streets of ruined buildings extend far into the distance, creating quiet tension and unease.

Ruined Buildings with a Living Modern City in the Distance | High-Contrast Ruins Street Background

A daytime ruins street where collapsed buildings and rubble in the foreground contrast with still-active skyscrapers in the distance—ideal for expressing worldbuilding gaps.

Sunset Ruins with a Distant Cityscape | Twilight “City End” Background

A twilight background contrasting sunset-lit ruins with a faraway city silhouette, evoking both apocalypse and hope.

End-of-the-World Street with a Crescent Moon | Night Ruined City Street Background

A thin crescent moon over a rubble-strewn street fading into darkness—suited for horror or exploration scenes.

Leaning Clock Tower and Decayed Bridge | Wasteland Ruined City Gate Background

A background depicting the entrance to a collapsed civilization: a leaning clock-tower building, a broken bridge, and rusted vehicles along a desolate road.

Clock Tower Street at Sunset | Twilight Post-Apocalyptic Background

A twilight ruins background for ending scenes, featuring a leaning clock tower and collapsed buildings under an orange sky.

Clock Tower Ruins Sinking into the Stars | Night End-of-the-World City Background

A tense night post-apocalyptic street where the clock tower and broken vehicles sit quietly beneath a sky full of stars.

Blue Sky and Collapsed Overpass Between Buildings | Post-Apocalyptic City Passage Background

A ruins passage ideal for exploration scenes, where a collapsed overpass and buildings reveal a distant modern city through the gaps.

Sunset Road Through Collapsed Buildings | Dramatic Ruins Background

A dramatic twilight ruins background where a straight road continues deep into a ruined city—perfect for climactic direction.

Crescent Moon and Falling Stars Over Ruined Buildings | Night End-of-the-World Street Background

A night ruins background with a calm crescent moon and stars, with decayed buildings and an overpass sinking into darkness—great for horror or stealth missions.

Four-Story Abandoned House in the Grassland | Countryside Ruins Field Background

A bright daytime RPG field background featuring a vine-covered four-story abandoned house standing alone in a mountain meadow.

Four-Story Abandoned House at Sunset | Twilight Countryside Ruins Background

A nostalgic twilight background where sunset skies and floating light particles wrap around a decayed four-story house.

Four-Story Abandoned House in Moonlight | Starry Night Countryside Ruins Background

A quiet night exploration background with a thin moon and stars lighting a four-story abandoned house in the mountains.

Stone Ruins House on a Cliff | Pastoral Fantasy Ruins Background

A bright daytime fantasy RPG background featuring a stone abandoned house on a cliff above a ravine, surrounded by lush hills.

Cliffside Ruins House in Sunset Colors | Nostalgic Countryside Background

A nostalgic countryside ruins background beneath a purplish sunset sky, with the cliffside house and valley stream shining—ideal for farewells or flashbacks.

Cliffside Ruins House Under the Stars | Countryside Night Field Background

A night exploration-friendly background where a two-story abandoned house stands quietly at the edge of a cliff under a sky full of stars.

Three-Story Abandoned School Building Under Blue Sky | School Ruins Field Background

A daytime background with a decayed three-story school building surrounded by trees and open sky—great for school ruins or memory scenes.

Abandoned School Front Yard at Sunset | Nostalgic School Ruins Background

A nostalgic scene with an old school building glowing red in the sunset, and an overgrown schoolyard—perfect for farewells or flashbacks.

Abandoned School and Broken Fountain Under Falling Stars | Night School Horror Background

A night school background where the silent school building and broken fountain appear beneath a starry sky—ideal for spooky events or ghost stories.

Ruins Hall with Light Pouring Through a Collapsed Ceiling | Dramatic Indoor Background

A fantastical indoor ruins background: beams of light fall through a large hole in the ceiling, illuminating rubble and vines in a vast hall.

Collapsed Hall Lit by the Sunset | Twilight Indoor Ruins Background

A quiet, atmospheric indoor background where orange sunset light filters into a collapsed hall with dust drifting in the air.

Moonlight and “Snow” in a Ruins Hall | Night Indoor Background

A dreamlike night ruins hall where a crescent moon and stars peek through a broken roof and snow-like light particles drift.

Ruins Staircase Hall with Light Beams | School/Mansion Interior Background

An indoor exploration-game background featuring a blown-out ceiling, diagonal sunlight, old furniture, and scattered rubble in an atrium staircase hall.

Ruins Staircase Hall in Sunset Light | Twilight Interior Background

A dramatic twilight indoor ruins background where warm sunset light casts long shadows across stairs and corridors.

Ruins Staircase Hall by Moonlight | Horror Night Interior Background

A horror-ready indoor background where darkness and cold bluish exterior light illuminate a collapsed staircase hall with eerie stillness.

Ruins Dome Hall with Skylight | Fantasy Indoor Background

A bright daytime indoor ruins background: sunlight pours through a large glass skylight onto a circular hall covered with vines and debris.

Dome Chapel Ruins in Sunset Glow | Twilight Fantasy Ruins Background

A dramatic twilight indoor background where orange sunset light streams through the dome skylight, warming vine-covered murals and rubble-strewn floors.

Dome Chapel Ruins Under the Stars | Night Indoor Background

A calm night indoor ruins background where a starry sky is visible through a cracked dome skylight, and cool moonlight illuminates stone floors and debris.

Ruined Factory Hall with Round Window Light | Post-Apocalyptic Indoor Background

A realistic factory ruins interior with large round windows and roof holes casting light onto vine-covered pillars and scattered machine parts.

Round-Window Factory Ruins at Sunset | Twilight Ruins Interior Background

A nostalgic twilight factory ruins background where orange beams of sunset light stain the floor and rubble.

Round-Window Factory Ruins with a Starry View | Night Post-Apocalyptic Background

A night indoor background where stars spread beyond the round window and pale moonlight falls on silent machinery and the floor—ideal for exploration or horror.

How to Use in copainter

Mass-produce variations with AI Assistant

Download the images above, import them into copainter as reference images, and optimize them for your project by changing time of day (morning/evening/night), replacing skies, or adding props.

Upscale to 4000px+ with the Upscaling AI

Use the Upscaling AI to increase resolution to a size suitable for most productions.
https://www.copainter.ai/ja/upscaling

Convert into manga-friendly backgrounds with the Inking AI

Load the image as a reference in the Inking AI and generate to simplify lines into a manga-usable background. Try different pen touches to add originality.
https://www.copainter.ai/ja/inking

Change aspect ratio with the AI Assistant

If you love an illustration but the aspect ratio makes it hard to use, you can ask the AI Assistant to adjust the aspect ratio for you.

Terms of Use (License)

• Eligible users: Users who have an active copainter subscription
• Permitted use: Free and commercial use is allowed only for works created using copainter
• Modifications: Allowed (cropping / repainting / color changes / vectorizing, etc.)
• Credit: Not required
• Prohibited: Redistribution or resale of the asset data / claiming it as your own / commercial use outside of copainter
• Disclaimer: The provider is not responsible for any damages or losses resulting from use of these materials

FAQ

Q. I want higher-resolution assets.
A. Please use copainter’s upsccaling AI. You can upscale up to 4× in both width and height, making it suitable for commercial use.

Q. Can I use them outside copainter?
A. If you are a copainter subscriber and use copainter as part of your production process, commercial use is allowed and free. Editing via external services is also fine as long as the purpose is to use them with copainter. If copainter is used in any part of production, you may use them.

Q. Can I use them in commercial works?
A. Yes, if you create the work using copainter. You do not need to produce the entire work exclusively with copainter. Redistribution or resale of the assets themselves is not allowed.

Q. Are there other free assets?
A. Yes. We provide not only background illustrations but also pose packs and more. Please check “assets” below:
https://blog.copainter.ai/tag/assets-en/

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