Theme by Kelly
Classic Pac-Man animated ghost moving in all directions and hovering in the corners. All the fruits are also used as the main icons for each column along with recolored classic icons in the same format as the Pacman logo in yellow with red and blue offset versions behind them. The animation and all images are high quality and super sharp! This was my first and still fav dynamic theme! Let me know what you think!
Updated in this version:
-Reduced the speed of the ghosts movement a bit
-Made the ghosts a little bit smaller
-Extended the trail on the ghosts and added more “echos” into it
-Added a little more glow effect to the ghosts
-Added a glow effect behind the Pac-Man logo and the 4 ghosts in the corners
-All new sub icons, all modeled after the Pac-Man logo in yellow with the blue and red offset versions behind.
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@everyone, i just got the sony stereo headset!! defendant worth the $99. it feels like going from sd to hdmi, and this headset was the 50% of awsomness that was missing… lol. as soon as i started cod3 the sounds in the begining of the game wher so inhanced i literally was like duuuh… jaw dropped wide eyed amazed… lol. so if you got some extra cash layin around & you never had a headset like this,, take it from me! its a super awsome headset, the only thing that kinda pissed me off was the mouth piece is a… Read more »
I hear ya. I tried it myself but found it comparible to trying to make a full 1080 theme and had little success (too little time/space).
Anyway, welcome and nice job! 🙂
yes, i like this theme verry mutch, this theme seems to stand out in a way where you dont hafto turn the brightness down at all, where typically all other dynamics hafto generally be turned down to -2 or -1. the ghost in the corners have a nice 3d effect and it looks like you did the speech bubble to resemble the maze.. also the trails behind the ghosts are awsome!! the game title on the bottom.. yellow movie clip image, main icons, it all works perfect.. i definitely cant wait to see more work from you!!!! @OPTIMUS YUP!!! im… Read more »
@RoBeast Im sure there is a flaw in my math somewhere but for this one, I created it to be I believe at 3 seconds which was at 29fps in AE. I skipped every other frame when bringing into PS which made it into I think 30 frames. I really dont like the idea of skipping frames because it speeds up the video and doesnt look as smooth. So Im guessing if I build it as the exact frame count as I want it to be, I wont skip any frames and then be “perfect”? Ill try a couple tests… Read more »
@kelly I’m fairly new to this myself (been making these about a month or so). So not to argue but most comps are played at 25-29 frames per second which only gives you a shade over a second of animation. Not 3.1? What I’ve been doing is making a comp size of 5 seconds then when importing video to layers limit to every two frames. That will give you about 60 or so frames. After automate I then manually go in and delete every other frame again till i hit the target 34. It helps stretch out the animation but… Read more »
@RoBeast I see you know exactly what I mean! After my first test and seeing how the 78 frame method highly reduces the quality, I just couldnt go with that but the 78 frames would be great. Im limiting to the 34 frame method which stays in HD I started working on another last nite and I had the thought to start building in Aftereffects with a limit of 34 which is like 3.1 seconds. I think that will help to be sure the end result will be more like I expected and without having to do the frame skip… Read more »
That’s where i uploaded my very FIRST themes!! I used to love that site .. i can’t believe they stopped posting up themes. well thank god for ps3-themes.com!! lol it seems like its the only hot site for ps3 themes now
@TheKeseArcade: Looooool!!! Good boy… 😛
By the way, speaking of good old games: I seem to recognize that face you used for your gravatar… is it Ryu Hayabusa, by any chance???
(Oh, and… If it can interest you, go check my “Old Glories” theme: there, you’ll find many retro games 😉 …)
@kellyjaye: You got a new great fan, lady: my friend Doom.
And now that he has found you, he will never let you go… lol! 😀
@lisa: I made a simple PS Vita theme about 1 year ago, when its code name still was NGP: just search for NGP, or Next Generation Portable… 😉
@kelly
Yep, the frame limitations are a b!tch! Ntm, the looping issue. I’ve tossed a couple themes to the scrap heap over these issues. An animation would look all good in AA. After cutting the frames and seeing the final p3t I was like wtf! Anyway, it adds to the challenge so I guess its not all bad. 🙂
@F-Rott
I started one also several years ago that I think I learned how from that site, it was a static one though. It worked for about a week till a firmware update then it no longer worked. Kinda gave up after that till now!
@lisa
Maybe because Vita has only been out barely a week and no one knows how yet ;-). I would think you can already change the background to different JPGs right? Maybe Glowball will find a way to do it soon since he seems to be the genius at figuring out how to do it for PS3 😛
This is a cool theme! I did a Pac-Man theme years ago, but I uploaded it to allps3themes.com instead because that was the hot spot at the time. Kudos!
hey how come we don’t have a section for vita? i got a vita and was looking for cool wallpapers and found none sadly….. maybe kelly you can be the first one to start lol
@doom Wow, thanx! 🙂 I was pretty surprised that no one else here did a Pacman one yet so I had to jump on it 🙂 If it helps to show Im not some freak genius, Im pretty computer literate for the most part and I do work in graphic design full time so I guess I could move through creating things like this a little easier than others though Im fairly new to animation. I did have a few roadblocks that almost made me give up but I finally got through! Im glad you really like it! doom: hey!… Read more »
@ThisIsKing
Actually, they were slower! I created the animation in AfterEffects and at just the right speed I wanted. After I converted over and learned about having to skip frames and so on, it made things faster. I agree it should be a lot slower and I may go back and modify it a bit now that I know more than I did at first 🙂
@TheKeseArcade
Go for it, its not that bad after your first one. Took me about 3 weeks or so I think to make this one but all depends on how you plan to go about it! Just pick a subject that you and everyone likes but not to much of 🙂
Thanks. -_-
hey! im doom 🙂 i downloaded this theme lastnight and i was surprised. i was on the phone with my girlfriend checking out the themes and saw pacman… i was like ‘F***in A’ “PAC MAN”!!! i dl’d it to check it out, i said to her, “theres a girl on ps3 themes that did a dynamic theme of pac man” and its her first dynamic, and its not bad… as i was checking out all the stuff i usually check out when i download a theme i said ‘not bad’ a few more times.. lol. she said. you keep saying… Read more »
@OPTIMUS I took the goody goody route and destroyed it lol.
@TheKeseArcade: Lol! Yeah, me too! It was a very hard game (like almost all games of the 80’s and early 90’s)…
I spent alot of time (and money, of course) on the arcade version, until I bought it for SNES: ooh man, the first time I finally managed to defeat Drokmar, I was so pleased of my efforts that I decided to keep the Black Orb for me, instead of destroying it, in order to become the new Dark Lord… loooool! 😛
Glad to know someone remembers that game! 😀
@OPTIMUS Magic Sword!? You are my kind of gamer lol. There’s no telling how much money I dropped into that machine at my local barber shop growing up.
@kellyjaye: Uh! Well, yeah, I can understand…
It was indeed a strange period.
Especially here in Italy, there always was the risk of being branded as an anti-social…
But looks like everything’s different now, so… welcome back to the “magic world”! 😀
(it reminds me of another good old game named Magic Sword, lol! :P)
Ha ha! I like it! I’m an old geeze too. lol
Great Theme! but it would’ve been better if the ghost’s were slower but nevertheless Amazing theme especially for a first!
I love this theme. I need to sit here one day when I have time and began to learn how to make dynamic types. I just need to find the right subject matter I can make something awesome with.
Thanx Jaydee!
cool theme!
@OPTIMUS I dunno, moved onto other things and interests I guess. Part of it may have had to do with back then, games and maybe even computers were still considered toys and only kids played with them unlike today where they are for all ages and its almost weird to hear someone doesnt play them. I had enough people making fun of me as it was, didnt need more heat! 😛 Also it got to where games just didnt impress me anymore….nothing new and different. I did get several systems over the years but never got as much into them… Read more »
hi
@kellyjaye: “Managed to get away from it”… Why? Well, I grew up between computers and electronics, in a period where videogames were developing and evolving at the speed of light, so I inevitably started loving that magic world: I’m an oldie (almost 40 years) so I was a kid in that period, always jumping from a Pong to a Space Invaders, or from a Bolo to a Tetris… but I always considered that world just like the perfect hobby for an “electronic boy” like me, nothing to be ashamed of or to escape from. Oooh yeah, C64! Not to mention… Read more »
@OPTIMUS Yeah I was a big geek back then and managed to get away from it all years later for a while. In the last few years, things have started to come back! My computer was a C-64 (was thinking about a theme of that too!). I still have pretty much all the old systems I grew up with too. Unfortunately playing them doesnt hold me for more than a few minutes anymore, though I still love the aura that surrounds what a lot of them were all about. I still get into playing the “Multicade” machine when I see… Read more »
@kellyjaye: Yeah! 80’s were the best years of my life!
Ahh, memories…
Fortunately, I still own all the consoles/computers of that period, so I can still play old games.
Most of the best games I played were on the Atari-ST, all directly converted from arcade systems… the best classics of all time!
Lol! You’d be the perfect girl for me! 😛
@TheLoneWolf
Already crossed my mind 😉 Was thinking of maybe doing and Arcade vs Atari Space Invaders theme because they were both unique to each other but equally awesome 🙂
you could do space invaders next
@lisa
hopefully more to come! 🙂
nice to see a theme made by us gals lol.
@OPTIMUS I see it and from all the comments, it sounds like its pretty cool…you should put a video preview :-). Will check it out when I get home though! The classic (mostly 80’s) stuff is where a lot of my heart is back when arcades were super dark and super loud and had a wall of about 10 Pacman machines all in a row 😛 I would like to make all my icons but I cant think of anything more nightmarish…there are a TON! I figured the best thing to do for now is just modify the standard ones… Read more »
@kellyjaye & FURY: Yep, Kelly is right! In 2010, I made a tribute theme for all those good old games that made the videogames history in the arcades and on the home consoles during 80’s… Oooh maaan, it was such a hard work: all my themes are always handmade, so… useless to say that redrawing all characters and other stuff has been a real nightmare! But I also have to say it was worth it, because it was a hard but rewarding work 😀 Anyway, Kelly: since looks like you’re a fan of the old games, maybe you might be… Read more »
Thats a thought, might be a little too “modern” though. For Pacman, I redrew every pixel in Illustrator to match the way they were orignally. Street Figher obviously has a lot higher pixel count so redrawing it would be a nightmare! If I can fine super high quality JPG’s of the different objects from the game, I might be able to pull something together!
great theme kelly… i like your work.. if your into classic arcade games maybe you should try out a dynamic street fighter theme.. completely up to you.. and again great work on this theme
Thanks! Plenty more classics to do nexy! -)
Thanx a lot! 🙂
Ohh Kelly this theme is awesome, thanks. A great theme for a classic game. Nice job 🙂
Hi Tosh, although I like Slipknots music, I dont know too much about them to go about making a theme for them outside of just throwing a logo in the background. Im probably going to stick to my love of classic arcade games for now till I get a better grasp on everything.
Yes I did and thanx :-). Now if I can only figure out how to post the video preview…
I learned a lot so I can do some more a lot faster now I think. Have part of an idea for a Ms Pacman one I may try next 🙂
nice theme for one of the best classics
Heeey Kelly! You did it!
Lol! I love Pac-Man, great classic!
Nice theme, and… welcome aboard! 😀
Hey , can you make a slipknot theme ?? please !!!!