Pac-Ghost.WAD (Pac-Man Ghosts)

[NicktendoProductions]

I noticed that the user "Terra" was in the middle of editing a Pac-Man character: https://mb.srb2.org/showthread.php?t=38178 so I decided to make a counterpart to it; a ghost. I already have some sprites made, I am fully open to suggestions and constructive criticism. I'm not naming it specifically as one of the ghosts (Blinky, Inky, Pinky & Clyde) because you'll be able to play as which ever ghost you want considering changing colors, but in single player, you'll be red.











I know its not much, but I will improve it

 

[Sapheros]

I don't think playing as a ghost could liven up SRB2, but a Chasing Ghost Mod for match/ctf could be interesting. But that is an opinion. As for the sprites, I think it needs some shading, and should at least have some fluid animation (but uh, wait for MotorRoach to give you real advice.)

 

[NicktendoProductions]

Okay Duon,
Perhaps like this?

 

[NicktendoProductions]

New sprites!

 

[Zipper]

Look at the Crawla sprite, and now back at any of your sprites. Do you see the issue here? The Crawla takes a certain source of light (almost directly from above in this case) and uses shades of blue depending on where the light hits/doesn't hit. There's also color variation, via the addition of grey.

Your sprites are almost completely a solid colour (you tried to give shading to one but...) and feel extremely flat as a result. When working with these, assume you're shading some sort of cylinder (or perhaps something like an aspirin, you know, since it's spherical at the edges), pick a light source for yourself and try to tone it according to what it shows. (For example, pretend the ghost is a sheet, give it shades around places where a real sheet would fold in on itself. ONLY if you want it to look like a sheet though.)

Also the bottom of the sheets are a little jagged or something I dunno

 

[MetalKnux101]

Spoiler

This project would be far more interesting if you based the design off of one of the ghosts from Pac-Man World, rather than straight out of the original arcade game.

Take Zippers advice too.

 

[NicktendoProductions]

Okay, thank's for the idea MetalKnux101!
Time for some sprite making!