ZeZar Posted September 30, 2003 Report Share Posted September 30, 2003 It is really awsome, was it hard?? Do anyone know of a long animation war movie? The only Ani (animation) movie ive ever seen is Ice Age and Toy Story 1 and 2. Love them all. But the only time i see what i really want to see, war ani, is in the games intro! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wijitmaker Posted September 30, 2003 Report Share Posted September 30, 2003 It wasn't that great ZeZar, but thanks for the comliments IMHO it was good for a learning experiance, but the movements are very robotic and I feel we didn't take better advantage of the 'full 3d' capabilities we had with the camera. If you want to see a good 3d movie, I would recommend the preview for AoM or Praetorians. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aeros Posted September 30, 2003 Report Share Posted September 30, 2003 I found the movie very impressive actually True the animation wasn't the best but we don't exactly have motion-capture suits and equipment availible to us The only part I didn't like was the slightly cheesy barbarian, the music gets fast paced and you expect some huge unimaginable battle, but all you get is a villager that runs into this barabarian's sword Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wijitmaker Posted October 1, 2003 Report Share Posted October 1, 2003 LOL yeah CheeZy its kind of anti-climatic isn't it The problem I was running into was that my computer could only handle so much. Just that one scene took me nearly 48 hours to render. So that is why we limited it to only 2 people on screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeZar Posted October 1, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2003 No, i think its great. Maybe im a fool... But i think so, escpecially since you didnt have the hardware!...Praetorians prewiev isnt good, do you think, well, i love Praetorians, the game, but the movie (prewiev) isnt that good, you wasnt able to see any battles at all, just the four romans that got killed!AoM movie is great, it rules. But all the movies (Prewievs) that Ensemble had made to their games (AoE, AoE 2x1 and AoM)!But i think you should give out a INGAME movie, as soon as you think that the game could do that, many INGAME movies!.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penthouse Posted October 1, 2003 Report Share Posted October 1, 2003 I think it was great. I wouldl ove to see any ingame videos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Render Posted October 1, 2003 Report Share Posted October 1, 2003 Im might be making a trip to New Zeland soon. While Im there I might break into Weta (The special computers and post production department of Lord of the Rings) anything I can get you?Prehaps some motion capture suits, fast computers, models etc...??J/K <_< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widukind Posted October 2, 2003 Report Share Posted October 2, 2003 Get Indigo Workstations and all the RAM and Video Cards you can fetch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CodeOptimist Posted October 2, 2003 Report Share Posted October 2, 2003 Ha, good luck Render Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acumen Posted October 2, 2003 Report Share Posted October 2, 2003 But i think you should give out a INGAME movie, as soon as you think that the game could do that, many INGAME movies!.. The trouble with that is that (at least initially) we expect to distribute the game predominantly over the Internet. Under those conditions, we need to keep the filesize as small as possible to increase market potential. Also we want to give a lot of power to the modding community, so the tools to make in-game cutscenes and storyboards are ultimately going to be used more by the community.Thus, we're probably better off sticking to teaser trailers where we have the opportunity to do movies (and to be honest, there are a lot of things that are currently more pressing).Of course, if anybody with strong cinematic skills wants to come aboard, we certainly won't complain! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeZar Posted October 4, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2003 But you know i meen, why not forexsample use WinCam, just make a movie out of the game you are playing, not any difficult long, big moviee, just clips, so everybody can see units, buildings, graphix, and UI! See?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wijitmaker Posted October 4, 2003 Report Share Posted October 4, 2003 The problem is file size of the movies ZeZar.But, we can have in-game cinimatics with the methods Acumen was suggesting. I think our games will take advanage of the help the people who have worked with these tools before... like the AoM map editors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeZar Posted October 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 The problem is file size of the movies ZeZar.But, we can have in-game cinimatics with the methods Acumen was suggesting. I think our games will take advanage of the help the people who have worked with these tools before... like the AoM map editors FILESIZE?? I am not an expert, but like 1 hour movie with WinCam, is abput 400 mb. Lets say you make like 4 minutes a time, woulf only be like 20-40 mb!?OR make small movies, like 30 sec a time!?Well, i dunno, you deside! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Petrius Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 Only 20mb?If you want a movie for every mission, that's gonna add up to a whole lot of mb's.Even if you use 5 mb movies for every mission (let's say there are 12 missions (=12 movies). That would add up to 60mb's for movies alone, and movies aren't really essential to the gameplay, are they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeZar Posted October 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 Not tha whole mission, just like the IN-game movies they made for AoM. like 1 minute with gameplay and battles!shouldnt be so big, they where as i said about 1 min, and had a size, about 10-15 mb! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Petrius Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 Yeah, but that was on a CD. You didn't have to download AoM, and there was noone that had to upload it and pay for the bandwidth you used for downloading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeZar Posted October 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 Yeah, but that was on a CD. You didn't have to download AoM, and there was noone that had to upload it and pay for the bandwidth you used for downloading. Ah, what does this have to do this the case? That i whant Wijit and the rest to make some IN-game movies so i can watch the game soon! (in the next 6-10 months) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaas Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 I think Zezar means the gameplay previews you could download online for AoM. Or for example the AoM:TT gameplay movies you can find at AoM Junkie (the titan birth and such), or the two (or three) ingame movies Reverie released.Zezar, I think it'll take a while before that's possible, but I'm sure that as soon it's possible some ingame movies will be made if it doesn't slow the development of the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeZar Posted October 6, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2003 Thats right. Finally understood (my english is bad!)Well, i just want you to make some, not matter if its today, next week, or next year, just something that will make the waiting easier! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Petrius Posted October 6, 2003 Report Share Posted October 6, 2003 I thought you meant little videos that you see after completing a mission or before starting a new one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acumen Posted October 6, 2003 Report Share Posted October 6, 2003 Sorry it took us so long to catch up with you, ZeZar. Yes, I'm afraid it will be "several" months before the engine is at a point where you can see screenshots or vidcaps of complete gameplay. But yes, I agree that when we reach that point, it will take substantially less time to record scenes from a game session than to create full teaser trailers like the one that you've seen, and it sounds like a good idea to me, server space permitting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaas Posted October 6, 2003 Report Share Posted October 6, 2003 You can always use a peer to peer or maybe something like fileplanet to distribute this kind of stuff. After all, Kazaa isn't only used for illegal activity, it also has another purpose you know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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