Third Style Intro Progress

[darkshark]

I'll just post my progress on this project periodically here.

Hope I'm not stepping on any toes here xD

http://vimeo.com/16455511

[darkshark]

Re: Third Style Intro Progress

http://vimeo.com/16491853

[Izzy]

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Just seems a little to dramatic. Very high quality work though.

[MrRubix]

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I echo Izzy on that one

[Afrobean]

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SO ****ING DRAMATIC

Definitely pull it back a little, bro. This is a simple arrow smashing game, not a scifi war epic. If they're painting third style in that dark and serious style, that's fine, but maybe take a cue from similar games that have come before. Have a look at how DDR, ITG, Beatmania, etc. have handled similar cases. Basically, I guess, if you're going for a darker aesthetic, I think you should start with a more typical light aesthetic but bend it to darkness... if that makes any sense.

[darkshark]

Re: Third Style Intro Progress

http://vimeo.com/16514242 - added a little more.

It's pretty much just those swooshes that's going to make everything feel super dramatic, the music is also just temporary until they give me the music they're going to be using for the game engine, which would probably tone it down a good amount.

Having it be dramatic catches your attention, draws you into it more, which is what this is being designed for. Eye-catching, attention-grabbing advertisement.

Also note that the "darker" theme won't stay as is, I don't usually add in backgrounds until the end of animation. In it's current state you're dead on about it all, though.

[TC_Halogen]

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Agreed with it being a bit over-the-top. Looks very nice visually, though (I actually think I might start using Vimeo after looking at the file size of your video in comparison to the quality!).

[darkshark]

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vimeo really is pretty awesome, but they only let you upload 1 HD video per week as a regular user, all the others get downgraded to web quality. You should download the video, it looks so much better at full 1280x720p HD.

Over the top is definitely not a bad thing when it comes to advertisement xD

[TC_Halogen]

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Even so, vimeo's web quality looks better than youtube's. It might just be me though.

[Xandertrax]

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I don't think it's over the top at all, I think it's perfect. It captures the epicness that is to be ThirdStyle. The only think I like would be for the Thirdstyle logo to stick around even longer with the swishes across, I think it's still a bit too fleeting.

[zolaric]

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Yeah, I don't think we see "ThirdStyle" enough during that first purple flash

[Spenner]

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Yeah it's dramatic, but not overdramatic for it's purpose. If it was plainer then I wouldn't have acknowledged it as deeply as I did for the way it is now, and an advertisement needs to be capturing like that.

Pretty good so far.

[darkshark]

Re: Third Style Intro Progress

http://vimeo.com/16522578 Update.

Seems pretty unanimous that the wave in the beginning needs to be extended a bit, I'll do that tomorrow. Not sure why but my camera shake keyframes got messed up and it's not jittering now on the swooshing "third style dot com" part. Will fix that too, among other things.

[Izzy]

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These people really don't deserve your quality of work.

Unless they are paying you of course.

[darkshark]

Re: Third Style Intro Progress

Nah, not being paid, I just do it because I love these communities and I want the experience. I make really decent money as is, not in it for that.