TiVo Alert - STARCRAFT II AD TO DEBUT DURING NBA FINALS

[Wankey]

I figured what's wrong with Kerrigan's eyes.

Nobody in real life actually turns their eyes from one side to another to survey the landscape. Robots do that because they are focused on a small field of view. We have huge fields of view and we detect things far better with peripheral vision first. If you are focusing on something, nobody actually does it that slowly.

The actual amount of movement your eye does is around 45 or so degrees to each side to survey everyhting around you quickly. Nobody actually does a whole 180 degrees because that'll just be stupid (try it now, you notice you don't actually move your eyes too much)

One of the reasons why the new Kerrigan feels like it's in the uncanny valley. Hopefully they noticed this and they are doing a quick fix for it (1 month is a huge amount of time for rendering)

[Warsaw]

I figured what's wrong with Kerrigan's eyes.

Nobody in real life actually turns their eyes from one side to another to survey the landscape. Robots do that because they are focused on a small field of view. We have huge fields of view and we detect things far better with peripheral vision first. If you are focusing on something, nobody actually does it that slowly.

The actual amount of movement your eye does is around 45 or so degrees to each side to survey everyhting around you quickly. Nobody actually does a whole 180 degrees because that'll just be stupid (try it now, you notice you don't actually move your eyes too much)

One of the reasons why the new Kerrigan feels like it's in the uncanny valley. Hopefully they noticed this and they are doing a quick fix for it (1 month is a huge amount of time for rendering)

Umm... in what scene?

[n00bonicPlague]

If sex was a cake, this video would be like over 9000 pieces of it — with ice cream.

Or pie, if that's what you prefer.

A lot of you said you heard Tychus in there. All I heard was Mengsk all the way through, even at the very end. The blue energy that Kerrigan shoots is probably some sort of psionic attack. The energy bolt that strikes the Hydra is most likely from a Stalker or some other Protoss weapon. I'm not sure what robotic scanning of the battlefield it is y'all are talking about, but, whatever it is, it's most likely just for the sake of drama.

[Spartan13]

um n00b...guess u oughta fix that sig of yours there

[TheRabidDeer]

I figured what's wrong with Kerrigan's eyes.

Nobody in real life actually turns their eyes from one side to another to survey the landscape. Robots do that because they are focused on a small field of view. We have huge fields of view and we detect things far better with peripheral vision first. If you are focusing on something, nobody actually does it that slowly.

The actual amount of movement your eye does is around 45 or so degrees to each side to survey everyhting around you quickly. Nobody actually does a whole 180 degrees because that'll just be stupid (try it now, you notice you don't actually move your eyes too much)

One of the reasons why the new Kerrigan feels like it's in the uncanny valley. Hopefully they noticed this and they are doing a quick fix for it (1 month is a huge amount of time for rendering)

People very much do what Kerrigan did in that scene (I assume you mean the first scene with the pre-infested kerrigan near the beginning). If you have access to a video camera or a webcam, put it on top of your monitor and read this post while recording. Look at the huge amount of eye movement from just reading a page. Now imagine that you look to one side, then look to another and want to glance back to the original side for a period of time. Your eyes will naturally dart over to the side while your head remains in the same position.

[n00bonicPlague]

um n00b...guess u oughta fix that sig of yours there

oh wow, lol — I had no idea it was gonna be that terrible XD

I guess I'll just put a link

EDIT: There, that's better.

[Kimera757]

About why Mengsk abandoned Kerrigan, it was simple. You didn't need to read any novels to understand it.

Mengsk is nuts. Genocidal madmen tend to have mental health issues. Mengsk wanted to destroy the Confederacy, no matter the cost. Formerly reliable Kerrigan opposed his methods (starting on Antiga Prime), so he used her (to help destroy the Confederacy by keeping the protoss from killing the zerg) and then abandoned her. He figured she would be killed by the zerg, and could justify her death afterward by saying "rescuing her was impossible".

He probably thought that was better than assassinating her (a difficult prospect; she reads mind, and the cover-up would be hard).

Of course, things didn't work out for him...

[n00bonicPlague]

Of course, things didn't work out for him...

[BusinessMonkey]

I just read through the whole discussion here, and there are several points I'd like to adress.

First of all the Kerrigan shooting the Hydra speculation.
Beside the fact that the lighting is very different and that the angle of the shot is not the same, the only logical explanation as to why she would kill her own hydra (remember this is not Heart of the Swarm, so we don't need any pre-rendered cinematics showing us that something's wrong withing the swarm) is because she's firing her blue bolts against Zeratul and accidentally hits a hydra, but still so many aspects of these two clips do not point towards this. My guess is that it's a hydra being shot by PRE-infested Kerrigan in the New Gettysburg scene.

Secondly. For the people speculating whether the clip of Rayner shooting, might be the clip of him shooting Kerrigan, I'd like to oppose this, by pointing out that it's most likely from the scene where the marines enter the Zerg structure/hive. And even though it might look, as if Raynor in that moment is having second thought about killing her, but then think of all the bad things she's done, I believe only to be a "turn around and shoot zerg trying to attack them from behind".

Thirdly, about the amount of pre-rendered cinematics and how that amount will affect game experience, I really do believe that upping the amount of those cinematics DOES affect experience, simply because the quality of it is so darn good (or at least has been in so many of Blizz' other products).
But since my Frozen Throne experience, I'm willing to bet Blizz really tries to do AS FEW pre-rendered cinematics as possible, to save money, and even though pre-rendered is REALLY, REALLY expensive to make, just thinking about how well the many minutes of it were put into Warcraft 3 RoC, it's really just a shame, they don't put more of an effort in this.
Instead they've come up with this "excuse" about making the cinematics team make the in-game cinematics as well, and even though that might sound cool, a friend and I, who actually studies at the international animation academy in Denmark (and these guys really become hard-core animators) found many flaws in the in-game cinematics. Flaws, that we found could really only come out problems making people who animate from scratch, animating, in-game models and such. Just to prove one point, see the "Tidings of Doom" in-game cinematic, and focus on the way Raynor walks. No human being walks like that. Animators are actually taught to animate walking by letting the TORSO move forwards and THEN let the LEGS follow. Not the opposite. No human (except for Steve Urkel perhaps) walk with the legs first and torso afterwards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcxdDsYOwSo

Okay. I seem to be writing a wall here... =)

Anyhoo, fourthly and most importantly. I really dislike the pre-infested Kerrigan look. I already feared this, back when people were discussing her new voice actor, Trishia Helfer over the ever loved Glynnis Talken. I noticed how the infested kerrigan look from the first Zeratul/Kerrigan video didn't look like the SC1 look at all, which might have to do with the fact, that they already had decided on firing Glynnis, even though she voiced on several vids.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or_-j...layer_embedded
What I want to say, is that I hate the pre-infested look of kerrigan, because I can see (or so I believe) that she's been modeled after Trishia Helfer, and because Trishia looks alot more "Hollywood Standardish" than the SC1 kerrigan, this has resulted in loss of visual character in that ad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1yLPsMPQPo
Try to compare this simple animatic with the ad sequenses. Beside the fact that you'll enjoy listening to Glynnis Talken, since all SC players know and love that voice, try to see how all her facial looks, have been, well, almost facelifted. In the ad, her face is almost fully flat, whereas she's always had a characteristic nose and cheeks. All that gone, and therefore I hate it.

Well, there I said it. It really pisses me off actually.
But besides that, the rest of the ad is pretty cool, maybe only the cool and strong Tychus saying "Rater T for teen" is pretty silly.

[spychi]

I was looking for this image for a long time
priceless

Is it just me or Kerrigan's avatar back from Blizzcon looks a bit diffrent than from what we saw in the cinematic?