SC: Survivors Cinematic

[GnaReffotsirk]

A cinematic for SC: Survivors.

[proph]

Very nice cinematic, you created really nice atmosphere and the music fits nicely.
If I can give you some ideas though:
1) In the first few sequences when you let the camera travel over the forest (nice camera movement btw) -> I would build in some variance regarding the tree size and form / rotation / placement. The entire forest looks a bit too much like a homogeneous mass, if you understand what I mean.
2) I would recommend adding some foliage to the scenery. The ground looks a little too clean and artificial, especially in the sequences with the running / creeping zealots and zerg masses.
3) No idea actually how easy this would be since I did not experiment too much with the camera yet, but I would try to build in some camera shaking at the scene where you move the camera on head-height through the running-by zealot mass. It would create a very nice dramatic effect.
4) I am not sure which tool you used to record the cinematic, but you should try to work a little on the framerate / screen lag before releasing the final version

All in all I really like your clip, very nice setting, very nice story (so to speak). Just the fine-tuning and polishing left to do ^^

P.S.: Where is that song from? It is pretty sweet

[//MavericK\\]

I'm speechless. That was really amazing.

Frame rate was a teeny bit choppy...but all and all...one fine vid!

I am continuously blown away by this engine's capabilities.

[Arkalis]

Being honest, this is the best SC2 cinematic made on the editor I have seen, even better than the Zerg Reveal Trailer in my opinion.

proph's notes are the only issues but they are minor and other than that it is a really marvelous in-game cinematic.

P.D. How is your campaign going (Fine? Almost done? Needs some work?) and can an ETA be revealed?

[Gradius]

This is fantastic. I'd love to feature this campaign on our frontpage/youtube when it gets finished.

[Twilice]

This was amazing. There is only 1 small problem, it's a bit "laggy" it got very low framerates at certian places.

[GnaReffotsirk]

The track is from Two Steps from Hell, entitled Starvation. My fave track yet.

Yeah, the lag has been killing me too. This is all the load my laptop can carry, I guess. Is there any good editing software out there that can help with fps?

[Flatus]

Like lot of people has said to you already in sc2mapster and probably in youtube, you should considering giving that map to someone with computer that can film that without lag Or render it, whatever is the problem, not expert myself.

It would be _way_ more epic if it would be high resolution and without lag.

BUT still, it gave me the chills! And to my gf <3 Awesome work! Way more than what I expected from your first show of the SC: Survivors video. And I allready expected a lot from that ;D

[Gradius]

Question: did you use any custom assets, like models or animations? Or is this all regular editor stuff.

[n00bonicPlague]

Cut back on the lag and put it in HD, even if you gotta get someone to record it for you.

Otherwise, very very nice. Some of Blizzard's in-game cinematics SUCKED compared to this.