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TalkBack / RE:PGC's 5th Birthday Contest - The Winners!

« on: April 19, 2004, 03:20:10 AM »

I used Adobe Illustrator to make the characters, Adobe After Effects to animate all of the sequences, and Adobe Premiere to edit. I also used a free trial of Snagit to get the screen captures of the website. The shot of Planet N2000 was made possible thanks to The Wayback Machine. Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Audition made some minor contributions as well.

I had ordered the Adobe Creative Suite, and it was backordered for a few weeks. It finally came just a few days after I decided to do a commercial, which was great timing. It's the first time I've owned an Adobe set that included Illustrator, so it's my first video project to use it. It was fun. If only I could get the courage to try out Flash someday...

By the way, I just discovered that I've got some codecs in Adobe Premiere that I had no idea were there. Dang it... if only I'd realized that sooner you guys wouldn't have had to have downloaded such a big file. Sorry about that.

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TalkBack / RE:PGC's 5th Birthday Contest - The Winners!

« on: April 18, 2004, 07:26:58 AM »

^
Very nice! I like it!

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TalkBack / RE:PGC's 5th Birthday Contest - The Winners!

« on: April 17, 2004, 08:21:14 PM »

Hey, this is Marc, second place winner. To answer your question, I do have a forum account, but I don't think I'm a "forumer," since my only posts have been in the thread for asking questions about the birthday contest, heh. But even if I'm not a "forumer," I've been a PGC reader for a long long time.

I love the first place entry. Simple, creative, and great style.

Unfortunately, I can't play the third place entry, except for the audio. That sometimes happens with certain .avi files for me.

I appologize for the size of my own entry. You see, my video codecs are awesome for rendering high quality files for video and DVD, but as far as codecs for web files go, I've got crap. Any Quicktime I try to make is completely unusable, and I've got to make sizeable Windows Media files before the quality is kinda acceptable and the file is small enough (being 20MB, heh). At least I've got a high quality version on my own computer. Too bad it wouldn't be practical for web distribution. I've really gotta get the Sorenson III codec, but it just costs too much.

Hope you enjoyed my entry (even though I know my voice isn't a narrator's voice but I'll admit that I feared I would sound much worse, haha).

One thing I originally had in my entry but had to cut out were quotes from the various games. You saw a remnant of that with the "Let's a go!" right before the end. I kept that one because I thought it was good for keeping up the excitment for PGC going to E3. These quotes popped up after each sequence of the various games, but it just made the commercial too long, and they were pretty pointless and off-topic, as cool as I thought they were. Besides, I had a hard time finding a good Pikmin quote. The ones I had were:

-Zelda: "May the way of the Hero lead to the Triforce." (my favorite game quote, see signature)

-Pikmin: Um?

-Resident Evil: "All personel, evacuate immediately."

-Metroid: "The Hunter is here..."

-StarFox: I didn't quite get around to this one before I dropped the quotes idea, but I could've gotten one easily

-Mario: "Let's a go!"    

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TalkBack / RE:PGC's 5th Birthday Contest Bash!

« on: April 07, 2004, 05:49:14 AM »

I will be submitting mine tonight. A friend will be able to host it for me, but I'm still working on compression. If you see this and have a chance to respond before it's too late, could you tell me how many judges there are that will be downloading the file? I'll make a file that's compressed enough to put on my friend's webspace with his bandwidth, but I don't want it to look terrible either.

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TalkBack / RE:PGC's 5th Birthday Contest Bash!

« on: March 18, 2004, 04:12:39 AM »

What music is safe to use? Overclocked Remix OK? Or what about music from the original game soundtracks or anything else?