Author Topic: PGC's 5th Birthday Contest - The Winners! (Read 6499 times)

Jonnyboy117 · « **on:** April 17, 2004, 04:32:39 PM »

This thread is for discussion of the contest winners announcement, found here:

http://www.planetgamecube.com/specials.cfm?action=profile&id=488

We'd love to hear your ideas about how to use the winning entry to promote Planet GameCube. Or you can just use this space to comment on the winning entries and congratulate their creators.

Uglydot · « **Reply #1 on:** April 17, 2004, 05:02:07 PM »

Good job, I am jelous of the talant I don't have.

yellowfellow · « **Reply #2 on:** April 17, 2004, 05:10:21 PM »

very nice, but what is with all the freaking pop-ups when i go to download?

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #3 on:** April 17, 2004, 05:28:49 PM »

Stop using IE, you fiend...

But anyways, good stuff!

Pale · « **Reply #4 on:** April 17, 2004, 06:25:02 PM »

Any of those guys forumers??

Try4ce · « **Reply #5 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!"

Jonnyboy117 · « **Reply #6 on:** April 17, 2004, 10:40:08 PM »

Marc, you probably need DivX to see the video for the third commercial. The codecs alone have never worked for me, although I think they do for some people. I just have AVIs set to play in the actual DivX Player (free).

Microtic · « **Reply #7 on:** April 17, 2004, 11:22:33 PM »

Hmmm I wish I woulda finished my entry on time. ._.; And the due date was even extended. Darn you midterm exams! ^_^;
But yeah congratulations to the winners!

It seems that a lot of work went into making what they did. Hope they enjoy their prizes too. Heh.

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Author Topic: PGC's 5th Birthday Contest - The Winners! (Read 6499 times)