Topic: PGC's 5th Birthday Contest - The Winners!

[S-U-P-E-R]

There were a ton of awesome ones that made voting extremely hard : (

[Uncle Rich AiAi]

No surprise Ninja had to make another "IE sucks" comment.....lolz

[Brokenlink]

Here's mine:  http://www.yousendit.net/d.aspx?id=A8B1522D20B3F7992C5E186A7F1F5A68
(sorry about the file size)

The 3D stuff is bad quality because GMAX doesn't have a renderer so I had to use a video capture tool. I'm also pretty new to 3D. I used the same song as Marc.

That's also only there for 1 week.

[Brokenlink]

I forgot. Maybe you could tell us what you used to make your commercials. I used GMAX for my 3D models, Cam Studio for the video capture of the models, and Adobe Premiere to put it all together.  

[TheYoungerPlumber]

Everything I've seen is awesome, guys!  It's great to see such loyal readers show off their creativity!

[Try4ce]

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.

[KnowsNothing]

omglol

WARNING:  MAY CAUSE CAESARS

[Bill Aurion]

You should have an epilepsy warning for that...

[reyontoyeny]

Edit: I can't upload anywhere? Who wants to host? It will only be less than a megabyte.  

[Microtic]

Hey MattVDB, I mirrored it for you. I just love this one for the originality!

http://members.shaw.ca/microtic/done.swf

Enjoy!

[MattVDB]

That's awesome.  Thank you very much Microtic.  I think it's awesome that I have at least one fan...  I put a lot of hours into that thing.  

Thanks again.

Oh, and for the sake of discussion... I used Sonic Foundry's Acid for the sound *captured from the games, and Nintendo 2002 DVD*, and Flash to draw, animate, and put it all together.

BTW: I have another one, that I didn't get finished in time for judging.  Maybe by monday I can be done, and show you guys that too.  Maybe...

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\/  Thanks Ian.  
 

[Ian Sane]

I haven't had a chance to check out the winning entries yet.  Hopefully I'll check them out tonight.  From the descriptions though they sound pretty neat.  Shooting a stop motion film with the GB Camera is just incredibly creative.

Anyway since everyone else is posting links to their entry I'll post mine while this topic is still reasonably fresh.  You can download it here.  My webspace doesn't allow me to directly link to the zip file so use the link provided on that page.  It's a pretty big file so dial-up connections beware.

Edit: Okay I just checked out MattVDB's entry.  WOW!  That's really well done and very creative.  If you didn't win no wonder I didn't.  It's a little slow on my work computer and I have no sound but it was still very impressive.  I'll check everyone else's at home tonight where I have sound and decent hardware.