Author Topic: My Wii Tribute Animation (Read 13162 times)

Svevan · « **Reply #25 on:** October 23, 2006, 08:09:24 AM »

Wooot for Matt, next Joystiq, then the world.

couchmonkey · « **Reply #26 on:** October 23, 2006, 09:38:27 AM »

Wii killed Matt's bandwidth. ROTFLLAM

Nyladrin · « **Reply #27 on:** October 23, 2006, 06:41:08 PM »

That animation is made out of pure awesomocity.

Svevan · « **Reply #28 on:** October 23, 2006, 10:03:15 PM »

Joystiq-ed

I'm so pissed. Here I've been writing deliberately controversial articles with the hope of being Joystiq-ed, and all Matt has to do is some cheap animation project. Screw you buddy.

MattVDB · « **Reply #29 on:** October 23, 2006, 10:24:36 PM »

Sorry Svevan, don't know what to say. Heh heh. You'll make it, I'm sure you will.

To the rest, wow, thank you so much. I really didn't expect this kind of feedback. At all. I put it up on YouTube last night, tonight I have 16, 000 views. 16,000. Dang. It's about to hit the front page of Digg too. My brother's server couldn't keep up with the demand (obviously), so we changed the link in the Digg article from being his site to YouTube. Unfortunately, this killed the last set of people who Dugg me (Sorry Vudu, thanks for trying). Here is the New Digg link So far, we have 33 Diggs. Just a few more and we'll hit the front page. Thanks again everybody, I appreciate it.

ShyGuy · « **Reply #30 on:** October 23, 2006, 10:27:32 PM »

MattVDB is a rockstar. destructoid had it too.

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #31 on:** October 23, 2006, 11:22:36 PM »

Great video even though I feel some of those joystiq people are tad bit critical. For a solo effort it truly is amazing, and I could see it being used in ads if it was spiffied up a bit!

Nick DiMola · « **Reply #32 on:** October 24, 2006, 06:43:27 AM »

Matt I watched this when you first posted it and I was simply floored. Outstanding video, total awesomeness.

VG, I agree, people on Joystiq were being awfully critical for no reason whatsoever, but what do you expect from internet geeks?

Anyway, I hope you win a Wii dude, and I hope Nintendo pays some attention and gives you a call, because that animation you did would grab my attention if I was just sitting on the couch watching TV.

couchmonkey · « **Reply #33 on:** October 24, 2006, 07:19:42 AM »

I finally got to see it, nice! Man, I think there are more than a few jealous animators in the comments section on Digg.

vudu · « **Reply #34 on:** October 24, 2006, 09:19:45 AM »

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Originally posted by: MattVDB
Unfortunately, this killed the last set of people who Dugg me (Sorry Vudu, thanks for trying). Here is the New Digg link So far, we have 33 Diggs. Just a few more and we'll hit the front page. Thanks again everybody, I appreciate it.

When you say 33 Diggs, I assume you mean 716.

Congrats.

MattVDB · « **Reply #35 on:** October 24, 2006, 10:01:02 AM »

I thought I went in and made an edit on that... It hit the front page just after I hit submit. Check out the number of views though, that's what floored me. "Views: 37,281" Thanks again guys.

Wednesday is supposedly the day I hear the results. *fingers crossed*

MattVDB · « **Reply #36 on:** October 24, 2006, 11:28:37 AM »

Just wanted to pop back in and let you guys know that the winners have been announced.... And I got ninth place... Today is a sad day in internet lands.

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #37 on:** October 24, 2006, 01:01:38 PM »

Matt about how long did it take you to draw the pictures and do the animation? I remember back a few months ago when I was trying to create a crappy animation on flash with characters drawn on MS Paint. I think for a 3 second video it took me like 40 minutes lol. THe video was of a black dot pedestrian going accross the road and getting ran over

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vudu · « **Reply #38 on:** October 25, 2006, 09:18:24 AM »

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Originally posted by: MattVDB
Just wanted to pop back in and let you guys know that the winners have been announced.... And I got ninth place... Today is a sad day in internet lands.

Sorry to hear that. Do you happen to have links to the winners? I want to see what beat you.

UncleBob · « **Reply #39 on:** October 25, 2006, 06:26:18 PM »

http://www.techeblog.com/?p=5163&cp=all#comments

zakkiel · « **Reply #40 on:** October 25, 2006, 06:49:12 PM »

Who the hell beat that?

MattVDB · « **Reply #41 on:** October 26, 2006, 12:45:27 AM »

Because people were interested, I decided to post the winners of the contest here. Then I'm shutting up about this contest. Really. ;-)

First:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y251/jamin686/duckhuntfinal.jpg

Second:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v194/almagnifico24/wiimoteLeon.jpg

Third:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3094099115897654260

Fourth:
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/7664/wipkz2fil7.jpg

Fifth:
http://www.francography.com/stuff/browser-zelda-final.gif
http://www.francography.com/stuff/Browser-MM-FINAL.gif

Sixth:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v124/keefry/rydia-wii2.jpg

Seventh:
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/744/okawiifinallm1.jpg

Eighth:
http://www.ebroadcasters.com/jon/wart4.jpg

Nineth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqFpgpISQPE

Tenth:
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/monkeychacha/luigi2.jpg

Eleventh:
http://s135.photobucket.com/albums/q152/ROB-22/finalchefmario2.jpg
http://s135.photobucket.com/albums/q152/ROB-22/docmario5.jpg

Twelfth:
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n79/Drtre81/marioart.jpg

There was much complaining on the board, to the point the topic got locked before I even saw the winners announced. To be honest, I thought it was a joke thread, scolling down so far to see my entry, just based off of the internet response it got. Oh well. It's cool, I guess.

Here are the important parts to the rules too:
"2. You may use photoshop, video, drawings, animation, or other mediums for your entries. (NOTE: YOU CAN SUBMIT TWO PICTURES FOR REVIEW, IF YOU ARE SUBMITTING PICTURES.)

3. Your entries must use your favorite characters of videogames (NOT NECESSARILY NINTENDO CHARACTERS AND MORE THAN ONE CHARACTER CAN BE IN THE PICTURE DEPENDING ON HOW THE REMOTE IS USED OR SEVERAL CHARACTERS USING A REMOTE) using the Wii remote to play a game, using the remote to zap enemies, use your imagination. "

"I have been looking at the pictures herein and some are not making pictures according to the rules. (Using a remote does not mean standing there and doing nothing with it."

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #42 on:** October 26, 2006, 01:06:04 AM »

Well some of the artwork is amazing but you should of at least got 2 places higher, one terrible one was 5th place with Zelda and MM with "Wii". They weren't creative, and frankly I don't think much work was put into them!

wandering · « **Reply #43 on:** October 26, 2006, 01:33:23 AM »

You were robbed.

Of the ones I can see, I'd say the best two entries, quality wise, are easily yours and the Zelda video. And you deserved at least fourth (fourth is where I was like, 'okay, I can maybe see what he was thinking with one and three. And maybe two is really good, it's not loading. But a photoshopped image of Halo spartans playing Red Steel? Seriously? This is weekly photoshop contest territory.') I guess I can understand why you were placed so low - he couldn't see the quicktime video you sent him, and he obviously wanted the entries to feature video game characters more heavily. But even so.

I would've put "A Wiimote Adventure" and yours in first and second (not necessarily in that order. I'm honestly not sure which one I'd put in first. No offense.) And then the duck hunt art in third, and then the wart art in fourth.

Oh well. They are, at least, all pretty good entries (with maybe the exception of the last two - but they're last, so that's okay.)

UncleBob · « **Reply #44 on:** October 26, 2006, 04:29:46 AM »

Wow.. I'm not going to be as nice as wandering... those were the winners? damn...

Darkheart · « **Reply #45 on:** October 26, 2006, 05:30:05 AM »

I don't post on these forums much at all even though I read them thouroughly every day but OMG, THATS WHAT BEAT YOURS?

WHAT

THE

HELL

I am an art major working on my 2nd degree and I KNOW how long some of that crap took to make.

#1 grudge here, pics > animation . . . . . . yeah ummmm how about no. Do you know how many drawings go into an animation to run at a steady framerate. Matts and the zelda one clearly are more polished and had WAY more time invested in them.

#2 grudge Ok fine you can submit pics. . . . then WHY THE HELL are the crappier pics at the top of the list rather than the bottom. . . . Pics like the Okami or Mario bros 2 ones should be out trumping the stupid duckhunt one. They clearly have had more effort in them and look more polished. I do not know who the judges were but apparently they were just looking for something that made them smirk and laugh rather than effort, creativity, polish, appeal, and so on. The resident evil 4 one was done in a small sketchbook and just took a screenshot and added the wii mote *retarded again* thats not creative at all . . . .

Im sorry Matt seeing the winners makes me feel like almost like you wasted your time. I was under the impression that this was an ANIMATION contest not some silly contest that takes silly photoshopped pics and half assed drawings.

Overall Matt save it for your portfolio if your still in school man because to me thats good work to show to your future employers keep it up!

~Sean~

couchmonkey · « **Reply #46 on:** October 26, 2006, 05:37:11 AM »

The problem is that they're accepting images or movies...some of the still drawings are very good (although I thought first and second are surprisingly not the best ones) but comparing still pictures to the movies is like comparing apples to oranges. Is the Mona Lisa better than Casablanca? Is Scream 3 better than a Sally Forth comic strip?

As far as the movies go, only the Wind Waker one can compete...I'd say based on the rules' focus on using the remote, I'd probably pick that one over Matt's, but Matt's blows away those two sprite movies...they're cute but they're one-trick ponies.

At least the popularity of your movie across the whole of the Internets is a nice plus. It's a great portfolio piece too.

wandering · « **Reply #47 on:** October 26, 2006, 05:43:42 AM »

The second place winner finally loaded for me. It convinced me that the winners were picked at random. I mean, the guy's obviously talented, but second place? That's decidedly sketchy.

edit: Don't let the morons behind this contest get to you, matt. Having a Wii couldn't possibly be better than having the knowledge that you did a good job.

....okay, having a Wii would be better. But let's pretend.

couchmonkey · « **Reply #48 on:** October 26, 2006, 07:16:11 AM »

Yeah, second place...it's straight out of the dude's sketchbook, you can even see the spirals on the side. It's not the worst of the still pictures, but I'd totally rearrange their ranking if I was judging them.

zakkiel · « **Reply #49 on:** October 26, 2006, 07:49:00 AM »

The only entry on that list that should have been able to beat yours was the WW, and that would be a close call. Sorry man. Some people have no idea how to judge a good thing when they see it.

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Author Topic: My Wii Tribute Animation (Read 13162 times)