Post by: Jonnyboy117 on April 17, 2004, 04:32:39 PM
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.
Post by: Uglydot on April 17, 2004, 05:02:07 PM
Post by: yellowfellow on April 17, 2004, 05:10:21 PM
Post by: Bill Aurion on April 17, 2004, 05:28:49 PM
But anyways, good stuff!
Post by: Pale on April 17, 2004, 06:25:02 PM
Post by: Try4ce on April 17, 2004, 08:21:14 PM
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!"
Post by: Jonnyboy117 on April 17, 2004, 10:40:08 PM
Post by: Microtic on April 17, 2004, 11:22:33 PM
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. 
Post by: Uncle Rich AiAi on April 17, 2004, 11:47:31 PM
to the GameCube-person controlling a giant GC-robot idea!Sadly, I haven't DL the 2nd & 3rd commercial as I type.
Post by: ThePerm on April 18, 2004, 12:35:12 AM
Post by: nisse on April 18, 2004, 01:11:10 AM
great stuff. anyhow. is it okay for us video-noobs to post links to our own commercials?
Post by: nisse on April 18, 2004, 02:44:53 AM
I know its not much, but I feel it would all have been a wate if wasn't even allowed to show it...
(btw its only going to be avaliable for a week)
Post by: Try4ce on April 18, 2004, 07:26:58 AM
Very nice! I like it!
Post by: Jonnyboy117 on April 18, 2004, 07:45:16 AM
Post by: yellowfellow on April 18, 2004, 07:55:25 AM
Quotehow do you know?!? GET OUTTA MY HEAD!!!
Stop using IE, you fiend...
Post by: nisse on April 18, 2004, 08:14:28 AM
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Originally posted by: Try4ce
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Very nice! I like it!
Thanks!!
Post by: MattVDB on April 18, 2004, 08:46:35 AM
Well, there's mine. It tells you on the page what you need, but I will explain here too...
When I started out on my project I had big plans. I am working on my Digital Media Production Major and figured I would edit together some game playing and make an awesome video. Well, my video capture equipment went down, so I had to resort to Flash.
Flash isn't a bad thing, on the contrary, I like it quite a lot. The problem with using it though, and I didn't realize this until I was almost done, is that I built it on my 3 Gig computer with 512 Mb of RAM. If those specs are met, then the video runs well, and all are happy.
Total file size is 1200 kb, so I highly encourage you to watch it.
Darn fast computers anyway. Correct me if I'm wrong Jonny, but that was a big part of me not winning, correct?
And I think it does need to be said, Congradulations, folks. You guys did an awesome job.
Post by: nisse on April 18, 2004, 09:06:34 AM
Post by: Grey Ninja on April 18, 2004, 09:14:59 AM
So... any chance that any of you winners would like to sell your signed copy of MGS: TTS to one of us losers?
Anyways, some of you have seen mine already. It kinda... sucks... but it's here:
http://people.uleth.ca/~dave.brady/New/PGC2.gba
It doesn't seem to like the newest version of VBA much, but I developed and tested it on VBA 0.9a, as I am still unable to find a flash cart for a reasonable price. It totally sucks, and you are totally free to laugh at it all you like, but I maintain that it's not THAT bad for being coded in about 5-10 hours or so. And most of that was actually spent making/finding/converting graphics and sound. Not to mention that I never wrote a line of code that appeared in the final version without being under the influence of at least some alcohol.
But aside from the intro, the whole thing did not turn out at all like my design document stated. I was going to have some South Park style animation, walking through the site, and stuff of that sort.
And yeah, I realize that this being the second time in a week that I have posted here, some people might be thinking I am on my way back in. Well, I'm NOT. So you can keep your thoughts to yourself.
PS: yellowfellow, everyone knows that you are using IE because it's pretty much the crappiest browser out there, and if you were using a more modern browser, then you wouldn't be complaining about popups.
Post by: MattVDB on April 18, 2004, 09:16:06 AM
Post by: Bill Aurion on April 18, 2004, 09:20:03 AM
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Originally posted by: Grey Ninja
And yeah, I realize that this being the second time in a week that I have posted here, some people might be thinking I am on my way back in. Well, I'm NOT. So you can keep your thoughts to yourself.
Awwwww...
Post by: mouse_clicker on April 18, 2004, 09:23:18 AM
Anyway, all the winners were great- I didn't even bother entering because my entry would have been ten times worse than any clever and witty analogy Ninja could use to describe his.
Post by: Microtic on April 18, 2004, 11:27:35 AM
nisse I liked it, it reminded me why this website is so good, and that's a good thing!
Post by: MattVDB on April 18, 2004, 02:46:21 PM
I did some optimizing, so that it would actually run on my computer *was twice the size, but the Metroid Prime bit couldn't keep up*
I produced a .avi clip of it, but I was only allowed 5mb of space, and the file size was just over it. The day the entry was due, somebody jumped on my laptop, so I had to work with what I had already exported. Such is life.
But thank you. Really, that means a lot.
Quick edit:
It seems that Yahoo doesn't give much bandwidth. I've already gone over for this hour block. Being patient is one option, or if somebody would like to host it for me, that would work too. If you have space and would like to, please let me know.
Post by: DrZoidberg on April 18, 2004, 04:03:54 PM
Quoteyou mean we won't have one of the biggest militant anti internet explorer clowns around here? damn
And yeah, I realize that this being the second time in a week that I have posted here, some people might be thinking I am on my way back in. Well, I'm NOT. So you can keep your thoughts to yourself.
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PS: yellowfellow, everyone knows that you are using IE because it's pretty much the crappiest browser out there, and if you were using a more modern browser, then you wouldn't be complaining about popups.
blol.
Post by: S-U-P-E-R on April 18, 2004, 04:46:36 PM
Post by: Uncle Rich AiAi on April 18, 2004, 05:24:31 PM
Post by: Brokenlink on April 18, 2004, 05:42:49 PM
(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.
Post by: Brokenlink on April 18, 2004, 05:46:10 PM
Post by: TheYoungerPlumber on April 18, 2004, 09:41:54 PM
Post by: Try4ce on April 19, 2004, 03:20:10 AM
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.
Post by: KnowsNothing on April 19, 2004, 05:06:02 AM
WARNING: MAY CAUSE CAESARS
Post by: Bill Aurion on April 19, 2004, 07:41:53 AM
Post by: reyontoyeny on April 19, 2004, 10:47:23 AM
Post by: Microtic on April 19, 2004, 08:16:26 PM
I just love this one for the originality!http://members.shaw.ca/microtic/done.swf
Enjoy!
Post by: MattVDB on April 20, 2004, 05:31:08 AM
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.
Post by: Ian Sane on April 20, 2004, 10:55:04 AM
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.
