It appears my opinion is very much the minority here but I didn't like any of these animations. I just felt like they were all a little cheesy and not very professional looking. I'm not sure exactly what's needed to fix them.

jonathan1

United States395 Posts

March 04 2011 09:23 GMT

#24

i like that protoss one a lot :D

vol_

Australia1608 Posts

March 04 2011 09:52 GMT

#25

Amazing work, I really liked the creep spread and the protoss energy burst.

phuzi0n

United States308 Posts

March 04 2011 10:17 GMT

#26

The first one is great but the racial ones are meh.

doihy

668 Posts

March 04 2011 10:32 GMT

#27

IMO MLG should hire you + name announcer so it would emulate GSL.

Panicc

Germany163 Posts

March 04 2011 10:33 GMT

#28

i dont want to be rude.. But i think your examples look a bit "cheap" and childish. They dont show this serious look i like

Anon06

United States203 Posts

March 04 2011 11:02 GMT

#29

The omiracial and protoss are ready to ship, the terran and zerg ones look cheesy to me as others have put it but compared to the current gsl one yours win out by a landside though.

The zerg creep doesn't look like creep to me because the edges of it dont emulate the edges of the creep in game. the terran smoke didn't quite look like smoke to me, but i also didn't like the shape of the structure, did like the black/yellow danger bands though commonly found on terran buildings though they looked kinda bright and clean my want to grunge them bit more. hope this helps. :D

kaiz0ku

Greece289 Posts

March 04 2011 11:12 GMT

#30

Thx for the feedback Anon !
I agree that the smoke in the Terran Animation doesn't look that natural , and it would probably look nicer if i removed it (i should never count on .. Mom : yeah the smoke looks nice , can i go back to cooking now? ) :D
But the shape is something i thought looked really cool :>
And as i said havent really ever played or watched zerg closely , so i will probably change the way the creep <<spreads>> to give it that *Gulp/Spitting* look that it has in game :D

Anon06

United States203 Posts

March 04 2011 11:29 GMT

#31

should have elaborated more: my problem with the terran structure is that it looks like twice the size of the nameplates for the other races. because the nameplate blends in so well to background part it gives the illusion of just a big name plate or just a big background, it could just be me though.

on the creep though also pay attention to the edge shape, it looks like it branches kinda your looks like you air brushed away the perimeter.

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yw :D keep it up, they'd be great for mlg.

kaiz0ku

Greece289 Posts

March 04 2011 16:58 GMT

#32

Indeed , i <<Air brushed them>> and i am not really sure how to make such small branch detail... but i will search it up :D !
And for those who liked the Wallpaper :http://www.rdex.net/wallpapers4/animegirl_big_gun.jpg

Fruktsoda

Sweden206 Posts

March 04 2011 17:34 GMT

#33

They looked pretty sweet, good job

bLuR

Canada625 Posts

March 04 2011 17:39 GMT

#34

You've got the right idea im sure we will see this in future tournaments or maybe the gsl sometime soon

legatus legionis

Netherlands559 Posts

March 04 2011 17:53 GMT

#35

The idea and passion is awesome. Also I do think its created well, I would have no clue how to even begin making them.

The theme's I only really liked the protoss one, the zerg felt too mechanic until the very end when the creep has spread and the terran doesnt fit at all, most likely because of the colors. But I think thats ok, theres a lot of fun in trying out different themes etc.

The main reason for posting would be to give some feedback and suggestions concerning the usage.
An animation itself cannot be used by anyone so you would have to team up with someone who can create a program that allows you to use them as overlays. There are many ways you can go about doing this but as a standalone for example, purely meant for a flashy intro, I can see that being easy to distribute and allow many casters play around with or integrate into their casts.

Another point for its usability which is probably pretty big is that it needs to be able to accept custom names. If every name would require its own made animation it would not be usable. So either some empty box where the custom name can be layed on top of after the animation finishes, or idk what kind of flashy things you can do with that, but that's definitely something to take into account if you would like it to be usable by many people. And you also run into a space issue, either have to limit the amount of name, have the animation scale or create a normal and a streched animation that when the name goes over X character the program would use the stretched animation as the overlay, or something just trying to come up with ideas here

For that program I think another part would be the audio component, since for example a craftcup can have many different names it's not feasable to prerecord them but maybe something like the microsoft robovoice that reads a name that is typed could fit the purpose well. The one from GSL is quite wierd aswell.

Eitherway whichever way you are gonna take it I wish you best of luck in your endeavour. It seems really cool and there is no such tool yet I believe. I hope it will get used in the future, not only is it cool and flashy but it could also help steer casters away from repeating their same old introduction of the players instead of playing around with it more.

decaf

Austria1797 Posts

March 04 2011 18:07 GMT

#36

The Jinro-one in the beginning looked real nice, you just need to make it a bit faster, it seems like it was on slow-mo or something. Other than that, great work!

Gene(S)is

Sweden419 Posts

March 04 2011 19:16 GMT

#37

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the pattern you use for terran (jinro animation) a sort of layout that only exsists on protoss planets?

I really like them though, good work, send them to GOMTV and ask them to use it, can open a world for you

Hakukakotai

Canada25 Posts

March 04 2011 20:11 GMT

#38

The animations looked really nice. I have nothing to add about those, I just have one thought of my own to add. It feels like the font colors and styles that you chose could very easily become really hard to read. If these were used by someone who had a low quality stream (or even the high quality GSL stream), they would become illegible.

For people using low quality streams (I am not one, but I heard they exist) contrast and simple shapes reign supreme since a legible simple animation will beat out a fancy blob of color on a regular basis.

That being said, SC2 is such a pretty game that everyone should be using high quality streams whenever they can.

mustache

Switzerland309 Posts

March 05 2011 09:41 GMT

#39

i like the jinro one :D

is that wallpaper from a specific anime?

bLooD.

Germany470 Posts

March 05 2011 09:58 GMT

#40

The Protoss one and that one for all races look great. I dont realy like the Terran and Zerg one. But im not really creative so i cant give you any tips on how to improve.
Still, keep up the good work. Im sure they´ll get used in the future.

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