EPTI also liked the Story pretty solid.
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FeyFey
Germany10114 Posts
I also liked the Story pretty solid. | ||
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Adonminus
Israel543 Posts
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Crainy
Germany83 Posts
Also, if you like it, please share it with your other Starcraft friends! Edit: And seeing how this is a new page, Ill just post the release text here again, so everyone can see it: 1.25.2013 ![[image loading]](http://s7.directupload.net/images/130125/7upbsxwo.png) The time has finally come! Starcraft: Rebirth of the Swarm is officially released! Im very proud and super excited to finally show this movie to you. Constructive criticism of any kind is greatly appreciated! Starcraft - Rebirth of the Swarm is the biggest Starcraft 2 Machinima Project to date. It is a 60 minute long, fully voiced Starcraft 2 machinima movie. For the last two and a half years, this machinima has been my pet project and it has come a long way since its announcement and im very proud of getting this project finished. Now, before we get to the link, heres some information about the movie in general: - The movie is fully voiced in english and also features english subtitles - The movie has an exact running time of 60 minutes and 5 seconds - The movie is released on Youtube in 720p with Stereo Sound, additionally to that it will be available for download in the next days featuring Dolby Digital 5.1 sound and 1440x1080 HD quality. The downloadable version will be playable on a PS3 and should be playable on most other Blu-Ray and DVD players. I apologizes that the downloadable version is not available today due to some unexpected errors with the upload, however, I hope to be able to make it available in the next two days, preferably tomorrow! READ FOR THE BEST VIEWING EXPERIENCE: Lets start this out by saying that watching this movie over Youtube is a perfectly fine way of watching this movie. The sound has been optimized to work within a stereo enviroment and while there is a noticable loss in the video quality, the quality loss is still within a very acceptable level. Keep in mind that the sound was optimized for headphones, so I suggest you use some high quality ones to watch this movie. With said, the recommended way of watching this movie is by downloading the movie (once it is uploaded) and watching it on your PC with headphones. That way, you get 100% out of the video quality and the sound quality. The biggest difference is that the downloadable version has a Dolby Digital 5.1 sound mixing, which greatly increases the quality of the audio. The gain in visual quality is also very noticable. Also, there is the possibility of watching the downloaded movie on your television set. This is also a valid way of watching this movie, expecially seeing how the movie features Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. However, there are some shortcomings with this: Your television might screw around abit with the black/white contrast of the movie and on your 5.1 sound system, the music might not stand out as much as it would with headphones. However, while the movie was not primarily designed to be watched on a television, I tried my best to optimize the sound for it and the result is pretty good. I myself watched this movie several times already on my television set. While it has its shortcomings, watching a movie on a big screen on a couch always has another unique element to it. Decide what option of viewing this movie suits you best. With no further delay, heres the link! Enjoy!: Im extremely excited to hear your thoughts on my movie! Feel free to state any sort of criticism! | ||
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Quateras
Germany867 Posts
If there were 1 thing that I could change it would have been : (watch out spoilers) + Show Spoiler + Shilon : "What are these ?" Zhadun :" Ancient Protoss weapons from our long forgotten past - THE REAVERS" That would have been so epic seeing them crawl slowly and firing scarabs. damn Colossus :-p Thanks again, really enjoyed the story/camera/scene switches, they made for a good watching experience  | ||
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Crainy
Germany83 Posts
On January 26 2013 01:45 Quateras wrote: This was surprisingly entertaining and fun to watch,thank you for all your effort and passion that made you do this movie :D If there were 1 thing that I could change it would have been : (watch out spoilers) + Show Spoiler + Shilon : "What are these ?" Zhadun :" Ancient Protoss weapons from our long forgotten past - THE REAVERS" That would have been so epic seeing them crawl slowly and firing scarabs. damn Colossus :-p Thanks again, really enjoyed the story/camera/scene switches, they made for a good watching experience The spoiler made me laugh, lol. I can see that ^^ | ||
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ZeroCartin
Costa Rica2390 Posts
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llIH
Norway2147 Posts
I really loved it! | ||
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Chronos.
United States805 Posts
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b3n3tt3
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sCCrooked
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Deleted User 137586
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Some highlights: I loved the intentional blurring in the long-shots, such as when the hellion was driving into base. Great work. The gate to the artifact was beautifully done. Great work on that. I do wonder about some things, for example the long transitions from one scene to another. Felt like the film could have been 5 minutes shorter without losing anything. But it didn't feel long overall... But also, why were there so many close-up shots of the ghost's ass? | ||
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reborned
Portugal4 Posts
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rpgalon
Brazil1069 Posts
Good job! | ||
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purakushi
United States3304 Posts
Wonderful job~ | ||
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Crainy
Germany83 Posts
Im really surprised that the story has generally been praised overall and even the voice acting has generally been viewed as pretty good to acceptable, which is really good for a fanmade project, not because I think the voice acting is bad in any way (I really like it, actually), but because audiences are very picky about this kind of thing. Thanks alot for every single nice comment | ||
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hpty603
United States262 Posts
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Kawaisaki
Australia3 Posts
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Existor
Russian Federation4295 Posts
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sths
Australia192 Posts
You need a better writer. The story wasn't bad but the dialogue could be significantly improved. I don't know if english is your first language since your location is Germany, even though all the dialogue were grammtically correct, they didn't flow and sounded disjointed and forced. 1)Around 6:20 after they introduce themselves, the marine asks the ghost "can we expect more reinforcements?" , ghost says "it is highly unlikely" marine says "why so", ghost explains. You don't need the "why so", because 1)the audience is thinking the same thing so you don't need a character to say it and 2) it slows down the flow of the conversation. You also don't need the ghost to say, I'm a ghost. In story telling it is always better to show than to tell. 2) 7:30-8:30 conversation in protoss ship. Theres a lot to cut out in there. You don't need "Correct, so we are not capable of warping our troops down to them anytime soon", "That should be possible", "Start working on it immediately. As soon as we have a working transmission we can discuss our plan with them". You don't need those lines because they are redundent. The audience already knows.Only explain something if you think the audience will not be able to pick it up. Anyways thats just really obvious stuff from the first 10min. I hope you don't mind me pointing it out. This is really a great piece of work so please don't think my criticism means I didn't enjoy your movie. All SC2 fans are grateful for your team's wonderful contribution. | ||
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Crainy
Germany83 Posts
On January 26 2013 09:43 sths wrote: The animation is absolutely fantastic in this movie. You guys deserve all the praise for this wonderful fan made project. Since you asked for feedback, there are a few things to improve on if you guys decide to make more in the future. You need a better writer. The story wasn't bad but the dialogue could be significantly improved. I don't know if english is your first language since your location is Germany, even though all the dialogue were grammtically correct, they didn't flow and sounded disjointed and forced. 1)Around 6:20 after they introduce themselves, the marine asks the ghost "can we expect more reinforcements?" , ghost says "it is highly unlikely" marine says "why so", ghost explains. You don't need the "why so", because 1)the audience is thinking the same thing so you don't need a character to say it and 2) it slows down the flow of the conversation. You also don't need the ghost to say, I'm a ghost. In story telling it is always better to show than to tell. 2) 7:30-8:30 conversation in protoss ship. Theres a lot to cut out in there. You don't need "Correct, so we are not capable of warping our troops down to them anytime soon", "That should be possible", "Start working on it immediately. As soon as we have a working transmission we can discuss our plan with them". You don't need those lines because they are redundent. The audience already knows.Only explain something if you think the audience will not be able to pick it up. Anyways thats just really obvious stuff from the first 10min. I hope you don't mind me pointing it out. This is really a great piece of work so please don't think my criticism means I didn't enjoy your movie. All SC2 fans are grateful for your team's wonderful contribution. Thanks for this criticism and kind words! I am fully aware that the dialogue and overall writing is not the best it could be, however, that will definately change in future productions. I agree with alot of your criticism, even though some of the lines you mentioned were put in because of pacing and atmosphere reasons and not for the purpose of telling the audience something, which I personally think is just as important. | ||
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