ZaneZavin wrote:

Ghost or a cancer patient... I'm not sure

Gasp... storyline...

ZaneZavin wrote:

Ghost or a cancer patient... I'm not sure

Heh! Yeah I have to agree there ZaneZavin that's what hit me with Niobe that she had wasting disease or something. Rare you might want to make them less heavy shadowed under the cheekbones they look a bit too... sick... because you get the cranial form with the extended cheekbones too much and yeah I know too many chefs but of course if the pic is moving it's different than what we're seeing when it's a one take but yeah.. you know me, just saying =) A face all white with some thin dark shadows instead of the heavy ones  for faces unless they're sitting in very dark rooms?, just suggesting Thanks for giving the customers the opportunity to look at the art and come up with a few comments btw

They look pretty lame to be honest. Can we donate money to make the cinematics like the previous ones? I think a couple a hundred should do the trick.

TakuyaX wrote:

They look pretty lame to be honest. Can we donate money to make the cinematics like the previous ones? I think a couple a hundred should do the trick.

What do you suggest to make them better, other than donations?

Darminian wrote:

OH MAN A CALCULATOR?!?!

Don't hurt yourself busy little bee.

Question for you - if you felt like stopping the support to epn and cypherite orgs because of an inability to do them justice why in the world are you attempting cinematics.

Side note - your drawings albeit stylish and good are effectively if continued at this rate going to burn you out and more then likely as is noteable now become your main focus, a minute and a half of sketches doesn't exactly account for a solid event let alone several of them - that being said those are also things we've not had in ages. So do what you will, i'm just looking forward to:

A new approach version 2.0.

 

~Darminian

Although cinematics do seem able to bring the matrixy feeling and a sense of storyline back, i have to agree with this.

Rarebit is doing a great job mastering this drawing style simply te please and get us silly players up to date with the story, but i don't really see how this will make the matrix franchise, the events or the whole game's past justice.

Hyperviolent wrote:

 i don't really see how this will make the matrix franchise, the events or the whole game's past justice.

Hard to do justice with as low resources as the Dev's have, even so cinematics are a great help in making sure those who are interested in the continuation of the story are able to keep up with it, it also allows for events that can't possibly happen in the game due to the mechanics of the game yet still have resounding consequences.

Because of this and due to the lack of funding they had for previous cinematics, Rare has taken it upon himself to continue this feature the best way he can do hopefully without impacting on a quality storyline.

But yes if Takuya wants to try to get the community to pay extra for cinematics like the old ones, fair enough, but after a while when people realise that their donations are also paying for those who aren't donating to enjoy the cinematics, the amount of people donating will rapidly reduce.

Or we could do a pay for game content idea where people pay to get the cinematic, unfortunately those who can't pay anymore per month will miss out on a large part of the story and the story is what MxO is about.

eval wrote:

TakuyaX wrote:

They look pretty lame to be honest. Can we donate money to make the cinematics like the previous ones? I think a couple a hundred should do the trick.

What do you suggest to make them better, other than donations?

Rarebit to step down?

Honestly, for the higherups to hear our concerns and actually base their decisions on our feedback. It feels like rarebits new cinematics are forced. They canceled the old ones then a couple of months later we get a downgrade? That's pretty messed up.

Rarebit wrote:

Synapse777 wrote:

Not a bad first try, but hmmm... maybe a bit broader in the jaw and a little less "long" in the face? at least if she needs to look like the char RSI we got. and maybe the shadows on the cheeks under the eyes are bit too heavy? She looks a bit too skeletal I think with the shadows forming her face.

 

Ah hm yeah a little wider in the jaw would work.

 

Yep, looks more like her now. =) not so skinny now I just think you still need to be careful with the cheeks and the temples shadows there not to get her eyes too deep looking into the skull

I hope you've finished on time

Really excited about this!

Sigma

It is done.

Not quite the compact download I'd hoped for, but I've learned that what I laid out for this one was probably just too much to try to put in a single cinematic. I also learned a lot about pacing, and the various constraints this format puts on it. I'd like resync the first scene in particular, but ah well, got to let go some time. ... Hopefully the push Live actually works. ;)

The swf file is 14 MB. Run time is a tad over 3 minutes, I think. I'll have some handy links for you guys tomorrow (direct links to the Live files, if you guys haven't dug them up yet, and gif renderings of each scene that you can use if you want to get an individual frame or something), and I'll probably drop a bunch of spoilerish source art on you.

3 minutes! Thats quite a long cinematic! Well today is the day so I'll be waiting anxiously!

Rarebit wrote:

 I'll have some handy links for you guys tomorrow (direct links to the Live files, if you guys haven't dug them up yet, and gif renderings of each scene that you can use if you want to get an individual frame or something), and I'll probably drop a bunch of spoilerish source art on you.

Thankoo ^_^

Hrm, I guess the "3 minutes" figure may vary... Just as well for this one that *some* browsers play Flash back a little slow (I clocked one that took four minutes to get through the file).

Could we get a link to the cinematic so that we can watch it while the servers are down?