**SPOILERS** Cinematic 9.1

**RemagDiv**

MotorZ wrote:

Uh...we have a different guy than Chadwick that does the cinematic art. I'm pretty sure he just comes up with the concept art, unless I'm mistaken.
I disliked the scale of the guy at the end, cuz he looked 20 feet tall instead of 7-8, but other than that I thought it looked good. I think the devs are trying to make up for no longer having in-game cinematics.

Animation is not done by Chadwick, but the drawings are, which is my main complaint, cause he doesn't even draw the backgrounds now, just uses in-game shots that are zoomed and look ugly, hence him just being lazy. The in-game look is cool when mixed like we saw in previous cinematics but when the entire cinematic has it it just looks cheesy.

**GypsyJuggler**

Procurator wrote:

This is way more significant than another mega bad guy. If my guess is right, this is the mysterious glowing guy that's been standing in the background of event and chapter banners from day one. He's probably also the reason we've seen Agents lying around dead since Chapter 8.1 (or was it 8.2?), and could very well have ties to Mystery Man - or even be him!

Can someone post these banners? I haven't seen them.

**RemagDiv**

GypsyJuggler wrote:

Procurator wrote:
This is way more significant than another mega bad guy. If my guess is right, this is the mysterious glowing guy that's been standing in the background of event and chapter banners from day one. He's probably also the reason we've seen Agents lying around dead since Chapter 8.1 (or was it 8.2?), and could very well have ties to Mystery Man - or even be him!
Can someone post these banners? I haven't seen them.

http://forums.station.sony.com/mxo/..._id=36300017848

**MotorZ**

That guy in the banners...is definitely that guy

or at least he is now. Funny how foreshadowing works, eh?

Also, here's some stuff from Rarebit about Paul not having the finished art for the cinematics:

"Uh... Let's see... Starting with the 7.2 cinematic, you should see a distinctly different thematic style--not artistic style, that will change in 7.1 when our new artist takes over converting Paul's storyboards into the finished art, but just uh what they're about, how they flow, etc."

"Oh, I need to correct something I said about the art in the last cinematic. It wasn't all done by Paul Chadwick; he did the storyboards, and then the contract artist we've been using did the actual finished art. It was just that he got really good at making his style look almost exactly like the style Paul used in the storyboards.

"

So, it's not just animation, which is done by an outside agency (from another post but have enough quotage already), but the actual finished art is redone from the original storyboards even.

Hmm...I wonder if Paul's delays with the Sentinel is cuz he actually is trying to redo all the Cinematics with drawn art (saw this in another quote). Doubt it.

**RemagDiv**

Holy smokes, so Chadwick just does the storyboards now.. so now he does no Sentinel, no updated blogs, and now he doesn't even actually do the cinematics, just the preliminary storyboards?

You think he'd have more time to work on this stuff...

ThePigeonKing

RemagDiv wrote:

Holy smokes, so Chadwick just does the storyboards now.. so now he does no Sentinel, no updated blogs, and now he doesn't even actually do the cinematics, just the preliminary storyboards?

You think he'd have more time to work on this stuff...

He works on other projects that aren't The Matrix, by the way.

**RemagDiv**

Blasphemy!

Hell, he hasn't updated his main blog in ages, either.

**GypsyJuggler**

RemagDiv wrote:

http://forums.station.sony.com/mxo/..._id=36300017848

Okay, so I had seen them but I hadn't noticed the glowing guy before. He's very subtle. Thanks Remag.

Ebola

/leftfield...maybe

Maybe he's an Alien from outer space! Or an Alien AI! Maybe the reason the Sentinels are all around 01 all the sudden is because they are fighting off an Alien invasion force! Rarebit said the story would go in a different direction, Aliens would be different!

**Neoteny**

Ebola wrote:

/leftfield...maybe
Maybe he's an Alien from outer space! Or an Alien AI! Maybe the reason the Sentinels are all around 01 all the sudden is because they are fighting off an Alien invasion force! Rarebit said the story would go in a different direction, Aliens would be different!

If this ever happened I'd quit. Immediately.

...But I bet if it did, that the new One would be an alien who Jacks In with the power of love. Ooh Yeah!

**MxO-Insertion**

Hmph. I would really like to see like a trio of bad guys being our enemies of the system. I'm kind of tired of there being this singular being that has the power to kill all... aka, Assassin and Anome.

But anywho, I just hope that we don't linger on trying to figure out who this being is for 5 weeks, only to find out in the next cinematic.

**Procurator**

RemagDiv wrote:

Holy smokes, so Chadwick just does the storyboards now.. so now he does no Sentinel, no updated blogs, and now he doesn't even actually do the cinematics, just the preliminary storyboards?

Procurator wrote:

I don't think this is Chadders' fault. He only does the storyboards, not the animation. And the scaling isn't a problem apart from when he's next to the Agents: the Intruder is big.

Told you.

Hl3w88

That neos a rite little wuss he ran from a 1 on 1 with me.

-=Hlew

Twaggy

Procurator wrote:

This is way more significant than another mega bad guy. If my guess is right, this is the mysterious glowing guy that's been standing in the background of event and chapter banners from day one. He's probably also the reason we've seen Agents lying around dead since Chapter 8.1 (or was it 8.2?), and could very well have ties to Mystery Man - or even be him!

Mean this dude?

He in both of those

**Procurator**