11:16, 27th June 2009, by Linaze
Rather entertaining cinematic with decent terrain, even though it could use some more doodads, especially environmental ones. The camera work was overall quite good, but some cameras moved a bit choppy. There were not much movement going on in the cinematic since most units stood still all the time, except for the protagonist, so adding some more movement wouldn't hurt. Finally, there were several grammatical errors as well as a few spelling errors, but the sentences were still readable, so it was nothing major, but should still be looked into.

Approved with a 3/5 (Useful) rating

at the cut scene where Tainther speaks with his mother the floor keep changing where he start's standing, also some spelling mistakes. else perfect! 4/5

look like a very high quality work, would evaluate by tommorow.

You should cut down on the Imports

Slaydon said:

You should cut down on the Imports

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i was using the Ultimate Terraining Map v 4.0 for this though ..
sorry for the size and imports

High Quality Cinematic. 4/5 because of Grammar mistakes

1) Description - A fine example of proper packaging. Nothing negative about it.

2) Terrain - At some specific point, you could lower/higher the tile as some area seems to be too smooth. Try add some rocks as well around the forest to enchances the visual.

I also notice the potrait cover a partial window. Nobody going to place their potrait that way unless they wanted to ruin it.



3) Camera - The camera movement seems to be choppy at specific point. Especially when the camera was switching to this position indicate at below screenshot.



4) Music & Sound - As far as the music goes, it seems to be ok. As for sound, I do not think it is good. It lack of sound effects for most of the part, I could seen a bird flying around the scene where Tainthar was looking at his father corpse, but there is no bird chirping sound. At a scene where there is no music, it was recommend to dubbed in sound effect to replace it.

5) Special Effect & Animation - The sfx seems to be ok, but the animation usage was poor. It constantly use the stand cinematic whenever the main character was having a conversation and you use death animation when Tainthar was having a flashback of his past memories instead of stand cinematic action.

Wrong choice of animation for specific action, I must say.

6) Scripting/Triggering - The moment the cinematic begin. I could make a quick glance at the terrain before it fade out. Instead of making it fade out at 0.05 seconds, set it to 0 to make the effect immediate.

The poor scripting makes the camera choppy and it was also recommended to use animation index instead of animate cause it could play random animation.

7) Replayability - The replayability values was average, even though it contain several minor errors such as typo errors (Screenshot below), camera movement and animation. This cinematic quality was definitely decent enough to please the audience.




However, do not give a high hopes for this cinematic if you are a fans of battle cinematic genre as the battle scene was boring and dull; where a 10-20 seconds scenes of unit slash one another till one is dead. If you are a fans of battle cinematic, this cinematic would certainly disappointing.

On the other hand, the storyline might be interesting enough for you if you are a fans of adventure story.

In addition, if you are a fans of black_stan models. This cinematic would dissappoint you as well, as the usage of the model wasn't fully utilize. Hopefully in the future, it would be use as efficient as possible.

Overall, the creator of this cinematic certainly have make a drastic improvement over itself. This cinematic was far better off compare to the first and second episode of it. No doubt it have the potential to be far better and surprisingly better quality for the upcoming episode.

My rating is 3/5 (Useful) and vote for approval.

Septimus said:

5) Special Effect & Animation - The sfx seems to be ok, but the animation usage was poor. It constantly use the stand cinematic whenever the main character was having a conversation

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How do you suggest i fix this?

custom script for unit index animation.

Septimus said:

custom script for unit index animation.

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hmm.. lol how do i do that?

the acolyte walking across the bridge in the begening, is walking like a penguin he is wobling and it looks sorta wierd to see an acolyte wobble like a penguin

wouldn't you wobble though if you were walking across a bridge in a blizzard? lol
anyway, i cant really fix that i dont think, but i will try.

The Watcher III is the third part of a cinematic series about the orc Tainthar and his quest to kill the false god Anubis who is a threat to Tainthar's people.

The terrain was actually pretty good, and the only thing that I thought of was that some scenes could've used some more environmental doodads such as flowers and bushes, especially near the trees because those places looked rather empty in several of the scenes.

The camera work was decent, there were several cameras and many different, good angles which made the camera less stiff.

The music was ok. The cinematic almost completely lacked sound effects, though, and I could only hear these in the battle scenes, making the other scenes awfully quiet. You could use sounds like birds in the background etc.

About the animations, I suppose the cinematic felt a little stiff since we nearly only saw Tainthar move in the entire cinematic. You should add some more movement to make it less stiff and boring to watch.

The English language in the cinematic wasn't that good, and as I mentioned when reviewing your "Part 2", sentences should begin with a capital letter, "I" as in "I ate an apple" should always be a capital "I" and sentences end with a ".". The reason for mentioning this is that those three are things that I noticed was wrong several times while watching.

The cinematic follows the rules of the Hive and has a proper description.

To summarize, the terrain was pretty good and just lacked a few doodads here and there. The camera work was also quite good. There's not much to say about the music, but the cinematic lacked special effects and much of the cinematic was very quiet. Because there was so little moving going on in the cinematic, it got a little "stiff" and boring to watch after a while. The English was understandable, even though there were several typos. Finally, this cinematic doesn't break any of the Hive's rules and has a proper description.

3/5 (Useful) and voted for approval.

Great cinematic as the previous ones. Looking forward for IV!

Whenever i see an acolyte in warcrcaft 3 moves he doesent wobble.... like when you play a melee map

2/5.
So, the wraith was doing all that mind crack or what was its role?
They are too short and frankly not even this third one caught my interest.