Cinematic Contest #3 - Sorrow

[bounty hunter2]

Cinematic Contest #3
Sorrow
Create a sad/sorrow/agony themed cinematic. The most successful cinematic would be the one, that could make the viewer drop a tear or two.

Contest Rules And Conditions

• No submission may violate any of the site rules.
• If a submission does not follow the map submission rules the creator will be disqualified.
• All submissions must follow the current theme.
• Imports are allowed with proper crediting.
• Filesize may not exceed 20 Mb.
• Your submission must be posted before the deadline. The post containing your final submission must also contain the following:
  * Several screenshots of terrain and dialogue.
  * The file in the appropriate format.
• Your submission may not be started/made before the official launch of the contest.
• Judges may not participate.
• Hosts may participate.
• Teamwork is not allowed.
• Voice acting is not considered teamwork.
• Others making resources for your cinematic is considered teamwork.
• You can make your own resources for the cinematic.
• Your cinematic must follow the following time limits.
  * Your cinematic must be longer than 5 minutes.
  * Your cinematic may be no longer than 20 minutes.
• Minimum five submission are needed for the contest
• If after the deadline passes, there are less then five submission, another four days shall be added to the deadline
• If after the additional four days pass there aren't five submission the contest shall be prolonged for another four days
• The maximum extension is 20 days, if after that there aren't five submission the submmited cinematics shall be rated

Contest Prizes And Winnings

First Place: 40 reputation points and a special award icon Second Place: 30 reputation points Third Place: 15 reputation points

Contest Judging And Voting

• Judges:
  Rui
  
• Judging Criteria:
  Suggested: (I am not sure will Rui use any.)
  

  
  [*] Theme 20%
  [*] Story 20%
  [*] Atmosphere 20%
  [*] Camera 20%
  [*] Terrain 20%
  

• 50 % of the winner shall be determined by the contest's appointed judge(s).
• 50 % of the winner shall be determined by the results of a public poll.

Contestants List:

• Aeroblyctos
• ArcticInferno
• Avator
• Bob27 [WIP]
• bounty hunter2 [WIP]
• hvo-busterkomo
• Mechmap
• xxdingo93xx [WIP]
• Kingz [WIP]
• lord_ken
• hawk900
• Vicboy
• Just Spectating
• CMarket ?

Contest Dates And Deadline

• The contest shall begin on April 1st and conclude on [rainbow]12:00 AM, May 31st[/rainbow] (GMT)

 

[bounty hunter2]

This has started officaly. I'm in for sure.

 

[Aeroblyctos]

So 4 weeks. Pretty long.

I join.

 

[ArcticInferno]

I'll try for mother russia!

 

[Mechmap]

I'll try to make something in time this time...



For Mother Russia!

 

[raid1000]

so is there a file limit?

 

[Aeroblyctos]

I hope not.

 

[Kingz]

I may join just for fun, though i never made a cinematic map i have a good idea...
Is trigger manipulation allowed(like adding objects, changing day time and such)?
Anyway if i have time i will try to finish it before deadline...

 

[xxdingo93xx]

I try to join as well...depends on how much time I have. Well, 4 weeks should be enough to make a proper cinematic I guess!!

 

[bounty hunter2]

I forgot to mention: 20 Mb filesize is maximum.

 

[busterkomo]

I actually have quite a good idea for this contest. Since this is my first cinematic ever, I'll probably lose to veterans like Aeroblyctos and Septimus.

 

[bounty hunter2]

*cough* CMarket *cough*

 

[Aeroblyctos]

CMarket's cinematics are usually too long(I mean his series old series, never watched new ones) and that makes them boring. I think the cinematics should be dynamic(like my crazy super über effect spam cinematic, which won't leave anyone cold)!

I wonder how long the cinematic should be? I won't make any marathon cinematic because it will be once again related to the campaign. Is 5 min good? Or 10 min? What do you think guys?

 

[bounty hunter2]

Well just keep it under the allowed time span 5 - 20. CMarket concentrates more on the story, background and things like that, mixed with a bit of action, makes it perfect.

 

[Eccho]

Interesting. I might not join this one. But I want to if I can come up with a neat idea.

 

[Just_Spectating]

same for me.

 

[raid1000]

i can see triggering is not a judging criteria so we can leak as we like >?
but not make the map laggy off course

 

[CMarket]

*cough* CMarket *cough*

Don't count on it. I have to study until spring break which is in 10 days, but during spring break I'm going to Greece for 5 days. I might try to whip something up after that but I'm not sure. I do have an idea though... but I don't know...

 

[Restor]

i can see triggering is not a judging criteria so we can leak as we like >?
but not make the map laggy off course

Of course there is no triggering, it is nonsense to judge this in nonplayable map.

Leaks are allowed untill they doesnt make it lagging. (in fact, everything is allowed if the map itself will be good to watch xd)

very hard theme, at least for this short time 20 minutes.

 

[bounty hunter2]

CMarket: Too bad, hope you make it.

raid: Yep you can leak, you can do anything you want, just don't crash or lag. You can lag if it's caused by mass units etc.

 

[Kingz]

How much MB does a 10 minute cinematic takes?
I mean i want to join cause of a great idea i worked out but i won't participate if a 10 minute cinematic takes about 6MB, why? - dial-up connection i would need to wait one hour or more to upload it, so i will try to make a decent cinematic but i want to know is it possible to make one under 4 MB?
Also can i use an imported skin(only one)?
And are models from UTM allowed for terraining?

 

[Eccho]

Imports are allowed with proper crediting.

For your last two questions: Yes and yes, as long as you credit the ones who made them.

 

[CMarket]

Read the rules. Imports are allowed with proper crediting.

As for the file size, well, depends. For example the first few map of my SotHM series took about 500kb-1mb each and they lasted for a good 20 minutes(each). However, they didn't use too many imports(a few models and textures with little to no sound).

Audio files take up the most room, especially voice acting. If you plan to exclude this than you can make a 10 min cinematic under 2 mb easily.

 

[bounty hunter2]

Wip wip wip

 

[xxdingo93xx]

Wip wip wip

Duuh, that's the typical atmosphere for sorrow! Rain, Lonliness, anywhere in the nature ... ;D
Anyway, looks nice so far.

Grrr I still need a good story. Sorrow is much harder than I thought, especially since you can't express feelings and emotions in Warcraft. (Well, you can, but that's not that easy...) I hope I'll get a brainwave soon ... I want to start working on it!!!

 

[LordDz]

It's an aprils joke!

 

[bounty hunter2]

It's an aprils joke!

Yes it is. This contest is canceled! -.-'

Ofc not.

 

[Eccho]

Bounty, that really looks great. Are you planning to have dialogues this time?

 

[bounty hunter2]

Yep I hope to do some voice acting aswell.

WIP WIP WIP

 

[Nbah]

Change your grass tiles your killing me T_T

 

[Kingz]

Well i won't have any voice in my map( i can but then the filesize would go too much high and i couldn't upload it).
Anyway first images from mine cinematic are attached...
My first cinematic but this is not finished still, currently i am thinking about destroying the ambient lightning and making lightning object based, thus keeping it dark and making an sorrow atmosphere or not...
Basicaly it follows the tale of the main character, retroactively to his current state and how he got where he is...

 

[Septimus]

I wanna be the judge.. lol

 

[Aeroblyctos]

I already started mine.

But I'm still planning it. I guess it's a lot different than the battle cinematic. This will be slow! Boring! And painful!

Heheheh... Shows different side of Fradz. The childhood.

 

[bounty hunter2]

@Kingz

Not bad, however the size limit is 20Mb, so you should use some imports. It won't add up to your score if you don't use any, and imports can help you a lot.

 

[FamousPker49]

I'll just do a quick synapse of my life, it's pretty sorrowful.

 

[Agrias]

I'll give it a go and maybe even finish my terrain submission lawl.

 

[Kingz]

@bounty hunter2
I know but i must try to make it as low in size as possible cause of my dial-up connection, uploading a 4MB map would take about 2 hours for me...
Also great pic's i am only going to work on my terrain but i know little of terraining and i am going to go on the card of special effects via triggers and maybe making a number of custom spells to help me in the way...

 

[Aeroblyctos]

@bounty hunter2
I know but i must try to make it as low in size as possible cause of my dial-up connection, uploading a 4MB map would take about 2 hours for me...
Also great pic's i am only going to work on my terrain but i know little of terraining and i am going to go on the card of special effects via triggers and maybe making a number of custom spells to help me in the way...

Where are you from?

 

[Kingz]

Serbia

 

[xxdingo93xx]

Okay, I think I got a story now, gonna make the terrain now...the problem with scripting only - I need JNGP for sure and the update for wc3 disallows me to use the current version of JNGP ... >.<

 

[Aeroblyctos]

So there are still dial-ups, ehh?

You really should change your dial-up to something else.

 

[Kingz]

Well i want to though the phone company prevents us from taking ADSL modem - we are unable to separate your line due to some technical stuff...
But get this:
I tried to get another type of wireless internet via a 3G modem(again phones) and you know what? - it looks like the signal doesn't reach my neighbourhood.

 

[xxdingo93xx]

Problem solved - I am starting now

 

[Avator]

Oh no! I'm late. I'm late, I'm late, I'm late! I have to start soon. I wouldn't like being the one to blame for a long extension again.

My submission will continue on the story of my previous Cinematic Contest submission, but you don't have to have seen that cinematic in order to follow the story. People who haven't seen that cinematic will not miss a thing. The name of my cinematic for this contest is:

Cecile
Final Act: Kenontek

Good luck to everyone

 

[xxdingo93xx]

Here some WIPs Note that the city in this picture is not finished yet.

April 4th:
Ok, the city is nearly done. I need some other places as well and I will make those first before posting new pictures I guess.

April 8th:
Nearly finished the village. Added a "beautiful" place in form of a waterfall which takes a special part in my cinematic. What I have left to make is a mine anywhere in a mountain space with a big way and a place in the forest. If I have that, than I can start with the choose of the models. Since my computer causes a lot problems lately (it crashes often ... I just counted it, 13 times from this morning on ) I am delayed some ... I hope I get it done soon.

 

[Gilles]

Just a little note.

There was a discussion about making your own models for the contest, and since the rules do not address the issue, you are allowed. They do not need to be added to the site, or made public before you release the cinematic, but remember that maps are not to be protected for contests, and therefore the models will be made public once the contest is over.
Same goes with textures obviously.

Carry on.

 

[xxdingo93xx]

Oh, btw, bounty hunter, you can remove the '?' after my name now in the contestants list. I will certainly participate.

 

[Avator]

@ xxdingo93xx: I think the choice of trees varies a bit too much. The shape variety is fine, but some trees are in the shape like they're needle trees and others are shaped like leaf trees. Those 2 don't or barely stand together. Other then that, it looks quite nice

In addition to my previous cinematic information: My cinematic length will be around 4-5 minutes long and will show you a new way to make cinematics ^^

 

[CMarket]

Those 2 don't or barely stand together.

Actually they stand together quite a lot in Europe(probably in other places too). Just go to any park and you'll see.

 

[Avator]

Maybe in parks where the trees are planted, but not in nature.