Cinematic Contest #4 - The Story of...

[krisserz]

And my is basic- a father tells children story about dragons/warriors/etc. I`ll put more into action and some fun. Less for story, but there will be any still ;P

 

[VeljkoM]

lol what both of you said does not work with the sky lol.

Hey what do you mean it doesn't work?

Trigger-environment-set sky- Generic sky (there are more options). The only problem is that sky is ugly.

 

[RED BARON]

Hey what do you mean it doesn't work?

Trigger-environment-set sky- Generic sky (there are more options). The only problem is that sky is ugly.

I bet he meant that the sky will "cover" models if to far away, which means that simulating distances with a Cam is difficult.

 

[thedeathunterxx]

yea Red Baron said.

he wants the sky box to fit in his cinematic...

 

[Chaos.]

Meh, dont worry about it. I'll just use Cloud doodads and stuff like that.

Anyways, new WIP.

 

[Bob27]

I think I know how you can fix the disappearing models problem. If you open up the model in Magos Model Editor (link) and then go to edit, and then go to Calculate Extents, I think that fixes the problem. Then you just have to save it and import it back into your map.

 

[Deolrin]

That naga DK scene looks awesome

 

[Restor]

I returned from music festival yesterday, I will make something humorous

 

[Dentothor]

i WOULD join this but im too lazy to do a cinimatic like this. Plus. ive got my own cinimatic to work on. Good luck to everyone that participates!

 

[Avator]

Damn, I lost half of the files on my computer for some odd reason, including the folder with my entry. I wasn't that far though, but I'll have to rewrite the script and make the little bit of terrain again.

 

[Kwah]

Chaos, those screens are looking quite impressive. Good work so far!

 

[Chaos.]

Thanks. I hope that the triggers turn out good though. Im a nooby in those, lol.

Well this will be my last WIP SS for awhile. I have enough terrain to start triggering the first 3 scenes. So i am going to start on that.

 

[Just_Spectating]

wait, a naga camp in the middle of a forest?

 

[Chaos.]

Yup. Why not, lol. Naga can survive on land. I just wanted to bring something new, instead of always having them underwater.

 

[Hemlock]

I might compete in this, it's been a good old time since I actually released something.

Since cinematics is what I did most in my old days, this might give me the actual boost to release something.
For my old and rusty work you can have a look at:
Orcisch Castery - http://war3.incgamers.com/?p=mod&m=7837
Divinity - http://war3.incgamers.com/?p=mod&m=10468

My entry has the title "Darkness Within".
I might post some more details when I altered this the old storyline a bit for this contests.

 

[Just_Spectating]

Question:

Does the Cinematic Have to have some, Narrator, or can it just be like, maybe, a memory or like a Thought?

 

[.LsD]

it must be where one person is telling another person a story .. then yes a narrator is needed
It can be some dude telling his past or some sort

 

[Just_Spectating]

man, this theme really does suck then.


EDiT: actually another idea just pooped in my head

 

[.LsD]

Lol .. i might not even join this event ... my exams are nearing .. but ill try

 

[krisserz]

Damn, I won`t be able to do this on deadline, so I must sign out... I have no time.
Good luck to others!

 

[Miss_Foxy]

This is going to be the most challenging project on Hive, but best one too, I'd love to see your good imaginations...

 

[CMarket]

This is going to be the most challenging project on Hive

That's a joke right?


Anyway, I've decided to join this contest. Think I'll start working on the map in a day or two. The title of the cinematic will be "The Clown of As'Latur"

 

[Miss_Foxy]

Nope... And it's true, it's challenging, unless you can prove it by coming first... >=)

 

[VeljkoM]

Then campaign, model and rest of contests were jokes compare to this one?

 

[RED BARON]

Then campaign, model and rest of contests were jokes compare to this one?

Inded this is going to be tougher then making transforming models better then Odin! Its tougher then being a better admin then Ralle...

I am really looking forward to the results of this.

 

[Restor]

I have question

The whole cin must be spoken by narrator? (like retrospective) Or the very end (1-2 min) can be made as normal story (i.e. in the end narrator says: "...And then I came here" and then scene of narrator and second guy when they have normal dialogue without narrating)

 

[CMarket]

You can have both an intro and an ending a real time story, while the majority would be the actual story. Also, as I understand, the whole story doesn't have to be spoken by a narrator(am I wrong?), but for example you can use the narrator at the start and end of the story, as well as a comment or two from him between every other scene or so. Can someone please confirm this?

 

[Hemlock]

Here is a minor spoiler from my own entry.

The storyline is done, and can be read down here.
This is the actual story that will be told in the cinematic, so keep that in mind.

Darkness Within

Let me all tell you about, the Darkness Within.

A dark and robust windy day
A day in which Foretellers, foretold Dorhalhs downfall.

"Dorhalh situated between The desert of Aturo and the The woods of Torhala" had been outcasted from the rest of the human world cause of their abnormality in strength and spell usage.
Nonetheless They had been breathing prosper for over decades now.

Though nature neither man looked disturbed, something was coming.
From the deepest of fears it had been creating its form.
From men and woman who had horrifying dreams or thoughts, it formed itself to a visual creature.
Hidden by a natural skin, it symbolized Fear and Death.

Unnoticed, it began its war path by oozing out Fear and death.
This fear and death was beyond ones imagination, thereby it killed and left none more than dispear.
The Callousness killing dispersed marks of blood on the keepers, The wise and the Chief.

Noticed by the warriors of the Dorhalh, it began unleashing tads of its power.
Without a scratch, it continued, leaving the warriors nothing more than the time that gravity spent on their bodies.

As the night struck into it's darkest hour, people were saved by the seal of teleport that was casted by those who had been training the art of magic.
Those brave magicians nobly tried to stop Fear and Death, but their efforts were in vain.

Until...

The Silence broke the event.....and footsteps made sound.

Footsteps of one without fear.

Surprised, Fear and Death stood...while the fearless walked.

The only time left was the turn that the fearless made, and the four words that fear and death spoke: Thou shalt be killed.

After these events, words got inferior to explanation, and only one proclaimed winner.

 

[.LsD]

Damn, I won`t be able to do this on deadline, so I must sign out... I have no time.
Good luck to others!

Yeah .... maybe i wont come too ... but i will make cinematics .... not for the contest

 

[Restor]

I am trying to make it Noir-like.

You know, sin city&stuff.

Now I just need to replace all textures with black&white ones.

 

[Linaze]

Added 5 minutes of maximum allowed cinematic length.
New limit is 15 minutes.

 

[Restor]

New question

Must it be retrospective? Or it can be also like footbal match with narrator (i.e. in real time what narrator say, it is happening)

 

[Hemlock]

Each contestant must create a cinematic about one person telling another person a story.

I don't want to be a hard ass, but I mean common.

 

[CMarket]

I don't want to be a hard ass, but I mean common.

But that can be interpreted in two ways. Either one guy speaks the whole story, putting everything in words were no speech is made(can't remember what it's called in English but basically instead of Jack: "I like Lilly" you would write Jack said that he likes Lilly). The other option would be for the narrator to introduce the story and then blend in, pushing the "present" to the events in the story. Hope you get what I mean.

Anyway, I believe that Linaze already said that both options are fine. He even gave the youtube link for that cartoon where the narrator jumps in every other scene to add a comment to the story, while the rest remains to the actors of that story.

 

[Just_Spectating]

Question:
can we make our own resources for this?

 

[Hemlock]

Well as long as rules are not written down, it means that it's eligible to do or use it, unless specified differently, and it is not written anywhere that you are not allowed to use custom resources, so I'd say go for it, I am using allot of customs from voices/music/SFX to models/skins and and images.

As for the theme, the only real clue here is to make a cinematic where one person tells another person a story, whether you use the narrators perspective when he talks or the actual sequence, it's all free of choice.

The only thing that should be obvious is that someone is telling someone else a story.

 

[Avator]

Same rules apply here as with the previous Cinematic Contest. Resources made by yourself and yourself only are allowed. Teamwork with making the resource is not.

 

[Restor]

So now I solved the story!

first part will be intro in retrospective, and the main plot will be in medias res when narrator will be connected with main char. and tells him what to do. And the end of course will be normal story.

 

[Hemlock]

Same rules apply here as with the previous Cinematic Contest. Resources made by yourself and yourself only are allowed. Teamwork with making the resource is not.

The first contest stated this however.

All imported materials must be credited

And the site rules and neither submission rules seem to have a problem with imported material from other people as long as it is credited.

 

[Linaze]

Imported material is fine. Just give credit to the resource authors.

 

[HappyCockroach]

I wonder if my idea fits the theme. A guy finds a book that has content written by another one, that has already died. So the storyline goes from one person to a book, then to another person. Is it ok?

 

[.LsD]

Hey .. i have a question .... Where shud we submit our entries

 

[Linaze]

In this thread.

 

[.LsD]

k .. thnx ..

 

[ModelTester]

I'm not participating in this contest anymore due to unexpected plans and events. I'll be gone for a week and I have school soon. If I have time, I might try to work on this and try to submit my entry.

 

[RED BARON]

I'm not participating in this contest anymore due to unexpected plans and events. I'll be gone for a week and I have school soon. If I have time, I might try to work on this and try to submit my entry.

Another one bits the dust

Anyway I do hope that you get time to participate, as more contesters really increases the fun.

 

[VeljkoM]

It looks like that in the end winner will be the one who submits the cinematic.

 

[Diablo-dk]

It's unlikely that i will be able to submit an entry this contest, but i'd like to know one thing in case i manage to make something:

Is it allowed to for example have 5 persons who one at a time talk about the worst occurences in their life, like:

First Person 1 talks about how his dog died.
Then Person 2 talks about how his cat died.
Then Person 3 talks about how he ended up on a train in his underwear.
etc.

In other words, is it allowed to change narrator during the cinematic? (dynamic narrator)

 

[Chaos.]

Well I can almost guarentee my submission. There better be more subbmisions. I would hate to win by default, lol.

I just finished triggering the first scene and am 50% done the second (about 5 scenes).

 

[chilla_killa]

I will not take part in here anymore. I just don't have enough time.
Well, it's no real lose for you, because my cinematic would have been the worst and ugliest cinematic anyway.