Cinematic Mini-Contest #1 Results

Bob27 · Nov 17, 2007

Well the results are done for the Cinematic Mini-Contest #1, and we have our winners. Congratulations to both ragingspeedhorn and Waldbear, who both tied for first place, with their cinematics The Escape, and The Premonition. Both their overall scores are 67, followed by Winter's Veil, which was created by Jaakko. The third place winner is UchihaSasuke.gr, with The End Of The Curse.

Aeroblyctos, the creator of Awesome Robbery was disqualified from the contest, as he created another account to vote for himself in the poll.

If you want to download any of the maps just click on their mini-map icon. For the rest of the maps, and their scores, there will be another post in this thread with a list of all the other entries, with their scores and reviews. Congratulations again to ragingspeedhorn and Waldbear, and to everyone else who participated in this contest. ragingspeedhorn and Waldbear will each be receiving their rep and award icon soon, and the rest of the winners will also be receiving their rep soon.

1st Place - The Escape, by ragingspeedhorn

JUDGING SCORE: 47/60
VOTES: 20
OVERALL SCORE: 67

Cameras Movement/Positioning:

+ The cinematic was in first person, which is something that not many cinematics have done in the past, but I think you have done it well in this cinematic (+2)
- Sometimes the cameras move a bit to fast for my liking, and sometimes it would do strange things, that didn't really look very realistic (-1)

Score: 6/10

Units / Animations:

+ Whenever I saw the chaser, he would always be moving, which adds to the feel that your being chased by someone (+1)

Score: 6/10

Terrain/Environment:

+ The lighting was excellent, it added to the feel a lot. (+1)
+ There was good detail in the terrain, although not all of it was completely visible because of the lighting, it looked really good (+1)

Score: 7/10

Sounds/Music:

+ Good music, that suited it well and hasn't been used before (+1)
+ You could hear the person breathing, which I think was a very nice addition to the cinematic (+1)
+ Footsteps and a whole heap of other sounds added a lot to the atmosphere of the map (+1)

Score: 8/10

Storyline/Dialouge:

+ I liked the basic story that you had in this map, with someone trying to escape from someone else, but then getting caught and getting killed (+1)
+ The dialouge was mostly good (+1)
- I didn't like the dialouge bit at the end, I think that he was basically just repeating himself a couple of times, which I didn't really like (-1)

Score: 3.5/05

Entertainment:

+ I found this cinematic very entertaining, and unlike many of the other cinematics that I had to watch a lot to do the judging, I never really got bored of this cinematic (+2)
+ There is no boring intro bits or anything like that in this cinematic, it gets straight to the chase and keeps on going until the end of the cinematic (+1)

Score: 10.5/15

Drama:

+ I think that because of the atmosphere you created in this cinematic, using lighting, terrain, sounds and basically everything else in the cinematic you have made a good dramatic cinematic, and I liked it a lot (+1)

Score: 6/10

+ / - MODIFIER:

+ The cinematic was always full of action, and never slowed down (+1)
- There was a bit at the start of the cinematic, where it shows the normal game screen, you should make it start cinematic mode using the map initialization event, so that doesn't happen (-1)

Score: 0

1st Place - The Premonition, by Waldbear

JUDGING SCORE: 52/60
VOTES: 15
OVERALL SCORE: 67

Cameras Movement/Positioning:

+ The camera movement was excellent, I could always see what was going on, and it made it a lot more interesting (+2)
+ The camera would follow the units at the appropriate times, so you could see what a unit was doing when you needed to (+1)

Score: 8/10

Units / Animations:

+ The Rocks rolling down the Hill look very nice (+2)
+ All of the animations and units used in this cinematic looked good, I liked the jump system you used as well to make the units jump (+1)

Score: 8/10

Terrain/Environment:

- Blizzard cliffs were used, which don't really look that good (-1)
+ The terrain was detailed, with grass, shrubs, rocks, etc (+1)

Score: 5/10

Sounds/Music:

+ Custom Music was used (+1)
+ Sounds were used well, especially during the battle (+1)

Score: 7/10

Storyline/Dialouge:

+ The storyline seamed good. (+1)

Score: 3.5/05

Entertainment:

+ I found this cinematic very entertaining, it was always interesting and there it was all made very well (+3)

Score: 10.5/15

Battle:

+ I enjoyed the battle a lot, wasn't just the usual 2 units fighting eachother or a heap of special effects (+2)
+ The things that happened in the battle I thought were very clever, such as the rocks rolling down the hill or using the net (+1)

Score: 8/10

+ / - MODIFIER:

+ I liked the cinematic system that you used in this map (+2)

Score: 2

2nd Place - Winter's Veil, by Jaakko

JUDGING SCORE: 47/60
VOTES: 8
OVERALL SCORE: 55

Cameras Movement/Positioning:

+ The cameras were always positioned well, and always moved well (+2)

Score: 7/10

Units / Animations:

+ The units always were animated at the right times (+1)

Score: 6/10

Terrain/Environment:

+ There was good tile variation (+1)
+ Wasn’t really that detailed in some places, but overall the terrain looked good (+1)

Score: 7/10

Sounds/Music:

+ Sounds were used well throughout the whole cinematic (+1)
+ Custom music was used throughout the cinematic (+1)

Score: 7/10

Storyline/Dialouge:

+ I liked this story, about how the brother of the dwarf guy is trying to get revenge about his brother (+1)

Score: 3.5/05

Entertainment:

+ I found this cinematic very entertaining, I enjoyed it a lot (+2)

Score: 9.5/15

Battle:

+ The battle looked good, the use of special effects was also good (+1)
+ I liked the use of doodads used in the battle, such as the rock falling down onto the bridge (+1)

Score: 7/10

+ / - MODIFIER:
Score: 0

3rd Place - The End Of The Curse

JUDGING SCORE: 29/60
VOTES: 11
OVERALL SCORE: 40

CAMERA MOVEMENT / POSITIONING:

- Slow Camera Movement (-1)
- To much Rotation. (-1)
- When the person used the fire spell, and the Camera started shaking, it kept on shaking, even after he had blinked away and the spell ended. I thought it looked a bit weird doing that (-1)

Score: 2/10

UNITS / ANIMATIONS:

+ The Wizard blinks to the start, which means less time and saves people having to watch her run down to the Beastmaster. (+1)
- The Beastmaster turns almost instantly at the start. (-1)

Score: 5/10

TERRAIN / ENVIRONMENT:

- There was no fog (-1)
+ There were birds and other animals like that running around in the background, which I think was a nice addition (+1)
- Wasn't really any sought of detail in the background, just a couple of trees, although at least there was something in the background (-1)

Score: 4/10

SOUND / MUSIC:

+ The custom music used did fit in with the Cinematic well enough (+1)
- No Voice Acting (-1)

Score: 5/10

STORYLINE / DIALOUGE:

- I thought that you used ... to many times at the end of each sentance (-1)

Score: 1.5/5

ENTERTAINMENT:

- The cinematic, especially the battle was way to slow in my opinion. Should of been spread up a lot. (-1)

Score: 6.5/15

BATTLE:

- Personally I thought that the battle was a bit slow. (-1)
+ Special effects looked nice (+1)

Score: 5/10

+ / - MODIFIER:

~ There was a Typo in the Map name. I won't take any points of for it, since it isn't actually part of the cinematic, but I thought I would point it out anyway. (0)

Score: 0

Bob27 · Nov 17, 2007

Here are the results for the other entries.

Tainted Trial - 38 points

Cameras Movement/Positioning:

- At the start, I did not like the way the camera rolled and spun around (-1)
- While the cameras did keep on moving throughout most of the cinematic, they did not really change shape/position that much (-1)
+ The cameras did keep moving throughout most of the cinematic (+1)

Score: 4/10

Units / Animations:

+ The units animations was done well, and it worked well with the cinematic (+1)

Score: 6/10

Terrain/Environment:

- The rocks did not really suit the rest of the models used (-1)
- There wasn't that much tile variation (-1)
+ The grass looked ok (+1)

Score: 4/10

Sounds/Music:

+ Custom music was used, and it worked with the cinematic (+1)
- There wasn't really any other sounds used, just default ones and a couple of others (-1)

Score: 5/10

Storyline/Dialouge:

-At the end, when he says "I won't let you", I thought that was very plain, and boring to me (-1)
+ I liked the basic story of two people competing with eachother to get into a group (+1)

Score: 3.5/05

Entertainment:

~ I found the battle entertaining, although some of the cameras really took away the feeling for me (0)

Score: 7.5/15

Battle:

+ I liked the special effects a lot. There wasn't a whole heap of them, but they worked (+1)

Score: 6/10

+ / - MODIFIER:
Score: 0

JUDGING SCORE: 36/60
VOTES: 2
OVERALL SCORE: 38

Dwarf vs Naga - 37 points

CAMERA MOVEMENT / POSITIONING:

- At the start the camera moves a bit to fast in my opinion, for the start of a cinematic (-1)
~ The rest of the cameras looked decent, although they could have been a lot better (0)

Score: 4/10

UNITS / ANIMATIONS:

+ The units did all the appropriate animations when necessary. (+1)

Score: 6/10

TERRAIN / ENVIRONMENT:

- In some areas there is little tile variation, plus there was not much height variation either (-1)
- In the main building, the railings have not been put together very well, and look really bad (-1)

Score: 3/10

SOUNDS / MUSIC:

+ The sounds with the sniper worked well, but timing issues did ruin the effect a lot (+1)

Score: 6/10

STORYLINE / DIALOUGE:

~ The storyline seamed simple enough, but it was not really an interesting story or anything. (0)

Score: 2.5/05

ENTERTAINMENT:

+ The cinematic was entertaining, although some bits of it could have been done a lot better (+1)

Score: 8.5/15

BATTLE:

+ I really liked the sniper effect that you had made (+2)
- Timing problems with the sniper effects made it look worse then it should of been (-1)
- When the rifleman gets killed by the skull thing, in the last camera you can't actually see it the skull (-1)

Score: 5/10

+ / - MODIFIER:

- When the rifleman shoots at the naga for the last time, the naga dives into the platform (-1)

Score: -1

JUDGING SCORE: 34/60
VOTES: 3
OVERALL SCORE: 37

The Clone - 35 points

CAMERA MOVEMENT / POSITIONING:

- I didn't really like the way the camera just rotated during the battle (-1)
- At the start, at one point the main character was behind a tree, so you couldn't see him very well at all, and it looked bad (-1)

Score: 3/10

UNITS / ANIMATIONS:

+ The units moved when they had to, and had the right animations when they had to (+1)

Score: 6/10

TERRAIN / ENVIRONMENT:

- The terrain was mostly flat, except for basically one hill in the middle and the surroundings (-1)

Score: 4/10

SOUNDS / MUSIC:

~ Although music was used in the cinematic, it was just the normal warcraft 3 music (0)

Score: 5/10

STORYLINE / DIALOUGE:

+ I liked the story about the clone, and one being evil and other being good (+1)

Score: 3.5/05

ENTERTAINMENT:

~ I found this cinematic to be slightly entertaining, since it does have some interesting bits. However some of the other bits in the cinematic aren't really that entertaining (0)

Score: 7.5/15

BATTLE:

+ The special effects were simple, but looked good (+1)
- Some parts of the battle, like when they were just attacking eachother weren't that interesting (-1)

Score: 5/10

+ / - MODIFIER:
Score: 0

JUDGING SCORE: 34/60
VOTES: 1
OVERALL SCORE: 35

Haunted Goldmine - 29 points

CAMERA MOVEMENT / POSITIONING:

- Very few Cameras (-2)
- Cameras did not move at all (-2)

Score: 1/10

UNITS / ANIMATIONS:

+ Spinning Abominations (+1)

Score: 6/10

TERRAIN / ENVIRONMENT:

- No Fog (-1)
- No Sky (-1)
- No Background (-1)

Score: 2/10

SOUND / MUSIC:

- No custom music at all, just used wc3 default music (-2)
+ Voice acting (+1)

Score: 4/10

STORYLINE / DIALOUGE:

+ Dialouge was decent. (+1)
- Not really any story, just to friends going into a goldmine and getting killed (-1)

Score: 2.5/05

ENTERTAINMENT:
Score: 7.5/15

COMEDY:

+ Crazy guy at entrance to mine that says the only way in is to jump (+1)

Score: 6/10

+ / - MODIFIER:

~ Would of looked better with Black Borders (0)

Score: 0

JUDGING SCORE: 29/60
VOTES: 0
OVERALL SCORE: 29

Deserted Revenge - 27 points

CAMERA MOVEMENT / POSITIONING:

- Not enough movement going on (-1)
- Slow paced cameras, should of gone a lot faster (-1)

Score: 3/10

UNITS / ANIMATIONS:

+ Units use appropriate animations at times (+1)
- Doesn't really show the units getting hurt in anyway, and when they die it fades out, so you don't actually see anything (-1)

Score: 4/10

TERRAIN / ENVIRONMENT:

+ The fort looked decent enough (+1)
- The barrens and desert around the fort looked very, very empty to me. (-1)
- The main part of the fort did look a bit weird, although the rest of it was ok. (-1)

Score: 4/10

SOUND / MUSIC:

- There is no real music at the start of the cinematic, just the default warcraft 3 music (-1)
- There was a sound at the end, to do with the spells that wasn't a 3D sound. It sounded really out of place (-1)

Score: 3/10

STORYLINE / DIALOUGE:

- No story of what happened before the battle or why its happening, or how then ended up there (-1)

Score: 1.5/05

ENTERTAINMENT:

- I really didn't find the battle that entertaining and exciting (-1)

Score: 6.5/15

BATTLE:

+ Special effects looked decent (+1)

Score: 6/10

+ / - MODIFIER:

- Just after the bit of dialouge from the wizard, there is a pause there, that could of easily been gotten rid of. There is also a bit of lag when it turns to the Lich (-1)

Score: -1

JUDGING SCORE: 27/60
VOTES: 0
OVERALL SCORE: 27

Orc ED - 20 points

CAMERA MOVEMENT / POSITIONING:

- The camera was completely still most of the battle (-1)

Score: 4/10

UNITS / ANIMATIONS:

- There weren't really any animations used, just the default animations and things warcraft 3 does (-1)

Score: 4/10

TERRAIN / ENVIRONMENT:

- The rocks were floating (-1)
- The atmosphere was nothing like what it was in the original cinematic (-1)

Score: 3/10

SOUNDS / MUSIC:

- No music set, just used default warcraft 3 music (-2)

Score: 3/10

STORYLINE / DIALOUGE:

- The story and dialouge was just taken straight from another cinematic (-1)
- I thought that you used the laughing dialouge way to much (-1)

Score: 0.5/05

ENTERTAINMENT:

- I didn't really find this cinematic that entertaining, especially the battle, which I thought was rather boring (-2)

Score: 5.5/15

BATTLE:

- The battle was just the units attacking eachother, no special effects or anything (-2)

Score: 3/10

+ / - MODIFIER:

- The only way to exit the Cinematic was to use ALT F4 (-2)
- Remaking another cinematic in my opinion is a bad choice (-1)

Score: -3

JUDGING SCORE: 20/60
VOTES: 0
OVERALL SCORE: 20

Short Cinematic - 16 points

Cameras Movement/Positioning:

- No cameras (-2)
- Camera was just locked onto the blademaster (-2)

Score: 1/10

Units / Animations:

- Only things used is a spinning blademaster and running peasants (-2)

Score: 3/10

Terrain/Environment:

- There were no pathing blockers stopping units from walking through the trees, which one time during the Cinematic the blademaster did (-1)
- Not really any tile variation in some places in the map (-1)

Score: 3/10

Sounds/Music:

+ Had custom music, although it was a bit strange, but it fitted in with the map well enough (+1)
- Only sounds were spinning blademaster, and the peasants (-1)

Score: 5/10

Storyline/Dialouge:

- Was no story at all. (-2)

Score: 0.5/05

Entertainment:

- Wasn't really entertaining, it was just a bladmaster spinning (-2)

Score: 5.5/15

Comedy:

- Well I take it this was a comedy, but it wasn't really that funny, just a blademaster spinning(-2)

Score: 3/10

+ / - MODIFIER:

- It wasn't a 1 vs 1 cinematic, like it said in the guidelines. Because of that you will loose quite a few points (-4)
- The cinematic is different every time you watch it, cinematics should be made so that they are always the same for the viewer (-1)

Score: -5

JUDGING SCORE: 16/60
VOTES: 0
OVERALL SCORE: 16

UchihaSasuke.gr · Nov 17, 2007

Finally!Good work Bob for creating such a wonderful contest!I'm glad I ended up 3rd!Congratulations to ragingspeedhorn,Waldbaer,Jaakko!

1337 post!0xa0x0ax0xa0x0ax0x0x0a0x0ax0

Kwaliti · Nov 17, 2007

YES! Finally! Congrats to Waldbaer and raging!

*gets on his knees and raises his hands*

WHOOO!

Jaakko · Nov 17, 2007

I can't believe they had same score, there should have been one winner. I'm satisfied that I didn't fall so back in the judging points. But I also disagree with some of Bob's comments about the maps but I will leave it.

Kitabatake · Nov 17, 2007

Bob27 said:
Short Cinematic - 15 points

Cameras Movement/Positioning:
Score: 5/10
- No cameras (-2)
- Camera was just locked onto the blademaster (-2)

Score: 1/10

Units / Animations:

- Only things used is a spinning blademaster and running
peasants (-2)

Score: 3/10

Terrain/Environment:

- There were no pathing blockers stopping units from walking through the trees, which one time during the Cinematic the blademaster did (-1)
- Not really any tile variation in some places in the map (-1)

Score: 3/10

Sounds/Music:

+ Had custom music, although it was a bit strange, but it fitted in with the map well enough (+1)
- Only sounds were spinning blademaster, and the peasants (-1)

Score: 5/10

Storyline/Dialouge:

- Was no story at all. (-2)

Score: 0.5/05

Entertainment:
- Wasn't really entertaining, it was just a bladmaster spinning (-2)

Score: 5.5/15

Comedy:

- Well I take it this was a comedy, but it wasn't really that funny, just a blademaster spinning(-2)

Score: 3/10

+ / - MODIFIER:

- It wasn't a 1 vs 1 cinematic, like it said in the guidelines. Because of that you will loose quite a few points (-4)
- The cinematic is different every time you watch it, cinematics should be made so that they are always the same for the viewer (-1)

Score: -5

JUDGING SCORE: 16/60
VOTES: 0
OVERALL SCORE: 16

Hmmm!

Score: 5/10 + Score: 1/10 + Score: 3/10 + Score: 3/10 + Score: 5/10 + Score: 0.5/05 + Score: 5.5/15 + Score: 3/10 + Score: -5

= 21 points

Bob27 said:
OVERALL SCORE: 16

Bob27 said:
Short Cinematic - 15 points

Very amusing review I must say!

Bob27 · Nov 17, 2007

Ok well the 15 next to the name was just a typo, and it actually does equal 16, its just for some reason is had that 5/10 score up the top, shouldn't of been there. probably accidentally copied it there or something. Well fixed it now

ragingspeedhorn · Nov 17, 2007

A shame I didn't win interily, but good that I still did win, else it would have been a waste of time

Grats to Waldbaer for shared first place. Looking forward to my second icon.

Waldbaer · Nov 18, 2007

Yeah, finally I'm a winner, too! :grin:

I agree with Bob's judging in nearly every point, really nice. :thumbs_up:

I think we can both feel satisfied with this result, can't we raging? I also thought that my cinematic was technically slightly better, but yours was more original and so won the poll. So I like the solution with two winners! :wink:

Just_Spectating · Nov 18, 2007

yesssss!! yuuueaahehesssss im not last.

PurgeandFire · Nov 18, 2007

Congrats! I think it was a fair decision.

>I can't believe they had same score, there should have been one winner. I'm satisfied that I didn't fall so back in the judging points. But I also disagree with some of Bob's comments about the maps but I will leave it.

Stop getting pissed off at the reviews.. =P Nah I'm just kidding...

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Anywho, great contest. I wanna host the next one but not until I get a virus off me WE comp.. That comp also has Photoshop and everything. :cry:

UchihaSasuke.gr · Nov 18, 2007

I win at the worst Map Preview!!!

Captain Griffen · Nov 18, 2007

Congrats, Raging.

Now...when you have two people tied for first, the next best person comes in THIRD. Not second. Second imples he's second best. He's third best.

learn2count

ragingspeedhorn · Nov 18, 2007

Thanks Griffen!

Yeah Waldbaer, the outcome is good and your cinematic is technically better as I can hardly use GUI triggers

Waldbaer · Nov 18, 2007

Except the systems I used, everything was made with GUI in my cinematic, too! :wink:

And concerning the count thingy, Griffen is right. But I think it's too late to say that the 3rd place is not a winner since it is actually the 4th. So just let's call it 1st, 2nd and so on PRICE instead of place and the problem is gone since many persons can get the same price! :grin:

Aeroblyctos · Nov 18, 2007

Bob27 said:
Aeroblyctos, the creator of Awesome Robbery was disqualified from the contest, as he created another account to vote for himself in the poll.

That's insulting. I have done nothing. What is your proof?

Mini-Me · Nov 18, 2007

Aeroblyctos said:
That's insulting. I have done nothing. What is your proof?

Most likely this:

# 137.163.16.147 [Find More Users with this IP Address]

* Nolla_8787 137.163.16.147

Nolla_8787 voted for you and your ip matches with him.

Aeroblyctos · Nov 18, 2007

I know that IP. It's from my school. I have been using that IP also posting here.

Nolla_8787 is in same school as me. He's my friend. There's no law that friends cannot vote each other, if they like others cinematic better than others?

Just_Spectating · Nov 18, 2007

hmmm you could tell your friends to make accts then vote for you.

Aeroblyctos · Nov 18, 2007

Just_Spectating said:
hmmm you could tell your friends to make accts then vote for you.

Whaaaaaaaaaaat?!

Just_Spectating · Nov 18, 2007

ok, so bob, 27, if you read this, what would Aeroblyctos' score be if he wasnt disqualified?

Aeroblyctos · Nov 18, 2007

It's same to me if I would won or lose, I didn't cheat.

Just_Spectating · Nov 18, 2007

ok, we believe you, now stop fussing.

1)ark_NiTe · Nov 19, 2007

I thought the Premonition was the best, but raging's was very interesting!

Bob27 · Nov 19, 2007

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/showpost.php?p=345983&postcount=6

Thats the main post that made me first suspicious about it. I mean no offense but your cinematic isn't any where near as good as ragingspeedhorn's or Waldbear's. Then I just checked the IP's confirmed it. And as for the score he got Just_Spectating would of been 32/60.

And as for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd thing yea its a bit late to change it now, so i'll just remember that for next time.

UchihaSasuke.gr · Nov 19, 2007

RAWR.Don't change it I will lose my position.

Pyritie · Nov 20, 2007

Bob27 said:
STORYLINE / DIALOUGE:

Just so you know, it's DIALOGUE.

Mini-Me · Nov 20, 2007

You think that's bad? Check out what it reads in the award description:

This user is one of the winner's of the Cinmeatic Mini-Contest #1.

1)ark_NiTe · Nov 20, 2007

everyone lol at Bob27's spelling

Pyritie · Nov 20, 2007

Get firefox! Woo automatic spell check!

Just_Spectating · Nov 21, 2007

Wooo go Firefox!

Waldbaer · Nov 21, 2007

Weee, go Safari! :ugly:

Come on guys, keep on topic and don't make Bob27's work bad just because of some spelling errors! :angry:

Bob27 · Nov 21, 2007

lol, I do use Firefox

Well I never could spell that good, and I doubt I will be able to spell well

ragingspeedhorn · Nov 21, 2007

Could you fix our icon bob. It has ugly white dots around it, make those transparent aswell!

Mini-Me · Nov 21, 2007

Could I also ask what is that award icon all about? Why did you do an icon like that?
(Note: Im not saying it sucks, just interesting to find out how you came to that icon)

ragingspeedhorn · Nov 21, 2007

It is a camera projector.

Waldbaer · Nov 22, 2007

ragingspeedhorn said:
Could you fix our icon bob. It has ugly white dots around it, make those transparent aswell!

Hm, this was my first idea, too, when I saw it. Now I use to take these dots as a glow, but nevertheless this is a very optimistic view. But the idea of glow itself is nice I think, prevents it from looking too simple; maybe just make them yellow and add some more also to the edges and one would better understand it.
Anyways, if you like to do it Bob, we will be happy about a little graphical update even if this was not a texturing competition! :grin:

Bob27 · Nov 22, 2007

Yea I'll try to see what I can do, although I'm no artist.

As for the white dots, there dots that appear from the glow. I'll see what I can do about them.

Pyritie · Nov 22, 2007

Fixed the award icon.

ragingspeedhorn · Nov 22, 2007

Looks much better now, thank you Pyritie.

Pyritie · Nov 22, 2007

Bleh, it's because gif's can't handle transparency right. It can only handle opaque and transparent areas; not 50% transparent or anything like that. 'Twas a simple fix.

(If anyone wants to know how I did it, I clicked Save for Web (this is in photoshop), then on the right I clicked the "matte" color and changed it to that of the hive's background (332C29), then saved it. I also went and used the eraser tool to get rid of the white bits)

Mini-Me · Nov 22, 2007

ragingspeedhorn said:
It is a camera projector.

Really? Even after you said that, I still cant see it

. Looks like a some kind of ghost to me.

ragingspeedhorn · Nov 22, 2007

You've never been to the movies? The 2 film rolls is on top and the projector is underneath them. It is just tilted a bit.

Mini-Me · Nov 22, 2007

O ye it has been rotated to face right-up. What for?

If you look at it straight, it looks like some blue ghost with its arms up coming towards you

.

Pyritie · Nov 22, 2007

Mini-me, do you want me to fix your avatar so it blends better too?

Mini-Me · Nov 22, 2007

Pyritie said:
Mini-me, do you want me to fix your avatar so it blends better too?

What are you talking about? It blends perfectly. There is no room for improvement.

Pyritie · Nov 22, 2007

The edges have a lot of white noise.

Just_Spectating · Nov 22, 2007

i like mini-me's white outline around the avatar. it makes it look more cartoony XD

Pyritie · Nov 22, 2007

Pheh, whatever.

Now we just need Ralle/Wolverabid/etc to reupload the fixed version.

Kwaliti · Nov 22, 2007

We're going seriously off-topic here!

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