[Cinematic] Death & Decay - A WIP

[elgitar]

I want to start off by saying it has been years since I made my last Warcraft 3 map. Creating cinematics for my friends used to be something I enjoyed a lot, and so I decided to start doing it again.

Releasing one of my cinematics on the Hive is something I always wanted to do. I'm a bit of a lazy bastard, so progress on this one has been slow. However, I decided to cut out the bad parts and post it here to get some opinions. You know, before I decide to make this a prioritized project.

UPDATE: Fixes has been done and the cinematic itself has been continued. Updated link below.

UPDATE 2: Changes has been done to models and a few scenes have been tweaked & added.

 

[SeriousEnemy]

Hey elgitar,
in the first second of the cinematic I felt curious.
2 days remaining for what? This little made me watch this till the end.

The terraining is on a very good way, with some free time you could add a little bit more details for everything. But it still looks great!

One thing, which is boring in almost any cinematic, are the units. Why do they always talk for years but never, really never move just a single muscle?
Let them play animations when they just stand and talk, or maybe let the wizard move in a circle, because he is thinking about something serious..
Don't add too much, but a little bit more movement makes it more fun to watch (at least in my opinion).


The only thing I do not like was the blink ability from the wizard.
Why? Just because he died while casting the spell.
I would prefer if the wizard is finishing the spell dies 1 or 2 seconds after the cast (bleeding effects).
He could scream for help and then he will get help.


However I would like to see the complete cinematic.
And I hope I could see the full cinematic as soon as you're finished with it!

 

[elgitar]

Updated once again with a few added tweaks, scenes and models. This is probably the last update before I start the full work on the map.