1) Description - The packaging is nice and well organize, there is absolutely no flaw. But why the main introduction isn't included into the box tag?
2) Terrain & Fog - The fog usage are nice; so does the terrain. Infact, I do not think I seen any flaw on it
3) Music & Sound - The music choice seems to be fitting; even though the selection choice could be better for battle cinematic.
However, the sound effect isn't at his best for most of the aspect. For example, the sound of the thumping footstep doesn't seems to be suitable to be used for the house as the house floor was marble.
The sound of the house collapse isn't fitting either, it sound more like landslide rather than the house itself collapse. A sound of house collapse are suppose to be more like "Kreaakkk, krumm, dang, plang" instead of "shreeeeh". My house ceiling have once collapse, so I know how it sound like.
4) Animation & Special Effect - As for the special effect, it was definitely overused at the battle scene. The battle scene was way too short and I seen special effect are being use more frequently compare to animation.
The animation usage are basic at most of the point and poor. I notice Freya head have weird twist during my first watch (You probably did not reset head position upon being used); as for the second time I watch it, the head face the wall while the body is making a turn.
You need to reset animation and head/chest facing position everytime you used it or else it would cause the unit to make a weird animation or the head facing position stay at the same spot even if you order him to face other unit.
Just take a look at the screenshot below, you would notice he was looking at the wall and not at the Tainthar.
5) Camera - Again, the camera movement was choppy. I notice the only camera movement that are smooth and steady are usually the camera that show a new scenery.
6) Scripting/Triggering - The scripting/triggering now have much more of the basic cinematic setup. But you need to add a custom script of turning off ambient sound, they are suppose to be trigger and not to let it on all the time.
Also, the battle scene show a flaw (It is hard to be notice if the cinematic isn't been watch carefully). The first time I watch, I notice Tainthar dodge Anubis before Anubis play spell channel animation. However, during the second time I watch it; I notice Tainthar dodge it after Anubis play spell channel animation.
If you are making a battle cinematic, never ever used Wait action. They have min wait of 0.27 seconds and the wait duration sometimes depends on the computer itself.
To top up with, the jumping scene was poor. It look as the Tainthar was walking on the air instead of jumping (That's exactly what he do, he walk) since you add crow form and order him to walk to xxx position instead of using polar projection or jump spells.
Take a look at the screenshot below, you would notice it was 1 straight walk instead of a jump.
7) Replayability - The replayability values is mediocre. The early battle scene look like a massive army hack and slash without any interesting showcase.
The battle scene was too short and focus more on sfx rather than good animation. I notice the battle scene between Anubis and Tainthar more
like a sfx exhibition rather than a battle scene as the battle scene hardly use more than 3 animation, it was quite a waste as Anubis and
Tainthar model have several useful animation to make the battle scene far better.
To top up with, it seems the creator was in a rush in releasing the cinematic. There is a lot of typo that was quite noticeable as you can seen from this screenshot below.
And again, the black_stan model are not fully utilize. Fans of black_stan model are not recommend to watch this cinematic as you would be dissappoint over the waste of the usefulness of this model.
However, the cinematic are getting better and better. The author are certainly making a tremendous improvement over his work, I have no doubt the cinematic would be getting more interesting and impressive for the upcoming sequence.
At the meantime, I do not recommend user to watch the elder sequence as the early sequence (Episode I & II) are rather poor. But, the early sequence could probably be much better than it's early release if the author do take any incentive to improve it.
Overall, this resources is 3/5 (Useful). However, I afraid it was 1/5 (Unacceptable) until the user add a crediting list to the resources he used inside the cinematic. The current crediting are only done at hiveworkshop map description, without adding any crediting into the map; it was as good as rules violation.
So, my rating would be 3/5 (Useful) and vote Disapproval till crediting has been add into cinematic.
Approved
