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Dire Lauthris Caldari Body Count Inc. Against ALL Authorities	Posted - 2009.03.30 15:08:00 - [1] Well, it's a teensy bit late and in a completely different form to when I first started it in 2007, but it's finally done! TL:DR Download: Day of Darkness II Youtube: Linky Res: 720p Format: WMV Length: ~4 mins Size: 176 Meg Apps: After Effects CS3 / Logic Studio A bit of background: This film covers a bit from the Caldari-Gallente war, based on the Chronicle The Breakout. It's set 200 years ago, before any of the 4 races had pod technology. I tried to use ships that may have been around back then, though sadly there's not a huge amount of information that I could find. A bit more background: Initially I tried making this in 3DS Max with hilariously bad results. (I might post up some of the initial shots for a laugh one day). I was about to go back to the old Sisi + alts method when I thought I'd ask CCP if they could help out with the locations of some complexes to use on Sisi. Instead they invited me over to their offices and let me have a tinker with the software they use for making their own vids. I was able to bring a cut-down version of this away and set about making the film - so without CCP this probably wouldn't have turned out anything like it has. A big thank you to CCP for being an awesomely open company to their players. Also a huge thank you to Stevie for doing the voice, the film was pretty much just an explosion slideshow till she stepped in. ------
Dire Lauthris Caldari Body Count Inc. Against ALL Authorities	Posted - 2009.03.31 07:39:00 - [2] Hell, I never know what to say after loads of nice comments - but thanks for the feedback and ideas! It definitely makes the weeks/months of bashing my head against the keyboard worth it. I'll try reply to some stuff in the thread. * 'Grinded' - wow, I didn't spot that at all. It came directly from the Chronicle and I gave Stevie the text to record so it's my bad. * 'City / Nouvelle Rouvenour shot' - These are 3D comps created in After Effects. They don't inherently use the CCP software, though it would've been a real ***** to create without it. Caldari Prime is essentially a pile of Caldari stations flipped around to build a city-like skyline. I took a bunch of hires screen grabs of this (with a green background for easy keying) and chucked them into AE in a 3D comp. The rest is Particular and a bunch of stock explosion and smoke footage composited in. There's a bucket of nitpicks I have with the vid as well, over ships used and all sorts of other bits and pieces. I had to take some creative license to get an actual battle across.. as really we only have the Chronicle and the models in the game to go by. At the end of the day if I'd kept fiddling it would've gone on for another year and I'd have probably killed myself. <3 ------
Dire Lauthris Caldari Body Count Inc. Against ALL Authorities	Posted - 2009.03.31 08:54:00 - [3] Originally by: particle9 My other question was how you achieved the title effect in the beginning? I'm an after effects guy and would love to know how you did that. The letters are masked individually (pro tip from Loxy ) and the masks animated to move off each letter in turn. Over the top of each letter is a comp containing a crunched lense flare with a wiggle brightness expression, and an additive particular layer with the emitter and flare centre tied to a wiggling null object. There's probably a much more elegant way of doing it though. ------
Dire Lauthris Caldari Body Count Inc. Against ALL Authorities	Posted - 2009.04.02 07:12:00 - [4] Edited by: Dire Lauthris on 02/04/2009 07:14:19 Originally by: lofty29 I doubt dire will even bother reading all these comments, but just...jesus christ. That succeeded even CCP's current trailers, just wow. I read em all and it makes me happy to the point of almost blubbering like Kate Winslet with her funny sideways mouth. <3 Originally by: Crawler Boom it would have been really cool to see the carrier burn up on reentry but you cant have it all Great movie one of the best out there Yeah, I tried it and it looked really REALLY bad so I left it out. Still trying to think of a way to do it though, just not with 3DS which I seem to suck at. ------ Day of Darkness II
Dire Lauthris Caldari Body Count Inc. Against ALL Authorities	Posted - 2009.04.18 06:44:00 - [5] Originally by: Androvar Drake Edited by: Androvar Drake on 17/04/2009 06:55:47 Could you list the music (album and track names) used throughout this video? I'd love to know where the music came from! The intro and outro are sound design elements, but the main track is called 'Stand Tall' from Epic Score. ------ Day of Darkness II
Dire Lauthris Caldari Body Count Inc. Against ALL Authorities	Posted - 2009.05.15 07:55:00 - [6] Edited by: Dire Lauthris on 15/05/2009 08:03:14 Seems to work ok for me, I've added an eve-files link just incase. Once again thanks to everyone for their support and nice words! ------ Day of Darkness II

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