Project 1999 Trailer

[Xevin]

Originally Posted by girth [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Gray on gray is kinda meh, otherwise those pictures look amazing.

Yep. Gray BG is from the render. Imagine a blue sky behind it.

Originally Posted by steve [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I have to agree. I didn't care for the music. Stick with the original music, or make it sound more classic-like.

Seems like there is universal hatred of my music skills. =( I guess I need to work on it more. I found a recording of the original intro music from back in the day on the good Awe 32 sound card. I'm going to make my version sound as close to that as I can. After listening to it a few times I realized I had a few of the instruments wrong on some parts. For instance I used a Tuba when it should have been a Tympani! The MIDIs I'm working from are just all over the place. None of the instruments are labeled and it isn't even close to beat mapping to measures or proper timing. I thought about getting some professional musicians to help me resequence the entire thing into proper orchestral form, but that's a bit more work then I wanted to put into the music. Maybe I will have to do this after all...

Originally Posted by nalkin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

can you tell us when you will begin filming so we can get in the video?

I'm not filming anything. I'm using the method ToddFX discovered to export the geometry and textures of the game (imagine a 3D photo) and then I clean the geometry up, add bump maps and recreate the lighting. Then I add in other animations and animate the camera moves I want. Finally I render it out into a still frame sequence that I import into After Effects and add motion blur, bloom, color correction and other neato post effects. The entire process takes around 6 hours to complete per shot not including rendering time.

If you happen to be in the EC Tunnel when I capture that scene, you will be in the final shot, although only briefly as the camera will be moving quite fast.