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A MacVey
10-19-2002, 03:16 PM
hi let me reintroduce my self, i am Andrew MacVey and i am 14 years old. I have done cg for about 8 months, and max 2. I know this isn't the greatest trailer out there but hey its my first!

This trailer was created in max(to serve as me learning max) and after effects. the video is 10.3 megs 500 x 280 in quicktime format. if needed i can post up stills of the trailer. So please, o please give me some crits(yes i know the second explosions is cheesy i just composited it in there in about 1 minute).

I would also like to thank http://www.fanflicks.com for hosting it for me

So tell me what you think!

http://www.atlantic-massacre.cjb.net

stephen2002
10-19-2002, 04:54 PM
pretty good. The CG looked a little bit weak, but teaser trailer style was very good.

A MacVey
10-19-2002, 05:06 PM
thanks! yeah hey those are my first shots i've finished so they can only get better right?

A MacVey
10-19-2002, 11:44 PM
just a friendly bump

Loveless
10-20-2002, 05:43 AM
Pretty nice man. 3d was brief though. Impressed.....and glad to say I'm still the youngest one here ;) <---- 13. I need to learn how to do particle effects.....from your experience, are they hard?

Biohazard
10-20-2002, 06:09 AM
Hi.

By watching your teaser, I just wanted to be rude and get back to cgtalk to express that... till I noticed you were only 14. :surprised

Messing with a short is always a quite difficult thing to achieve.
For my own, if I can advice you something : Focus on the story-telling, the important things to show and tell, your technical and artistical bottlenecks. Then work hard to tell your story, whatever the media you decide to use is, even stop motion with sugar cubes.

Putting together early views of the stuff you're working on has only one good goal : Your own motivation (and sometimes, if you don't do pre-prod, showing you your weaknesses and lacks).

That's great to be involved in something like telling a story by using CGs, especially if you're 14. Keep up the good job. :thumbsup:

A MacVey
10-20-2002, 03:59 PM
thanks! the two things that I really try to focus on and really try to make good is the sound and the story.

particle effects aren't terrible hard to use, it depends on what you use them for. For those i modified them (like everything else) in after effects

Grubwyrm
10-20-2002, 04:44 PM
:buttrock:

Hey Kiddo-

Kudos to you. I've just started, and I can't even try to do anything like that- I'm still modelling. But at 14, with the motivation you apparently have and ambition, by the time you're done with school you should be set. Not the greatest, but a great effort and I commend you for posting.

I'm not in much of a place to critique anything, but I would say the cinemas are way too short and quick. Nice particle effects, but try to get more in there for a little longer. Also, it may have been my viewer, but there was a very grainy look to it.

-Grub:thumbsup:

LordShaitan
10-21-2002, 08:16 AM
keep it up. Youll get ther man.

A MacVey
10-21-2002, 09:07 PM
thanks a bunch!

i really do hope i get up there! i'm trying my best on this, after all its my first so its my worst! i have MANY, Many more shorts planned, so maybe my dream will come true

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