Wow! That was bloody awesome! 
im gonna vote for you for sure sure, the freeze effect looks great 
FX WARS! THE BIG FREEZE! Dutchman (Hybrid)
Joblh
#21
Pufferfish
#23
hi 
I have to crit about the length of this clip. It was way too long. The walking gets kinda boring because it feels like you guys wanted to use all the live material you shot for this clip.
Just my 2 cents.
Dutchman
#25
Thanks for the comments!! The other entries are really stunning! But itās to bad there are just 3 other entriesā¦ :shrug: I was especially exited about the Blender-teamās-entryā¦ It feels good to be a bit more relaxt, without having a deadline within a week or so! 
@ Job : Man, thanks! Your reply really makes me feel āit was worth the stessāā¦! Too bad I wonāt be able to vote on your magnificent team, as you didnāt make the deadlineā¦ :shrug: I hope youāll still make āsomething out of it, onesā!
@ NickJushchyshyn : Thank you! Cool to hear āyou think itās nice workā!
@ Pufferfish : I can agree about the lengthā¦ At least: after finishing it all and so, and watching it back countless times, I must say the walking-to-the-destenation, cĆ³uld have been a bit shorter. In fact we didnāt want to use all material we shot (we shot about twice as much, in totalā¦ Wellā¦ in fact we shot about 30 minutes in total for this challenge - which includes the 10 minutes of pyro-stuff :twisted: ), but we just wanted to fit it all with the soundtrackā¦ In a very early stadium of this project we had decided to use this music.
But thanks for your ā2 centsā: in my next project Iāll apply that!
@ 4saken : The camwork could have been lots better indeed, but we choosed to simulate the ābasic camerawork of a homevideoā, as this would be better to create the dramatic sense. You might wanna take a look at Alessandro Paccianiās āBV-01ā, as he used the same camerastyle in his veeery-awesome short movie! Also Michael Bay is known of āthis kind of film-styleā.
Thanks for the comments and reactions so far! I hope to get some more feedback, itās always good to hear what people think of the final result of lotās of hours work! (and lots of fun)
-Gijs
ivanisavich
#26
Hey manā¦congrats on getting your entry done!
I must say that I think itās amazing how MASSIVE of an undertaking this film was. In the end you had over 6 minutes of finalized video which is pretty incredible (also taking into consideration the number of shots you edited together!) Also, the fact that you did all (or most) of your effects in AfterFX is quite an achievement too.
Here are some critiques though :):
-the intro was goodā¦good solid editing and cinematography choicesā¦but once the guy starts walking through the city the camera was WAY too shaking and there were simply too many cutsā¦the whole āwalking through the city to plant the bombā sequence was far too long in my opinion, and was very disorienting
-It would have been nice to see your main character die in the āfreezeā as well (along with all the other people etcā¦the fact that the bad guy got off alive AND the fact that he was closest to the bomb made that part of the story a tad too awkward for me (ieā¦how do you explain that?? ;))
Anywhoā¦once again I was very impressed by the amount of work that clearly went into this! Hope to see you in the next challenge
Joblh
#27
maybe, if the rest wants to help a little 
but actually i think itās better to start with a new fresh projectā¦ i mean hot project
Dutchman
#28
@ ivanisavich : Thank you for congratulating me with that 6 minutes of final film! I must say it wĆ”s quite an undertaking, but it all went pretty fluid (as I have not had Ć³ne technical problemā¦> it was a 100% creative challenge! ).
The effects-shots were indeed done for 100% in After Effects (but the mattepaintings and so of course in Photoshop). Itās really interesting (IMO) to only use all options of AFX: you get to know all functions better, and you get more and more creative with the ālimited buttonsā!
Letās say something about your critiques:
- About the intro: Iām glad you like it, as the making of it cost quite some time (it as all shot on bluescreen
) to get it look dynamic enough and soā¦ My goal was especially to get a soft of āsin-cityā-look, but that didnāt went out wellā¦ 
At least it looks a little bit mysterious, I think.
The stuff after that, yeah, now Iām really aware that the walk took too longā¦ But as I told before (above), I had to fit it to the soundtrack. I can believe it looks desorientating, but I myself didnāt notice that, as I live near that town (and I know where I shot everything).
The bad-camwork was meant to ādesorientateā you, but maybe it was a bit tĆ³Ć³, indeed.
By the way: the editing process worked very nice and fluid with āEdiusā: it works 100% realtime - even with filters, moblur, or slow-motion. Also it has a vĆ©ry nice slow-motion option, that inbetweens so that you get smooth motions. As you can see in the final result, I used this option a lot. - The fact is that he has a āwarmth-suit/shieldā on, that he fixes to his body in the intro. So itās not that we havenāt been thinking of thisā¦ Itās just because it would give a nicer āend of the movieā, if he would stand up, and be the only survivor in the city (as the last shot was originally planned to be a zoomout from his eye, till you see the whole city being white. we canceled that shot because of the time). And btw: in every action movie the hero survives!
Thanks for your cool critique (Iāll learn from it) & Maybe see you in the next challenge (but I think Iāll first entry the Spectacular-challenge, and finish that).
@ Job : Sad that at the end all of you work will go āstaight awayā, but at least you learned something of the challengeā¦ When talking about hobbies itās always better to work on a fresh project that your fully motivied for!
[b]Sadly, today my host stopped serving me, so the file is offline! If you have some bandwidth you could miss, please PM/mail/reply, as we donāt get people watching with the file being offlineā¦! Hopefully somebody can help me (soon!)
[/b]Thanks for the replies again, and hopefully weāll get more of themā¦ Also Iām desperately hoping for a new host for the fileā¦! 
-Gijs
NickJushchyshyn
#29
All set Gijs:
Hopefully this will hold you guys over for the voting period.
Tyson also mentioned having some space, so maybe there will be additional mirrors up soon as well.
Good luck!
troyer
#30
If thereās really the need, I could also upload it to my second server which also has some traffic to spare. Glad I could help you out.
Dutchman
#31
@ NickJushchyshyn : Thanks for thinking with me! Tyson contacted me, and the file is up on his server as well nowā¦! Great to see that even other participants help me with this! It feels really great to see what people here want to do to get things right!
@ neostar : Thereās no need to host it somewhere else. The file is on 3 different servers now, so there should happend something reĆ”lly strange, to get it offline completely. And ofcourse: thanks again.
A list of where you can get the final movie:
The 320x240 version that Timon put online: [20 MB]
http://www.timon-royer.com/DUTCHMAN_FXWARS(320x240).mov
The 320x240 version that Tyson put online: [20 MB]
[http://www.theonlyt.com/Main/DUTCHMAN_FXWARS(320x240).mov](http://www.theonlyt.com/Main/DUTCHMAN_FXWARS%28320x240%29.mov)
The 640x480 version that Josh hosted for me: [48 MB]
[http://www.massrender.com/soft/Vide...ARS-640x480.mov](http://www.massrender.com/soft/Video/DUTCHMAN_FXWARS-640x480.mov)
The 640x480 version that Timon hosted for me [48 MB]
http://www.timon-royer.com/DUTCHMAN_FXWARS(640x480).mov.mov
Any reactions on the movie?
-Gijs
[edit: added the link to the fullres version that Timon hosted ]
troyer
#32
massrender.com is unavailable right now, I could host the highres-version too, I just need a link to get it from you.
Timon
Dutchman
#33
Unless we didnāt won any prices , we have a little surprise! Iāve got a little thingy to show you guysāngalls something behind the VFX!
Iāve screen-shotted the Flowchart (ānodeviewā) of the AE-composition of the Freezing Girl. The discription is on the JPG itself. As I had to get about 10 screenshots together there are some āweird linesā, I hope you wonāt mind!
The link: CLICK!
For any questions about it, please just ask!
I hope you can learn something out of it, or something! 
-Gijs
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