Saturday, October 6, 2007

Raddy IV -- Trailer

This is the brief tailer I promised I'd have done before 2.3 PTR for the upcoming vid. Do not watch the stream, you will not be able to see what's going on. I won't say anything else for now, so enjoy, hit up the comments with feedback. I'm pretty receptive to making changes based on criticisms for the final release. (which could be a ways off depending on what people want me to do ^^)

Without further ado, check it out.

104 comments:

Illexiyel said...

I liked it a lot <3

Only recommendation I have is to not have those sections w/ 4 different scenes on the screen at once.

Shit was awesome though for sure

and BTW...dunno how you'd feel about having another Snares song in there...but Einstein-Rosen bridge would be a sick track to have in a WoW vid heh

just like maybe throw a part of the song during that trick section or something

Anonymous said...

good stuff

teki said...

The bar has been raised. =p

kachili said...

Very cinematic. Split screens are cool I liked it.

Mayhem said...

Not what I had expected from you, but you certainly did not dissapoint.

Anonymous said...

3 months more till full video? Weak

hops-nF said...

Looking forward to the full vid. Love your movement, still the best I've seen.

Anonymous said...

Very impressive. I've been reading your blog for a bit now but I must say this has finally got me to post. Even for being rather short it really is highly impressive work. I haven't watched a ton of videos, but what I have seen it really see like you're raising the bar. Lots of care has went into the editing, and you can easily tell.

Also, if you don't mind I've love to see a breakdown of mods used, etc. Namely the combat text setup you use (mod, etc) and the large icons of spells that pop up.

Again, highly impressed, which the full video was coming sooner but alas if it is a full length of this then it will surely be worth it. Great work.

Anonymous said...

Amazing rad <3

Anonymous said...

Sexy

Anonymous said...

What song was used?

Anonymous said...

Amazing video. Keep up the great work!

Anonymous said...

You've already used that last song... and why do you do the 4 screen thing? We know you pwn noobs but pwn them fullscreen plz.

Anonymous said...

I found the skills flashing in the middle of the screen to be a bit annoying.

Other than that, great production quality. I hope to see more duels/Arenas!

nascent said...

Is there somewhere I can PM you for some After Effects advice?

Anonymous said...

The skill flashing is a mod in game, it is timed perfectly with the skills cool down. It's not a show off, it would be extremely useful. Now what the mods name is, no clue, wish I knew.

kale said...

You have officially kicked it up a notch

Neverwind said...

Impressive work :)

Anonymous said...

you def need a LQ/MQ version for when you release the full movie

326mb/5mins is ridiculous

Ayrll said...

very nice editing

Click said...

Definition of "baller" can't wait for the full version.

zyz said...

baller status

dantae said...

I liked the split screen artistically with zone matched clips (well as artistic as any of this can be), but practically it's really distracting, it's impossible to focus on all four fights so they either get missed or force repeated viewings.

depredate said...

I assume you made the split screen to "force" repeated viewings, you douchebag. =p

huck said...

meh, i expected it to be a bit more flashy myself...

Oppo said...

Split screen was a bit mer,

The in-battle close-ups on whatever it was you were closing up on....couldn't tell.

Other than that...I saw fire in 5s and I came.

depredate said...

This is probably beyond what people can appreciated rad. It's cool, but it's too out there.

huck said...

i think the four sceens for 3 minutes was a joke.

sikez said...

smooth ass video very sexy

tsai said...

As you say, "fierce"

poached said...

if you would just lose the split screens for sequential clips, this could be one of the best videos since BC

exillion said...

I'm afraid to play you in Typing of the Dead.

Goretongue said...

I hate when people ask, "what mods do you use?" and stupid shit like that. So I'm going to do it. Even though I'm a total addon whore, I don't have my game setup to have the text that says what everyone is doing around me at all times ("Randomperson Begins to Cast Lightning Bolt", etc.), and I desperately want it. I want it more than I wanted Taco Bell after I smoked tonight.

Also, I doubt setting that up would lead to as much diarrhea and painful grumbling after.

Anyway, I'm betting it's an option in NECB or Quartz or some other addon I already have but don't fully utilize, but if someone could shed some light on this for me, that'd sure be swell!

Raddy said...

It's a pretty old version of spellalert SCT. It can be annoying with the spam, but I do miss it when I shut it off. I'm not @ my computer, but I'll post up the details when I get a chance. Thx for the feedback everyone. So, 16 split screens full time always for the next vid?

topix said...

Your movement is so good O.O

huck said...

16-32, with random zoom in's on random screens, at random times.

Anonymous said...

Raddy that song is awesome!

PLEASE tell me what it is.

entrails said...

oh you bastard.. I was going to use that same venetian snares song (in my hypothetical pvp video I'll never make). I actually posted a link to the youtube video for that song when Dahis was asking for music suggestions. Seriously, you should have made me your music consultant, that's the only reason I want to make a video.

On second thought, you'd probably end up with nothing but Clipse songs... or one 30 minute Godspeed You Black Emperor song.. Or nothing but 30 second Saskrotch songs from Nintendo Breakbeatz Volume 1.. Or Girl Talk. Seriously, I'd use Girl Talk just to sink up that song that ends with "Hold up, wait a minute, wait a minute, hold up" with an arena comeback when it gets down to a 2v1.

As for the video: I am intrigued sir. This is more of a personal opinion thing, but I thought I'd throw my vote out there. For the finished product I'd prefer more arena then BG pvp. Until rated gulch comes out (which I will personally bust a nut over continuously until I'm spent) BG pvp just isn't that interesting unless you pulled off something insane.

(also, props on the editing. Around 2:10 when you start AoEing down some fools in basin it's synced up extremely well with the music)

entrails said...

/Cast fireball(rank9)

wtf?

Anonymous said...

Really awesome stuff Rad. Don't worry about the retards who watch your vid and complain about split screens. Make the vid you want to make. Make it uncompromising and artisitic like this preview. Baller ;)

Anonymous said...

that song, I must know it

Artanias said...

Raddy, whats the name of the song?
Heard it in one of the unfinished clips of Unknown 4 lying around on googlevideo.

zarthustra said...

For a teaser video, I didn't really feel teased. Mostly because alot of it was kind of just filler-tease, with just random scorch spamming shit.

At what point after fraps'ing gameplay footage of you typing out 'slash cast' and the respective spell's Anglo-Saxon name do you realize that the video game you're playing is nothing more than a glorified, grown up version of 'Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing!' and that you should probably find something else to fill your time until A) Blizzard makes PvP fun again (2.3 question mark) or B) Starcraft 2 is released?

And yeah, I realize I probably shouldn't do a gigantic run on sentence that's a question because the question tends to get lost.

Wise said...

The first song is "Venetian Snares - Szamár Madár" and second "Radiohead - Someone Else" if it hasnt been mentioned somewhere already.

depredate said...

The speed of the video is so fast that I did not see the first few watchings how your are slash casting during the GCD. You really need to slow down the action dramatically if you want people to understand what is going on. How the hell are you typing the water elemental summon so fast m8?

depredate said...

Oh and because nobody else said anything, using that invisibility to immune both the pet and the hunter at the start was ridiculous.

mini said...

Because none of the feedback you're receiving is constructive criticism, let me say that you should touch up a few of the transitions and fix the music timing with how the first track ends. The blue text in the opening is too hard to read and is on the screen too shortly. The first few seconds need a saturation and contrast adjust so that the blacks match, you have been lazy here judging by how advanced some of your editing is particularly with saturation modifications. The transitions are nice but given how fast the video moves, consider that a lot of the dynamic masks and crap is just lost in the tempo.

PS I love the extra-shine saturation thing going on during that text casting duel against the rogue. I'm guessing you aren't sharing your settings for that.

Didn't you say this is your first time with all this software? Got help?

Artanias said...

Cheers Wise :)

chi said...

christ

Anonymous said...

This looks like it could be landmark rad, fix the bullshit and make it a bit more accessible.

nuked said...

Reminds of the teaser for your old CS vid. =p

McFugie said...

needs more souljah boy imo :)

Metanoia said...

You lost me at splitscreen action. It just didn't work. I like split screen when it shows another perspective of the same event taking place. Not different matches. It just doesn't work at all.

Goretongue said...

Thanks in advance for that mod-help.

demolaishon said...

i was rly hoping it to be a tricks and fun movie. with arena highlights and shit. but i guess i was wrong.

we all have seen this before. your movement maybe not, but the rest, it is going to be hard for you to impress us.

loved the arena clips, and omg i want your spell damage. but please, dont add clips of games in which your team executes a strategy and wins. show us clips of you blinking behind pillars to counterspell people and flashy highlights like that. or you and your teammates in good come backs. like...2vs3 or 2vs4.

the invisibility thing was cool, and the first /cast counterspell too.

Anonymous said...

Don't play a mage but is there a reason why you type some of your moves?

Brian said...

love it. will watch with a smile when it is released. to take the win in text battle, learn to leave out rank to auto-cast the highest rank?

watching your video reminds me why I don't play my mage anymore... my decision-making and movement is so bad by comparison, it's obvious that I'm wasting my time.

great work, love the editing... i know it's a trailer so i won't prattle on about split screen, setting up shots, etc. but it looks fantastic so far.

Dahis said...

Winter 2007... and you're still a big enough douche to bitch about my video taking forever.

Shame on you, at least I have an excuse when I use original music.

Mazorp said...

There is a purpose to using the typing, but the one I can think of seems rather insane. The typing could be used to time exactly with cooldowns. For instance, using a lower rank of Frostbolt as a shorter cast time than the higher rankings. Therefore you can cast the highest, type a lower one, Frost Nova. That means you're damaging constantly but also not wasting time by going over when your real goal is to catch the cooldown.

Again, that would take a lot of awareness and you'd need to instantly remember what rank has what casting time, but only possible reason I can think of for doing it.

zyz said...

oh and remember to zip+upload the soundtrack when you finish it ^^

Dahis said...

Raddy's typing because it's funny, don't get all excited.

Tweedledum said...

Good music, I would've liked to have seen some more fights though.

penchance said...

You have the best movement of any player Ive ever seen. Cant wait for full video.

Anonymous said...

Aphex Twin is baller

Unclesam said...

lol @ count van raddy

Romulox said...

The second song is "Radiohead - Talk Show Host" from the Romeo and Juilet soundtrack.

I liked the video. The zoom-ins were kind of hard to see what you wanted us to see. the text battles were funny and cool. the quad screen made me feel like i was some sort of mastermind watching 4 tvs at once while talk show host played. btw, see if you like this version of the song better "Talk Show Host // BBC Evening Session [1997]" I think you can get it from this massive collection of radiohead songs:
http://www.mortigitempo.com/too_bored/showthread.php?t=26844

Kawklee said...

Go to Google videos, search "Somethingawf".

Seems like your video is taking a little bit too much from another work of art....

PS: Kawklee <3's raddy big-time

PPS: Give Bynis a rusty trombone for me!

Anonymous said...

more unneeded sfx plz

Anonymous said...

I love that you were typing counterspells in the GCD, but typoing '/say's later on.

Really looking forward to the finished product. It looks like the excuse I'll need to get a new hard drive.

Anonymous said...

I heard if you type out /cast Fireball it makes it almost guaranteed to crit

gablo said...

"McFugie said...

needs more souljah boy imo :)"

I fucking agree.

"exillion said...

I'm afraid to play you in Typing of the Dead."

I loled so hard irl when I read that

Anonymous said...

AMAGAD





AAAAAMAGAD

Raddy said...

Yeah isn't that /say fuckup near the end just perfect for this vid? LOL

iloveradikal said...

I want you inside me

Illexiyel said...

ye that was great lol

I would end the vid like that maybe ^^

Kirby said...

I see your promo and raise you mine:
http://files.filefront.com/PirateIwmv/;8740738;/fileinfo.html

Anonymous said...

Nice raddy...

- dump the splitscreen its never worked
- keep titles up a bit longer for readability - the ones in the funky font anyways
- superb music, we're all sick of that altrock hiphop crap. sure those are great songs but man...
- consider 'scoring' the video... selecting tracks and having the music reflect whats going on... probably easier with machinima but i've never seen it done well... music is a massive part of any video, the pros will tel you. something to consider anyways for the next one, its hard to do but why not practice
- for gods sack call out the opposition classes and specs in arenas, i hate it when i'm too busy trying to figure out specs and classes to watch the vid properly
- if your gonna zoom you want to hold it a bit longer so we can see which cooldown or whatever you're showcasing.
- you got a great visual style here

Cigma said...

great stuff. lol @ /cast pvp.

Petite said...

looks great but splitting up the screen sux imo because its just annoying and to really see whats going on u have to replay it 4 times and look on some small screen. whats the point in it?

O EM GEE said...

I WANT MORE RAD
YOU BETTER FRAPS A LOT SON
<3.

Anti said...

Too fast to get a feel of what is going on. There isn't any setup (foreplay) so most of the arena shots are just a fast forwarded maged assisting on targets, without really any focus on what the matchup is.

Split screen is very tricky to pull off, and with four unrelated scenes going on at the same time we can really only concentrate on one.

The waves effects were nice, but that's about it.

Anonymous said...

So, like, this was his trailer to his movie.

So, maybe he was like just doing the split screen as a trailer only thing.

Just because it was a format on the trailer doesn't mean thats what his movie is going to have!

Anonymous said...

-good music

-nice editing for the most part

-far too much fast forwarding

-take the best arena scenes going during the split screen and make them fullscreen imos.

-make a text intro for the arena teams you fight, showing class/spec and possibly name/rating.

Anonymous said...

'
-make a text intro for the arena teams you fight, showing class/spec and possibly name/rating.

'

please don't do this, part of the reason this trailer is so good (and made such an impression) is because of the pace - this sort of thing would kill it

Anonymous said...

Looks really good so far. I'd limit the /cast "..." scenes to no more than a minute or so out of a 15 minute movie, otherwise it would get rather boring quickly. I could do without the split screen stuff but not a big deal.

Other than that, the arena looks good as does the other stuff you had to show. Editing looks great as well. Really most interested in seeing high rated arenas, I'd throw some high rated 2v2 in there if you can manage that.

Depz

Artanias said...

Sorta forgot commenting on the trailer because i wanted the song so badly.

Music was top! editing, was top i really enjoy fast paced editing like you had in this movie.

Only thing i can complain about is really the text at the start, some of it was very very hard to read, and the split screen was maybe a tad too much going on at one time.

Apart from that it was great :)

Neverwind said...

Btw don't forget that ui update -.-

Kawklee said...

A lot of you guys are forgetting the fact that Raddy is funny. Most of the stuff people are bitching about; split screen, zooms, over sfx, over editing, and hyper speed are there moreso as a joke than a serious effort. People need to realize he's somewhat poking fun of other people's videos, and that he wants to do something unique and wholly his own.

nano said...

you ever know DRF from bloodscalp or spirestone?


btw, i really like your music choice in this vid, cant wait for it to be released.

jagmohan-bdf said...

Epic.

Not making the 4-way split widescreen was a pretty obvious error though.

Raddy said...

Yeah thx for all the feedback <3

I definitely know a few things I want to do differently in the future.

Actually, the first release of this that probably a few people here saw ended where the fullscreen section ended, but I felt that it did not really highlight a lot of what the video would contain so I went with the split screens to try to give some impression of what's to come. Doesn't really seem like the idea worked, but hey. ^^

I have to say that releasing short little videos like this is way more satisfying than 20+ minute behemoths as you get to focus on the details WAY more.

@Nuked - You still have that video? I lost the hard drive with that and 2.5 years of CS footage. (20gigs of demos) I have yet to find anybody with a copy. =(

Raddy said...

Oh, and expect random stupid posts starting again tomorrow. ^^

Goretongue said...

Damn you-- tell me how your mod is setup.

Anonymous said...

WOW, this could become the greatest PVP video of all time. The editing, play style, and spec are all way outside the norm and very sweet.

Anonymous said...

Pro

Anonymous said...

When you say "sickly edited" you know what you're talkin about, that was a pretty sweet trailer. Baller spec in ackshuN! Happyminti!! 4 SCREENS AT ONCE!!! Srsly that was a bit too Shepiwot.

Looks good. If i had a suggestion i'd like to see some 32 screen scene with teh colours inverted and you jumping with the screen constantly being turned upside down.

Illexiyel said...

Yo Raddy you read that ming post about "Serennia" by chance?

Is that fake Reelo? :<

Anonymous said...

LOL@text battles. That's just nuts and I think Mavis Beacon may steal that as an idea for their next release. Think you could beat a clicker in equal gear like that? No macros on either side, you type and they click. You could even make them keyboard turn. Or better yet, you do a click/keyboard turn fight as well.

The multi split screen would only be good if you could cast from one screen and kill someone in a different location on another screen. Otherwise it was too much even on my 30" widescreen.

Anonymous said...

nice

entrails said...

It's no "Taggor son of his father PvP", but it'll do.

Anonymous said...

Why do you type what move to cast and not just hotkey/click it?

Anonymous said...

The big icon pop up addon is:

Jim's Cooldown Pulse

http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/fileinfo.php?id=4511

Wex said...

Good job.

bye Wex

Anonymous said...

can anyone reupload this?