Nice demo

X-Pilot ( 1 year ago on Jan 25, 2008 01:45 GMT)

Really nice. Pretty visuals, cool soundtrack, so - *THUMB UP* :)

Good story and CGI but...

bluesolid ( 2 years ago on Apr 27, 2007 07:39 GMT)

The plot of the story is quite good. The CGI is also good. Soundtrack is good considering the scifi-fantasy theme of the film. But the dialog was badly written, and the acting could have been better.

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Link to creator's website

Adreitz ( 1 month ago on Oct 4, 2009 06:20 GMT)

Robert Hodgin created this video in the Processing programming environment a while ago. His website is here: http://www.flight404.com/blog/

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Hmm.

Adreitz ( 2 years ago on Jul 3, 2007 02:59 GMT)

Interesting from an animation perspective. I don't really know what the story is trying to say, if anything, though.

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Cool, but incomplete

Adreitz ( 2 years ago on May 20, 2007 09:37 GMT)

This is only about 2/3 of the benchmark - parts from the beginning and end are missing. To see the full thing, do a search for "Demo or Die Vol. 5" on Vuze. The first demo on that DVD consists of the full versions of Return to Proxycon, Firefly Forest, and Canyon Flight. Note that those videos are at a lower res (640x480) and were recorded from 3DMark05, so they're missing some effects in the '06 version.

Cool, but incomplete

Adreitz ( 2 years ago on May 20, 2007 09:31 GMT)

This is only about 2/3 of the benchmark - the ending is missing. To see the full thing, do a search for "Demo or Die Vol. 5" on Vuze. The first demo on that DVD consists of the full versions of Return to Proxycon, Firefly Forest, and Canyon Flight. Note that those videos are at a lower res (640x480) and were recorded from 3DMark05, so they're missing some effects in the '06 version.

Action-packed marketing

Adreitz ( 2 years ago on May 17, 2007 04:37 GMT)

I have the BMW films on DVD, including this one. It's a cool idea, instead of normal commercials.

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Interesting

Adreitz ( 2 years ago on May 16, 2007 03:40 GMT)

Lineage II looks interesting from all the recent cinematics that were put up. This video looks more like an early render, though. The woman's hair, especially, looks flat and moves unrealistically.

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Cool stuff

Adreitz ( 2 years ago on May 15, 2007 03:25 GMT)

Not jaw-dropping, but it's good for real-time.

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Beginner info, but good

Adreitz ( 2 years ago on Apr 30, 2007 05:24 GMT)

I'd like to see you guys make an episode either about publishing to Vuze or getting around ISP blacklisting. I've personally run into this problem, even though the Azureus wiki doesn't list my ISP as being bad for BT (beyond capping accounts with high bandwidth usage). I can seed just fine for pre-existing torrents with no unusual pref changes, but uploading to the Vuze servers when publishing just doesn't work unless I have encryption turned on (and even then, the upload will occasionally stop running for five minutes and then start again). Strange stuff, but I wasted a lot of time and energy trying to figure it out when I was first starting. Info on this might help Vuze newbies.

Some tips for Mac users:
If you're behind a router, NAT should protect you from any hackers, so totally shut off the OS X firewall.
UDP blocking and stealth mode (Sys Prefs -> Sharing -> Firewall -> Advanced) can ***still be active*** even if the firewall is off, so be sure those are off as well. UDP is used by the distributed tracker, so you don't want this to be blocked.

And for anyone having trouble with Azureus transfers:
Turn logging on (Options -> Logging), double-click on a problem torrent in the Advanced tab, and click on the Console pane to show the real-time activity of your connections for that torrent. This can indicate if connections to other clients are failing or your data packets are getting lost during transmission, etc.

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Should be longer!

Adreitz ( 2 years ago on Apr 19, 2007 06:19 GMT)

Cool stuff. Lots of nice visuals from the science world. It would be great if this were expanded into a full documentary (~1 hour long).

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Bizarre

Adreitz ( 2 years ago on Apr 11, 2007 07:21 GMT)

Makes no sense and the sound is lacking. Animation is nice, though.

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Misleading thumbnail image

Adreitz ( 2 years ago on Apr 6, 2007 12:18 GMT)

This clip has nothing to do with Transformers. This is a clip from the British science show Braniac, showing a thermite reaction melting through an old French car. Not very high quality video and I've seen this elsewhere on the internet, but still cool.

Cool, original video

Adreitz ( 2 years ago on Mar 28, 2007 06:53 GMT)

That Moby song is FREAKING ANNOYING, but the video is really cool. The cars look like waves of water in some parts, like ants running around in others. No car-car collisions, of course, since the 1000 races were all recorded separately (so the other cars weren't "there" during the individual races).

Should have chosen a more common format than Matroska, though. It's an open container format, sure, but I don't think it's any more flexible than the QT container and it's a lot less well-known.

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Pretty depressing story

Adreitz ( 2 years ago on Mar 28, 2007 06:28 GMT)

dan99: This is in H.264 format and is playable by anyone with QT 7. Make sure you don't have an old version of QT. QT Pro isn't necessary.

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Alright

Adreitz ( 2 years ago on Mar 16, 2007 05:18 GMT)

It's somewhat amusing and the rendering style looks nice. Not much that could be called a plot, though. You could explain the entire short in one sentence.

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Format problems

Adreitz ( 2 years ago on Mar 16, 2007 05:15 GMT)

Warning for Mac users: none of these Dave Barry videos work properly on a Mac. The Flip4Mac plugin supports the audio codec but not the video codec, and VLC/MPlayer support the video codec but not the audio codec. You can play the video with both apps at the same time and, if you're lucky, get them somewhat in sync. But I don't find the content interesting enough to justify the bother.

Calm down, please

Adreitz ( 2 years ago on Feb 12, 2007 03:57 GMT)

Hey, Mike, sorry if I sounded offensive. I'm just trying to point out that this wasn't presented in a very professional manner and lacks some artistic merit. Trying to "thug" things out usually doesn't make them better. And the music itself wouldn't have mattered as much if you had edited it better - proper equalization (it sounds tinny) and smooth mixing between the different tracks. As it is, it just looks thrown together in five minutes.

If you want to see something of this style that I consider to be done well, do a search for the AniMix Project. It has tons of clips from different anime edited together with 100 dance music tracks overtop. The music is totally 90's cheese dance, but it doesn't matter at all because of how well it was put together. The audio and video are completely synced and in many cases the video has been edited so that the characters appear to sing the lyrics. You can tell immediately that it took a lot of work to do.

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Good content, poor videography

Adreitz ( 2 years ago on Feb 4, 2007 08:58 GMT)

Most of the first half consists of scenery viewed from a bullet train, which was cool. The shrines are nice, but would have been better served by photography (stationary objects are wasted on video). The video itself clearly hasn't been edited - distracting cuts, gaps in the audio - and the picture suffers from moiré. Still, the content is nice if you haven't been to Japan.

Good MP sketch, middling machinima

Adreitz ( 2 years ago on Feb 4, 2007 08:25 GMT)

Poor choice of codec and the explosions aren't very impressive, but it's a fairly decent translation of the idea.

Poor format

Adreitz ( 2 years ago on Jan 21, 2007 10:33 GMT)

130 MB for five seconds of video? And what the heck kind of codec is "CRAM"? Uncompressed audio! Come on, if a machine can play HD content, it can certainly handle DivX or h.264 with mp3/4 audio. Let's not waste bandwidth unnecessarily.