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by Douggie » Mon May 28, 2007 6:11 am
Well people, if you run it on VLC or MPC, then there's always the option to change the AR (just right-click and choose aspect-ratio, then the correct one - 16:9), so this is quite easily fixed within your player self.
I loved the intro/outro, like other people already mentioned. Crack, what Niotex meant is I think the intro from Jihaku (I'm guessing you already have that one on your HDD as it has won the VCA two years ago - if I'm correct).
As for the paint splatters within the video, I didn't really liked it, maybe because I couldn't see beyond the edges which are aliased - that bother me quite a lot - and look therefore too sharp (I don't think there are much options though with keying, so am not sure if there's an anti-aliasing or feather option, which would make it look better). Brush effects like yours are really hard to implement (to make something interesting of) and to be honest, the only good one I have seen is the Beck-part (of Rozard) in Reflections of Style 3.
I liked the song and combination with the anime. And I like the beginning with the circles masking, where you made it look like rain falling on a lake (or see or something - from above - and soft/subtle ripple effect on the video would made it look a bit better), but when that part was done I saw the same effect, but with squares, which kinda left me wondering if the first part with the circles were meant like I thought it was...
All in all, I liked some of your other vid better, because this one more felt like a big experiment on how to use certain techniques. Well, I'm wondering how you will use the stuff you've learned in the feature!
Oh, maybe you should do what most people do: save multiple project files!
