The Art of Murder (AKROSS 08 Finalist)

[Koys]

Good work !!!

[MycathatesyouAMV]

I enjoyed everything but the grunge textures at the beginning. 4/5

[Fizziks]

Loved the atmosphere, and the 3D forest is really cool! Excellent work!

[mirkosp]

LOLCHICKBETWEENWOODS

Well, Kevin, you know I liked it. And good job to Niwa too for the masks.

[EvaFan]

For some reason I was expecting "Higurashi no Naku Koroni" when i saw the title of this thread... I really can't see sola put to this song... Ya it has some murderous intent scenes but nothing really worthy. I'll give it a shot tonight and see what you did.

EDT:
OK, it was good but the way it was setup and executed is off. If the whole concept is the art of murder why is she prancing around smiling in a forest that looks like its straight out of a horror movie? There was no blood curdling scream either, you always need one of those followed by the impact of whatever weapon was used then bitter silence. I think some rain sound fx would of worked well to for the end. The music was just atmosphere so FX would of worked wonders. It would of been cool to have a loud scream right after she turned her head. You might of even scared some of your viewers that way. The ending was the best part... Befitting of the theme anyways.

Spoiler :

My only complaint here is that there wasn't really any blood spatter on the ground or anything while she was laying there dead in the rain. At least, I didn't see any anyways.

3.5/5 Had serious potential tbh but lacked the enhancements needed for the theme "Art of Murder".

[-BL-]

Secks.

rawr :3

Liked the concept, but this video was a bit too short to really grasp in the horror and murder aspects

Yeah, audio was that short, so we kinda had to rush the whole plot.
Thanks for watching!

LATE! I saw this video like weeks ago : /

twas cool, 3D forest was balls
4/5

Thanks guy. We wanted to announce this with Niwa’s new LA vid, but screw that plan o:

i think i said it befor, it was nice good plot and atmosphere, so great job.

Thanks Martin =D
Glad ya liked it.

Great concept 4/5

Thanks for the op ;p

I hope I can eat this.

I loved this.

Plot

3d forest

Video.

I think I can eat this.

Glad ya liked the vid =)

I think it was a nice attemp. Did you alter the song with sound effects? I mean this really nasty and dumb screamings when the red pictures flashing up? I bet that I have exactly the same samples in my collection and I can hardly think of any other sound effects who were worse for this job. =/

4/5 Could be a bit longer for setting up something like an interessting plot. Yeah it was somehow too much like random pictures on random 3D background. You know something like the figure of a man or another charcter observing this girl and than finaly killing her would be great (with the reflections of a knife in theire eyes at the almost last scene with the zoom).

No song changes. The screams were already there ;p
The masks might look like random picks for most of the viewers, but they should show the familiarity that the victim and the murderer had. They walk together through the forest while the murder intention of the murderer (the other girl from the intro) increases.
At the end you get to see the murderer reflected in the victim’s eyes ;p
Whole vid is from the view of the murderer (after the intro).
Thx for watching =)

it was great video but so dam boring.

Yeah, not everybody’s taste.
But thanks for watching!

Good feeling to it but I didn't really enjoy it.

3.5/5

It happens o:

me: it was awesome, even though it was rubbish. i love it despite hating it. good job, you failed.

wait, what?

You can’t have socks o:

Finally a Euro I know

great 3d forest!

no 3d characters

I couldn't really get into it, but appart from that you have done a great job

No worries, 3D characters are in work :3

Pssh sola and bday massacre, thats like.. cheating to get me to instantly like ur vid. :\

Good stuff, a little slow and too artsy for watching often but still.. bday massacre.

No im not totally biased just cause you used my favorite band of all time.

not at all.

4/5

Thanks chii :3
Birthday Massacre ftw o: You’ll like Kuranado then? :3

Sweet!
And no, i won't yell in your next amv! NEVER

Insert gay answer from Niwa here.

Good work !!!

Thx for the OP :3

I enjoyed everything but the grunge textures at the beginning. 4/5

No grunge textures, but some space cloud 3D render :3
Thx for watching!

Loved the atmosphere, and the 3D forest is really cool! Excellent work!

Glad ya liked it =)

LOLCHICKBETWEENWOODS

Well, Kevin, you know I liked it. And good job to Niwa too for the masks.

Thanks mister Italian :3

For some reason I was expecting "Higurashi no Naku Koroni" when i saw the title of this thread... I really can't see sola put to this song... Ya it has some murderous intent scenes but nothing really worthy. I'll give it a shot tonight and see what you did.

EDT:
OK, it was good but the way it was setup and executed is off. If the whole concept is the art of murder why is she prancing around smiling in a forest that looks like its straight out of a horror movie? There was no blood curdling scream either, you always need one of those followed by the impact of whatever weapon was used then bitter silence. I think some rain sound fx would of worked well to for the end. The music was just atmosphere so FX would of worked wonders. It would of been cool to have a loud scream right after she turned her head. You might of even scared some of your viewers that way. The ending was the best part... Befitting of the theme anyways.

3.5/5 Had serious potential tbh but lacked the enhancements needed for the theme "Art of Murder".

Thanks for the review =)
Since we lacked time (made 3 days before the deadline), we hadn’t the time to get betatester and other suggestions. No blood splatter and stuff mostly because of time shortage.


Niwa made me reply to all of the posts o:

[Reigna]

Interesting concept and nice work with the forest. :O Think it may have done the vid some good if it were a little longer and you could more fully develop what you were trying to do. Nice job overall.