Dawn of Ashes (FINALLY LOL)

[Undeadborn]

In the end I finished it, it hasn't come out as I wanted but I was really tired of it and I want to make more projects.
Yes, It is a screenshot.

[Vax]

Haha, yeah. Finally.

That was great.I really liked the effects. 4/5

[dreamawake]

Niiiice finally released. Now let's see if theres any major changes since the betas.

Awesome. I love the 2nd half but I still think those red borders could be done away with and the first half could use some sort of tonal change like the 2nd half. In any case it's a solid vid, i love the effect choices and what you did for the eyes.

I'd give it a solid 4/5.

[guy07]

Take you long enough? : /

EDIT: Nice stuff. MY only beef is that you use FF. Otherwise it was good stuff. Really good integration of effects. The time you put into this really paid off.

[Tearx]

o.0.. that took a long time to upload. someones lazy.

I liked how this had a total Good guy VS Bad guy thing going on.
and for the eyes, it just gave off a total 'omg the villains are awesome' feeling, which I liked.
Have to agree with joey on the borders.. well if he is talking about the same ones I am I think, but that just reminded me of your Dunkelblau amv.
Evil guys ftw ;D 4/5

[Neverend]

oh shit! oh shit! oh shit! oh shit!

dl*

Edit: I really like what you did in photoshop, the photo manipulation was really great!
Nice feel throughout the whole vid, but it kinda died out way to fast towards the end, but i guess all the time you put in it for these 2 min you might wanna consider shorten it hehe!

Overall, this is probably one of the best ffa vids ive seen! I dug it!

[Kevmaster]

yeah, that screenshot pretty much shows the cool part.

[-Reda-]

Well first let me get THIS out of the way; I liked it. I liked your ideas, I liked seeing the effort you put into this from beta to beta, and I even liked your 'if you don't get it I don't care' because personally I feel that art should speak for itself, rather then be spoken for by some pretentious editor. This is easily a 4/5 from me

I do have a few qualms with it though that I'd like to discuss (you can feel free to respond to any of these as you see fit).

My first issue was with the effects: I understand that the change over to heavy effects usage at the second half of the video was used to illustrate the more evil side getting the upper hand or something close to that, and I really liked it. My question would be 'why didn't the good side see a similar/contrasting effect in the first half of the video?'. Clearly the 'good' side was winning towards the beginning of this, so it might have been nice to see a contrasting effect to the red, maybe a bluish glow or something. Without that you simply have raw editing vs. effects editing running parallel to good vs. evil; this could almost be interpreted as you suggesting that effects can be both evil and powerful, which I think is a very interesting message. At the very least thats what this video said to me.

On a more technical note, the color correction towards the end of the video could've used a tiny bit more tweaking. I would've liked seeing you crush your midtones a little bit with levels or curves to get rid of all the grey instead of black that is present in the last fight scene with Sephiroth.

Also, the slowdowns with Tifa killed the video for me in some places; the video was so well paced and fluid, the slowdowns to match the sync destroyed a lot of its momentum.

Overall though, very enjoyable to watch. The length for this type of "experimental" work was perfect. It didn't feel too drawn out and held my attention the entire time; any longer and it probably would have gotten boring, and any shorter it might not have had the same effect on the viewer. Very nice call on your part in that regard.

[ExSphere]

woooo finally. I enjoyed the outcome alot sir
still think you should have brightend sephiroths eyes at the end >>
But I enjoyed it 5/5

[Phlu]

I liked it for the most part but like guy, my biggest issue was that you used FF. Besides that though it was a cool video.