Blackwood (Elder Scrolls IV:Oblivion Machinima)

Post » Tue May 25, 2010 9:36 am

Hey Everyone! TRiBViDs from Dink Productions here to bring you our latest series! Some of you may remember Khyff Von'Dracule, that was us...but this is now and the time for a new series has come. We really worked hard on this and we want to know what everyone thinks. So please enjoy and give us your feedback.

Blackwood Episode 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KojrOQiTQBE
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Micah Judaeah
 
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Post » Tue May 25, 2010 9:48 am

i like it :D
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Jynx Anthropic
 
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Post » Tue May 25, 2010 9:34 am

Very nice! :foodndrink:
I'm in the creative industry and see a lot of shorts and the like. Some thoughts:

1. I wish the panning was smoother.
2. Audio needs to be cleaned up and boosted overall throughout. Not by much, just a tich.
3. The long-perspective dining room table shot was very nice.
4. During the dining table conversation, I would have preferred a quick cut to facial expressions, instead of the running down the table shot, as we already know where we are.

Blackwood resembles John Marston, from Red Dead Redemption, or maybe I'm just reaching.
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Post » Tue May 25, 2010 10:27 am

Very nice! :foodndrink:
I'm in the creative industry and see a lot of shorts and the like. Some thoughts:

1. I wish the panning was smoother.
2. Audio needs to be cleaned up and boosted overall throughout. Not by much, just a tich.
3. The long-perspective dining room table shot was very nice.
4. During the dining table conversation, I would have preferred a quick cut to facial expressions, instead of the running down the table shot, as we already know where we are.

Blackwood resembles John Marston, from Red Dead Redemption, or maybe I'm just reaching.


@andyalam: Thanks!

@mpls Big Daddy:

1. Yeah, your right. I'm trying much harder for Episode 2 to get smoother pans and make it look a lot better. There was some problems with my video card when I was shooting Episode 1, Episode 2 will be better!
2. By Audio I assume you are talking about the VO's. I will definitely do that in the future, Thanks!
3. Thanks, I liked it too!
4. I agree, I will try that in the future, Thanks!

I've never played Red Dead Redemption, so I wouldn't know ha...but if he's BA then by all means haha. Anyway Thanks for breaking it all down and showing my strengths and weaknesses. I will definitely keep your comments in mind in the future!
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Shannon Marie Jones
 
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Post » Tue May 25, 2010 5:43 am

I absolutely loved it. :thumbsup:

mpls made some good points. I would like to add as well;

1. Expand on voice acting. two voices for seven characters and it starts sounding like South Park.
2. Music transition is a bit dodgy, especially at 5:00.

Overall it had a nice "Saturday Serials" feel to it. :)

I can see you put a lot of work into this and can't wait for episode 2!
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Post » Tue May 25, 2010 1:33 pm

Very nice. I look forward to episode 2. Out of curiosity, what do you use to accomplish the voice distortion used towards the end?
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Post » Tue May 25, 2010 10:32 am

Not bad at all.
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Saul C
 
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Post » Tue May 25, 2010 2:56 pm

I absolutely loved it. :thumbsup:

mpls made some good points. I would like to add as well;

1. Expand on voice acting. two voices for seven characters and it starts sounding like South Park.
2. Music transition is a bit dodgy, especially at 5:00.

Overall it had a nice "Saturday Serials" feel to it. :)

I can see you put a lot of work into this and can't wait for episode 2!


Thank you everyone for your comments

@Miles_Acraeus

1. We agree...but we dont really know alot of people that are into this.
2. Yeah...not gonna lie...there were acouple times where I did somewhat of a rush job...but I will definitely try harder to make the transitions nice...I actually thought alot of them sounded fine...with a few exceptions of course.

And yes, the "Serials" format is the format that we like to use because on Youtube you only get so much time...and we havnt found the right way to set up and write a more Episodic format yet...we are learning as we go :)

@The Vyper

Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Its Free!

And also thanks Miller
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