[Sandwich]

I'd really appreciate your feedback on what you like and don't like, as well as which one(s) are your favorites, in the Ancients Cutscenes Renders I did a while back. So go here, look at 'em all, and come back to vote and post your opinion. Muchos Gracias.

Note: I'm looking for criticisim, so don't be shy - be honest.

Note 2: Remember - vote for your favorite, and put individual remarks in your posts.

[Nico]

first, don't compare yourself to a borg if you want to improve yourself

[Fineus]

Legacy for me, great use of colors - well presented message with nice fonts and the overall meaning of the image is simple to work out. The sun also rocks, it's the best one there in my opinion.

And since you want critism - I'd have to choose Vanquished. It's the atmosphere - it's large and white and looks horrible, that's about it really! The rest of the image is nice

[Mad Bomber]

Originally posted by venom2506
first, don't compare yourself to a borg if you want to improve yourself

SILENCE. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.

[Nico]

"waves at sandwich"
see?

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by venom2506
"waves at sandwich"
see?

*continues walking straight forward in a robotic fashion while ILM engineers add in whizzes and whirrs*

Uhm.... back to topic..

[Kitsune]

Legacy's cool.

I like the cloud-ish effect surroudning it, though I don't know why the bluish gases would be there.

Looks very out of place since the star itself is an orange/red and not a white/blue.

But otherwise it looks very nice.

And for other critiques?

The atmosphere in Vanquished has too much of the light effect going on in it.  It should thin out as it moves further away from the sun.

In Fate, the shivans on the asteroids could be bigger or have one closer to the screen.

Overall though the lens flares weren't bad, but I don't like the huge number of rays of light coming from them.

[Waffleboy]

Liberation, cause it's the only one that I know of

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Kitsune
Legacy's cool.

I like the cloud-ish effect surroudning it, though I don't know why the bluish gases would be there.

Looks very out of place since the star itself is an orange/red and not a white/blue.

But otherwise it looks very nice.

Ok, to everyone - the blue-white in the upper-right of Legacy is part of a subspace jump effect... I dunno why no-one's realized that before...

Keep those replies comin'!

[Rampage]

Originally posted by sandwich
Muchos Gracias.

Note: I'm looking for criticisim, so don't be shy - be honest.

Looks like that you don't take Spanish nor Italian.  The adjective MUST match the noun that it modifies.  I.E. - La nota fortíssima.  So therefore it would be "Muchas Gracias".

Anyway, I still like "Liberation".  The other renders seem a bit bland, if I may say so.  The one with the halo on the planet seems a bit original.  And since I've seen the ending cinematic to Freespace 1 multiple times, I must say that I prefer "Liberation".

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Rampage


Looks like that you don't take Spanish nor Italian.  The adjective MUST match the noun that it modifies.  I.E. - La nota fortíssima.  So therefore it would be "Muchas Gracias".

Anyway, I still like "Liberation".  The other renders seem a bit bland, if I may say so.  The one with the halo on the planet seems a bit original.  And since I've seen the ending cinematic to Freespace 1 multiple times, I must say that I prefer "Liberation".

No, no Spanish or Italian.

Well, for anyone who hasn't completely realized it yet, all the render visuals were pretty much direct copies off the visuals in the respective Ancient cutscene.

I'd say that I had the hardest time on "Liberation", since the only visuals in the cutscene (the monologue part) were those stretched dark blue nebula-things. SO I decided on those "word-echoes" to mirror the auditory echoes in the speech.

All in all, I think I had the most fun with "Fate" - it was the only one with actual 3D objects. Those asteriods are the standard FS2 asteroids, smoothed multiple times, copied, rotated, copied again, etc. I have the original asteroid backgroud right here somewhere, if anyone wants to use it: