My EVE

To get myself equated with Adobe Premiere and After Effects (Because Sony Vegas is about as stable as a house of cards in a hurricane) I've decided to start working on a cinematic showcase of the new ships in Retribution. In case anyone is interested in seeing progress I'll be posting some updates for what I'm doing here to keep myself motivated.

The idea of the video is to do a CCP-Esq cinematic showcase of each of the new ships (the 4 destroyers and the Mining Frigate) with some 3ds max/After effects stuff thrown in to spice it up.

Right now I'm working on the Concord style hud like what you see in the CDA Incursion trailer. Here's what I've got so far:

This is all obviously concept WIP type stuff so bear with me. Suggestions are welcome if you have any :)



Some pieces of the hud

http://img.techpowerup.org/121109/NewshipsWIP2.jpg
http://img.techpowerup.org/121109/NewShipsWIP3.jpg
http://img.techpowerup.org/121109/newshipsWIP4.jpg

All together with some accents, glows and text.
http://img.techpowerup.org/121109/NewshipsWIP1.jpg



The next step for this piece is to import each layer individually into 3ds max and animate it all then port it into AE and do something with it.

I'll update this thread periodically.

My youtube channel is https://www.youtube.com/user/MrGlockshna. I will probably upload little test bits of it or something there when I get something workable.

Update 1:

Here be a test of part of the hud thing (don't know what to call it lol)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPz-lCiH6Mc

Update 2:

After fiddling around with the text and positioning all night I have a little more to show. *must sleep*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-hYI4jviqo

More to come tomorrow most likely.

Update 3:
Working on a ship stats rollout. not sure which one of these I want to use for the video though...

1: http://img.techpowerup.org/121110/1265.jpg
or
2: http://img.techpowerup.org/121110/2109.jpg

fuckit I might just use both.

I also made an alternate popin animation for the main hud element. I might throw up another vid tonight. Not sure.

I'm thinking about creating 3d models of each factional icon (Caldari, Minmatar, Gallente, Amarr, and ORE for the frigate) to animate and pop in to the video kind of like the Concord logo in the CDA trailer.

Update 4:
Spent a couple hours getting good shots of the new ships. Just for a quick test I grabbed the Algos clip and dropped the plain hud on it and this is what it looks like.

Going to work on the text tomorrow most likely. If I have time I'll also get the stats bars animated.

Here's Tonight's video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R__C3oUu6As

Thoughts anyone?

I'm still working on this, going to wait till I have a more substantial update before I update this again.