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Not nearly as fancy as some of the other startup videos on here, but I have been trying to get back into 3D animation and recently came across a video about dynamic objects creating text and thought i'd try it out by throwing this together. Hopefully someone out there may like it. :)

The music is part of one of my own songs. I'm personally not feeling that it fits for this purpose but I couldn't find anything I liked better at the moment to suit the Big Box feel. If you have any suggestions, I'd be happy to swap out the audio and render it again.

  • Modeled, shaded, and rendered to still PNG images in Cinema 4D. (6 hours and 31 minutes to render a 15 second animation.. lol)
  • Imported PNG stills into Vegas Pro, added music and a light motion blur, then rendered back down to a 1080p video.

 

 


What's New in Version 1.1.0   See changelog

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It was brought to my attention that most startup are about 15+ seconds and there was a desire for shorter videos.

I kind of agree that some people like things that are short, sweet, and to the point so I changed things up and got it down to about 8 seconds.

I recommend changing BigBox settings for start up videos to 7 seconds. The video is slightly longer, but when set to 8, it looped a bit for me.

  • Added a second light that only affects the particles. The single top down spot light wasn't really showing the reflectiveness I intended. Nice and shiny now.
  • Reduced length and changed so both words form at the same time and then everything drops, rather than each work individually and hanging there till the end.
  • Changed from music to some ambient arcade sounds to best accommodate the shorter length of the video. Nothing better than the sound of being in an arcade. The feels.... xD

 

 

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This looks really good, well done. The issue I have and its not just you its every startup video, they are just way to long for me. but as I said this is one of the better ones I have seen.

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54 minutes ago, neil9000 said:

This looks really good, well done. The issue I have and its not just you its every startup video, they are just way to long for me. but as I said this is one of the better ones I have seen.

Thanks. I can render it out to be shorter if you want. I kind of agree that it is a bit long. I started at 15 seconds and already felt it was long, but then for the music to work, I had to add a bit at the start, so it ended up around 18 seconds... but yeah, let me know what you feel a better video length would be for you. It might take me a bit to get it rendered out since I typically set them to render overnight while i'm not using my computer, but i'll make it work. :)

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Thanks for the reply, to be honest with you they are all around that length and I see people complaing on the forums to long to long but no one has dealt with that yet??

First for everything????

 

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1 minute ago, neil9000 said:

Thanks for the reply, to be honest with you they are all around that length and I see people complaing on the forums to long to long but no one has dealt with that yet??

First for everything????

 

Lol Yeah. I'll mess around with it and see what I can do. Maybe have both words come in at once a little quicker and maybe have everything fall and fade out. Should be able to maybe cut it in half or maybe even a bit less doing that.

I could also just make a single image render if you think it would work as just a simple splash screen maybe.

I'm open to suggestions.  More practice for me. lol

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Just now, neil9000 said:

I hope I didn't sound rude, just noticed there was 30 views no downloads, make that 31 views 1 download.

Not at all. People are either going to like it or they aren't. That's the wonderful thing about Launchbox. We all have the same options, but everyone can do different things with them. xD

I pushed out a quick low res render (480p). No audio yet. No clue what happened to the color variation shader. Somewhere between me changing the total length of the animation and changing keyframing, the colors on the lower letters went nuts and change every frame. lol I figured out the issue and fixed it. Glad I did a low res render first or I would have been upset to do another 6+ hour render and see that issue. Not sure if comments will let me link a youtube video. Minus the crazy color switching, what do you think? Should I go for a full render or back to the drawing board, so to speak?

 

 

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5 minutes ago, TheClassicalGod said:

Not at all. People are either going to like it or they aren't. That's the wonderful thing about Launchbox. We all have the same options, but everyone can do different things with them. xD

I pushed out a quick low res render (480p). No audio yet. No clue what happened to the color variation shader. Somewhere between me changing the total length of the animation and changing keyframing, the colors on the lower letters went nuts and change every frame. lol I figured out the issue and fixed it. Glad I did a low res render first or I would have been upset to do another 6+ hour render and see that issue. Not sure if comments will let me link a youtube video. Minus the crazy color switching, what do you think? Should I go for a full render or back to the drawing board, so to speak?

 

 

well I can only give my own opinion but that looks great to me. A nice quick intro video.

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Just now, neil9000 said:

well I can only give my own opinion but that looks great to me. A nice quick intro video.

Cool. I'll double check that colors are fixed and do a full 1080p render tonight. Should be done by morning and i'll have to come up with some sort of sound effect or something between now and then that won't get me in trouble. Thats why I used my own music. No copyright issues. lol

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Again, please don't let me coerce you in any way, you are the artist, I wouldn't no where to start with any of this. I just find all start up videos to long.

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Just now, neil9000 said:

Again, please don't let me coerce you in any way, you are the artist, I wouldn't no where to start with any of this. I just find all start up videos to long.

No coercion here. The majority of the work is already done. It only took maybe 5 - 10 minutes to change stuff from what I had already done. The render will take a while, but it's time that I won't be at my computer anyway. Might as well have it do something while I sleep. lol Render should be done tomorrow morning. I'll slap some audio on it and reupload. Even if you're the only one that ends up using it, that's fine by me. Maybe we can start a trend for shorter startup videos. heh

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2 minutes ago, TheClassicalGod said:

No coercion here. The majority of the work is already done. It only took maybe 5 - 10 minutes to change stuff from what I had already done. The render will take a while, but it's time that I won't be at my computer anyway. Might as well have it do something while I sleep. lol Render should be done tomorrow morning. I'll slap some audio on it and reupload. Even if you're the only one that ends up using it, that's fine by me. Maybe we can start a trend for shorter startup videos. heh

Yes please shorter startup videos peeps, I like the fact of having a awesome video basically saying look bigbox is starting up, I hate having to wait 30 seconds or so though.

 

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Just now, TheClassicalGod said:

Was literally just in the middle of uploading a shorter version. heh Hope people enjoy it.

I just saw that! They're both awesome, but of course I'm partial to the longer one. :)

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1 minute ago, Jason Carr said:

I just saw that! They're both awesome, but of course I'm partial to the longer one. :)

I like both, but I'm bias toward the longer one since the music is from an actual recording of mine. lol Either way. Options for everyone.

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27 minutes ago, TheClassicalGod said:

I like both, but I'm bias toward the longer one since the music is from an actual recording of mine. lol Either way. Options for everyone.

Wow! I record music myself, so I can appreciate that tremendously. That is a *very* nice sounding track. :)

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Just now, Patham said:

Awesome intro video. I can't decide which I like best so I'll be switching between the two. Thanks for making my LaunchBox even better.

Thanks. Glad you like it. =) I'm working on a Mario themed one I plan to put up eventually. Still working out details and how exactly I want to do it.

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