Vivid Lights

Круто, стильно, ярко, красочно - виден дух киберпанка.

Если бы не музыка Клейтона, прошел бы мимо. Жалко что он забил на свой главный проэкт Celldweller и распыляется на кучу других

MrNosec написал(а):
Kroner -AMV-,
The man spared a few months to make the video, I can spare a few to write him a comment too v_v;

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/637814218946641930/773946901913534464/unknown.png

Яркая, стильная, скучная и незапоминающаяся работа.

Darksss 73 написал(а):
Ну кроме клипов KazKona - OnIrIcA 2017 года и Psychedelic Limbo 2018 года

это вообще другое, лол, лень пресматривать, но насколько помню казкон не пытался там в аестетик

а так, тут как минимум пачка мепов была с неоном прочим аестетиком: Neon Symphony Мetropolis (MEP) N.E.O

MesoGear написал(а):

Разве? По моему оно особо и не выходило из...

Ну кроме клипов KazKona - OnIrIcA 2017 года и Psychedelic Limbo 2018 года = я мало что припомню из фиолетовой темы и работай ц.к. с такой насыщенностью цвета.(Хоть и стробоскоп) А потом затишье.
Хотя... могу и ошибаться.

Darksss 73 написал(а):
снова в моде

Разве? По моему оно особо и не выходило из...

Фиолетовая ^ неоновая ^ техника ^ фефектов - снова в моде.
Особенно после клипа - Void Eternal
Интересно - на сколько её хватит.
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Спасибо, очень понравилась музыка. И видно много работы проделано. Я не видел других работ конкурса, но что делаете Вы - выше всяких похвал.

Sometimes, less is more.

MrNosec, well, and I totally appreciate it

Kroner -AMV-,
The man spared a few months to make the video, I can spare a few to write him a comment too v_v;

MrNosec,
Now I understand why you appear once at year, it took at least 364 days to type this comments

Hey Fury, first of all congrats on the 1st place and on your business accomplishments, pretty inspiring stuff for other editors hoping to follow video editing as a profession, also big comment(s) incoming.

Contrary to the genre tags labeled on this video I didn't feel it as much of an action or drama or sentimental, I think it's more of a character profile (if the city counts as a character), creating a visual experience with several elements and colors (almost too many to count) all animated and shifting to create a living city/atmosphere you imagined, overdosing the viewer with visual information, if there is a story I couldn't retell it in text format, I remember people driving cars, riding bikes, fighting with knives, playing the guitar on stage, dancing on the street, taking the subway, eating and getting shot.
Every scene feels like pawns being used to represent the life in the city you envisioned, more than them being actual characters in the video with feelings or struggles, so I can't ever feel sentimental over a video of this kind, but it can be eye candy and that's what I will judge it as.

On the technical side though, I haven't ventured into 3D software such as C4D/Blender/UE4 or tried mixing it with anime so I can't judge or excessively nitpick that part as a creator due to not having a clue what tools were used to make it, but I can imagine the effort it took so I'll be nitpicking them only on an aesthetic standpoint as a viewer in almost bullet point fashion for constructive purposes hehe.

To start I'll choose just 5 scenes that bothered me on first viewing, maybe not huge problems (or even considered pedantic) but considering how detailed every scene is I'm not sure how these went by unnoticed by the beta testers or if simply neglected due to a tight deadline:

https://i.gyazo.com/4c90d263d0a06bcca1e5227511abb7a6.mp4
The waves in the center feel like an overlay because the movement of the water itself does not match the displacement of the reflection, so there is a dissonance between the implied movement and what I'm actually seeing.

https://i.gyazo.com/97f7c1258ecd82aaad3a5908daea177b.mp4
Reflection vanishes as the scene plays.

https://i.gyazo.com/0c081a36f573f7d2c0d1cf5f0c580856.mp4
Light post is "transparent" while it was correct in the source: https://i.imgur.com/qy9YTWP.png

https://i.gyazo.com/62996585764a9b1802320828750bcf51.mp4
Tracking of the character here is unfortunate, since it's such a linear 2D motion I think it would have been better to do it manually than leaving it as is, but it's odd how it couldn't be tracked to that surface.

https://i.gyazo.com/19e1ab780bc4837aa7fb00cd64349b27.mp4
As the focus of the camera shifts from the glass to the background, the rain drops sliding down the window remain crisp and not affected by the depth of field.

Besides those there's also several instances of masks morphing without the actual character moving such as this: https://i.gyazo.com/dbaca44c4a93da2589442e24ce099577.mp4
But that might just be a result of a rotobrush overlook because I doubt you would mask the same frame twice manually.

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The other only real thing I think could be easily improved in future works is both the use of stroke after masking out characters (which is present in some scenes but not in others) and overall compositing color matching which is lacking in some comps as well. Some examples:

https://i.imgur.com/dDjqfBI.jpg
The characters felt oddly out of place here not sure if it's because their exposure is cranked up to the max while their dark clothing is super flat in contrast, as an example the skirt and legs of the 2nd girl from the right looks particularly worse than the rest, I think matching the characters' exposure to the background and adding a lightwrap would definitely sold this scene better.

https://i.imgur.com/5O4QV2a.jpg
Contrast mismatch from the character to the background, his head looks like it has a white solid at low opacity on top of it it's super flat contrast-wise unlike anything in the background, you can make things lighter in tone and light flooding the dark spots yes but it can't all be nearly the same shade of brightness it's missing the shadows.

https://i.imgur.com/lRxQkwH.jpg
Opposite of previous example, contrast is so hardcore the face starts losing detail, and it's almost as white as the white screen right behind the character.

https://i.imgur.com/zgb0dlO.jpg
Lack of stroke on the arm makes this shot feel very strange almost like it changed art style on the fly, also I think the light cast on the character from the trashcan on fire should be the same color as the fire emitting the light, would ground the character more in that space.

https://i.imgur.com/bnKmmSo.jpg
Lack of stroke here makes the character nearly blend with the background like a chameleon and both his inner strokes/eyebrows/hair look strangely dark, for example his hair is a huge surface on the screen and is straight up zero from 0-255 on the brightness table, I'm not sure why this is since most of the dark surfaces and scenes in this video are usually a hazy black, greyed out filled with light from this neon city more than crushed "true" blacks, you can make things dark but losing detail on large surfaces is something to be strongly avoided.

I was going to talk more about the video itself and not the technicals but I ran out of space and don't want to flood the comment section any more than I already have, in the end my comment turned out oddly like a beta test (which is something to ponder about), but I hope to see stuff like this fixed/implemented in future videos, also maybe it's just me but after watching it more than 5 times I forget how the song sounded like the next time I try to remember it, maybe it's a genre of the AMV which has become more and more popular with videos like "Nards - A Moment Apart", "JazzsVids - La La Land" and "JazzsVids - Void Eternal", but this aesthetic direction and lack of importance/absence in both lyrics and the characters seem to be common in most of them, which for me makes it hard to be personally connected with the work, I guess you could call it "commercial art".

TL;DR technically ambitious and complex eye candy video that had some oopsies and could use some polish but in the end it's still an accomplishment, congratulations on your work and all the awards that came with it, good luck and ideas in future projects.

Unpolished
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стильно
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MesoGear написал(а):
сколько там за первое место дают?

~2200 евро дали

еее ретровейв

приятно осознавать, что автору весь этот эффорт хоть как-то окупился, сколько там за первое место дают?

Очень круто - понравилось. Ярко, сочно, самобытно.