A guild of age writers trailer

[greendragoon]

Beautiful animation, GD. Perhaps the Age Writer's name could be a bit more emphasized? It looks a bit overshadowed by the other credits.

Thank you. Everything written on the pages can be changed pretty easily. I addition the GoW if prominently featured in the accompanying intro. But I am curious what you had in mind. Can you elaborate?

[Whilyam]

You can also find additional credits for Fens in the little brown book in the suspended hut. It wasn't all just me

[greendragoon]

Yeah, Robbieagray seems to have moved on to other projects (no fault to him, he's free to work on what ever he wants, ) so I think I may need to put together an age promo of my own. Just installed Windows 7 RC too. I still need to reinstall Uru and get that back up and running. Anyway, I kind of hoping that if I get it started, others might want to do their own trailers for other ages.

Btw Whilyam, I was just on youtube yesterday checking out your video collection. Good stuff. I especially like your Exodus trailer and "Fly Me to the Moon" music video. I also liked your Tre'bivdil trailer. Was that you doing the voice?

[Whilyam]

Actually, that's the great voice work of Mowog.

[greendragoon]

I thought that voice sounded familiar. Still the video was good too.

[Tweek]

Looks great, one minor nitpick, Linking Panels don't have shadows, they're part of the page not hovering above it as it looked in the trailer.

[greendragoon]

Looks great, one minor nitpick, Linking Panels don't have shadows, they're part of the page not hovering above it as it looked in the trailer.

Hmm, I could have sworn that there was at least one version of the linking panels like that. Let me go look...

/me runs off and scours the internet.

[time passes]

/me comes running back holding his iphone.

The answer is was sitting on my iPhone the whole time. This is what it's based off of. Note the drop shadow around the panel.

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The original Myst game had the rough-edged, floating linking panels. Riven changed it rectangular, flattened it on the page, centered it in the middle of the page, and added the the burn in effect at the start. Exile made the panels almost square and smaller, but kept the burn in effects. Revelations went back to rectangular and dropped the burn in effect. End of Ages made them take up half the page (what few linking books there were.) And Uru is, well, Uru with its static linking panels.

Really, no two games have portrayed linking panels the same. Although you are right in that most of the linking books have it flat on the page.

/me sits down to catch his breath and let someone else talk for a while.

[Goofy]

I made a promo trailer from awhile back from videos of others ages, Plus I added a intro and exit video I made in blender. The music was change(because of copywrite issues.) I still have the videos on my system with the original music if you want them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFCWgnit ... annel_page