Blackheart is back... again

Hello everyone, a while back I announced a cinematic series I wasdoing entitiled "Stand Alone" well I have finally gotten back to work on it and I'm gonna post some screens of it today. The new title is "Avenging the Past" or ATP because everyone loves acronyms so much . The first release will be a rather hefty download because it is jam packed with new music (I'm using classical as well as music by Dream Theater, if you don't know who they are, they are the best metal\rock band to ever exist) and possibly featuring new skins if I can find someone to help me out with those. Here is a features list:

STORYLINE ELEMENTS 100% done
- The richest, deepest story ever to be featured in a Warcraft III cinematic. Completed
- Characters that you actually care about and what happens to them. Completed

VISUALS 70% done
- Great looking terrain with buildings that are actually to scale with the characters.
- Custom intro screen, title screen, etc.
- Blacked out letterbox like in the CotD cinema.
- Loads of doodads.
- Environments that vary from realistic, to fantasy, to just plain wierd. Completed layouts for everything
- *Possibly* New skins for all characters.

CAMERAS 75% done
- Boat Cam! Completed
- Chase Cam! Completed
- Movie quality camera angles.

MENU 25%
- DVD type menu with these buttons:
- Play movie. Completed
- Scene Selection.
- Special Features.
- The Making of ATP
- Outtakes
- Bloopers (people who watched my "A Very Warcraft Easter know that I always put these in :D )

Screens will be posted very soon! Comments are appreciated!

Ok first screen (I picked these screens because they don't reveal any storyline info).

Glad you're back...
I thought someone shot you or something (*cough*DK*cough*). :////

Not bad. I wanna see if the menu stuff works out,so I can use it in mine. :ggani:

One thing: It looks a little bare...
Ok, more shrubs or soemthing would be good. Try to make it look as weedy as an old hag's garden. :////

Thanks! This a bad shot though, plus more weeds would block the close up camera angles I put in. Just wait till I post a screen with the view off of that mountain. :D

Ok here's another shot finally (now does that look like a jungle 8) or what!) ...

WOW!!! When I saw that mountain screenshot I was like0_oThat looks really good. Pleese finish this soon!!!

Hehe, thanks! Wait till you see the others. BTW, the terrain is still unpolished here so it will be better when it is released! I'll post another few shots tonight. :foot: :D

Ok, people who saw the old shots will remember this place...

the screens look very cool...when the cin will be released?

I bet you Spongebob and Patrick will save that man :D.....

LOL! I can just imagine it now....

<Goes into a trance>

Annnyway, looking good!

Thanks everyone, the cinematic will include the prologue and Chapter 1 (pictured in the screens). I expect to release it by about September 10.

Wait till you see what I have cooked up for you guys! Its the best interior area ever to be featured in a cinematic! No screens will be released of this scene because it reveals too much and I want to surprise you! BTW the map file unzipped is 40 megs so far (I know its alot for a cinematic). The reason for this is because the music quality is very very high. I find this completely necessary for you viewers to truly experience the feeling of the cinematic without worrying about how crappy the quality is (the quality is 192 kbps mp3s :D ). And another update, the cinema will incluse all new skins, if anyone is interested in helping please just say so. Just note that I want the quality of the skins to be really good so not just anyone should reply about it. I'm just as excited about releasing this as you guys are to watch it so I'm working my *** off here! You will enjoy it... I guarantee it (I sound like George Foreman now :ggani: ).

I'll believe it when I see it.

:)

Whats with all these cinematics showing the villager male as the main charecter? Its a bit over used. Screen Shots looks nice though.