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This is a link post Need some constructive criticism.
I'm currently working on a music video for a contest from the band Zuco103.

I started this because I could finally mess around with some good green-screen footage (which the band supplies for the contest) and after effects.

So the idea is that each verse/chorus/bridge in the song gets its own page, and I thought I might ask for comments early on in the process, to get some pointers here and there.

For the complete song have a listen at their myspace site.
(NoSoup4U, Wed 8 Oct 2008, 19:17, Reply)
This is a normal post Great start!
I would work on the band members' comic book effect, right now it seems to ignore some important line details and really screams of pre-made filter.
 (I helped save b3ta! Digeridude Lord Wellington's Beef Trapeze, Wed 8 Oct 2008, 20:13, Reply)
This is a normal post Ah yep.
Working on that: Didn't go wild on that yet, but I will try to get the dot-print look in the end (if I'm able to pull it off).

Thanks.

Also got some comments on how I'd be better of making the speech balloons more dynamic: So also working on that.
 (NoSoup4U, Wed 8 Oct 2008, 20:33, Reply)
This is a normal post I second this!
You need to define the lines much more in the face and outlines. Perhaps try rotoscoping as right now it really does just look like a pre-madefilter thrown on top.

It's a brilliant idea, and looks good bar the band members.
 (John_Anon_Prince I have no heart and soul, Wed 8 Oct 2008, 20:36, Reply)
This is a normal post Ah right.
Makes sense.
Real rotoscoping by hand would be way too much work (the deadline is the 20th of October), but I'll definitely try to tweak my current plugin a bit more, and maybe flatten the overall image after that's done, so the colors become more constant (and this the faces/outlines would be more clear).

Thanks.
 (NoSoup4U, Wed 8 Oct 2008, 21:16, Reply)
This is a normal post I know nothing of the filters/rotoscoping/technical stoof for this but what I will say is,
it always helps to have a narrative of some description, a story arc, some reason why they are there being what they are, and as this is being represented as a comic strip, this would seem odd to me if there wasn't one.

A little tricky when using pre recorded green screen I'm sure, but maybe you can add some of your own characters? Like something going on in the background or around them? Laser fights and robots or something, y'know, draw some spaceships in pop art style and have a battle going on, some pew pew pew, that kinda thing.

Just a thought.
 (I helped save b3ta! ..wil, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 19:49, Reply)