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i don't think i'm going to spend money in the latest hardwares only to see a demo, nor to download a 61 MB divx...

Sokoban, good, fuck off then. This is pretty but I don't really see the point of releasing a trailer for a demo.

wowo.. impressive models and animation. The polycount makes it look like some kind of raytracer video thing.. wild demo or something... If it is to remain in this theme I suggest you work on a story though.. Dont be tempted to base the story around the fact that metaballs blend into eachother in a rather cool fashion ..
Again.. the drowning man looks great! Cool bubbles too. Maybe the chrome-biatch was a bit too voluptuos. Remember!! Jerking off to chrome women is never really an option anyway.. Smaller breasts == more art & style enourmous firm breasts == porn.. yay.. Anyways, Im sure this will become quite a corker on Breakpoint..

matrox corel reef demo was cooler :)

*coral

Yes the models were impressive, but I think it was a bit short for a 20 MB download so only a piggie from me.

Divx version is wonderful just a tiny bit short for it's file size.
*P*l*a*s*t*i*c*

I always found the idea of releasing demo trailers pretty lame. This is not Hollywood.

"The meaning of releasing a trailer is to get as many comments as possible to make the final better"

The meaning of releasing a trailer is showing everybody what to expect. And that means spoiling all the fun because, unlike movies, we don't want to have the slightest idea of what to expect until the demoshow.
And come on! don't make your demo like others want it to be.

Even though I am not especially keen on story demos I love this. Talk about professionality - only the modelling kicks butt, leave alone the decent music! And finally a demo where the horsepower of your machine is relevant again. More of this! (Just optimize your size/running_time ratio a tidbit, heh).

impressive modelling and animation, nice music. looking forward to the final product.

R U L E Z !!!

love the music, will be looking forward to the final.. really cool looking teaser, even if it's just the .avi i'm watching. tho' there could be some more details on that first model like the movement is not that realistic and the bubbles appear like from nowhere. that's what i would say if this was a game. but since it's a demo it's just awesome! thumbs up.

very impressive stuff, but it doesn't appeal to me hugely. Maybe it's cause its just a trailer though. But i'm hoping there will be some consistency to it when its released (a story or whatever, so long as it's not just some randomly connected scenes :)

It's really nicely done, but it's ZZZzzzzzZZZ and i think i will save my thumb for the final. Oh yeah and loose the music.

if you really released this trailer to know what to do different for the final, I'd suggest that you gonna add some design stuff to it. looks a bit empty to me. but surely cool.

somehow nice!

My expectations weren't too high, but this was actually quite promising. Enough animation etc to lift this above the "boring flyby" category. Looked and sounded good, and ran like a dream on my machine (with Radeon! omfg).. I'm not a big fan of the whole "trailer" idea though, but what the hell.

nice, but not impressive... good visuals, but the colors are pretty dull and also this demo doesnt have an entertaining pace... it's too slow imho. so a piggie

21Mb ?!?!

Boring. As far as trailers go, this didn't really leave me with a feeling that I'd like to see more.

I prefer the real Plastic group better!

Smokesome, Datademo, Ripping is art, to name a few.

pretty yesteryear while claiming to be fresh.

not really convinced but i like the music.
will wait anxiously for teh democompo :)

It`s very nice looking. But you did a mistake by releasing 40-50% of your demo before it is showed in the bp democompo.

Authentic definition of something fucking slow :P Maybe you should optimize a bit the whole thing

Very pretty production. Nice design, those 2 things are what is keeping this away from thumbs down because of the typical PC bloatware. Unless it's dat already contains the data for the final version, otherwise that is just plain suckiness.

@shash hint, turn off the ansio and anti ;p And i hope by optimise you don't mean the code, as this prolly isn't too bad, for a pc demo. Look at Coma (on the wanky crap floor) and it is only thx to upx that that the exe is under 1mb, unupx'd it's 2.5mb which is just so bad, it's just clumps of shit bolted together.

this was nice and i'm looking forward for the compo version.

i had to do with the avi version, and what i was wondering is: why so high requirements? all this could be done on a tnt2, too. (btw. see Dis for similar effects back in 1998) i would love to see the final having either lower requirements or (and preferably) more complex effects, like shadows and volumetric lights.

releasing previews or "trailers" was quite common on the demoscene in the early 90s and i see nothing bad about it. after all, the comments improve the demo and it also motivates the opponents so it just raises the compo quality.

looks good.
nice d'n'b track in LTJ Bukem style.

crashes at loading screen at about 95%, with xeon 3.06, quadro fx 1000, latest nvidia drivers

remarkable code and modellling !


but as you (bonzaj) want some critical comments, here you are :

why oh why putting a ridiculous loincloth on the man ? are you targeting Walt Disney audience ? Why is the woman completely naked whereas the man's sex should be hidden ? such prudish correctness is ridiculous ! Demoscene is adult ! :P Free the penis ! Free the penis ! ok ok next comment :]

if you want to compete with Nemo, then think about more colorful underwater objects...

if you want to compete with Farbrausch, then Candytron girl is sexier :P

if you want to win demosceners' votes, then you need to put more *exciting* stuff beyond the romance story, like a fight between a giant robot and a WW2 plane hehe (look at Don Quijote by Frogwize, http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=3899, it's my favourite story demo !)


ok if you find my comments stupid, i find them quite stupid too, in fact i find quite stupid the fact to ask people opinion before the party version... Plastic people do seem very talented, i'm sure they can design a topnotch demo by their own artistic wills ;)


i'm looking forward to watching the full version :)

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i thought it wanted to participate in the demo compo at breakpoint, and can a trailer for a demo compete in another compo?

Burning the candle on both ends, eh? Don't think that's fair.

strangely its working perfectly today. Seems my new machine has now learned that it must show demos :/

Well, the realtime version was much longer than the video i saw... maybe i didn't download the whole thing. Looks promising anyway.

I really didn't like this! Sure, it was impressive, but doesn't make me like it. I didn't like the models, not at all. So many polygons and so little life. Why not draw them of less polygons and add hair and thy would come more alive. Hair-less people feels like Poser models and that doesn't feel that exciting.
Good luck and hopefully I will be more impressed by the BP release.

Sucks ass, sorry. Bad animation, ugly images. Engine-features way overused, the models were overly high-polygon. I'm a bit harsh, but you can do better than that!

a beauty..

what happened to the final?

considering the lameass quality of the democompo at BP, it could have won it actually :P

hehe Plastic are clairvoyant ;)

Putain c'est bandant

There´s the final?

Ugly animation and camerawork, and the music doesn't fit in the visuals. And 20MB for a short trailer, get real!

i guess they should support ps2.0 at asm04 having some radeon9800 or GFX and if they dont, they suck! :)

It's not bad but everything is too smooth and empty for my taste, it needs a drowning Titanic or something. We will see how the trailer evolved.

not bad but not extraordinary, lack of synchros, medium music, hard-to-do underwater caustics, little bit boring story (slow cam moves), short trailer. Please more synch, more speed, more action for the final

Really fuckin impressive, really slow on this hardware, crashes in others, amazing modelling and animation, only enjoyable with the video.

Impressive graphics and sound, well done coders.

Good job.

rulez for:

+quality on models, and drawings.
+profesional looking of everything, like a movie
+the shader stuff

-But almost a Thumb down, for the content mixture,...long booring,...

Impressive!

Great trailer!

someone is listening to my favourite band here :D
(delerium - underwater)

Link is broken.

It's me again - I've just found one:

http://nehe.gamedev.net/counter.asp?file=data/contests/2004_creative/demo/michal_staniszewski.zip

Beautiful stuff anyway.

Nice models.