[CE3] LOTR - "Balrog Reveal" Cinematic

The_Distiller

Hey folks. This is my first thread here and I'm excited to become a member of this community. I'm working on a new cinematic taking place in the Lord of the Rings universe. I had this Balrog model lying around in my archives and thought, why not make a cinematic sequence with it. Furthermore I wanted to get more familiar with the particles in CE3 and see how close I could come to the quality of the first movie's sequence in a realtime game-engine although it is not meant to be an exact copy of it. Hope you enjoy!


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5C3z1CqVHE&hd=1"]Youtube version[/ame]

1080p download version


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Making-Of:

Ged

very impressive! I feel like there could be a little more interesting lighting, its very very dark on my monitor but perhaps that fits the lotr film scene style.

Lephenix

Really nice altough the head texture need more variation in colors:

ZombieWells

very cool! There's a lot going on in this scene, looks like a great learning exercise.

The_Distiller

Thanks for the comments!

@Ged: Yeah it's quite dark, I may will punch up the overall brightness in a future release.

@Lephenix: I sticked more to a style similar to this, rather than incorporate flesh tones into his face.

Lephenix

Ok, really nice, i would love to make cinematics later!

Tobbo

Why did those dwarves have to dig so deep? Haha, great work so far!

Selaznog

Looks awesome but could really use some tweaking on the camera zoom as well as the wings. When he bursts out of the ground, the wings could be folded, and then spread out as the pillars crumble. Right now they look way too stale :P
Keep it up, the stills you have are great!

Kbrom12

Not sure if you know or not, but N4G is featuring this video

http://n4g.com/news/1076607/this-is-what-a-lotr-game-would-look-like-in-cryengine-3-mind-blowing-fan-project-resurrects-balrog

Looks good, I like seeing small projects like this