Very, very impressive Tyson, from storyboarding, layout, center of interest( or however you call that) to final result...
this made me feel unconfortable, wich is unusual in 3d clips, well done.
i hope you will get the deserved recognition for this!
if i may, here is a questions and two things i noted:
- did you do the light flikering in compositing or in max (or both) ?
- make shure you remove all the black video at the end
- watch out for the compositing, when the "human" left, and you have the guy lying there agonising... the colors seems too colorfull and not as saturated as the rest of the clip... so it seems to stick out, and be weirdly too colorfull (the colors of his suit disturbed me: flashy green and blue).. know what i mean?
- the camera position in shot 7 disturbed me when i first looked at it, felt lost... maybe that' what you wanted, but maybe a little more to the left, and angled so that you can see a bit of the corridor, could have been nice... cause as you have it, it feels like we are the "human" walking up to the guy, which is not possible, since he is comming from the right... (that being said, if shot 7 would be a still camera, that could maybe do the trick) (just looked at it again, try removing shot 7, and see how it works with out it..)
ok, wached it again, i think i know what disturbed me (so don't care about the last comment, i left it, to let you know it did disturbed me)...
with your first shot, you seem to establish the folowing:
geen: guy
Blue, purple:door
at first, i thought the blue was were the door was... this is why i was going on about shot 7 but after watching it a few times, i realised the door is where the purple is, so shot 7 makes more sence)
the problem with your first shot, is that when the camera goes from the the guy's head to the door, the coridor with the blue dot in it, is absolutly dark, so it feels as if you are looking at the corridor with the blue dot in it, where in fact, you are looking at the one with the purple dot...(feels like a 90 degree turn instead of a 180) so if you add somewhat of light in that blue coridor, the spectator, might understand what is going on a little better
then this makes me point somthing else,
i understand your handheld camera motion helps to give it dynamism and all that, it does look cool, and helps the "fear" and "unstable" feeling of your clip, but make shure not to abuse of it, for example i think it is un nessesary in your opening shot when the camera is in space,
same as other shots in your short, with the camera on the groud standing still, the fact that the guy sitting is all messed up and weak will stand out much more, especialy if you make it folow by a "handheld" shot as if it was us looking through his eyes.
i hope you understand what i mean, and i hope you will not take all theses comments wrongly, as this is a great, astonishing clip of yours! i know you probably won't change any of the said above because of the deadline, or simply because you might want to move on to somthing elses, but i thought i'd let you know what i was thinking about this clip!
Once again this is a personal point of view, so take it or leave it