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• cdc #1: my bird-cage by jamm
• cdc #2: Caero by Plant & Electromotive Force [web]
• cdc #3: { by Downtown [web]
• cdc #4: Hätä by Da Jormas [web]
• cdc #5: hello:FRIEND by Fairlight [web]
• cdc #6: collektikum by Calodox
• cdc #7: Markov Chant by Limp Ninja [web]

• 64k Windows Mond by TeVe
• There was a lot in this I liked. The rendering is simple but works, that's enough for me. The music was just wonderful.
• rulezadded on the 2016-03-28 03:38:40
• 4k procedural graphics Windows Night Time by Loonies [web]
• Love the mobile cam version :D
• rulezadded on the 2016-03-27 18:42:30
• 64k Windows Darkness Lay Your Eyes Upon Me by Conspiracy [web]
• It works!
• isokadded on the 2016-03-27 17:49:11
• 4k Windows Soleu by Collapse [web]
• I get a white screen with music by the way, so I assume the shader didn't compile. Running on Radeon 270.
• isokadded on the 2016-03-27 16:04:01
• 64k Windows Darkness Lay Your Eyes Upon Me by Conspiracy [web]
• I am. Also AMD if that matters.
• isokadded on the 2016-03-27 15:11:23
• 64k Windows Darkness Lay Your Eyes Upon Me by Conspiracy [web]
• Crashes right away by the way. Gets caught in Windows' execution prevention.
• isokadded on the 2016-03-27 14:33:44
• 4k Windows Soleu by Collapse [web]
• Best in the compo. Superb rendering and lighting. The music kinda sucked, sound-wise especially, but for obvious reasons. Another prod that pushes the bar for me. It's getting quite brutal out here (heh).
• rulezadded on the 2016-03-27 13:47:01
• 64k Windows Darkness Lay Your Eyes Upon Me by Conspiracy [web]
• visy: Yeah, that too. Then again Interstellar I feel kinda pays homage in that way to Days Of Heaven in the first place :). Both of these intros are surprisingly Nolanish (in a good way) to be frank.
• isokadded on the 2016-03-27 13:32:37
• 64k Windows fermi paradox by Mercury [web]
• Also I feel the more people tend to have to say about a production, the better it is, regardless of whether it's positive or negative things they have to say. There's easily a page or two to write about the actual contents of this intro as well. This is significant.
• isokadded on the 2016-03-27 13:16:29
• 64k Windows fermi paradox by Mercury [web]
• Fucking.
  sick.
  
  You guys finally outdid yourselves in every aspect you've been emphasizing before. This is so completely off the chart next to virtually anything else produced by the scene it's not even funny. Technical merit is one thing and this boasts plenty of those, but there is so much more here that makes this special.
  
  Composition. Editing. Proper montage. The sound design. Composition. Framing. Pace. And once more, composition. There's so much in this that transcends the entire demoscene. I have nothing but utmost respect for the attention put into the pacing and editing. If there's one thing that plagues the scene, it's people's inability take their time to express themselves. Needless rapid cuts and unnatural editing tend to be rampant. It's frankly unfathomable to me how well you managed to blend together such a vast array of editing ideas and do it seamlessly and naturally.
  
  I've previously criticized mercury a lot over their extravagant post-processing and poor color grading. Fermi Paradox really is in a league of its own and on a whole another level of maturity in those regards. Every choice done in the post-processing step supports the intention of the editing. I admire how well you managed to restrict yourselves, in many ways even better than many professionals. Of course overall this looks stunning. I'm yet to watch it realtime or in otherwise high quality, but I saw maybe one scene (early on) that didn't exactly sit right with me color-wise. The rest is gorgeous.
  
  There was some talk on IRC about this intro after the compo. Someone mentioned something along the line "conspiracy had people, mercury had spheres" and another person that "conspiracy had a story", implying Fermi Paradox didn't. I think both remarks I heard echoed from multiple people are disappointingly naive. The approach is very different in both intros, yet surprisingly similar. Both use iconography to support the story and hammer in their intention. Both emphasize pacing and framing over ostentation. There is a story in both of them, albeit different ones. Conspiracy says something about humanity and our feelings over other people. Mercury's is about the simultaneous grandeur and brutality of the nature, and how against all obstacles we yearn to reach toward it. Again, re-watches warranted, but Mercury's resonated more with me on a personal level. It takes a lot more to grasp your emotions with just "spheres".
  
  This is polished beyond anything I would've dared to suspect. Timeless looks amateurish next to this, and I'm not even trying to be hyperbolic. Like I commented on the Conspiracy intro, this feels like a new leaf opening. I hope these intros serve as the catalyst for the scene to start paying more attention to the humane and presentational sides of their productions. The boundary has been pushed, and I hope we all take that into consideration in the future when we push ourselves in demomaking. This is the first Mercury production I really, genuinely, love.
  
  Far and beyond.
• rulezadded on the 2016-03-27 13:14:18