Seeking Amazingly Talented Short Video/Trailer Creator (Guild Wars 2 Minute Trailer)

[Fakeshake]

How's it going, pretty quick, easy, paid job...

Looking for someone to create an amazing one minute video/trailer for guild wars 2...

We can brainstorm idea's etc, but I'll pay decent for this short of timed video, pm me here, post, or aim/msn/email - e.pluribus_unum@hotmail.com

Thanks!

EDIT:

I've seen UDK make incredible things such as the latest release with the game trailer. I'd like someone to make something on the base of it starting off of a very similar looking character from the game, body scaling down his body/armor with a reflection of the battle taking place in front of him then it phases out looking onto the battlefield with a burning Guild Wars 2 logo...

More detail when contacted...

And sry if I affended anybody, just trying to find someone quick. <3

[darthviper107]

That makes no sense at all

[Fakeshake]

That makes no sense at all

Hope you mean what you said makes no sense...

Coming in saying you have no idea what it means, or trying to be an ass makes a lot of sense.

How bout trying to say what you don't get, asking me to go into more detail... Not trying to troll another post count...

[darthviper107]

I would like to point out that being rude and calling names--especially that quickly does not get you far.

As for your post not making any sense--How is a trailer quick and easy? What are you actually looking for? A CG animated trailer? Why Guild Wars 2? That game isn't out yet, so do you work for them? If so, why are you asking here? If you aren't working on the game, why are you wanting a Guild Wars 2 trailer?

[Shuriken]

What..? Why would you hire someone to create a trailer for a game you have nothing to do with on a site that has nothing to do with that game?

[Khado]

Just let him explain, guys. If you don't understand, ask. Useless posts are not good posts.

That said, maybe a bit more of an explanation in the original post would have been better. For instance: Why do you want it? Who are you working for? Why are you asking here?

[Fakeshake]

I'm looking for a fan made trailer of the game and I'm looking for someone expierenced in UDK to make a trailer for the game, using the UDK tools as I've seen it does amazing things...

etc...

[TheAgent]

They might as well enter the competition themselves.

[Fakeshake]

They might as well enter the competition themselves.

It's a gamble, never know what the competition would be like, and I'm willing to pay for someone willing to make it who has no interest in Guild Wars 2 but advanced in the skills needed making this easy cash...

[DABentz]

Wait how is this a 5-star topic... also what does interest in GW2 have to with this? What is the possible prize of the contest? Monetary assets? Some kind of in-game crap at launch?

If you are planning on paying some one else to do the work for you, so that you can win a monetary prize I can tel you outright that is ridiculous, they might as well submit the entry themselves and get the full reward themselves instead of undoubtedly getting less from some one taking credit for the work, without contributing to it themselves....

This whole thing reeks of sketchiness, maybe if you were to approach this with the offer of a COLLABORATION for other artists to equally contribute and equally distribute said rewards that would be one thing, but as it stands your first post didn't even make mention of a contest, the rewards, or hell even the time-frame of the contest or a reference where some one can get details on possible constraints of this contest. Are you intending to contribute anything to this "project"? Too many missing details...

Clarify this thread's purpose, right now it's pretty shady.

[darthviper107]

I'm guessing it's this contest:
http://www.guildwars2.com/en/contests/video-contest/


I would imagine that anyone who would do this for you would just enter themselves--meaning you won't likely find someone who can do this for you who also wouldn't care about the contest.

Also, the prizes aren't really all that special, I guess if you're a big Guild Wars fan it would be cool, but I wouldn't pay for that

EDIT: Also, I'd like to point out, the cost of doing something like that would probably be more than you could spend. Good character work is very expensive.

[Fakeshake]

EDIT: Also, I'd like to point out, the cost of doing something like that would probably be more than you could spend. Good character work is very expensive.

In the time frame of a minute? I find that hard to believe with people doing such for full games, and trust me, I can afford it...

I wouldn't have came here if I didn't think there were some talented individuals I believe could do this easily...

And inless your interested, don't post... fair enough...

[darthviper107]

Well--the grand prize for that contest would be worth $4,300.00 (although of course it's not exactly something you can just buy anyways).

But doing a good character model, animating it, and putting it in an environment can easily cost that much or more. It's not so much the length of the trailer but the content in it. And you've only got a little over 2 weeks to get it done, so that would be a real challenge too.

[DABentz]

Assuming your talking approximately 5k in travel and lodging expenses alone, not really accounting for the trip to the studio and to playtest GW2 with the devs, would you seriously intend to pay some one more than that to make this immense amount of work worth their time, especially with such time constraints?

Do you even have any CLUE just how insulting it is to insinuate that what game artists do is something that can be whipped up in a day or two? Do you have ANY insight as to what is involved in the kind of work and commitment that is dedicated to game artwork assets, ranging from concept and design all the way to animation scene rendering and post processing?

You'd be hard-pressed to find ANY self-respecting artist that can even produce quality character and scene designs in less than two weeks alone, without even CONSIDERING the possibility of having characters modeled, UVW mapped, rigged, tested, skinned, animated, rendered, and then touched up in post processing...

If you have this kind of money to blow just because your a GuildWars addict or something, with no understanding of the underlying process behind the development of games, then I would HIGHLY recommend taking the money you would have invested to play-test GW2 and invest it into a promising Indi development company, and help actually produce new games and help improve the gaming world instead of just getting to beta test a product already well funded...

[minxedgame]

Assuming your talking approximately 5k in travel and lodging expenses alone, not really accounting for the trip to the studio and to playtest GW2 with the devs, would you seriously intend to pay some one more than that to make this immense amount of work worth their time, especially with such time constraints?

Do you even have any CLUE just how insulting it is to insinuate that what game artists do is something that can be whipped up in a day or two? Do you have ANY insight as to what is involved in the kind of work and commitment that is dedicated to game artwork assets, ranging from concept and design all the way to animation scene rendering and post processing?

You'd be hard-pressed to find ANY self-respecting artist that can even produce quality character and scene designs in less than two weeks alone, without even CONSIDERING the possibility of having characters modeled, UVW mapped, rigged, tested, skinned, animated, rendered, and then touched up in post processing...

If you have this kind of money to blow just because your a GuildWars addict or something, with no understanding of the underlying process behind the development of games, then I would HIGHLY recommend taking the money you would have invested to play-test GW2 and invest it into a promising Indi development company, and help actually produce new games and help improve the gaming world instead of just getting to beta test a product already well funded...

Completely out of order. He is not undermining the business and 3d modelling but asking for some help in his project which HE IS PAYING FOR. No need to attack him verbally. you are obviously new to game development.
Kind regards,
Archie

[BurntToast]

In the time frame of a minute? I find that hard to believe with people doing such for full games, and trust me, I can afford it...

I wouldn't have came here if I didn't think there were some talented individuals I believe could do this easily...

And inless your interested, don't post... fair enough...

Whether it's a minute or a ten seconds worth of footage whatever is shown in the scene is going to take pretty much the same amount of time to make.

"I'd like someone to make something on the base of it starting off of a very similar looking character from the game, body scaling down his body/armor with a reflection of the battle taking place in front of him then it phases out looking onto the battlefield with a burning Guild Wars 2 logo..."

I can tell you right now that this scene is going to take WAY longer than 2 weeks and would cost you MUCH more than $4000 worth of work if you want anything close to high quality. Characters alone in games can take weeks to make and you are wanting an entire scene with most likely different character models all which are uniquely animated fighting each other. This isn't even taking into account the actual environment, post processing, or audio. Honestly you'd have to hire at least 4 people to possibly get this done in time.

What would be needed:
1 Modeler (possibly two, one for environment and one for the characters)
1 Animator
1 Audio artist
1 Technical artist combined all the pieces together and place it in UDK

Besides that's a lot of money to invest with just the chance to win, even if you get the project done it doesn't guarantee that you will win. And you're going to have to pay upfront, cause no one is going to do all that work with the risk of you flakeing if you lose the contest.

[DuckSauce]

He is not undermining the business and 3d modelling

He didn't say anything about him undermining, he said he's insulting the line of work here and he definitely is in my opinion, since the way he talks makes me think he doesn't think much of it, that it's just a 5 hour job or something for someone that already knows how to do this.

Well it's not and I agree it is insulting, but the important part is the doubt of payment here, what guarentee does the artist have here that he/she will even get paid?

The boast of "I can afford it" doesn't count, because I could say that too, would you believe me? Oh hey I got a couple thousand dollars, work for me! Would you buy that from a total stranger on the internet?

for some help in his project which HE IS PAYING FOR.

Some? The way it seemed to me is he will let someone else do all the work, which under payment is fine, depending on the conditions and the chance the artist will actually get paid, but that is unclear now, so therefore I suggest the OP clear it up, it'll only increase the odds someone will help him

No need to attack him verbally. you are obviously new to game development.

I suggest you don't attack others individually while at the same time lecturing others to do the same

Note that I'm not attacking you or anyone here, if it looks like that it wasn't my intention, my intention is to state my opinion and offering advice to the OP how he could increase his odds of finding someone, if there's anyone that would and could do this under such a deadline.