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CartoonM!ke
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Personally, I would ditch the sound. It was surprising and didn't go with the music that's playing though my computer. The design work is basic. I don't really get a sense of your studio's "Style" and Attitude that makes it stand out and be memorable. According to some, you have less than 7 seconds to make an favorable impression. If you don't , you've lost the audience member. An old trick is to ask a question to your audience. That gets them involved and interested. There's a book on marketing by a guy named Bly that has lots of nuggets like that. Even though the book's written way back in the 60's (I think) most of it is still relevant today.
Next, I would just dispense with the RAR downloads. The less hoops you have to have people jump though, the more they are likely to have positive feeling about your work. If you're looking for investors/sponsors, make it brain-dead simple for them to look at your work.
For example, I want to buy a moped. There's two dealers; One makes me stand in line and fill out a form and then calls my name. The other, I just walk in and am helped by an employee right away who asks me the same info, but I don't have to do anything but answer him. Which one would you want to go to?
If you can create a video version of the clips -- display them in a custom viewer, sort of like what GreyKid does. Then have links to download the videos. I would go for a cross-platform common video codec, quicktime would be my choice. DiVX is cool and all that, but how many investors or sponsors would have it installed? Again, go for the most likely to be used.
I offer the above just as suggestions, not as an attack or anything to demoralize you and your venture. Take it with a grain of salt, so to speak. Good luck on your venture!
Personally, I would ditch the sound. It was surprising and didn't go with the music that's playing though my computer. The design work is basic. I don't really get a sense of your studio's "Style" and Attitude that makes it stand out and be memorable. According to some, you have less than 7 seconds to make an favorable impression. If you don't , you've lost the audience member. An old trick is to ask a question to your audience. That gets them involved and interested. There's a book on marketing by a guy named Bly that has lots of nuggets like that. Even though the book's written way back in the 60's (I think) most of it is still relevant today.
Next, I would just dispense with the RAR downloads. The less hoops you have to have people jump though, the more they are likely to have positive feeling about your work. If you're looking for investors/sponsors, make it brain-dead simple for them to look at your work.
For example, I want to buy a moped. There's two dealers; One makes me stand in line and fill out a form and then calls my name. The other, I just walk in and am helped by an employee right away who asks me the same info, but I don't have to do anything but answer him. Which one would you want to go to?
If you can create a video version of the clips -- display them in a custom viewer, sort of like what GreyKid does. Then have links to download the videos. I would go for a cross-platform common video codec, quicktime would be my choice. DiVX is cool and all that, but how many investors or sponsors would have it installed? Again, go for the most likely to be used.
I offer the above just as suggestions, not as an attack or anything to demoralize you and your venture. Take it with a grain of salt, so to speak. Good luck on your venture!
I agree. Furthermore, as a codec, Sorenson Video 3 seems to be pretty well available cross-platform, and compresses 2D animation rather well. Of course, H.264 (aka mpeg4 part 10, or AVC1) is the preferred QuickTime standard nowadays for web based movie trailers. DivX, unfortunately, still has a geek status, although it is rather good as a compressor. It seems to be mainly used for compressing DVD content onto home burnt media.CartoonM!ke wrote:If you can create a video version of the clips -- display them in a custom viewer, sort of like what GreyKid does. Then have links to download the videos. I would go for a cross-platform common video codec, quicktime would be my choice. DiVX is cool and all that, but how many investors or sponsors would have it installed? Again, go for the most likely to be used.
The sad reality is that you have to provide your video content in a variety of formats. See http://dl.tv as an example of a content creator. They offer Windows Media Player, QuickTime H.264, DivX, iPod video, and MP3 (because they are a tech news podcast).