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Hi, I'm Sandi Garner. Coming to you from the Youtube space

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In Los Angeles, California.

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And right now, 24 teams begin a journey to become part of videogaming history.

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by designing the next great starship.

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[music]

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Welcome to the first Episode of The Next Great Starship.

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i'm here with Chris Roberts, the creator of the Wing Commander franchise.

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Privateer, Starlancer, Freelancer

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and then he took a hiatus to do film, and now he's back

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with his next epic, Star Citizen.

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Tell us what brought you back Chris.

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Chris: Star Citizen is the game I always wanted to make, but never been able to make in the past.

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The technology wasn't there, just in terms of the fidelity.. of the simulation

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and also in terms of how people can interact in a sort of living, breathing universe

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So, I finally felt like when technology changed I could always come back and make the game I always wanted to make.

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Essentially the game is the dream. When I was a kid and watched Star Wars when I was 8, and wanted to be Han Solo

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get in that ship, fly anywhere in the galaxy, and find my adventures.

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That's really what Star Citizen does. And you can pretty much play any character, or role

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You want to be a merchant, you can be a merchant. Want to be a mercenary, be a mercenary. Want to be a pirate, be a pirate

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you can be a pirate. If you want to be an explorer, you can be an explorer. And you go from planet to planet

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discovering things, buying, selling, upgrading your ship. Just doing whatever you want

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and creating a name for yourself in the galaxy.

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And I think that's something I always wanted as a game player

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And luckily there's a lot of people out there that want the same thing. That is Star Citizen.

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Sandi: Star Citizen is crowdfunded which is quite a unique project. We have over 300,000 fans (backers)

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Chris: Thank you to everyone out there

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CR: It's pretty crazy I mean you're out there helping us with marketing and to do the crowdfunding

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CR: and it's a really special way to do it. In the past, you weren't able to do this, but in today's world

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with the way the internet works, you can reach directly to the game players. And that was another reason why I came back

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When I left before, it felt like it was stagnating, nobody was taking risks. It was very traditional

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Big publisher, go to the stores, everyone wants to make a sequel, whereas now it feels like if you can come up with an idea

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that can connect with the game players out there, you can go straight to them

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and they can respond and support you which they have done with Star Citizen which is amazing.

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It's allowing us to make this game at a level that I probably wouldn't be able to make even if I was doing this with one of

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the big publishers. One of the things that we felt would be really special, which also ties into another core or part of

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the game is we're very focused on (especially in PC gaming) user-generated content, where the players themselves can create

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content and put it into the universe. The Next Great Starship is in celebration of that. One of the tenants of that

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to allow players to do some of their own modding, maybe create a local server to mod and play the game down the road

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A long time ago I made a game called Freelancer and we sort of put modding in as an afterthought

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and 10 years later and there are still servers running Freelancer even though the game hasn't been for sale, or supported

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by Microsoft for over 9 years.. people creating all different universes they can mod in- and that was an afterthought

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so from the beginning we were trying to have the tools there for the users and we thought what better way to bring

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to the forefront and involve the community in the process of building it, not just playing it in the end. It's to

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create a competition with the members of our community that are artistically inclined with building spaceships and can show off their skills

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and the community outside of that can participate and choose the one they like, opening the process up to everyone

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to allow them to see how it gets made and to pick their one starship they want to see in the game.

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I think that's going to be fantastic and the talent we got here is amazing. I'm completely blown away

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by the level... what we do internally with.. you know.. serious hardcore professionals that have been doing this a long time.

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Sandi: speaking of the professionals that are also going to be judging with you.

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Let's meet the judges

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Mark: My name is Mark Skelton, I'm an art director here at CIG and I've been here since January 2013

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Mark: As far as the weapons and the ships go, I want to see history and I want you to convey a story.

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As art director, my role is to clarify Chris Robert's vision.

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And to help him realize the world of Star Citizen.

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Chris Olivia: My name is Chris Olivia and I am chief visual officer and I've been here since January 2013.

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My role is to oversee the big picture "look and feel" of the art in Star Citizen. this start with working with concept artists

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to flesh out the universe, the end goal being quality and consistency is carried out throughout the game asset.

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Chris O: In working with Chris Roberts my goal is to help realize his aesthetic vision for the game, so he and I will work together

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to provide feedback and direction on all art, make sure everything ultimately meets that vision.

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Chris Smith: I'm Chris Smith, lead vehicle artist at CIG, I started in January 2013. Modeling is an important process

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for our ship creation pipeline. Taking a concept from a drawing to a finished game asset is a very exacting process.

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I personally enjoy making the game asset as real as possible. I use a lot of real-world references

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and mix them up with sci-fi elements to create a real good feel for the player, sort of immersive

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but yet futuristic.

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Sean: My name is Sean Patrick Tracy I'm a Cryengine Evangelist for Crytek and I've been working with SC and CR since the inception of the game

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mt design philosophy is to get the asset in the engine as soon as possible. You can work with it in DCC tools, but when working with

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a visionary like Chris Roberts, he needs to see exactly what his players are going to see

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as he has a very specific vision. And if he can deliver this vision with the Cryengine than that makes me that much more happy.

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Sandi: And here we are with the judges who have different expertise in the creation of

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the next great starship. All of these judges are very pivotal in the creation of the world of SC.

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Sandi: First of all, Mark, Chris, Chris, Chris, and Sean [laughs]

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Sandi: We have 3 Chrisses. We have over 200 entries from all over the world. About 65 countries entered

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Sandi: and the judges were very pivotal in looking at all of the videos and there were some pretty chartable talent

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Sandi: throughout. They looked over them over the new year, they did their first selects

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Mark: Unfortunately.. chopped [all] chopped it down

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Chris O: Because there were so many good ones, when we're going through them, we listed them like "ok well, this is

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a ten, a nine, an eight." We have to go back and rewatch it and eliminate one slowly. It was very difficult and took a long time

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Mark: I was totally blown away at how much talent there were, how much creativity went into the videos

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how much time, thought effort... it was amazing. What a fantastic opportunity for these guys too

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I was not expecting that caliber of talent

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CR: I didn't expect it to be as difficult to whittle it down. I was hoping we'd get 16 that would be good enough

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and we whittled it down to 42, and then that was tough getting that down to 24 which is in the show now

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and I don't know if those 24.. I mean for me all of them could go through. We'll have come arguments on this show I think

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but I think that's what it is about.

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Sandi: so guys, as artists, designers, modelers and judges.. how big of a deal is this for the teams?

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Sean: It's a huge deal. A huge opportunity. They're getting their stuff seen. Wether it's for SC or someone else. They get their

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stuff seen by a lot of people and that's a huge opportunity for any artist/designer.

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Mark: I wish I had this opportunity when I was just starting out, that would have been amazing

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CR: Yeah as a platform it's probably bigger. There are other modeling competitions but they are in the art community, while this

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one is not just for the art community, it's the 300+ thousand that have already backed SC and probably more people lurking about the show

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and I think it's a huge platform for people to show their work. It's fantastic work. It's brilliant.

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Sandi: Why don't you tell us the requirements for entering the competition?

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CR: The thing that will be most useful would be to put the contestants through a mini version of the things they would

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have to to building the bigger ships, so that would be conceptual, design, modeling, getting into the engine

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of course a ship is a big thing so we decided let's take a weapon, one of the weapons from the universe

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Sekura Sun corporation which combines Xi'an and human technology and asked them to build the Sekura Sun "Windfarer."

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and gave them some specs on it.

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[music]

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Mark: The cool thing about the weapons is that it's a good small version of a ship

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You can tell if someone designs it out, you can tell their concept sense, their design sense. and also

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a bead on how they build stuff, and if they build it clean, a nice first step to a bigger ship. It's a great way to get your feet wet.

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Sandi: Let's get to it. We have 8 teams we're going to review but only 5 can go through.

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Let's roll the first contestant

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[sorry I can't spell some names :{] I'm from Argentina for team Eris

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Hello, I'm the 3d artist from the team, I'm from Melbourne, Australia

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I'm from Des Moines Iowa and fill the role of game integration. My responsibilities were animation, implementation, and setup in the SDK

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[music]

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Sandi: Alright guys that was Eris Heavy Manufacturing. Mark what are your thoughts?

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Mark: I really like this weapon. I think the silhouette is really good. I like the gas canisters that poke out the bottom.

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I like the way he bowed the barrel instead of keeping it straight. They were all good choices.

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Chris: the silhouette was nice but I thought the canisters seemed tacked on

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Mark: You know what bugged me about it? the glowy strips up top. They weren't symmetrical.

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If you're going to do it, either give it to me clean or break them up. They seem kinda wonky and it threw me a bit

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Chris O: The texture work was quite nice I thought it had nice details in there. It was decently executed

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Sean: Nice colors, a little rebel alliance red.

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I liked the way it looked in engine. It had a little grime on it. It looked like it could go on a ship right away.

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I would have like to see more shadows coming off the object.

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Chris S: A lot of times the lighting will either make it or break it.

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CR: I could have done with more detail. I would like to see more greable. I felt like the weapon itself

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was lower res than I would like to see in the game. We're already upgrading our weapons so when

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you get close up you can see the moving bits.

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I felt that was not quite the level of high-poly detail that I like.

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Mark: I think it could use some gribly bits. it's super.. very ...even

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Chris S: What are gribly bits for those who don't know?

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Sandi: I was wondering what that was.

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[All] It's fiddly bits. A Chris Roberts-ism.

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CR: Comes from old-school modeling, like Star Wars they would make a real model. Those bits of detail

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didn't mean anything but would get them off of model kids and glue them on to make it look interesting

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That's the name for greble

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Sandi: I have learned a new word with this team [stumbles over word]

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CR: Grieble [Note: HOW DO YOU SPELL THIS?]

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Sandi: Alright guys so overall thoughts?

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Mark: I think it's solid, there's a few things that bother me.

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Sean: I like the presentation, obvious he got what he wanted outside the engine and brought it in.

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CR: Pretty good. A lot of positives to it. It would definitely be something you'd see in other games

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In our game we're going to the next level, higher detail, more polys. Would it fit in SC today? No.

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Does this team have talent to get there? Yes I think they do. Does it fit in the 16? I don't know. Definitely in the 24.

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Sandi: Let's roll on to the next contestant

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We're team Raging Vertex. We live in Germany and are very excited to join the cast.

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[music]

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[laughing]

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Mark: I love those guys. I want action figures of them so I can put them on my desk.

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Sandi: I think they're from your hometown [to Chris O]

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Chris 0: they are indeed. I think the modeling left a little to be desired. It seems like they put a lot of thought

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into it mechanically-wise, but their textures and modeling are not quite up to snuff

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Sean: This is German engineering at its finest. It's very nice. The art might not be there but

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there's a lot of implementation that they didn't have to do. It's tricky to get the weapon on the ship, firing and animations.

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They even have the effect of motion blur

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CR: I thought the engine implementation was really good, and the little details like recoil

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the animation was quite good but yes the actual gun itself was a little simplistic and the texture was too simple

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For me it needs more detail, tactile feel to it.

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Chris S (I think?): Overall the color didn't seem to have a cohesiveness to the texture/color

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it was just too contrasting and distracting.

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Mark: On a pure modeling level the way it crashes into the main hull of it is just put in there instead of any thought

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of how it connects. They just crashed it into the geometry. That's one thing you need to think through. Is it welded?

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Is there a plate that bolts to it? Those little details clue you in A) how big it is, B) how well it's built.

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Sandi: Sounds like the in game engine part is-

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Sean: Well done

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CR: It's strong on one side but not on the other side, there's plenty of others who don't have nearly as good

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engine implementation. and it's not easy to do that. and they have a great name, Raging Vertex

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I can see them with glow sticks at a night club

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Sandi: On to the next contestant

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My name is vladimir and I'm true team captain and director. I live in the

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I'm Aleksandr from the Russian Federation and I'm lead designer. Main job was 3-d modeling of the cannon

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I'm Dmitriy, freelance designer.

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[music]

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Sandi: Team TRUE what did you guys think?

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Sean: I'm a little torn. The longer the video goes on the more you see, there's this one part where you're panning across

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and the weapon's rotating and you got a lot of mechanisms and I think that's really cool

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but then you get to the back of the weapon and it looks strange, it's normal mapped and indented but none

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of the actual geometry is following those shapes. The effects are fantastic in the engine and that's hard to achieve

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Mark: It looks like a hand held vacuum. I don't know why. Maybe it feels like it has a handle on the top, just the way

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they laid in the normal maps feel a little weird to me. the detail level is not there

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it feel like they tried to make up the level of detail of the surfaces with random normal chunks

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Feels like they should have cut out or recessed a little more.

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The way it spins inside itself is a little cool

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Chris S: I like the barrel part the best. The way the secondary plates came out and it's rotating within itself

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the back of the gun was very simply modeled and they used engravings and stuff which has an alien feel to it

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CR: I liked what they were going for, alien feeling, and I did like the effect of the two barrels and how they reveal the

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inside. And if you go back into the main body of the gun the fan area, it would show in that. Those were two areas of

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very interesting detail. I felt the execution would be better.

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Mark: If I was going to art direct it I would want them to give me a couple variations to see where they could push it

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Sandi: Sounds like we like the alien technology parts of it, in game nice after effects...

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Mark: It's pretty cool, I mean for a vacuum. I think Dyson would like it. It has a cool little Dyson design

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but or a weapon... ehhh

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Sandi: Let's see if team TRUE makes the final 16. Are we ready for the next video?

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Hi, I'm Sean. On the internet I go by Fuzzy Modem

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I'm an independent film maker and visual effects artist, and I live in Fox, Alaska.

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This is Fox. There's the liquor store. The bar, and the brewery.

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And that's the town of Fox.

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For the first part of the contest

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I latched onto the description of a particle accelerator with alien technology

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Sandi: I have to say wow on that one.. I know nothing but what do you think?

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Chris S: Liquor store, bar, and brewery

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I'm surprised his gun didn't turn out like a bottle or something

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Sean: I really liked his design, I feel like it's one of the best designs in the competition

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It was the only one I voted for that wasn't in engine

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CR: I thought you would rag on it because it wasn't in engine

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Sean: I love this Hadron Collider look. It doesn't look like a leaf blower or something like that.

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CR: I really liked it, in an artistic sense.. also a one-man-bad in Fox Alaska. A lot of the other guns had a very common

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theme, this one felt like it had an identity, really nice detail, interesting and sort of- did- feel like an alien gun

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infusing human technology. I was super impressed with it. I really liked it.

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Sandi: before we go to the artists, Chris Smith what do you think?

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Chris S: I liked it- CR: He's an artist! [laughs]

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CR: "An ar-teeest"

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Chris S: I liked the design a lot as well, he had a cool theme and everything

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Some of the execution could have been done a little better

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I thought the textures..but it was a very good start.

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Mark: I liked it too, man, I thought the design was.. turned out really well

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Chris S: It had a lot of depth to it, so.

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Mark: It was multiple layers of things happening. And again, silhouette

0:23:01.272,0:23:07.613
I keep going back to it but it had a very interesting silhouette and was weighted nicely for me.

0:23:07.613,0:23:15.130
Chris S: I was hoping for some sound effects Mark: pew pew pew!

0:23:15.130,0:23:24.348
Chris S: I heard actually in Alaska sometimes the electricity goes out in the wintertime so I applaud him for.. pushing through

0:23:24.348,0:23:26.998
..with a generator or..

0:23:26.998,0:23:35.571
Mark: hunched over his keyboard with a generator "errrrrrr" in the background and he's making some awesome weapon

0:23:35.571,0:23:40.297
Sandi: It sounds like overall.. like? Maybe he could have pushed it a bit further?

0:23:40.297,0:23:43.078
Chris S: Yeah. I liked it

0:23:43.078,0:23:48.351
Sean: ...it in game, but like I said it was such a good design I couldn't rag on him

0:23:48.351,0:23:54.137
for not getting it in game, 'cause from what it looks like it's prett ymuch ready to go in game right away

0:23:54.137,0:23:57.085
Chris S: It would have helped to see it in game, for sure.

0:23:57.085,0:24:03.658
Sandi: Ok, you guys ready for the next team? Here we go.

0:24:03.658,0:24:10.438
I'm Skyzone, I'm very excited and looking forward to showing you some of our team's work

0:24:10.438,0:24:16.002
I live in western Victoria in a little town called Portland

0:24:16.002,0:24:20.284
.. come up with the design..

0:24:20.284,0:24:27.089
I'm [unknown] I'm the graphics designer from team Zues. I live in Germany

0:24:27.089,0:24:31.707
I'm John Sanchez aka War maze here. I'm an aspiring programmer from the frosty

0:24:31.707,0:24:35.431
regions of middleton, Wisconsin. My job is to provide coding support to the team

0:24:35.431,0:24:41.162
which in this instance means staring at xml files [laughs] I hope you guys really like our project

0:24:41.162,0:24:45.543
[music]

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Mark: I wonder if that guy knows there's something green eating his head. He seems

0:25:10.058,0:25:12.444
completely clueless about it

0:25:12.444,0:25:14.609
Sandi: Chris Roberts, what did you think?

0:25:14.609,0:25:18.614
CR: This is one of my least favorite of the 24 we have left

0:25:18.614,0:25:24.029
mainly just because A) we've mainly seen that shape and design before

0:25:24.029,0:25:28.806
but also it wouldn't excite me. It's not a weapon I would want to buy and put on my spaceship

0:25:28.806,0:25:36.440
It's good that they got it in engine, and all the way through the pipeline, even have some pew pew sounds

0:25:36.440,0:25:42.490
but I felt the actual gun itselfwas more simplistic than I would like.

0:25:42.490,0:25:50.856
Mark: I wish they would have done more with the lighting. The lighting really killed it.

0:25:50.856,0:25:53.511
It's so flat.

0:25:53.511,0:25:56.698
Chris: I'm sure he likes the gold texture [laughs]

0:25:56.698,0:25:58.983
Mark: I like the gold touch.

0:25:58.983,0:26:03.884
Chris O?: I think it was overly metallic looking, you know.. sort of glitzy

0:26:03.884,0:26:07.745
Sean: It was metallic looking but no gloss

0:26:07.745,0:26:10.888
Sandi: How good was the in-engine sruff?

0:26:10.888,0:26:14.531
Sean The in-engine stuff was ok. I'm impressed they got it in, got it mountable

0:26:14.531,0:26:20.614
It was, obviously in the pre-SDK you could jump in, shoot at humvees and that's cool. The implementation was cool

0:26:20.614,0:26:26.641
but the presentation in engine leaves a little bit to be desired. Just turn the time of day a bit

0:26:26.641,0:26:34.251
so the lighting isn't directly above like this. It didn't do some of the texture work justice

0:26:34.251,0:26:36.198
in terms of the in-engine presentation

0:26:36.198,0:26:38.876
Chris S:I think in this instance they could have spent a little more time

0:26:38.876,0:26:43.276
trying different concepts on paper before they moved to building it

0:26:43.276,0:26:51.500
Chris O: One thing many people respond to is the simplicity, it's only one hue, one color

0:26:51.500,0:26:58.858
it's not really broken up there. there's not any greys in there that breaks up the gun, even texturally even then

0:26:58.858,0:27:05.367
the modeling part seemed very simplistic- like Chris mentioned. some other guns there's a lot

0:27:05.367,0:27:09.362
of thought put into the animation, and this one is just sort of basic

0:27:09.362,0:27:18.827
Mark: Like we were talking about before, there's no rest in your eye.. and what's with the fish fins on the side?

0:27:18.827,0:27:20.857
Doesn't that seem kinda strange?

0:27:20.857,0:27:25.167
Sean: I think this one suffers from not having the extrusions and things as well, it kills the silhouette, you have thei wierd sort

0:27:25.167,0:27:28.771
of alien back end, and this human sort of front end.

0:27:28.771,0:27:33.691
Chris S: I think people tend to, when they think of alien design or alien fusion

0:27:33.691,0:27:44.652
they go overly smooth instead of thinking of more interesting ways to construct it.

0:27:44.652,0:27:48.099
Sandi: Alright let's move on to the next one

0:27:48.099,0:27:53.779
My name is Paul

0:27:53.779,0:27:58.613
Talon corporation

0:27:58.613,0:28:01.505
... and it's only going to be me on the team

0:28:01.505,0:28:06.211
[music]

0:28:26.817,0:28:28.693
Sandi: Chris what do you think?

0:28:28.693,0:28:34.412
Chris S: I really like the idea of the shell and casing and the opening and how it was really nice take on it

0:28:34.412,0:28:36.751
Chris O: It was 3 different guns too

0:28:36.751,0:28:40.946
Chris S: I think the last one was done a lot better, they have to be careful with

0:28:40.946,0:28:46.852
just the forms and the shapes, because it can get lumpy feeling with no specific

0:28:46.852,0:28:54.834
shape or form. But it was pretty well done overall

0:28:54.834,0:29:01.863
Mark: borderline lumpy, although the shapes they were molding into it were interesting.

0:29:01.863,0:29:09.162
I love the way they were kinda thinking about animation while they were building it obviously

0:29:09.162,0:29:10.914
that's super-important

0:29:10.914,0:29:12.971
CR: I think it's just one person, I could be wrong

0:29:12.971,0:29:15.046
Mark: One guy? That's pretty amazing

0:29:15.046,0:29:24.745
Thinking about the animation is huge, and this guy obviously had a lot of forethought into how he's building stuff

0:29:24.745,0:29:32.745
andmiates out, and folds up cool but I do agree with Chris that it's a <i>little</i> lumpy.

0:29:32.745,0:29:37.497
They could have tightened places up a little bit but I think overall it's very interesting

0:29:37.497,0:29:39.637
It's a very alien design, I like it

0:29:39.637,0:29:46.272
Chris O: I like it, there's some cool design to it. some of the materials and textures could still be worked on

0:29:46.272,0:29:51.912
It's borderline lumpy, some of the shape is.. I like the first design it's kinda cool, since it is

0:29:51.912,0:30:01.381
a human/alien technology I like how the barrel looks human made, more angular looking, more tratitional

0:30:01.381,0:30:05.685
while the outside was an alien sort of shape. A good mixture of that stuff

0:30:05.685,0:30:10.125
Sean: I don't like this one. this one's probably my least favorite

0:30:10.125,0:30:11.667
CR: It's not in the engine damnit! [laughs]

0:30:11.667,0:30:15.748
Sean: That's one point, absolutely. it didn't make it to engine I don't think it could

0:30:15.748,0:30:19.964
the way over already poly count that was going to be done. We talked about the outside of the

0:30:19.964,0:30:25.974
shapes looking lumpy, I absolutely think it looks lumpy. It looks strange because it's like this outer caccoon abyss... you know

0:30:25.974,0:30:32.789
human gun.. but usually when you're covering some sort of weapon, it's not really with a sophisticated casing such as this

0:30:32.789,0:30:38.334
it's usually a very simple with latches so I think that would have it a lot more justice

0:30:38.334,0:30:39.696
Chris O: Batman would disagree

0:30:39.696,0:30:41.329
Sean: Batman would disagree with me[all laugh]

0:30:41.329,0:30:48.585
CR: I really like the 3rd iteration of the gun

0:30:48.585,0:30:53.417
The delivery, design... 3 variations like the base model and going up but the last one

0:30:53.417,0:31:02.876
I really like, I like the details, I like the shell opening up, like on the weapons we're going to do in our game, and in general

0:31:02.876,0:31:10.722
I just wanna see like, really cool deployment animations, and really cool firing animations. I think that's half the fun of stuff

0:31:10.722,0:31:16.503
So I thought that was very well thought out and interesting, it didn't feel like all the other weapons we did

0:31:16.503,0:31:27.778
obviously there's a knock that it's not in the engine, so... the modeling and animation especially on the 3rd one I thought was really good

0:31:27.778,0:31:34.106
Sandi: Varying thoughts on that one, we'll see if it makes the final 16. Let's roll the next one.

0:31:35.398,0:31:41.929
Greetings fellow citizens my name is Elwin Dachiller Jr I'm currently a 3d artist working out of New York city

0:31:41.929,0:31:46.594
working on mobile games. As soon as I hear about SC I immeadately started modeling my own ship

0:31:46.594,0:31:54.307
because I was detemined to mod it into the game. Fortunately for me the NGS competition was announced which gave me

0:31:54.307,0:32:01.999
the perfect way to get my ship designs into the game proper. Not just modded in, but for everyone to enjoy

0:32:01.999,0:32:08.397
I got super excited about that. The weapon itself was inspired by the Sekura flower, which you'll notice the cannon

0:32:08.397,0:32:11.588
has 5 barrels to represent that.

0:32:11.588,0:32:15.024
[music]

0:32:25.336,0:32:27.791
Mark: Sick!.. So sick!

0:32:27.791,0:32:34.685
The design is great, I love the way the deployment animations, I love the geometry which

0:32:34.685,0:32:44.088
is super clean. The materials are nice, very nice and the "weight" of the gun itself looks ERRRRR like

0:32:44.088,0:32:45.955
it'll just rip through a ship

0:32:45.955,0:32:52.229
Chris S: It looks like eevry piece had a purpose to it, nothing seemed tacked on

0:32:52.229,0:32:54.956
Sean: My only critique of it would be maybe-

0:32:54.956,0:32:56.746
CR: Was that in engine?

0:32:56.746,0:33:03.464
Sean No that was not in engine.. it was rendered but..that's going to move to engine no problem

0:33:03.464,0:33:08.488
He's got it UV'd and everything will be fine. He's got a low poly count but he's probably done that because

0:33:08.488,0:33:10.050
it's got so many pieces on

0:33:10.050,0:33:14.999
CR: Are you saying that because you feel the barrels are more squared off verus being-

0:33:14.999,0:33:18.964
Chris O: It doesn't mean lower poly count

0:33:18.964,0:33:24.829
Mark: It feels like he was definitely intending that, to have more angular things. It wasn't like he just threw it in there

0:33:24.829,0:33:30.714
because he decided to go low poly, it feels like he actually wanted the creases there

0:33:30.714,0:33:42.876
CR: You've got this flower, the petals, it's all about the deploy, and how it fires.. feeling the recoil, feeling the weight

0:33:42.876,0:33:52.093
So, I think of the ones that I saw that was one of my absolute favorites in terms of feeling that weapon

0:33:52.093,0:33:59.790
I would feel good-faring, I'd feel like a badass with that. I really liked that. That was a good entry

0:33:59.790,0:34:06.079
Sean: Nice material veriation, rounded too. A lot of different layers of types of materials

0:34:06.079,0:34:08.008
Sandi: Chris smith you didn't weign in, what do you think?

0:34:08.008,0:34:10.274
Chris S: One of my favorite weapons for sure

0:34:10.274,0:34:15.044
Great design, great textures already there and the modeling looks very clean

0:34:15.044,0:34:22.434
from what I can tell.. definitely great. I love the way when the weapon shoots you see the whole shaking of the plates

0:34:22.434,0:34:23.656
and everything

0:34:23.656,0:34:28.995
Sean: he keeps shaking us too, yeah [everyone laughs]

0:34:28.995,0:34:32.879
Sandi: A lot of energy for that one, let's see if that makes the final 16

0:34:32.879,0:34:35.548
Sandi: alright guys, last team of the day

0:34:40.577,0:34:45.883
Hello everyone my name is [unintelligible] and I'm a professional designer in the auto industry

0:34:45.883,0:34:54.550
Officially in this team I'm a modeler and I care about building the polygons, topology, groups, etc

0:34:54.550,0:35:02.021
My name's Derek Crospy, I live in Los Angeles, CA I am the Cry Engine technology expert

0:35:02.021,0:35:03.820
Hello, my name is

0:35:03.820,0:35:06.358
And I live in Frankfort Germany

0:35:06.358,0:35:13.139
I've got my pen, my imagination, and plenty of coffee. I'm ready.

0:35:13.139,0:35:16.972
[music]

0:35:28.577,0:35:32.829
Mark: I like this gun. It's cool. It's very clean how he modelled it

0:35:32.829,0:35:37.108
which you can tell, like the guy intended it that way, with clean lines

0:35:37.108,0:35:44.450
For me it got a little... maybe too alien for me, there's not enough human elements to it

0:35:44.450,0:35:50.358
it would be nice to see more human elements involved.. I didn't get a whole lot of scale on it

0:35:50.358,0:35:55.445
the weighting is cool, it almost looks like a ship to me

0:35:55.445,0:36:04.113
how the wings come down on the side and you have a central power cell or whatever that is inside of it

0:36:04.113,0:36:09.555
In my opinion I would want to see more elements that give me a clue

0:36:09.555,0:36:15.090
to how big this is and a clue there is some human element to it

0:36:15.090,0:36:19.128
Chris O:and the scale thing with griebles

0:36:19.128,0:36:21.197
Mark: Griebls are good

0:36:21.197,0:36:31.325
Chris O: I like the way the energy formed in the one part, overall it could use more detail

0:36:31.325,0:36:40.416
and I didn't like the way the outer part was light colored and the barrel was dark, and they put it against

0:36:40.416,0:36:44.824
a dark background it's about presentation and you don't get to see a lot of it

0:36:44.824,0:36:52.778
Chris S: It's a pretty decent gun, a deccent design, it seems like he took a lot of cues from automotive design to me

0:36:52.778,0:37:01.407
like those clean swooping lines in the back, it does look like a litlle fighter ship with a little blaster and thruster in the back

0:37:01.407,0:37:06.313
CR: My problem is that it wasn't well presented. Is it a spaceship or is it a gun?

0:37:06.313,0:37:17.990
Chris S: I like where he's going with some of the shapes but I don't think it's really pulled together quite....right.

0:37:17.990,0:37:27.796
Sean: I like that nice iphone look, and it's really hard to get that right, especially in-engine

0:37:27.796,0:37:31.070
That was in engine right? Yeah, that definitely was in engine

0:37:31.070,0:37:34.374
Sean: I could tell by the shader on the planet [laughs]

0:37:34.374,0:37:42.055
CR: for me, there was some nice ideas, but it doesn't quite get to me.. it's not all the way there

0:37:42.055,0:37:49.615
I do like the idea of some of the clean lines, I like the idea of a different kind of material, not metallic

0:37:49.615,0:37:59.527
that's sort of Star Trek. But the back of the gun, the front of the gun, where's the weapon? how big is it? where does it fit?

0:37:59.527,0:38:03.637
The identity of it being a gun wasn't that clear to me.

0:38:03.637,0:38:08.195
Sandi: So this team overall sounds like maybe with your guidance from each judge at this stage

0:38:08.195,0:38:14.865
I mean, obviously they got it in engine, they can.. sounds like you all are saying it was slightly...

0:38:14.865,0:38:25.762
Sean: heading in the right direction. he did say his experience was in automotive anyways, it shows

0:38:25.762,0:38:28.943
Sandi: We've seen 8 teams, but only 5 can go through

0:38:28.943,0:38:39.382
[random banter]

0:38:39.382,0:38:46.729
Sandi: I need you all to give us your 5 in an email, then I will tally them up and we'll come back for the results

0:38:46.729,0:38:58.561
[reality show music]

0:39:20.523,0:39:23.623
Sandi: Alright everyone, so I tallied the votes

0:39:23.623,0:39:27.961
3 teams were unanimous with votes from all 5 of you

0:39:27.961,0:39:31.563
The first being Eris Heavy Manufacturing

0:39:31.563,0:39:34.664
The Second is Skyguard Fabrications

0:39:34.664,0:39:38.068
And the third, Cryo

0:39:38.068,0:39:49.236
Sandi: One team got 4 votes from the judges.

0:39:49.236,0:39:51.392
So, Sean do you know which team that might be?

0:39:51.392,0:39:56.115
Sean: [Playfully] I wonder who that might be? You know you all can still change your mind.

0:39:56.115,0:39:58.737
Sandi: Talon Corp

0:39:58.737,0:40:00.456
Chris S: Nicely done

0:40:00.456,0:40:03.228
Sandi: Unfortunately, team Zeus got no votes, so they will not be moving on

0:40:03.228,0:40:05.566
All: Sorry gentlemen

0:40:05.566,0:40:09.486
Sandi: For the 5th spot, we have a 3-way tie

0:40:09.486,0:40:16.777
Damage, TRUE, and Raging Vertex. So only one can go through... what are we going to do?

0:40:16.777,0:40:18.400
Chris S: Fight each other?

0:40:18.400,0:40:20.673
Sean: You guys can still change, I'm telling you...

0:40:20.673,0:40:25.852
Sandi: Let's take another look

0:40:25.852,0:40:28.974
[music]

0:41:26.175,0:41:33.232
Sandi: Only one team can go through, so what we're going to do here is

0:41:33.447,0:41:39.525
yuo are going to vote for the team you would like in and 3 votes- the team's in

0:41:39.525,0:41:41.992
Mark: I like Damage

0:41:41.992,0:41:44.158
Chris O: Damage

0:41:44.158,0:41:46.035
Sandi: 2 for Damage

0:41:46.035,0:41:51.136
CR: I'm going to go for, I think, TRUE because I prefer that to Damage

0:41:51.136,0:41:57.914
Chris S: I think i'm going to have to go with TRUE as well. I think they have a little more potential

0:41:57.914,0:42:02.992
Sean: I'm going to have to go with TRUE as well

0:42:02.992,0:42:06.188
CR: Our couch wins!

0:42:06.188,0:42:09.412
Mark: you guys are off my Christmas list

0:42:09.412,0:42:12.217
Sandi: Congratulations TRUE, you advance to the next round

0:42:12.217,0:42:18.433
So 3 teams unfortunately, Team Zeus, Raging Vertex, and Damage didn't make it through

0:42:18.433,0:42:23.939
But that doesn't mean they're out of the competition because there's a wildcard vote

0:42:23.939,0:42:30.081
Each episode 3 teams will be eliminated and will go into the wildcard race, so for this episode it's

0:42:30.081,0:42:34.619
Team Zeus, Damage, and Raging Vertex who go into the wildcard.

0:42:34.619,0:42:39.740
Once we have all 9 wildcard teams, you guys will vote and put one back into the competition

0:42:39.740,0:42:44.245
so if you diagree with the judges, get your vote in and let your voice be heard

0:42:44.245,0:42:50.232
And in the spirit of community involvement you guys have already been voting and last week almost 30,000

0:42:50.232,0:42:54.664
votes for the ship that you guys would like the contestants to build

0:42:54.664,0:42:57.299
the winner being the mercenary gunship.

0:42:57.299,0:43:02.474
Sandi: So that' sit guys, 5 teams are in, 3 teams are out. Are you excited do the nets one?

0:43:02.474,0:43:04.958
All: yep, yep bring it on

0:43:04.958,0:43:08.741
Sandi: Another 8 teams, another 5 going through and another 3 in the wildcard race

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tune in every Friday for The Next Great Starship

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