Before Halloween I released a teaser trailer for a made-up film called SALVAGE and the response was amazing - everyone seemed to enjoy it and I sort of promised that someday I'd get around to making a more expanded trailer for the film. Well, I did. Thanks to the folks at JustAbout for opening up the challenge to create a trailer for Eve Online and, well, I thought it was worth my whole weekend. I hope you enjoy it.
I was never one for capturing video from the game. Over the past few months I've been challenging myself to get better at it and push myself further. In the teaser I captured a lot of video and left the cursor in almost all of the shots, which is not ideal. So with the recent OMS Documentary and this video I really pushed myself even harder. You'll notice not a single cursor appears in the trailer except for one shot at the very end, sort of a homage to the teaser. I had a shot without it, but it felt weird not to "mess" up once since the teaser had them.
I captured a crap ton of video for this project, more than I ever have before on a single video. It is difficult not only from a mechanical or creative standpoint, but also from a hard drive standpoint. The captures alone on this video account for 27.5Gb of data. Yikes. I really wish we had the 3d mouse controls we were promised back in Vegas 2019. I even went out and bought a 3d mouse based on those conversations. But until then, capturing in-game creative footage remains challenging and complicated. But totally worth it.
Obviously a trailer without people in it is difficult. But I hope I managed to create enough of a through-line to a potential story to be interesting. I imagine the crew of the ship are alone, bored, and jump at the chance to be the first on scene when an Avatar Titan explodes. Only to realize they are not alone. But the real mystery is what they find in the wreck and what it means... I have no idea what it means. But that's all mystery and story and - since this film will never happen - it is all that matters.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy it.