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Stunning visuals and audio. Perfectly designed scenes. I love it!
rulezcdc added on the 2014-04-21 01:31:12 by CONS
cocoon at his best.
great code, great 3D, great song, great direction, yes this was great!
great code, great 3D, great song, great direction, yes this was great!
Magnificent demo!
I only saw this on the 360p stream, but it looked very nice nevertheless.
awesome demo!
thought it was going norwegian on me for a second there.
thought it was going norwegian on me for a second there.
This really ruled the party.. (untill TBL.. well never mind ;)
Ace demo! Keep em coming! Cocoon forever!
Ace demo! Keep em coming! Cocoon forever!
Encore une démo de fou !!!! bravo guille et à tes coéquipiers ;)
J'espère sincèrement que vous allez gagner cette fois ci...
Heureusement vous n'aurez pas à subir l'outrage d'une démo en java ou je sais plus trop quoi ^^
J'espère sincèrement que vous allez gagner cette fois ci...
Heureusement vous n'aurez pas à subir l'outrage d'une démo en java ou je sais plus trop quoi ^^
Oupss j'ai oublié le pouce ^^ héhéhé :)
Great stuff, lovely track especially
This, Blitzgewitter, and Pandacube saved the PC compo :) Great stuff!
Oh, and I'm pretty sure the title should be obServatory.
Oh, and I'm pretty sure the title should be obServatory.
yes! glitchfree! just perfect rendering. loved it on the bigscreen! thx!
Top demo!
nice one !
this is technical but a bit boring, something is missing like real synchro between each effects & Full pictures graphics. it's pity!
Best Cocoon demo I've seen thus far. Instead of being a mostly static "hi, we have a kewl 3D engine and talented modellers/artists" flyby, this time there are some nice things, in addition to the well-executed modelling and 3D engine codework. :)
OK
great!
Like in "new age" of Cocoon demos, this is another great extra polished 3D fly by gem. Greatly picked dark colors and music. I likde "stochastic" more but this is great demo too. Maybe you make only 3D flybys but in outstanding quality.
Technically flawless, but doesn't really take benefit of the dramatic potential of the soundtrack.
Whoa, very very nice. Though, guys, next time try to have TLAA or TXAA (nVidia should have HW support IIRC). All those thin constructs flickering while moving was no fun for the eye.
Still too much basic FPS level flybying. Weak thumb up for obviously good production values, nice modelling, pleasing colours etc.
good 3d!
Enjoyed this one very much!
Superb visuals, good pace, Cocoon rules as always
Very cocoonish. Nice 3d, but not my cup of tea. Still worth a thumb
A real pleasure for eyes and ears!
But... what PC is needed to run it perfectly??? Oo
But... what PC is needed to run it perfectly??? Oo
I loveded it!
Don't you guys have dayjobs? ;) You're making us all look bad! Looks great as always, though I still miss moar sync!
Great demo
Wow. I'm so jealous. I want that shading... Awesome everything.
Super stuff!
Quite fine stuff. Amazing graphical work.
Really ace!
A good demo, but without hardly any development compared to recent cocoon demos. I watched this three times and still don't remember almost anything about it. I think the colors are terrible. They create no contrast, everything is just a hazy mush. Not that there's anything wrong with that in some cases, but here to me it just communicates "these visuals and models aren't worth looking at". I do like the colors on the effects though, at least there they do manage create some contrast. The effects themselves were quite ass kicking too. The music I didn't like one bit.
great demo with seamless scenes
It's like a "demo effects concert", wrapped in wonderful layouts and shading. I love it!
Exactly what had been missing! And that rendering... <3
Oh no! Dropbox account exceeded download limit! Please upload it where everybody can download it!
Massive visuals.
A deserved first place, with awesome visuals and a proper soundtrack. Please fix the download link.
Cool demo!
Awesome! Another quality production by Cocoon! THX!
colors + visuals were awesome, but the sync was a bit janky. The music had all the right elements, but they didn't seem to work together at all (especially the sporatic kick that wanted everyone to know it was there while the other elements took the backseat when they shouldn't have). All in all it worked well enough tho, and was definitely the best in the compo.
what a great prod! I could watch this on and on for a long time
One of the few decent ones in the PC Demo compo, good work.
kick ass!
I love how your visual quality as well as the animation gets better with every single release. Stunning! Too bad revision's projector ate the lower 20% of the brightness range, many small nuances got lost.
Beautiful design and nice music. Too bad it ended so suddenly. Definitely rulez though.
COCOON! <3
O_o--b
Crashes right after unpacking lots of stuff here on AMD.
Great visuals, though, and a great soundtrack - I really really love the bitcrushed atmosphere stuff combined with the pads right at the beginning, it really sounds just wonderful.
Great visuals, though, and a great soundtrack - I really really love the bitcrushed atmosphere stuff combined with the pads right at the beginning, it really sounds just wonderful.
cocoon style, all well done.
RULEZ ! the rendering is awesome and the design of some scene mindblowing
Well deserved the 1st place
Very nice!
Solid stuff!
Great stuff, guys!
Extremely well done as always. I really liked the scene with the robot arms and the reflective scene. The cloudy volume effects looked great on stream, but something about them was not as conviencing on second viewing. Ran a bit slow on my computer but, still very cool demo. Definitely thumbs up.
Best in compo!
This demo deserved a solid thumbup just for the PERFECT beauty of the ending scene <3
Same as @u2, beautiful and nice music!
Great graphics!
This has a lot going for it! Great in most ways! You guys just keep getting better and better! where will this end? :)
I really like the visuals of the latest Cocoon demos, but... this one was lacking something.
You guys must have spent ages polishing this jewel! Thumb up for the churchbells :-)
massive respect for the visual fidelity of this. in realtime at 1080p it looked so good - barely a pixel out of place (aside from a few minor temporal aa issues on the thin lines), it could be a render. the quality of the artwork / texturing, the materials and postfx is really excellent.
good work on the "smokebox" too - abused distance fields? :)
still, would be cool to move on from the robot arms and industrial/scifi sometime... ;)
good work on the "smokebox" too - abused distance fields? :)
still, would be cool to move on from the robot arms and industrial/scifi sometime... ;)
yes
Yes! A really pleasent surprise - I really dig the buildup for the very sweet ending (in the screenshot)
Only complaint I have is that some scenes are somewhat to the dark side - at least I had trouble seeing some of the great details during the showing at Revision.
Only complaint I have is that some scenes are somewhat to the dark side - at least I had trouble seeing some of the great details during the showing at Revision.
Beautiful!
superb!
Congratz winning the compo! Looking forward to see your next demo!
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nice and clean
a tad boring
Simply what you expect from Cocoon :)
Such a good visual rendering with this new gen Cocoon engine that I am wondering if offline rendering is still necessary today :) Liked much the pinched reflective ball effect. Rulez
Looked really good and consistent
Enigmatic message box at launch - http://i.imgur.com/57UX7T0.png
DxDiag system data - http://pastebin.com/VfPES1mm
¡halp!
DxDiag system data - http://pastebin.com/VfPES1mm
¡halp!
Hmm somehow many attempts and blind erratic alt-tabbing got it started after all. Stunning visuals, beautiful!
awesome design and details, although the sci-fi/tech setting is getting kinda old
Polished like hell. Or heaven? :o)
Lovely. Deserving winner demo.
What toxie said. I really liked the atmosphere of the intro scene. Would have loved the demo to go into that direction...
Very well executed.
best cocoon demo so far! very good stuff, i think fairlight has quite a contender now :)
This was absolutely gorgeous. Although I wouldn't mind seeing a different theme in your next production (even it's back to Shad-style :)) this was executed to perfection.
The rendering and look is so super polished. As an example, the final frame looks like someone first rendered a frame and then imported into photoshop to do a few hours of work on it before pasting it back into the demo, but that is actually how it looks straight from the engine!
Outstanding.
looks nice, choppy as fuck. the trend continues.
I think I need a killer soundtrack and/or clever direction and/or some human touch (I'd love a modern day Kasparov) to really enjoy a fly-by. This (with all its perfected clinical cyber-isms) is lacking all of those.
This is a very solid production. Each scene looks super polished, the effects and the synching are especially nice and I love the synth sounds used for the music too.
A worthy compo winner. Congrats! :)
A worthy compo winner. Congrats! :)
Well done!
Visuals were terrific.
One of the few enjoyable demos in the pc demo compo. Beginning is great, then it started to bore me a bit but still kept my interest. Nice looking visuals and excellent music.
"This application has failed to start because of dxgi.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem." Observatory.nfo said it requires DirectX 11. Bah to Windows XP Pro. SP3's DirectX 9.0c. :P
Pretty!
Pretty!
Ace!
hm, cool code, but i'm really bored by this one.
a worthy winner with perfectly designed scenes.
i think this should mark the end of the industrial/scifi-look in cocoon demos.
i think this should mark the end of the industrial/scifi-look in cocoon demos.
Definitely not the winner.
this is definitely the best cocoon demo so far, unfortunately cocoon demos are just simply not good enough. sorry, find another hobby or whatever (ok, joking, do whatever you want actually, as far as it doesnt hurt the others).
the titan one has its mistakes, but at least it has the spirit.
(i respect the work put into it though)
the titan one has its mistakes, but at least it has the spirit.
(i respect the work put into it though)
Blala : why don't shut up or whatever... As far as it doesnot hurt anyone
well done
Yes, it hurts !! but in the good way. :p
Awesome work. My favourite cocoon demo so far.
Awesome work. My favourite cocoon demo so far.
didn't light my fire whatsoever
looked good, what smash said.
fucking awesome! (and really nice typography too)
deserved winner. i really like the pacing and presentation - against the trend for overly glitched postpro with spazzing camera moves. (but coma remains my cocoon favorite =)
deserved winner. i really like the pacing and presentation - against the trend for overly glitched postpro with spazzing camera moves. (but coma remains my cocoon favorite =)
Serious amount of work was put into this one. Great stuff!
I quite liked it, great stuff indeed.
Very well polished and may I say balanced.
Great
Nice audio & visuals, great direction !
looks good but left me cold. piggie
contrary to precedent demo, works under I5 and not need last I7 processor. so rocks for me, demomaking is not made for last processor in my eyes and then thanx for effort (apart fantastic dzign, textures and engine)
rocks !
rocks !
There you go! You won the PC-Compo @ the biggest annual demoscene-party and you know what? Deserved! I dig everything in this! ♥
Superb choice of music btw!
Superb choice of music btw!
coolness :-)
119 is very big, but after downloading and watching, it's very well done. I like the visuals and the great direction. I can confirm this is the best cocoon demo at the moment.
Thumb up for this beauty!
Thumb up for this beauty!
nice atmosphere
Fucking beautiful.
very, very nice play with contrast. i agree to what a-move mentioned
eyecandy with astonishing soundtrack
TOP
Visuals are perfect, damn great show :)
Love the smokebox!
just awesome work!
awesome
Just Amazing!! :)
once again big!
Very nice visuals. Just saw you get first place of revision 2014! Bravo "piment" :)
nothing to add
I love it.
the music was unbearable.
This and Exoframe are the best demos from cocoon .
Very nice and neat effects, i like the more calm approach Cocoon have taken on this demo.
Looking back, this is probably the best NTSC prod so far.
Watched this again. Still holds up quite well.
Fett
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