After sleeping on RCT3 for about 6 years. I am back with a new starmine for ya.  The setting is like a scrapyard or a construction/destruction area.

Song used: Napalm Death - Twist the Knife (Slowly)

Pyro: Ben, N7, and AceHusky

Laser/Lighting: Fyre Teknix, AD, Ben, Shadow Nx

Synchronization and scenery arranged by yours truly

 

 

 

Edited August 5, 20231 yr by Kriscendo

Well, the music isn't something I would consider falling asleep to.... but this is clearly your wheelhouse and you commit to it well. Please take all of the following as merely constructive criticism, as I want to help you mature as a showbuilder!

I really like the idea of a scrapyard for a set. Something n7 told me many years ago was that he always built his sets as though they were "temporary outfits," like a locale that exists in real life but has been dressed up or repurposed for the sake of the show, only to be disassembled once the performance run was over. A scrapyard is very much a real location, and they are typically large, messy places. Your scrapyard feels more like a quaint park with a small storage warehouse....it's almost pretty in that daytime shot. All this to say that you had some great opportunities to go wild with the grunge metal cladding (especially considering the music choice) and build some larger structures that wouldn't be dwarfed in the night so much by your ground effects. I know there were some issues with recording crashes, and maybe you had to scale back that detail, but don't be afraid to go TOO big. It's usually much easier to subtract than to add. 

Filling all available space with effects is clearly not an issue for you. The sky is kept pretty active by large, powerful shells. Their use and timing seems random in spots, but when the music is 100% chaos 100% of the time, it's difficult to keep building momentum with the pyro. And perhaps because of that, it's easy to rely on battery shells to help compensate for all that sonic energy. Batteries should be treated as background filler for loud, concussive sequences in the music. When they become a featured effect more than once or twice, you lose some of the magic of the show. Don't let batteries be your crutch! Embrace the challenge of hand-placing individual effects for the beats of the music....and if the music's bpm is too high, then consider a different song.

You hit all the right notes on color combinations, but don't be afraid to explore with MORE color! There's one combination I really enjoyed at around 3:00, the blue/cyan/violet palette is lovely. Maybe not right for the angry vibes of the song, but a nice combo on its own. Then there's a brief second at 2:37 where the red-orange LEDs come on just as your orange and teal mines fade out - it makes for a sexy as hell color accent that I plan to steal for use in a future show 😈 A site I love to use for color inspo is is called Coolors - check it out!

You get high marks for a clean recording all the way til lthe end! The set fly-through at the beginning is a fun touch as well. Hopefully you didn't have to sacrifice too much before the game stopped crashing.

Ultimately, making shows should be FUN during the process. As long as you had fun, that's really all that counts. Everything I said is a suggestion, not a requirement for future work. (Except the part about batteries...)

Edited August 5, 20231 yr by Kablary

Thanks for all the advice and criticism Kablary.  It's good to be back on RCT3!

Congrats on your show!

I really like those LEDs in the front!

Thanks for sharing!

I see the avant-garde style of artist is still in you 😅

Your shows were always using non-traditional stuff, I always viewed them as just the off-brand person doing what they love, and that's still very present to this day. While the music is not something I listen to it's pretty interesting to see someone choreograph to it - I would don't think I could ever picture a show in my head when listening to a song like this. Then again I just saw one... so I'm just left feeling confused (good confused don't worry)

Fun to see you return to RCT3 - let's see you play some more with lighting for your next show too!