Path of Exile Talent Competition

Video composed within Adobe CS5 Premiere Pro, from my copy of Adobe CS5 Production Premium which I purchased back in 2011. I work for a university, so I was able to buy the less expensive educational version. Still works beautifully today, even if it doesn't have all of the latest bells & whistles of the latest Creative Cloud (CC) version.




Every single gem in the game was included for a background in part of this video, added in a random pattern.

For the build run-through I painstakingly took screen caps of the PoESkillTree 2.5.0 app, both without any nodes selected and then with all nodes selected, stitched them all together, and then layered those two rather large images in Adobe Photoshop CS5. I created macros and scripts to aid me in centering an HD resolution frame around the progress of unlocking each node, then erased the unselected nodes image to show the selected ones. I then saved those images, all 125 of them. Annoying side note: PoESkillTree does not zoom the same amount each time, so when I did the selected and unselected images in different sessions, I had to resize one to match the other, though I did get them close (4 mouse wheel zoom outs from maximum zoom-in).





I used CrazyTalk Animator 3 to animate the characters, which were mere 2D, static images from the Path of Exile comic by GGG/Dynamite. Enjoyed the comics, but they're far too short in my opinion. Nonetheless they gave faces to many of the prominent characters within PoE's story and Wraeclast's history. Unfortunately there is no comic for Vorici, since this master lives in current times within Wraeclast, so I used a nice hooded photo from Victario and edited it to match Vorici's style, complete with holding daggers over his shoulders.




Fortunately there were many images of Malachai in the comics, so a wide array to choose from. Malachai and Vorici have the most to say about the virtue gems.




I listened to ALL of the dialog in PoE. It was a long, two-week process of processing several characters a day after work. I cropped, and converted the best sections, but sadly all of what I included won't be able to fit in a 5-minute or less video, so I hand-picked both the more relevant dialogs, along with a few of my favorite ones.






42.5 GB of files are part of this project. This includes gameplay footage recorded with FRAPS (36.7 GB), image files, audio files, video generated by CrazyTalk Animator 3, and more.