Holy crap, that was incredible.
Wonderful scenes and such high attention to detail throughout, one of those rare AoM cinematics where it actually looked real. No idea how you made all those greek buildings (really hope you didnt shrink every single one).

Please put the map up, I want to see how you did the bridge scene made me squeal

I really can't believe how beautiful it was. It's rare to see such low angles in cinematics, because they need a lot of time to fill in the background, and computers had a hard time rendering such big areas in the old days. In addition, I've never seen such images as the horseman running through the plains, the bridge thing and the use of sfx to recreate a dawn feeling on the harbor, you truly are an innovator on this. I think I know how you made that bridge scene but I can tell it's by very far the best use of that trick ever, especially in the context of a cinematic! As Yeeb said, the level of detail is impressive and it took me a few rewatches to be able to catch everything, and I'm sure I'm still missing some.

Have some good rest because that project really was ambitious and you've put just so much effort into it! Merry Christmas and thanks for the cool present

Thank you guys for the compliments! I made the cinematic as a celebration of AOMX before the new expansion comes out (and to remind people of the old game). Yeah, I ran through the entire object catalog and tried to use all of it (a handful of things didn't make it, since I couldn't find a place for them, but oh well).

The bridge scene made me smile once I got it working (hint: the farmer is galloping through a hill, not the bridge); it took some fine-tuning, but it ended up looking as I envisioned it. The Greek buildings were fun to play with - many were shrunk, and some were enlarged.

I'd be happy to post all 27 .scx files if you wish. This was my original intention, but since each scene is so short, I wasn't sure if people would be interested.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

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He left his horse in the arctic to die?

No, I bet the horse made friends with the polar bear at the end

Haha! No, the horse was actually also transported back to the village, along with the polar bear. I decided not to show it because I wanted to emphasize the tree and the farmer (here, a horse unit would have been helpful).

That is fantastic, much better than the cinematic i made a few years ago for christmas.

This looks promising! Will def check it out

I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Long live AoM!

outstanding work, never saw something like that before, do more please

Thank you. I'd love to do more, but school is going to keep me very busy next year. I do, however, intend to make an AOM Halloween video at some point in the future. We'll see.

By the way, should you be curious about the scenario design, I've submitted all the .scx files for the movie scenes to the Downloads section.

Also, if you know any other sites where AOM is popular, feel free to share the link for the video (I only know of the AOMH and AOM Reddit community).

Oh my Zeus...

That was just beautiful. I love your style and creativity and the eyecandy is spot on. I could cry :')

Very nice.

Thank you Mr. Omniscient .

Always loved aom cinematics, glad you put it on youtube.

Wow this is absolutely fantastic stuff. Great job man.

Thanks!

Woaw! Awesome! Nice touch with the bear at the end and all the background stuff. I couldn't find Arkantos.

Thank you . As for Arkantos, he's on the boat during the storm scene (I used the ship animation where one of his crew points out the black sails of pirate vessels).