I love CG animation!
Lotharen
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CG animation is one thing I want to learn to do but it's so tedious at times. I will work on it slowly, learning tricks as I go.
I wish I could accomplish something as amazing as this video below! I thinks its simply amazing and had to share.
If I could make something half that good with Studio and or Poser I would be happy.
As a side note, do you suppose the Japanese use motion capture, or manually animate these scenes?
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I'm so hyped for the Shadowbringers expansion. I do know Square Enix uses a lot of mocap for their ingame animations and cgi movies.
I know right! I love the music in the trailer to. It's eye and ear candy!
thats pretty awesome
I have been watching the Weta Workshop breakdowns and you realise with those how much compostition goes into creating CGI scenes
https://www.youtube.com/user/WetaDigitalVisualFX/videos
a game engine for cut scenes they have the advantage of no live footage to match in so lighting can be baked identically for each layer
I doubt for example those dynamic hairs rendered together with the facial expressions, even Hitfilm will create a drop shadow under an alpha image series
there would be a lot of layers in those cutscenes
so yes it is actually doable using DAZ studio and Hitfilm but OMG it would be a lot of work!!!!
now this just blows me away
That was very awesome to watch. It's amazing just what goes into a production like that.
Iclone can do animatins like
or the computer prower
Yes, that too. I can only imagine how many they used in the render farm they setup.
Square Enix has the best Hair and cloth system I have ever seen.
I am fairly certain they have proprietary simulation software
the mixture of soft cloth and rigid/semi rigid Armor Clothing in the FF Kingsglaive Movie
is astounding.
There's a technical breakdown here from the company Square Enix worked with to make it https://image-engine.com/case-studies/kingsglaive-final-fantasy-xv/
It unfortunatly doesn't detail what they used for cloth.
@RobotHeadArt, Thank you for the link, I really love that film
I watch the Bluray repeatedly and still find some new detail
everytime.
Well.. Sort of...
Iclone is great with its support
for the Neuron motion capture suits and its "motion live"
unified motion capture system for hand ,body and face .
However no major hollywood film VFX company would ever use
Iclone in production, ( in its current state), because iclone is not very scalable and has very little support
for quadripeds and has essentially nothing in the way of Native Character ragdoll physics.
And even its motion capture options do not compare to Autodesk motionbuilder
with regard to the amount of Data it can capture from multiple actors.
Thus massive Battle scenes such as those seen in HBO's "Game of Thrones"
or "Hobbit, Battle of the five armie," are not really feasible with iclone.
One of our users over, on the Reallusion forum, created this neat little scene from the Matrix Reloaded
in iclone and rendered it in Unity3D.
Pretty cool.. but he had to hand key his hits &falls which come off as a bit
"mechanical" compared to the Golaem system in Maya or even the ragdoll I get from Endorphin.
An example of the "Golaem" crowd system
well Kingsglaive they rendered in 3Delight!
OK they used their own animation engine Imagine but good to know 3Delight is still considered a robust renderer, yeah know DAZ studio has a somewhat watered down version but still .....
This rendering in Unity from iClone looks very promising. I need to spend more time on that.
Below are just 2 screenshots from Unity, with the environment made in Gaia with the new fog system.