Wild Life (UE4 Project)

BƎAR

This is a thread for my cinematic project called Wild Life.
The scene is split into 3 layers, like a three player splitscreen game.

Scene start peaceful and quiet, with a vibrant atmosphere. A wolf comes through the 2nd panel and a deer is seen grazing in the 3rd panel. The wolf gets a scent and runs off. The atmosphere is tense and then a wolf sillouhette is seen in the back of the 3rd panel and the deer is then attacked. Once the wolfs are nearly done eating, wolf pups are seen scuttling into the 2nd panel, which ends the cinematic.

I have until the first of May to get it done and I'm willing to work nonstop until it is, so keep updated

Were trying to reach this level of quality in engine, but were still unsure on the grading.

Concept Art:



Animals so far
Wolf & Elk:




Elk:


Im really unsure on how to go about with fur. I want a realistic a peice I can get with the animals. Heres what I had in mind:

• -Make high poly in ZBrush
• -Make Fibremesh fur coat
• -Make fur planes ontop of retopologised
• -Bake fibremesh and highpoly ontop of mesh and fur planes.

Were just starting on the forest, so there's not much to show, but I'll update when there is.

I feel like theres little documentation on next gen animals online, so if there are any suggestions, critisicms, please let us know.

Thanks for reading. :poly122:

BƎAR

update on the Elk::)
need to find a tidy way to blend the fur

pmiller001

the majestic moose. that work flow witht he fur sounds reasonable, its what i would do if i were to make a moose as well.

BƎAR

@pmiller001 & kirkos
thanks guys

Update on where the wolf is at now.
Having problems in UE4 though, since the fur requires transparency, which causes sortings issues. Alot needs to be done texture wise aswell.

All crit is really appreciated
Thanks for reading

anglorum

Man. I totally feel your problems with the transparency stuff. My biggest suggestion for dealing with this in maya, is to go to your viewport settings, change it to viewport 2.0, then change the "Transparency Algorithm" to "Depth Peeling". For whatever reason this seems to sort transparent objects in the viewport a ton better!

Hope this helps. Your work looks super sick so far man. Really interesting project I look forward to seeing it progress.

pixelpatron

Don't touch that wolf's face, it's perfect.

danleachez

That wolf is perfect. Great job so far.

BƎAR

@danleachez & @pixelpatron
thanks guys I retextured the face like 4 times, so im really happy you like it

@anglorum
yeah its a real pain isn't it depth peeling in viewport 2.0 is amazing and I'm using it, but unfortunately theres isn't anything similar in ue4 :poly127:

the poly count is at 9000 at the moment, which I'm pretty content with.

some screenshots i failed to upload earlier:

samwoodart

I love how this is looking mate! A question, if i may, how did you place the planes for the wolf's hair? is that by hand? Or is there a script for maya? Much appreciated.

KustomZero

What kind of material did you use for your gras and fern? Everytime I import my vegetation stuff into unreal it looks like cheap plastic gras

BƎAR

@samwoodart
thanks yeah it's a tricky process, which I feel I haven't even finished fully yet. I used fibremesh in zbrush to generate reeally wide planes. I exported that to Maya and then pretty much edited each one by hand a little bit. Let me know if that makes sense or not.

@KustomZero
I haven't started the grass yet, you might be confusing the concept art with a screenshot? :poly124:

Zer0Naught

Have you tweaked the vertex normals for the fur or are you just winging it? Looks great!

BƎAR

UPDATE!
A hacky implementation of fur and wind interaction and also an animation run test.
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Zer0Naught wrote: »

Have you tweaked the vertex normals for the fur or are you just winging it? Looks great!

I did yes But that wolf file became corrupt and now it's default normals

BƎAR

Forest is getting somewhere.
Still needs alot though :poly122:

BƎAR

So we finally finished the film.

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We can always improve so let us know what we can do.
Thanks for the help

Schliggle

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BƎAR

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Thanks! Updated now

jStins

Interesting concept and nice execution. My only crit is that the take down on the Elk is lacking energy / impact in the animation. It feels a bit incomplete with just the first bite in there.

BƎAR

jStins wrote: »

Interesting concept and nice execution. My only crit is that the take down on the Elk is lacking energy / impact in the animation. It feels a bit incomplete with just the first bite in there.

Thanks for the kind words and yeah you're totally right man, we planned the film to be quite a lot longer also. We're planning on updating it.