Reallusion Character Design - Trad vs Mod (22mn Short Film)
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From our paradise island called Madagascar ,we started with some questions: how to produce convincing animated movie without spending thousands of dollars that we will never have ? How to establish a cinema animation pipeline adapted with african means ( no much money, electricity cut every 2hours, etc etc)
After 2 years of researches trying multiples softwares we've finally be able to establish
a fast and quality cinema production pipeline and it's build around iclone 6 and 2 guys technical team. From the character design to animation , iClone is incredibly efficient. Trad vs Mod is our first movie made with iclone (22mn) with a crazy story, funny dialogues , As we just finished the english subtitles just for you please take the time to watch the movie and come back to us if you don't find it funny
. Our small company has won some international short film awards , today we are just starting to send Trad vs Mod to festivals around the globe, the real WIP begins. We cannot talk about this movie without talking about iClone so pray for us , the more we get notority the more we can show the world how iClone is a revolutionary tool.
The movie is not technically perfect as in WIP state , and there are some improvement that we have to do but we are also now already thinking about making a new feature movie with the same pipeline with more finesse, ambition and precision. We are just waiting for the iClone's PBR renderer to be released and the ultimate pipeline will be completed.
Here is the link to the movie,it's ''preview copy'' watermarked because of protection purposes. We hope you'll have fun and spread the word.
https://youtu.be/BgXGosIvTIA
Iclone Contest entry
We are running after the 3D Character contest, use of iClone contest, Use of Character Creator contest, outfit design contest.
Who knows , hope is better than nothing.
About the story
In the future human are going to fight for water and bananas. There will be two major factions , those who are stuck to the traditions and those who are not. Who will win this bloody war?
Homemade MG team
Manran (director, sound designer, editor, screenwriter, character designer and animator, lighting artist and mocap performer, father of 2 kids)
Khafez (producer, facial animator, hair and cloth physic )
No animal was killed during the production of this movie and sorry for the bad english.
After 2 years of researches trying multiples softwares we've finally be able to establish
a fast and quality cinema production pipeline and it's build around iclone 6 and 2 guys technical team. From the character design to animation , iClone is incredibly efficient. Trad vs Mod is our first movie made with iclone (22mn) with a crazy story, funny dialogues , As we just finished the english subtitles just for you please take the time to watch the movie and come back to us if you don't find it funny
. Our small company has won some international short film awards , today we are just starting to send Trad vs Mod to festivals around the globe, the real WIP begins. We cannot talk about this movie without talking about iClone so pray for us , the more we get notority the more we can show the world how iClone is a revolutionary tool.The movie is not technically perfect as in WIP state , and there are some improvement that we have to do but we are also now already thinking about making a new feature movie with the same pipeline with more finesse, ambition and precision. We are just waiting for the iClone's PBR renderer to be released and the ultimate pipeline will be completed.
Here is the link to the movie,it's ''preview copy'' watermarked because of protection purposes. We hope you'll have fun and spread the word.
https://youtu.be/BgXGosIvTIAIclone Contest entry
We are running after the 3D Character contest, use of iClone contest, Use of Character Creator contest, outfit design contest.
Who knows , hope is better than nothing.
About the story
In the future human are going to fight for water and bananas. There will be two major factions , those who are stuck to the traditions and those who are not. Who will win this bloody war?
Homemade MG team
Manran (director, sound designer, editor, screenwriter, character designer and animator, lighting artist and mocap performer, father of 2 kids)
Khafez (producer, facial animator, hair and cloth physic )
No animal was killed during the production of this movie and sorry for the bad english.
Replies
Final TRAD cartoon render look with hairstyle and cloths. The cloths and hairs are dynamic. The Iclone 6 cartoon shader is also wonderful .
HAIRS>>>
The hair mesh are created and rigged inside blender then animated with spring effect inside Iclone 6. The hair mesh is using iclone's displacement map feature to simulate the hair effect. We were very pleased the first time we discovered this turnaround.
CLOTHES>>>
Editing cloth meshes inside Blender
Cloth physic painting inside the Gimp. The IC6's cloth animation system is fast, realtime and straightforward. Also it can handle a large amount of simulated cloth inside a single scene. This movie contains almost 13 mn of cloth simulation
The 22mn movie contains 8 major scenes. We had some difficulty to open some projects once the file size exceed 600 Megabyte but we made it...it was one of the most hard issue to solve. The best solution was to remove some or many objects especially trees from the scene.
The scene with the crowd was the most difficult to achieve. Many characters had to be animated with body and facial animations. We ended up with a heavy 6000 frames timeline and heavy project file size.
Mocap animations
Some mocap session pictures. We use xbox 360 kinect to record animation. We've discovered that using powerful lighting can reduce animation jittering. Unfortunately our kinect V2 hardware just arrived few day after the film finalisation, may be we will use it with an another project.
CONCLUSION
As you can see the pipeline is pretty simple but very powerful. One of the most important advantage of using Iclone is that your team can work simultaneously and it's easy to bring the results together. For example one person is making body animation and at the same time an another one is making facial animation including visemes and expressions and at the same time a third person is refining his character design. everything is modifiable until the final render process without altering the pipeline structure.
We had so much fun recording the dialogs. The guy on the left is the director, in the middle the TRAD voice actor and on the right the TRAD's assistant. We took our time to have fun because we knew that even if we get a large amount of dialogue . It will be easy to animate inside of iclone.
We had a successful avant premiere during the 11th Rencontres du Film Court de Madagascar ( short film festival ) . Here are some press articles and we apologise most of them are written in french
http://www.newsmada.com/2016/04/18/rfc-le-festival-a-demarre-sur-les-chapeaux-de-roues/
http://www.koolsaina.com/11e-edition-du-film-court-soiree-douverture-sous-le-signe-de-loptimisme/
http://fr.allafrica.com/stories/201504200051.html