Horizon Zero Dawn - Animation Reel

richardoud · Apr 2017

He guys,
i've uploaded my animation reel from Horizon Zero Dawn.. hope you like it!

Thanks for watching

_adamturnbull · Apr 2017

Great stuff man, and thanks for joining the forums! Hope you stick around!

If I'm still in the UK by the end of May I'll come and say hi at Animex!

iraklisan · Apr 2017

Fantastic! Love all the small additional animations

AGoodFella · Apr 2017

This is freaking awesome!!

Arlechinoy · Apr 2017

Looks great! I like the smoothness of the robotic movement.

djackson362 · Apr 2017

OutStanding!

Rmunday · Apr 2017

Absolutely inspiring stuff.

littleclaude · Apr 2017

Very nice, love the little additional anims like the opening and closing jaws, thanks for the share, I'll make sure to show my animation students.

Arturow · Apr 2017

woaaah that so cool! It's really awesome to recognize the animals just by the animation apart from the models and silhouettes . very inspiring

Blond · Apr 2017

That's a lot of animations !! Nice to see awesome keyframes motions like that for an AAA title. Wish characters ahd the same treatment! These are so expressive!

Martoon · Apr 2017

I recognize a bunch of these from the Game. Congrats on the success and really great job embodying real world animal behavior into these animations.

The Rizzler · Apr 2017

You can really sense the weight and temperament of each creature. How have I not got around to playing HZD yet? Fantastic work

AGoodFella · Apr 2017

The creatures are great but even Aloy's locomotion is nice as well.

McGergs · Apr 2017

These look amazing! All of the subtle movements really sell the characters.

LyonScapeStudios · Apr 2017

So dope. I love how organic the movement is but how stiff the materials are.

richardoud · May 2017

Holy cow.. Thanks a million guys, that means the world to me.. So happy with all the positive feedback!

richardoud · May 2017

@AGoodFella You're right man.. The team did a great job on Aloy as well. Niek's reel is insane, he did most of the key-frame on her: https://vimeo.com/user2877650

Thanks for pointing that out as well..

YannickStoot · May 2017

So cool! Amazing work!

slipsius · May 2017

Amazing work, Richard. What kind of time frame were you looking at for each one?

Veech · May 2017

Awesome! I think I saw you post this also on the Animation Mentor facebook page correct?

Blond · May 2017

Oh my apologies..I somehow expected character gameplay animation to be MoCapped but if it's all hand keyed then gosh it IS impressive!!!

(A few studios like Ubisoft uses MoCAp for most of their ingame animations si O thought it was the case as well for this game..)

fanlousie · May 2017

Awesome!

AGoodFella · May 2017

richardoud said:

@AGoodFella You're right man.. The team did a great job on Aloy as well. Niek's reel is insane, he did most of the key-frame on her: https://vimeo.com/user2877650

Thanks for pointing that out as well..

Nice, I'll check it out as well. You're one talented dude! Would love more behind the scenes stuff.

Playing the game now and you guys did a great job.

richardoud · May 2017

AtomicToyRobot said:

Awesome! I think I saw you post this also on the Animation Mentor facebook page correct?

Thanks man.. Yeah, you're right! I did both the regular course and the animals & creatures course there, so I figured to drop it there as well

richardoud · May 2017

slipsius said:

Amazing work, Richard. What kind of time frame were you looking at for each one?

Appreciate that! It's hard to say the time frame since it was so spread out over the project.. But if I have to guess, about 3 to 5 months per robot from start to fully polished (and I mean the full set like movement, gestures, attacks, hit reactions etc)
Hope that helps a bit..

richardoud · May 2017

AGoodFella said:

richardoud said:

@AGoodFella You're right man.. The team did a great job on Aloy as well. Niek's reel is insane, he did most of the key-frame on her: https://vimeo.com/user2877650

Thanks for pointing that out as well..

Nice, I'll check it out as well. You're one talented dude! Would love more behind the scenes stuff.

Playing the game now and you guys did a great job.

Thanks dude.. If you're in the UK, I'm doing a talk at Animex about the process the end of this month. If not, hopefully I'll make it to GDC next year.. Have fun playing the game man!