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The Darkest Age - Unreal Engine Animations
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 31 ส.ค. 2011
I am delving deep into Unreal Engine 5 and the Metahuman animation pipeline. I am a cinematographer by trade, looking to create short films and other types of content using this incredible software. Watch this channel for various animation tests, short films, and BTS content on my processes.
How I made this AAA Cinematic in Unreal Engine 5 - Move.Ai and Metahuman Animator short film
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This is a high-level breakdown of my process for creating this game teaser/cinematic. I used Move.Ai for the motion capture, and Metahuman Animator for the face capture.
"Omerta" - Script by Anthony Giulianti - Produced by John Ignato
Metahuman Customization by Arman Avetisov
All Sound Effects and Music licensed from Artlist.io
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00:00-00:26 Intro
00:27-3:19 Short Film
03:20-04:50 Performance Capture Tools Used
04:51-05:09 Performance Capture Tutorial Link
05:10-06:56 Processing the Animations
06:57-7:37 Scan Stone and Custom Metahuman Work
07:38-8:47 Animating Walking Down Stairs and Through the Environment
08:48-10:14 Uncanny Valley and Where is this Going?
#unrealengine5
#unrealengine
#animation
#shortfilm
#metahuman
#ue5
#motioncapture
#mocap
#performancecapture
#characteranimation
This is a high-level breakdown of my process for creating this game teaser/cinematic. I used Move.Ai for the motion capture, and Metahuman Animator for the face capture.
"Omerta" - Script by Anthony Giulianti - Produced by John Ignato
Metahuman Customization by Arman Avetisov
All Sound Effects and Music licensed from Artlist.io
Business Inquiries: www.northwoodsrevolution.com/contact
00:00-00:26 Intro
00:27-3:19 Short Film
03:20-04:50 Performance Capture Tools Used
04:51-05:09 Performance Capture Tutorial Link
05:10-06:56 Processing the Animations
06:57-7:37 Scan Stone and Custom Metahuman Work
07:38-8:47 Animating Walking Down Stairs and Through the Environment
08:48-10:14 Uncanny Valley and Where is this Going?
#unrealengine5
#unrealengine
#animation
#shortfilm
#metahuman
#ue5
#motioncapture
#mocap
#performancecapture
#characteranimation
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This is awesome but i have a real challenge for you once you get the hang of unreal engine i dare you to make a 40k battle and i mean a real Warhammer 40k battle not the joke ones i keep seeing.
Challenge accepted
@NorthwoodsInteractive glad to hear can't wait to see it.
Great video! I have researched and researched the absolute best and fastest way to do this exact thing, not for anyone else but for myself. Because I want to produced my own short film. I found that using iClone and apps MotionLive and the iPhone app LiveLink FACE can give you the same results or better and take 1/4 of the time it would take with Unreal Engine! Lots of people hate of Realusion products for some reason and don't give it it's props! Anyway, that's what I discovered from my research and hands on use with both work flows! ;) The Unreal technique takes waaaaaay too much time and there's just way too many moving parts!
can you look into cyanpuppets, their program seems awesome and free!
Amazing work in such a short time. Looks great. I think it'd look better with a lot of the scenes being longer lense (less fish eyed) Movies tend to use longer lense for a more detailed filmic look, I'm personally a fan of Anamorphic lense which are great because they have a lovely distortion and wide field of view but still with the benefits of a zoom lense. But that is just a personal preference as a guy that has lots of opinions. You did a fantastic job.
Loved the hand pose section - great tips!
I think is not an issue of technology, its a thing of talent and experience. The artist who make the textures with the scans, maybe is not good enough, cause most artist nowadays can replicate humans faces with the uncanny valley touch, and they have been doing it years before UE5
I think it is both skill and technology.
Thanks for the detailed video. I am a Blender person. Could you guide me where to begin with learning UE5. There are a lot of tutorials here and there. I want to go with some comprehensive tutorial. If you have any suggestions please let me know
I have one on this channel on how to do performance capture. For complete beginners, I have seen the Bad Decisions Studio course on YT, which is very comprehensive and free
@ Thanks brother! Subscribing you👍
Looks really good for the amount of time it took but its still far from AAA.
Not quite AAA. But not far from it. I think already as good as Stalker 2.
It's an amazing video! I really enjoyed the short film, and it truly highlights the possibilities for filmmakers to bring their ideas to life.
Totally!
Awesome bro!
Damn, I dislike this title so much! :D So, what exactly makes this AAA? :) Is it the typical generic Unreal Engine look you see in all the games today? If so, then I agree. Anyway, I love the video-super impressive skill set! It's actually an inspiring video.
Hey fair enough, my thoughts with using AAA in the title were mostly to do with the fact that this would have taken a much bigger team and budget to do this not too long ago. AAA has more to do with the budget and scope more than anything, but I also think it's a loosely defined term.
I think Bro's T shirt is flipped 😂 anyway thank you for sharing your experience ❤
why does EVERYONE do such toothy facial animations, jesus. XD <3 still great!
😅
Thanks for sharing! Isn't a Rokoko suit a better offer in terms of pricing and quality?
It's a great question. Depends if you are getting gloves with your suit or not, and a few other things. Since this video, i have figured out how to get a much better calibration out of Move, so I don't have such horrible jitters that need to be smoothed. That makes a big difference. With Move, I can do two people at the same time, unlike with a suit. Also, suits are a pain to put on and off, especially if you are putting it on someone who has never worn one, or who has a lot bigger or smaller body. Also, I have not used a rokoko suit, although I have seen a lot of videos of them in use, and it requires a similar amount of cleanup, albeit in Maybe different ways, than Move. Ultimately, they are different tools that can be used to achieve similar outcomes, both with their tradeoffs. I am preferring Move and other Ai-based solutions. This is based on my experi3nce owning an Xsens Awinda, and ones of the very first Perception Neuron suits (which was godawful).
@@NorthwoodsInteractive thank you for your answer! Good luck with your projects!
Great video as always thanks! Where did you find the hand poses? That would save so much time!
I made them. You can see how to make your own in my Cinematic Performance Capture Tutorial. I think i will put a project in my discord with a hand pose library for people to use
Try to playing with depth of field for more cinematic look By the way great job buddy 😊🎉🎉
Best depth of field is 75mm for cinematic look
Excellent
bro can we make videos like this with unreal engine : " th-cam.com/video/NlcP-yeq2dg/w-d-xo.html " if yes please make a course around it, like how to make 3d youtube documentary videos like this in unreal engine
This would be totally possible in UE, if it isn't already made using it. They don't even seem to be using mocap, just stock animations. Cool video, I really want to make my own, now.
This is very impressive! But the thing that bothered me the most, besides the hands, was the facial capture. Were you saying the lines out loud while capturing? It kinda looks like you were mouthing the words but not saying them... if that makes sense. Either that or you were dramatically enunciating the words to help the capture? I dunno, it just feels off. But again, this was great for only 40hrs! I'm hoping to get into this stuff soon. :)
I was a tualpy saying the lines, but the dialog audio got thrown off right before i exported. I am not entirely sure how, it might have been when I censored it. Then I stupidly didn't check it before I uploaded, then the next morning it had like 2k views, so i didn't delete it 🙄
That is great
It’s not horses it’s goats lol , lighting strikes horses run and leave you , goats run towards you to huddle up lol
I am a goat person. 😂
Your doing goat things , a inspiration thank you for the content
Very impressed by the quality and how long the animation was all under 40 hours. Very impressive! Love these behind the scenes looks.
TNX! +sub
Getting the motion right is definitely a battle: I kind of feel like some stuff felt too smoothed, but that is preferable over jitter. I've been recording everything in Engine and it has been giving me good results, although the anim compression from take recorder seems to lead to a little more foot sliding. Anyways, great work!
Thanks! Your tutorial on VR mocap a few years ago was one of my first entries into the space. I love your work!
3:18 you pay 18 and not own it. python is free openvc whateva is free. only need capture points and send unreal
iphone not budget.do we all ready hate iphone when python and webcam do same. creality 3d scanner would be, but there no API to make it work xD
Ehh... I really doubt you can get the same results with a Webcam. The whole point of using an iPhone is because it has the depth sensor on it. I'm not iPhone fan. I just have a used iPhone 13 for face animation. Check out Backmartket to find good deals. I used to use a gopro with Faceware software for the processing, and the results were at best the same as using Livelink. Definitely not the amazing results of Metahuman Animator.
Hi. Please what iPad are you using to run move one. I recently got an iPad for this specific reason but everytime I boot up move one it says the camera isn’t compatible with move one.
I am using an iPad 4 pro. What kind do you have? You need IOS version 8 or newer i think
Amazing... for 3 years ago.
I think, this is really amazing for indie filmmakers. It saves a lot of money and time. Which they can use to rent quality hardware for final projects. I can start this service I think. As I have done something similar before.
You are a real gem sir. Just wanted to appreciate you
Y'all gonna be looking fools when AI kicks in, any day now. DOR Brothers just showed us the way
Any day now!
@NorthwoodsInteractive I wonder if there will be a great fusion together, where you prompt ' make me action scene like neo fighting agent Smith' then it just churns out flawless animations.
Absolutely there will, probably very soon. It will be a storytelling tool, just like UE, very powerful bo doubt. But it is impossible to predict the future; there is huge potential in UE as is, and many unproven promises from Ai. Best thing to do is to be versed in learning new tools.
@@NorthwoodsInteractive As soon as i seen AI i gave up UE, its potential has grown. I hope your making the correct decision because it just could get to the point were prompts are king and these are the future creators. Defo check out DOR brothers, ts good to know whats cutting edge, you'll be glad to see its still very much 'janky'
@@armondtanz I highly doubt prompts will help you create films and scenes you have in mind. I mean the emotions, the look, the feel, the camera jitter, camera angle, the transition, cuts. The task will surely become simpler. I mean AI will always be a tool. They can't replace imagination and storytelling
literary i have no words for you,. I was finding these type of long explainaition tutorial because of many question, and you give all the answers in this video , this is complete and enough for making short or long content movie,. Thank a lot from me and also from all the audience who struggling with lake of good guidance ❤
Apple though, ughh.
The short looks really good, including the acting, but committing to an apple existence, yeah Nah.
I mean I bought a used iPhone 13 for like $300, and only to use for face animation. It sounds like a lot, but for the quality of the face animation you get, it's a no brainer. When people spend $1k+ on mediocre inertial suits, it puts a used iPhone that delivers insanely good face capture in perspective.
Please also list the total investment in MoCap gear alone to make this in 48hours
$7k for software, $1.2k for gopros, $300 for headrig, $300 for iphone
The production value is really cool, but the lip syncing is really off for this. I'm assuming it's something you weren't able to fix just by shifting it forward a few seconds or backwards?
I honestly am not sure what happened, I must have bumped those lines in the timeline before exporting. Super dump. I didn't realize until the video and been up for awhile
Are you aware that MOVE ONE is no longer available from the Apple app store in the USA. Mine stopped working today. I thought it was a problem with my phone, so I deleted the app intending to download and install a fresh copy. Nope. Can't get it anymore. I had just decided to purchase an annual subscription, so I hope they don't charge me until it's fixed.
the angry plump man looks like Zelensky
So Great 👍👍
The initiate looks a LOT like Davie504.
Everything is good, I mean I'm speaking from expierience, cause I did the same. The only thing, if You asked in the video lacking is in purely acting, cause it feels in many places like in a hurry. But that also is totally understandable, the most crucial thing in mocap is peace, and plan. Those steady moments, then when nothing is really happneing those are the bridges of emotions. Imo for the 40h You give to it, it's great :)
Great stuff! How long did this take for you?!
40 hours
awesome unmoshiroi ! impressive battle ! big ships !!! bad spanish accent...meanwhile cheers from Rio
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congrats ! excellent...! awesome & umoshiroi !!! this is the way to self make movies w lots of characters via motion capture and performance capture ! a) very well impressed on how fluid body and face animations flow together naturally although the naturalistic actor performance would enhance greatly w more theater physical actor movement research. the punch in the kidnapped guy was intense and very sensorial. more iconic gestures please ! b) camera and lighting are a bit fragmented, by not having an unifying concept of camera narrative: who is telling the story visually ? why is this whoever telling this story visually ? keep animations & blocking I would reshoot w a camera on a track or a handheld camera in a third character unseen. cheers from Rio !
uncanny is the camera narrative - not the animations or 3d... fluid is extremely difficult !
I appreciate the feedback, thanks for the detailed review!
amazing!
why is there a massive lens flare from a cigarette
Because I had the lens flare setting turned up too high
His smoke got laser beam
A lot of work is here but calling this AAA it's quite a stretch.
Maybe I should have said "AAAA" 🤣
not a great film tho
Thank you bro
Great Work! thanks for sharing your experience! but I think you should integrate Iclone in your pipeline, it will definitely help solve the smoothing issue, and interactive with hands and stairs steps
this is incredible bro. the video is amazing too to show us how and what you did <3 love this!