The BIG Secret Behind the Animations of Zenless Zone Zero 

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I see a big. I mean huge animation.. I mean good animations

Yeah… the squash and stretch, I like both of them a lot…

my guess for the impact frames is they do a combination of noise warp distortion, bloom, chromatic aberration, and lines that "cut" through the contrasty parts of the frame to make it look drawn and sketchy. likely a shader on the camera making radial lines or using edge detection and warping it on the y axis with noise displacing the edges to do it. they also use something like a gradient map to limit the amount of colours used in a frame whilst also clamping it or using a posturize effect to prevent the amount of colours coming through (as having the light fall off from shading and things like that would look a bit odd when you want only 2 major colours in the frame)

While I’m not at all a fan of gacha games and how it holds back gameplay elements, I can’t fault their visual presentation and animation quality. Have learnt a lot from it. I really want to learn how to pull off stuff like this so seamlessly!

Zzz advertisement before this video....coincidence? 😂

As a character animator, it’s 3 major things: 1) the rig is INTENSE. Lots of bones. Allows for smears in the right spots 2) it’s likely they did this in UE5 because of their physics system. It’s only been out about a year and it appears they’ve mastered it already. 3) the chick who does the mocap work… the animators do SO MUCH on top of it. Drool

I feel like this is a class on how to do good animations. I actually learned a lot from this.

Lol that final gameplay section was sooo sponsered

the animations are very titillating that's for sure

damn... those... animations...

Finally they started to advertise the game properly... Great video my guy.

Impact frames are definitely 2D drawn over since they don't perfectly line up with the previous 3D frame. Also pretty sure the initial Ultimate animation isn't live rendered but a video, because you don't see the surrounding area in the background.

Bro... I'm crying... I've been all over this game recently, on top of that, this video is FREAKING BEAUTIFUL DUDE. But I still didn't get the notification that you released this video until 7 hours ago

I really their left and right animations from this game. Very detailed and bouncy.

Wuthering waves has been out for less than a week and there’s already a “Wuthering waves killer”

If mihoyo ever releases a movie or a standard priced standalone videogame, they will be elevated to Ghibli/Pre-activision level of respect in the industry. Its a shame that due to them only releasing gachas a lot of people dont even look at the insane ammount of artistry and effort they put into their games.

1:38 jiggle physics

The animation is really great!! 😊👍

0:02 Who can count how many times this scene was in the video? StylizedStation knows what he's doing 😏

my god the animation is so STUNNING! my question is how much animation is in engine vs pre-rendered. and i wonder how the rigs look

0:01 that jiglle is defying gravity

I'm impressed with the level of fluidity of these animations

Man the cat...

Nice video!

Listening to your reactions is just as entertaining as watching this game's animations.. animations are brilliant as it exudes character depth.. lol.. miHoYo was the developer out of Shanghai.. they seem to get the anime genre very well. They have a long history in this space since 2011.. great work in this release.

the jiggle animations are so good 😋

The impact frames are insane for real.

from the company that creates genshin impact* its a different team

amazing vid but I am mildly annoyed by that zoom in when you were doing the ultimates section

They are fixed camera angles, so it's definitely drawn.

This is why I love hoyoverse games they put so much care time and effort into them

I really wonder why everybody loves the animations..

You might get interested in roblox the strongest battleground game, they do a lot of vfx anime moves, if not all of them, it is based on one punch man

ZZZ no me dio sueño. Mas bien me levanto 🗿

The 4th July is actually the official release date, not open beta

Damn nice.

Can't wait to olay this, it lools awesome

Honkai Impact animators when they have the budget and space for 3D animations: (RIP my phone storage though...)

This is the first time i wasnt looking at where the arrows were pointing in the thumbnail

Animations in cutscenes are beyond amazing, everything is so smooth and expressive.

The arrow points to the faces but there was clearly a main focus point you wanted us to look at lmao and it's not the face

If you like Anby, as i do, you might consider changing the voices to japanese, she is the sama VA that does Frieren, and you can soooo feel they are alike at moments.

I didn’t wait a month for this😡 I wanted you to animate YUJI ITADORI!!

Only legends know he changed the title like 3 times

Why tf is all the font italic all of a sudden?

JIGGLE PHYSICS

I got a honkai star rail ad and a zenless zone zero ad at 2:13 (after she puts her uhhh Katana?? Scabbard)

HOW are they doing these impact frames in engine?

"*dripping* with style" 🤨

The animation style of this game mostly adheres to The 12 Principles of Animation, but it is also influenced by Japanese anime, featuring a Japanese animation technique style called the Kanada style. The Kanada style sometimes deliberately violates the rules of Slow in and slow out and Follow through and overlapping action, two of The 12 Principles of Animation, achieve a crisp, dotted, discrete, and funky visual experience. I believe this is why it looks so different. There is a Japanese animation company Trigger that also likes to do this.

Pretty

there is no open beta. Ive been preregistered for ages now. Nothing. What bait this is

Can't wait til "stylized station" becomes "animation station"

please tell us about animation easing!

Music name?

Will, this game come to consoles because it has some really good animations

Who's that dude with the legs? Literally everyone

Requisitos?

I just watched an add about it before this video bro

the most important thing you didn't mention is these animation created by "Motion Capture"

What makes it so good you ask? booobbies animation.😁🤣😂

Hey, anyone here can recommend some stuffs to learn animation from zero.

Yeah those arrows do nothing dude

Can’t wait to not play this. The animation is really cool tho

Hot waifus but most likely a cashgrab. Its to be expected.

Would love a premium game from this subteam. It's so stylish.

who uh, actually are the animators?

a phone game has an animations are 100 times better than high budget AAA game studio.

what game engine, this game been made with ?

What happened to my boy bruh, who used to be some good guy but then he out here promoting Anime Waifus

Having male characters in a game like this, is like having a salad option at a steakhouse.

Best best physics to

Impact frames are just hand drawn bro Since those are hit action or like... Small cutscene lookin ahh you can just draw

But are these in game or prerender cut scene ?

I might be in the minority here, but I feel like this is the first time a game has too much secondary animation and it's a little too busy, though it might only be in the trailers. Maybe I'm getting old, but I feel like we've gotten to the point where animation is trying to replicate people who record their tik toks in slow mo , hit a pose on every second word in the sentence, and then speed them up. Which is interesting, because those tik toks were supposed to feel like animation. It's almost as if animation is pulling influence from the thing that was influenced by animation.

Please add audio track like Mr beast and Mark rober

Shill moment

Wtf is that thumbnail

It's Disney animation, except Disney still has talent. (remember that Anime's origin IS Disney)

I dont trust mihoyo to make good games, they may make good visuals and sound but as games they are terrible. Especially genshin.

meh

ok the style is really great, but it is a gatcha pay-to-win which really pulls the gameplay and fun down. this is so unfortunate since the animations and all the other stuff seem really great but the whole point of the game is to force you to spend as much as possible

It's a shame that god like animation like this gets wasted on mobile trash like this 😭

Furry

I'm still not playing this money-sucking gambling machine disguised as a videogame no matter how many videos people make on it

Not gonna lie. This feels like a shill. I like all your videos except this one. It feels like it has no soul

I hate this kind of over the top animations

game is mid tho and boring. just hitting the x button. eh but yeah the art direction and animation is dope. thats all it has

Sure, the animations are really good, but everything else including the company behind it is trash

Very impressive animations but I would not play this cringe ah game

Cringe game, no thanks.