Testing the latest workflow with Faceshift software + kinect capture. Exported into CryEngine Cinebox for realtime rendering. Needs improvement but I'm getting there slowly :)
Zeredek I believe that was about the second part of the speech. Where he says family and compassion are weaknesses and how they fight against darkness.
And that compassion is heresy and family a burden or something along those lines. Who cares. I was flashed alone by the way they designed this freaking chair.
The details of the scene is great, and the animation subtle. I the whole movie has this quality, and a good story and direction, this is going to be huge. There are very few dark themed western animations, 90% of american and european animation being targeted to kid, and it's sad, because it's the whole spectrum of emotions of drama, epicness and tragedy that we miss.
Actually, to me, story and plot are MUCH more important than special effects or the quality of the animation. I wouldn´t have minded how horrible the "official" 40K movie looks...but the story...oh, ye gods...the story...
I totally agree with you, don't worry. I was commenting about what i could see for now, but being a dark library reader, story, background and lore is what matters the most to me. Still, good story is sublimated by good art direction. If you have the best dark story ever illustrated with stick figures it doesn't work.
And ye lets not talk about that movie. I don't think we never had a good w40k story in any media that's not a book for now. GW gave until now the rights to creators that don't give a shit about the lore, and that's extremely sad. The books are sooo awesomely well written, especialy the beginning of Horus' Heresy, and the Ultramarine series.
Holy Shir this is going well. I can tell this is a first test, as the speech seems choppy but thats just the frame rate, but the mouth movement seems a little off as well though, I can't put a finger on why though. Maybe seems a little mechanical right now, but for a test this is just superb, regular animators would aspire just to get this as a final product.
Looking good, cgi already looks better than the Ultramarines movie. Glad to see the project is still up and running, really looking forward to it. Keep up the great work :).
I think I'm not alone on this : we expect a lot of your work, and seeing this, we know it'll be huge. Of course your work is perfectible, but I am (we all are) confident in your talent ;-)
I salute you for actually putting up with GW's shit and greediness to design what you love, even if they basically forced you to refuse any money or face a lawsuit. Greedy fuckers. Seriously, this is better than all of their videos in the past decade put together. They should be kissing your feet and praising you for the fantastic free advertisement.
I definitely feel this is the demeanor Marcus should take. I didn't like him in the Prologue, but he has much more weight and purpose in this. Though, I feel the Prologue, he was a lot younger and naive.
Not sure if you will read this, but from using some software like this at uni, I found it better to get the actor to over actor things like emotions, the system picked it up better and once put on the model it didn't look like they was over acting, but that is what I found when using it and I am sure the tech has improved since then
I would like to request a change to the texture of Marcus' coat - the Aquilla looks like a printed picture. Instead it should look like a sewn or embroidered detail.
I'm pretty sure GW is looking at this movie as a prime opportunity to test the water for high budget, high quality 40k movie production (as their last one doesn't count for anything) without the risk attached of using their money to do so. This is probably why they allowed ADB to write for it - they want it to be as high quality as possible to properly evaluate the market.
If you ask me, which I will point out right now that no body did. I would say there needs to be more movement in the face, I hear the words I see his lips move but it just doesn't feel like he's talking. Although I guess it's a first test, and as I have no idea how to even use any of it I can't really complain about it.
That's actually rendered real-time?! Well first I applaud your work for making a scene where the real-time rendering on par with, if no better than, the non-real-time rendered scenes from the GW movie. On the other hand -- why? It would have cost much less CPU/GPU resource to test the animation. oh well, I suppose it doesn't show the effect competently just to look at non-material polygons, this is so much better. I respect your choice as I trust you know what you are doing, unlike me. Now that I thought of details, camera work none-withstanding, this scene doesn't seem natural to me because the speaker doesn't have any other body movements other than his face. Now I know this just a facial test, but I'd like to suggest putting some chest movements, as the actual camera angle for the final product would most likely at least show some of the chest in it. The speaker would natural have some chest motions dude to lung movement, no matter how tense, sad or focused he is.
Hope there will be some ground battle too with some titan in battle? Or even some big battle with a lot of space marines or imperial guard. I can't wait.
Surely no officer of the Ordos would say this? It is an admission of defeat, a cry of despair. It casts doubt on the God-Emperor's inevitable victory over all His foes. It IS heresy.
If GW would support a film, I mean a live action film it would be costly yes, but think of how much money it would bring them, it could open up thousands possibly millions of people to the hobby that would never hear about it otherwise and they could advertise GAMES WORKSHOP and CITADEL so much, and we could enjoy a wonderfully amazing film, I can't wait unroll this one is done, it's looking great
Its good to see that the making of the inquisitor is still alive I almost though you stop thank god you did not I'm looking forward to this fan made movie
It's so stupid that no one make blockbuster of warhammer( its can be tv show like "avengers" and other marvel comics, and I think it's be cool not for funs only, cuz it's action, it's space battles, it's war, but all directors and writes don't want to earn money, it's can be more than over 9000 films, cuz u know how many books wh got, from Horus heresy, to grey Knights and other! So someone make movie PLZ!!!
It's exceptionally difficult to gauge the quality of the speech and facial animations when the camera keeps jittering around and/or showing things like the arm of the chair... Just one playthrough of the character's face, uninterrupted, would have been nice.
Guys im pretty sure GW are going to get into movies, its just a matter of time, it would be interesting to see how this movie is going to be relesed? wil it cost money to watch? if so who receives the money gw or the creator? if gw could support his guy and his team financially, we could have this awesome film done quicker and gw could make some money out of it. anyway this is awsome stuff.
"who rages against the dying of the light" hmmmmmmmmmm sounds like a familiar poem, a certain poem featured in the recent SI-FI film interstellar...........nah must just be a coincidence
i am really looking forward to the final product :D but i think it would be nice to know in what languages this movie later will be able to watch sure its in english but whats with german or france ? :D (i am german)
It'd take a lot of extra effort to translate it into different languages...this is some guys pet project in his down time afterall. I wouldn't expect it...it might get a fansub later down the road though.
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