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This was to get a more fluid camera movement in without having to scratch our heads too much on each perspective change by hand. If we were to do the animation now, I probably would have made the models slightly more detailed with landmarks on the faces, and done more of the “slow-mo” shots as 3D storyboards as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/552feb0ce4b043e3d52e02c9/1539826063117-S82UQN6R32H2BKNIOVFO/humanbullet_lineart.gif blog - Animation for Urealms Live S3 Finale: Storyboarding and Production - lineart Here is an early line art version of the shot. 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The keys were done by me, and then the inbetweens were done by Pat. The inbetweens are basically the filler frames where you smooth out the motion and make it look buttery. It’s important to do key based animation where you draw a start, middle and end when collaborating. If one of us were to draw the first half of the animation in order, and then the other were to draw the 2nd half, it would look and time completely different then how one of us expected. Drawing the whole animation out in a very choppy way helps keep both animators on the same gameplan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/552feb0ce4b043e3d52e02c9/1539826324062-HQIS7VYLPNVUIAX555P2/017_lineart_colored.gif blog - Animation for Urealms Live S3 Finale: Storyboarding and Production - Colored animation As you can also see from the pre-effects shot of the sword slash, the background is left blank. That’s because to help speed things up, I decided to export all of the shots with transparency and composite them with image assets in After Effects. 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I was proud of this at the time, mostly on the rendering of the pants and the material variance. But after modelling the character in 3D when I started messing with Blender, the design flaws became apparent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/552feb0ce4b043e3d52e02c9/1540422894468-6MJXFIXUIS6HPNGKA7AP/Rufina_2nd_design_smaller.png Rufina - Unreal Engine Level - Early 2017 Design After modelling in 3D, I ended up making the eyes feel much more angular and dynamic. I felt like I could change the whole design to be sleeker and focus more on shape language. And voila, I’m still extremely satisfied with my work on this today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/552feb0ce4b043e3d52e02c9/1540422897072-CYD9RYO3UATY7SOI11NF/Rufina_3rd_design_smaller.png Rufina - Unreal Engine Level - Summer 2017 Design I did this one on a Twitch Livestream, at the time I thought I was pointed towards a more PBR style material game, so I wanted more details. 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I took off all post processing and neutralized the tone mapper and exposure settings so I could focus on the color of skylights and making sure nothing felt too dark and contrasted. I wanted an “airy” feeling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/552feb0ce4b043e3d52e02c9/1540496887040-S3CFUN5OXGXXG1XUV7PT/UE4Editor_2018-09-11_18-25-33.png Rufina - Unreal Engine Level - Coming Together... Touch of Bloom The tree model was made in Maya, I used Zbrush to create nanomesh cards on top of half domes for the leaves. The UV’s stayed duplicated so each card has the same UV’s across the nanomesh. 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