Pitch & Produce | The Troublemakers: Using Professional iClone 8 animation tools for Feature Film

hello everyone my name is nicar and i'm the ceo and founder of fx animation studios here in mozambique for the past 18 years we've been serving the local market doing tv commercials and public service announcement videos [Music] [Music] [Music] throughout the years we've noticed that we've been consuming mostly international content and we felt that we needed to tell our own stories and create our own characters so that's why we created uh special niche or in english the troublemakers back in 2010 usb is a project that comprises of several parts we aim to create shorts psas comic books and even full-length features the project follows the lives of three kids led by lily it's mostly about their adventures and their day-to-day life as they encounter interesting and sometimes funny situations and how they overcome and solve problems our current project is an animated feature film that goes in depth to explain where lily comes from the secrets her family is hiding from her how important family and friendship is and how far she's willing to go to save the people she loves we have been able to complete two shorts a few short stories in comic book format and even a few psas and now we're finally ready to produce our very first animation feature film we are very very small team so we are always looking for the most affordable way to work and wanting to be updated when it comes to software and hardware has always been our main concern up until the year to 2020 we had been using 3ds max as our main animation tool but since licensing changes we decided to start looking for other alternatives and that's when we started learning blender which was it which was evolving at a very amazing pace back then right about the same time we also learned about re-illusion suite of softwares i'm talking about character creator iclone and 3d exchange and how they work seamlessly with unreal engine so we started using a workflow that comprised mainly of character creator and blender with iphone 7 being mostly as a bridge to port mocap animations to blend our latest project for the feature film is an example of that we will we would create the models of our character and character creator and then rig them up and blend with auto rig pro and then finish everything up in unreal engine however in mid-production of the trailer we were invited to be part of the beta test team for the for the new iphone 8. i don't even know how to begin explaining the improvements that this news that this new version has over iphone 7 we decided to continue animating for the trailer in iphone 8 even though it was still in beta and finishing up the shots in blender but that was mostly because we still feel blender as a more robust tool set to handle more targets and shape keys we needed to add corrective shape keys to the characters so we've decided that we'll be using iphone 8 for the rest of the project and most likely for our future clients as well one of the most useful features is the integration of 3d exchange onto iphone 8 i mean the ability to simply drag and drop fbx to a custom character and having the animation simply work it's crazy this is something that that that was not very difficult to do in blender but it's much much easier and faster to do it in iclone and honestly every click saved my fingers appreciate so one of the reasons we didn't adopt ic7 before was the fact that it was basically locked at working at 60fps and we could not configure our own short keys and in our case coming already from 3ds max or blender this was kind of a bummer because it meant that we had to relearn navigation and adopt a new workflow yet again this is not the case anymore with icon 8. with it you can just start animating and create our stories we don't have that language barrier anymore whether you're coming from maya blender or 3ds max you can really feel at home you know the ability to just drag a clip to make it continuous without reference objects it's also an essential feature especially for creators that have mocap systems that are restricted by the space they're in i also love how the reach factors work and how the transition features between ik and fk super intuitive iclone also has a great set of tools to help animating by hand the sequence that you see now was all keyframe animation based off of references we still haven't had the chance to explore the rest of the features like motion director which allows you to really animate a character as if you were playing a game i imagine this would help a ton with background characters and you know npcs i'm pretty sure we're going to have the chance to implement these new features throughout the project as we still have a ton of shots to complete i hope to keep everyone updated on our progress i want to thank reillusion for the dedication on the new tools and also epic games as we are also proud receivers of the epic mega grants grant it allowed us to at least be able to pay actors to work with us and get some much needed assets from their marketplace to help speed up the project we have also teamed up with another production house called nikaya productions they are an amazing group of professionals with the main service being sound design and music we've reached out to them to see if they were interested in collaborating on this exciting project with us and they immediately jumped on board they will be in charge of all the sound for the movie so i'd like to say thank you to johnny schwaback and his team for believing in this project as much as we do this is an exciting time for us mozambique isn't known for animation production and we hope we can change that scenario as this project will be the first animated feature of the country's history and what's even more important it will be made locally with local talent and local actors so thank you all for watching this video and thank you all who supported us this far please do enjoy the trailer [Music] [Music] are you okay i know nothing about my parents nothing [Music] always says one day she'll tell me everything when the time is right she says [Applause] [Music] ah [Music] oh no the kids [Music] ah come on cody cut his back did you know [Music] we don't have much time we go through the lake around the dam what oh you're serious foreign uh please [Music] you

Channel: Reallusion

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Length: 9min 14sec (554 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 17 2022