YO FOLKS! Here's somethin' a lil different >o>!
Fun fact, I've always been super musically inspired, and do a buncha things like this when I get hit by the inspiration bug!
This is an animatic, basically a storyboard put to time, maybe with directions or camera moves. I basically roughed this out so I could get an idea how I'm handling scene to scene and composition. And a tiny bit of an idea for acting.
Anyways, I've done A GOOD FEW animatics like this, finished or unfinished, to different songs over the years, mainly from musicals, Hamilton and Hadestown to name a few. And aside from animatics, in 3D, I've actually started (and never finished) numerous songs, a few featuring the horses, from the musical Epic. (This is why they have names from The Odyssey)
This particular song is "Nothing Left to Lose" from Tangled The Series. It's a banger, and thought it'd be fun for the horses again :>
Unlike all the other random doodles I started, this one i wanted to actually storyboard and plan things from the start. I UUUUSUALLY do a really solid job with lip syncing, and then kinda lose steam by not knowing what to do for posing/camera stuff. It's a lot to keep in mind, so they each deserve their own proper attention and time.
This particular animatic I wanted to be SUPER simple. Characters are mainly walking, just a few transitional actions to break up the walking, then it's acting/singing. It's a few minutes which is pretty damn long, but since the general actions are simple, I think I could actually knock this one out.
Anywho, not exactly game related, but I figured y'all would dig it!
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Game wise - both games have been pluggin' along swimmingly!
TFOL
Vixel's been pluggin away at prepping Act 4 stuff! We've got about 7 rooms in total, and he's got I think all of them in. Most of them are walk-able with functioning camera :O, so we might have a room in the next build just for fun exploring if peeps are curious!
Horsin' Around
Sprout's been wrangling together a better dialogue system, one that has the type-on effects and fits our needs. It's lookin' pretty cool! I was also dialing in with more of the rigs. last week I had the bun's getting pretty dialed in, so recently I was focusing on the horses. I'm reaaaaally starting to grasp how to make more complicated and robust systems in Unreal for the rigs, it's pretty exciting when I have an idea that might work, and it DOES. The nodes are crazy shit man.
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Anywho that's about it! Gotta get more porn going in here huh?? been a minute...
BUT it's the holidays now, so, later!
Happy Holidays everyone! We'll see ya guys later!
Oh and lemme know what ya guys think of the animatic. I'm stoked to animate at least some of it for the funsies.