Dokkaebi x Ela - R6 Siege Animation

Long-awaited animation with classic duo Dokkaebi and Ela ٩(◕‿◕｡)۶

Below the post are attached the original and compressed .mp4 files.

Behind the scene

Main soft: Blender / Davinci

During this work, a lot of new knowledge and skills were acquired: working with color spaces, exr format, working with soundFX, creating animation using home mocap.

I have collected references for indoor/outdoor

The environment started with blocking, with simple shapes, using real sizes so that the scene would not seem too big or too small for the character (many UE games suffer from this, even AAA games have it).

I have trained myself to keep the outliner in order (at least as far as possible) (◠‿◠✿)

The character guideline for the style/vibe was a sporty style mixed with the girls from the "fakemink - Easter Pink" music video

Animation - mocap (two depth sensors Kinect v2) + handkey animation.

Mocap turned out very dirty (maybe I didn't calibrate the Kinects well), so it couldn't do without cleaning and polishing. Fingers/hands/head/squishes/details were animated manually.

e.g. squish loop made manually, these properties control variables, in this case shapekey & bones, using drivers.

Convenience: u don't need to re-select armature and mesh, everything is controlled in properties of 1 object. U can link as many variables as u want to 1 property.

There were a lot of crashes during test renders, cuz solo GPU couldn't cope.
The difficulty of rendering was that the drone passes through several locations and during the ride there are no cuts at all, i.e. I couldn't use view layers.

It was necessary to optimize the scene, distribute samples between light sources, as I wanted to render the final result in one go or at least with a min. number of crashes (final rendering Blender crashed only once).

(pic. Lowpoly palm sets style of the whole composition)

Color Correction and Color Grading.

Everything was rendered and delivered to DaVinci in EXR format with a single beauty pass and ACES color space.

Conclusions on the color space: REDIPP2>TCAM>ACES. But the decision to choose ACES was due to the simplicity of its settings, it is quite enough at this stage.

pic. - One of the ACES vs RED IPP2 tests (ColorGrade is the same).

Thanks to everyone who supports me with likes, reposts, donations, activity in discord and in the comments! ٩(◕‿◕｡)۶