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The Cool Previs Tool is my first ever developed Unreal Engine Tool. A Simple but effective tool that assists Previs artists and Directors to better interact with each other.

Production Team:

Timon Holzer

Software & Coding Language

The Cool Previs Tool

Snare

Snare

Splitting the Tasks

James and I have worked on Projects before and we knew what we would be able to cover each others weak areas very well. The roles were split into:

Timon:

Previs
Rigging
MoCap Clean Up
Planet Shader & Propellant VFX
UE Sequence/ Shot Set
Minor Compositing

James

Lighting
Rendering
VFX
Modelling
Astartes Space Ship Insides
Texture Remastering

Both

Story Development & Storyboarding
Project Management
MoCap recoding and directing

Sequence & Shot Set Ups

Another Task for me was to get the Rig and Animations working in Unreal. This wasn't a huge deal since I have done this before.

After this it was my duty to set up all the scenes and shots in Unreal. At this point, the Previs (Below) was immensely helpful and I was able to focus on the quality of cinematography instead of needing to figure things out on the go! Once set up it was handed to James for Lighting and Rendering.

Retargeting

First, the MoCap Data had to be retargeted to the Rig. This had some challenges, and some of the axes had to be manually inverted as Vicon as a different Axis orientation as Maya. The Retargeting was set up in HumanIK (Definition, etc.)

Animation Clean Up

Once all the Animations were applied on the Space Marine Rig, the Clean Up Process could be started. First, all the Motion Capture Issues had to be resolved. This includes Missing Keyframes, spikes in data, and many more. After that, I used a mixture of Constraing and Multiple Animation Layers to adjust Animations to the different Body proportions of the Astartes. This mostly concerned the feet sticking to the floor, and the Astarted handling the Bolter (Gun)

Workflow

Previs (one of the early version of the cinematic development)

Previs Anchor

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Previs - Snare

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