I like using iClone 7 for all of my storyboarding and previz work before exporting everything over to Unreal engine for polish. Here's a snippet/previz from an animation project I have in the works, paying homage to the great Chang Cheh films I grew up on.




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Let's see it in Unreal!

I will definitely be posting some video once it's done and polished. I suffer from soul crushing OCD when it comes to my film work, so it's going to take me a ,minute to be happy enough with the results to share, lol. I want to make sure to have the rendered video be as close to the look of the character look when rendered in Iray, so there is a lot of tweaking to do.






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Very nice renders. Your characters look great!!

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Thank you!

My workflow process is a bit convoluted, but necessary. At this stage I create the characters entirely between Daz Studio and Character Creator 3 Pipeline, with more simplified costumes, textures, etc. Then I start designing environments and set pieces, or kitbash them on the web from various sources, just so I can test how the characters look in the environments, how the rigging holds up, etc.. Then it's some proper storyboarding and previz in iClone 7, because quite frankly it kicks all the ass to previz in iClone 7... like seriously. Then I send everything over to Unreal Engine 4 once I have created the environments and get those perfected, making sure to re-texture them with far more realistic, high res textures from Substance, Quixel, or wherever. After I get everything setup in UE4 to the point I'm relatively happy with it, I'll go back and redo the characters entirely with more complicated costumes, accessories and textures, using Zbrush, Substance and CC3, then it's right back into UE4 for final animation and render.



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Thanks for explaining your workflow.
Sounds absolutely convincing to me.

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Nice to read the workflow.Animation and renders looks good be nice to see it when its finished

Nice... And great characters!


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Some more characters from this project, all rendered in CC3. The story plays out like the old school "Heroes of the East" Shaw Bros. film, so the characters are representative of the cultures of both China and Japan. I shared some of the Chinese characters in earlier posts, now these are some of the Japanese characters...


























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Wow!  All these oriental styles look great. 
It seems you have further sculpted the muscle in Zbrush to enhance realism. Well Done!