Couple of weeks ago I saw a subway project in Unreal by Charly Rama (which I liked a lot).
So I figured I'll make one natively in iClone and have you guys trying to make it better or just different (the project is enclosed at the end of this post). iClone v7.72 would require.

Create your own light scheme, atmosphere, add your own characters (replacing those you might not have a license for). But I suspect most have CC essentials so that should not be a problem.
Hopefully, one of those days we'd have better reflections and bugs fixed (such as those ugly stripes caused by soft shadows), ...etc.

The only favor I might ask, is that if you decide to spend some time, modify the project and post the outcome,
please post the project as well (use Dropbox or similar), so that everyone else could benefit from your knowledge and expertise.

Now there is a DH shaders, which are linked and you would most likely have to re-link them all as project gets opened.
Mine are located at: D:\Reallusion\Shared Templates\Digital_Human_Shader_Resource\CC3
Alternatively you may use SUBST command at command prompt and make a virtual drive D: pointing to the root of the Reallusion folder.
This way you would not have to re-link DH texture.

Anyway, here is a video and a project:



Subway Car Project: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nuy6ur8vvq0ho2z/SUBWAY_CAR.zip?dl=0

This f****ing awesome my friend!

I seriously doubt anyone could  make it better (including myself of course) :hehe:

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Mind blowing Gurgen. :w00t:

This is not something that would be easy to beat. :cool::smooooth:


Gerry

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Wow, that's a nice "subway-scene"...
Especially what you did with that bottle! That's big cinema as regards prop animation.
It reminds me at several scenes in Berlins Subway,
where a bottle is surfing through the subway ;)
Few weeks ago, i had a drunk guy tilting his nearly full bottle while falling a sleep,
wetting the floor, woke up, drank some beer, fell asleep again, tilted, wetting the floor, woke up,
drank again, fell asleep and finally dropped the bottle, did not wake up anymore.
All passengers watched it floating and kinda smiled...
Except for the kick, never saw that in the tube.

Downloaded and fortunately, all my Reallusion content is on Drive D, no relinking needed...
But I really don't see big changes make that scene "better".
As I assume you are talking about the overall lighting/scene appearance.
I will have a look at it but probably won't challenge as I see no way to make this better...



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Simply wonderfull work 4u2ges , great work
That I see is not only a great lighting and animation but , the movements of this bottle near the drunk guy are just wow.

And you present this great work with humility and not saying with superiority "yeah, look at my work, I can beat unreal ...." thank you :)

I'll try to work on this project but I think You've made it near the best (because perfection doesn't exist)


     

imho i doubt anyone is going to do this challenge,
but if they do, it will be interesting to say the least.
 challenges are good to help grow, but they would also need honest feedback
also a challenge should start a bit less complex so it can go somewhere.

i basically started cgi doing photoshop battles in 1999 on worth1000, fark and a few others.




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Nice to see the subway car being used in a fun scene. It's one of those many older assets that can be brought back to life as illustrated by 4u2ges.

I'm actually using the subway car in a current project, so I may have a look at this project to learn (and steal...:P).

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@3dtester, @wires
Thank you folks. Make it *better* has vague context.
I am sure there is also an artistic factor could be taken into consideration while amending the scene.
And also just make it different (see the end of this post).

@ toystorylab
Thank you. Now that is funny, I am glad I have not taken subway ride for a decade now, but I have a lots of memories of it from the past :)
Regarding the challenge, please also see the end of the post.

@charly Rama
Thank you. Indeed, I really did not make the scene to challenge you. You did very fine job back then and there are clear advantages of Unreal over iClone, which simply could not be matched no matter how you'd try.
I tried to do my best to squeeze the best out of iClone hopping someone would have better ideas on how to setup the atmosphere.

@ Am7add9
Actually the scene is not that much complex. Lights scheme is pretty much straightforward flavored by the GI and basic iClone post Effects.
Most of the time was taken to create details, - morphs, bottle fracture, car materials and mesh rebuilt in some parts.

@aminagic
Thank you. I probably could have gone out and got something more modern.
But I kind like this car for simplicity (though I had to customize it to some degree). I'd be glad if it helps you :)


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So here is another option. Just make a short sequel.  Like for instance:
People are panicking as some zombie or monster walks in. But instead of assaulting,
he's just harassing them for tickets - "tickets please, tickets", or wakes up Zane, or writing a citation to Soccer Mom for breaking a bottle.
Or train stops and most lights go out. God knows what might have happened then :).
Or train goes out of the tube to the *open* (bridge with planes/billboards?) and bright sun would shine through... etc, etc...

The whole clip is great, but what I liked the most - camera movement and the bottle!
Thanks!

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42uges, great animation, thanks for sharing,
I did download it to try it out and although it had the watermark it was still fun.
Only thing I found and not sure if others have tested it out but on my system, with 1080ti I found it very sluggish, to work on this I would need to hide avatars etc, I know it's not a deal-breaker as I have done this with some of my projects but it just shows how......dare I say......Unreal and my system could probably handle this with ease? or would it suffer just as bad with the same amount of animated avatars?  

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