We are excited to introduce you to our new animated movie: RESIDENT EVIL: REMNANTS

(EDIT: As many requested a full film, we decided to re-release the film as a whole:


We did cut out segments and changed the opening soundtrack. If you want to see the movie as intended, we suggest you to use the playlist with chapters down below)

Episode 01 (Prologue):


Episode 02:


Episode 03:


Episode 04:


Episode 05:


Episode 06:


Episode 07:


Episode 08:


Episode 09:


Episode 10:



Watch the full movie at this playlist:
Resident Evil: Remnants Playlist


This time in episodic format.
We used IClone 8 and CC4 to create this film.

It allowed us to integrate Reallusions new features such as:
Dynamic wrinkles, volumetric lights and improved animation tools.

Your feedback on our last films also had a positive impact. Again, we worked and rendered entirely in Iclone (with the exception of some object modeling in Blender) to show that IClone is also capable of creating good-looking animations.
This should also motivate you to create your own visions and share your stories with the world.

Of course, we faced some technical deficiencies and limitations while using Iclone as the engine, some of which can still be seen in the final product, such as shadow flickering.

We'd love hearing your reactions!

Criticism is always welcomed, it will improve future projects.

If you have any questions, feel free to do so in the comment section.


Keep the dream alive,
~Labrats / ~Ratlabs

This is a masterpiece. You guys do use Iclone on the right way. Storytelling, voices, lighting, camerawork, all thing are good


     

Yo, nice and well done, again another Labrats expertise for what is possible with iClone ...
Will need some time to watch all episodes, but what I saw was quite impressive!



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Thanks, we will always try to improve even further with our next projects.

Amazing work!! Totally inspiring!

BRAVO!!! You took iClone to its limits and showed us what it is capable of. Truly impressive!!! 

Wow, an amazing achievement! It looks really great—nice clean mocap, interesting lighting, and dynamic camera work. I had assumed you had rendered this in Unreal or something, so very impressive that it’s all in iClone. Is there someplace with more info on your workflow? I’d be curious to know how many people worked on this, and how long it took, etc. 

As for feedback, one simple thing that I think could improve a future project would be to target each of the characters’ eyes to a dedicated invisible object rather than animating the eyes themselves. I think this is particularly important when using motion capture, because the subtle movements are hard to compensate for, so what can happen is that the character’s gaze can end up moving with the head, which can look robotic or like they’re not really seeing anything. In reality a person’s eyes fix on a point even when they’re looking “at nothing.”

On my Youtube Channel: Quest of the Key: Chapter One

Glad you liked our movie.

To answer your questions so far:
We work as a team of two (Ratlabs & Labrats (plus the voice actors if that counts).
Time took about 6 to 9 Months. We had some longer breaks in between. We started this project at the beginning of 2023.

We might consider doing a small workflow / behind the scene video. However, there is currently not much demand for this. For now, you might ask your question just here.

I also would like to thank you for your feedback regarding the eyes. Although we won't change it the way we are doing it for now, we will invest slightly more time for the eyes. Locking their eyes to a prop will eliminate all these subtle eye-movements which we wanted to keep. Sure you could move the prop accordingly, but this would take too much time and that will not be an option for now. But I would like to thank you again, for your suggestion.

Regards
Labrats

@Labrats,

Wow, 6 to 9 months—that’s impressive! You get a lot of work done in a short amount of time. I may need to reconsider my workflow!

So, a couple of questions, since you offered. ;-)

1. Which renderer are you using, and how long is the render time/frame? Relatedly, do you have a really powerful GPU? I’ve yet to wrap my head around GPU rendering partly because of the chicken and egg situation of whether I can really assess it without buying a honking GPU. I have GeForce RTX 2070 that’s a couple years old, so not sure if that’s a reasonable yardstick to test with. From what I’ve researched, even with GPU renderers, it can still be several minutes per frame.

2. Which mocap system do you use—Neuron I believe—but do you have the full system with finger capture as well? Is the capture relatively clean, or does it need substantial cleanup? Are you using facial capture for the expressions and lip sync? I have an old Optitrack system that does a pretty good job, but the capture area can be a little constraining, and doesn’t have finger capture.

3. Are all the VFX done inside iClone, or are there post effects? Do you do a lot of post-processing/compositing in After Effects or other app, or is what we’re seeing pretty much the way iClone rendered it?

4. Does each of you work on entire sections to finish, or do you specialize for particular functions? Related, do you do this kind of thing as your day job, or is it unrelated? A substantial portion of my skills I learned on the job as an illustrator and video producer, tho most of my character animation skills I developed as a hobbyist.

5. Any kind of hard-won “I wish we knew that when we started this project” wisdom you can impart to save the rest of us the same heart ache? 



On my Youtube Channel: Quest of the Key: Chapter One