Here's a look at the Making Of and BTS of our motion capture shoot for War of Being!

Subscribe to see the entire UE5 Workflow for creating animations, VFX and films using Unreal Engine 5. TesseracT has been kind enough to let us show the entire process so I will share everything we've learned!

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This video has over 120 full CG shots and 5.5 minutes of CGI animation to create the Samurai Swordfight. We created the previs and finished the motion capture cleanup and additional animation all inside of UE5.

This is my third time collaborating with director duo and partners-in-crime Kyle and Steven (they were instrumental in making Stay - Inspired by The Last of Us!) and Richard Oakes completed all of the visual effects of the band single-handedly. For such a barebones crew, I think we were able to punch well above our weight.

A project of this size wouldn't be possible without an incredible team. The original concepts came from Amos and TesseracT themselves with a unique other-worldly vision. The environments were brought to life by Florent Vilbert, Sterling Slack modeled and textured the Samurais, and the animation was brought to life by Tyler Lindsey, Andrea Lim, Yaroslav Yarmolovych, and assisted by Matthew Blader and final Control Rig was created by Matt Ringot.

Artist: TesseracT
Director: Found Format (Kyle Kadow + Steven Cleavland)
2nd Unit Director: Richard Oakes
Editor: Found Format & Richard Oakes
VFX Supervisor: Joshua Toonen
Band VFX: Richard Oakes
Character Artists: Sterling Slack & Vivienne Huo
Environment Artist: Florent Vilbert
Animators: Tyler Lindsey, Andrea Lim, Matthew Blader, Yaroslav Yarmolovych, Monika Smolicz
Sergii Saviak from Bones Studio
Rigging: Matt Ringot
Swordsmen Fight Coordinators: Victor Bayona & Rick Gilbert
Additional 2nd Unit Filming and Photogrammetry: Dean Addison
Mocap Recording Location: Jugo Fabrika
Mocap Grip: Pep Zastava
BTS Videographer: John Carlo Rosillo
Bones Studio Executive Producers: Adrian Perdjon, Marcin Panek, Monika Krążyńska