Zombie Nation - retro fake videogame intro

IgnatiusReillius · September 11, 2020, 1:05pm

Hi there!

I am Ignatius Reillius, a 3D artist from Barcelona (Spain). This is my Instragram.

I am creating this topic to share my work in progress of one of my current personal projects. It is called “Zombie Nation”, and it will be a kind of a retro fake videogame intro/animation videoclip made with Blender.

Title
Logo, still to be improved. Turnaround here.

The song I use on it is “Zombie Nation” by Henry Homesweet, and he’s more than pleased with this project.
Basically, it is humans fighting against zombies, or vice versa. Pretty simple. Humans are inside a bunker, zombies are getting close from outside… War is comming!

See here a turnaround of this lovely couple

The point is that the animation resemble the PSOne/N64 era, so it is low poly styled with low-res and no filtered textures, no antialiasing and jagged sharp edges. Who doesn’t love pixels?

This project was inspired by the games I played in my childhood, with my Nintendo 64 and (mostly) in the summers with my cousin’s Playstation 1.

I’ve been working a lot on this project for almost a year now. I have already done the storyboard, 3d animatic and started the final animation.

Composition of the storyboard, 3D animatic, WIP animation in true resolution and final resolution (November 2019). See here an actual sneak peek

It’s a huge project, only made by myself in my spare time in Blender, and there are so many things to do yet: Design, animation, modelling, characters, scenery, props, texturing, shaders… Everything but music is on me.

A PSX shader test in Blender

I hope this forum gives me enough motivation to continue and keep it up and even more.

Criticism and comments are welcomed! I hope you like it!

Cheers!

IgnatiusReillius · September 13, 2020, 4:08pm

A couple of frames in progress. Still to do a lot of work!

deadhanded · September 17, 2020, 9:33pm

I love this! How are you making the video have the pixely look?

IgnatiusReillius · September 18, 2020, 10:32am

I render the animation at 640x480, the PS1 maximum resolution, with Eevee.
Screenshot_6

The filter size is really important. You can see the difference:

Finally in compositor I use a 1440x1080 (4:3 HD) transparent png to scale it up to that size.
If we use just the transform node to scale it, the final image will remain at 640x480.
I also use an output node to export all those frames at that resolution. If not, your Output configuration will export your frames/animation scaled up but cropped again at 640x480.