How I Made a Godzilla Movie in One Week
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- Can one artist make a Godzilla short movie in 80 hours? Let's find out.
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Black Adam ressurection scene fight
Please do a Harry Potter one
How about something with pirates or a lost pirate ship in the fog or something
Back to the future - clock tower scene
How about recreating the Flo Mo on the roof scene in the Matrix? I tried tracking the original green screen footage but couldn't get it to work properly. It would be interesting to see what could be done using blender instead of setting up an expensive camera rig like they did originally.
I really like this! Things that caught my eye: The lights on the boat look strange, maybe they're just too big or too bright. On the radar, remove the detail in the outline of Godzilla so they can't tell what it is. It's more suspenseful/ominous that way because it was sort of comical to see his little arms show up on the radar. When he steps on the van, some parts should fall off so it doesn't look like a toy. I think you nailed the rest - nice job :)
Thank you. The stuff you mention (and several other things) are in my revision notes but I ran out of time to fix and render them all.
@@DECODEDVFX The other thing i wanted to see (other than the rest of your full movie, haha) was in the final roar an actual atomic breath blowing away the helicopter!🦖
@@hakulus3037 I really liked that shot, the animation turned out well.
@@hakulus3037 That's just ridiculous.
Bruh godzilla doesnt have small arms
The shot of the spine passing into view in front of the boat is SUPER NICE. The model had me skeptical that it would look good, but it looks much better/cooler/scarier in the dark lighting, with atmosphere. Especially poking out of the water. My favorite scene however, is actually when the monster is standing up out of the ocean. The way he's almost 100% silhouette, contrasting with the sparkles made by the water reflecting light off of him here and there is so epic. It's the sparkles for me, man.
Thank you. Cinematography and composition has been a big focus for me over the last year. My general workflow is to build the shot around a single key frame, ignoring the animation entirely at first. So I'll basically design the composition like it's a still render. I try to make the shot as "readable" as possible just from one still image. Once you've got that working, I tend to find it's fairly simple to turn that into an effective animation.
In this case, the water and dark sky made it fairly hard to tell what was going on. So I added a ridiculously powerful light just behind where the monster emerges, just to give him a really strong silhouette.
When in doubt, hide as much as you can.
@@DECODEDVFXdoes this still work on a phone
"The monster". You mean Godzilla?
80 hours well spent ! Really good work mate
Glad you enjoyed it
Wow… this shows godzilla more than the godzilla 2014 movie
that roar on legendary Godzilla is so cursed but cool
Rude
@@rochellechaney6811🤓
@@rochellechaney6811 He is just saying that the roar is a bit cursed for him, Whats wrong with that?
Brilliant! Opening shot, my favourite! Comping these with real life footages would have taken it to next level. Well Done!
This looks amazing for a week's worth of work! You should also do another video on how you could improve/remaster your previous work with better textures and lighting. Would really be interesting how you could go about that!
Water in Blender… I applaud this effort for that alone! That takes some special tolerance for Hell haha!
Yeah, I actually tried using the flip fluid addon at first, and surprisingly Blender's own system did a better job for once (but it was definitely slower to calculate).
@@DECODEDVFX Interesting. I’m spoiled by Houdini lol.
Awesome job on this, dude! This is a great Blender breakdown, but I'd just like to call out how great the sound design is on this short. Sound design is the most important aspect when creating a mood for your scene, and you crushed it. Can't wait for the next one! Maybe Back to the Future???
Thanks! I normally use a music score for the music but I decided to try something more atmospheric here. The radar ping was supposed to set the tempo of the animation and sorta foreshadow the stomping of his footsteps.
Getting good sound clips can be a struggle though.
@@DECODEDVFX Used soundly! its free and amazing
great for the timeframe.....you master it...
congratulations..
fire & fodsteps...are a little bit odd and some aditionsoundsscapes habour and City....
.and the animation could be a little longer in some scenes..
The animation was really great! Some things you should add if you want to in the future are: Everything shaking when Godzilla steps, Make the steps louder, and maybe make Godzilla's dorsal plates glow pulsating.
the beginning.water & end green glowing scenes are my favorite...and they are really good...
cool you share your flow....thx
Congrats on the result and sticking with your time limit. Making shorts like these as personal projects seem to be an exercise in descision making on methods , detail and where to spend your time budget . Thanks for sharing.
Yes, Laura! Exactly. My usual workflow is to make shots "good enough" then come back and fix them if I have time.
btw, I think your reel was recommended in my youtube feed yesterday. Nce work!
Loved the first half! The second half felt more like a well done previs shot
In the first half you could feel Godzilla’s massive scale. In the second half he felt extremely light.
That would be a very passable game cutscene from 2000's. Amazing you can create that by yourself in 1 week. Good job!
Impressive :) you really managed to set a mood with those shots.
What is so impressive, this is REALLY GOOD for just ONE GUY working on this project! Well done! I've seen some comments where ppl are nitpicking stuff, but come on.. its ONE GUY STUDIO doing this lol!
Thanks
This is awesome, being a Godzilla fan and an absolute idiot at Blender ( i cant even get to delete the default cube) it is amazing to see how you pulled this off! Blender can be such a great tool if you know how to use it
Great work! Don't be afraid to add reverb to your foot stomps and growling to make audio transitions a bit much smoother. Keep it up!
Dude that shot of Godzilla rising up from the water at 15:40 was terrifying, straight up gave me the heebie jeebies when i saw it the first time. this is AWESOME!
Very inspiring! Awesome work. How about making a challenge for the community to improve on the audio and post processing? Better audio would make this so much better.
Great job overall! While there were many small things that could be improved throughout it, the biggest things that pulled me out of it were the walking scene in the city featuring his feet and the final roar. With the feet, it would have taken a lot longer to make it look right, but shattering the concrete and having it sink in a bit would have gone a long way to helping make his weight believable. For the final roar, it was a little too quick so, again, made him feel smaller, which felt weird with the helicopter which provided scale, but highlighted this issue even more unfortunately. I love that you make these short scenes! I hope to make my own very soon! My hardware isn’t quite as good as yours so I may have to do more work on the compositing end to make it all come together 🙂
Also his breath was green for some reason it should be blue
Amazing work, the Godzilla fans will love this and now the latest movie trailer for Godzilla Minus One has just been released, your tutorial should attract more views.
16:21 the showa roar made all the tension gone 💀
Really amazing. Maybe a camera shake and a little bit of ground pound noise. When he steps on that van would've made it more believable in that part. You had the shaking and the ground sound in the previous walking shot. So that would have made that van stamp way more realistic I think. But With the time you spent it turned out pretty amazing.
Wow! Amazing... I mean, there are lot of work there to achieve more realism, but 80 hours? Come on! That's insane... Awesome work!
Thanks Olivier. Appropriate it.
That lamp in the room should have shook right off that table tbh lol
Been binging these videos now, amazing work.
One thing that I'd recommend in the final video tho: Add ambient sounds. Godzilla trampling the city and there are no sirens or car alarms, no traffic, no background hum of a city? It would add so much in between the silence of the main sounds. Both in the apartment and in the street those would really elevate the already stunning renders.
Thank you. The sound effects were done in about ten minutes. A lot of them were added as placeholders while I worked. Unfortunately I didn't have much time to improve them.
I experimented with adding some dogs barking, car alarms etc. It didn't sound right and I ran out of time to make it work.
This turned out amazing, Rob!
Thanks buddy!
This is pure cinema great job on the animation
That was great! Especially when you put it in the context that you did this by yourself and within 80hrs. Compared to say an actual Godzilla movie that would have taken hundreds of animators and a couple years of time.
Incredible design!!😨 it’s so great to have these tools outsourced to everyone! I’m very proud of your Godzilla scenes🏆🏆🏆
Thank you!
The work you did is amazing, and will improve you a lot for the next project you undertake.
Inside the flat shot (which is my fav) if you animated the lamp shade and the 2 framed pictures falling over or showing movement from the stomping, it would of given more life to the scene. All other shots were too dark, i'm guessing the hide as much as possible xD.
Great stuff none the less!
Keep Cool!
You forgot the camera shake when Godzilla steps on the car!!! Really great animation though
Really well done sir! One thing that could have made this a whole lot more realistic (in a way) was adding noise to the final movie. Kinda like how the late 1990s and early 2000s had that grainy effect. That should give it that monster-y movie feel. Other than that, it's incredible how much you can do with Blender.
It would be NOTHING without the hula girl. Brilliant!
Please do more of these vids, like a series called CGI scene in a week.
Godzilla's most chill stroll through the city.
just Wowwwwww..that was so realistic render bro...well done! Sony should hire you
a pleasure to watch, its interesting this format that explains everything and then shows the results just at the very end
I love every bit of detail you did here! However my only issue with this is that you used (what I assume to be) a Showa era Godzilla roar despite using the American Legendary/Titanus Godzilla model.
I would like to see a animation if godzilla breaching like a humpback whale.
Just godzilla acting like an animal doing animal things.
Nice. Already way better than 90% of what I see on scify channel!!! ;-)
the new Godzilla x Kong movie is looking promising.
Yeah! It is the best Monsterverse movie for me!
And it was trash.
@@s7rl_.2 sadly :(
Impressive work, my poor Ryzen 2700x is crying just from looking at this.
You'd be surprised. I have a 2700x laying around here somewhere and it could probably handle most of these shots. I imagine it would really chug over the water scene and the last shot, because those have millions of polygons. But most of the other shots are not very taxing on the CPU.
GPU however, is a different story. Very glad I had the 4090 to render this out.
🤡🎈😆😂
@@sebbosebbo9794 tf?
Your work flow is just sooo interesting to watch
Thanks!
The water sim also turned out decent the render looks ab bit wierd because of all the artifacts.
Yeah, it came out a bit glitchy. I think the problem is caused by the the foam particles being smaller than one pixel. Re-rendering at a much higher resolution would have probably helped to fix the issue, but I didn't have time.
For the rugs instead of adding loop cuts and trimming, you can double tap G and slide the edge and it does the same thing.
I like this and for the time it took this is a masterpiece! To make it better I would only completely remake the boat interior scene and call the entire thing "quietzilla" because it amused me a lot that he was almost like not trying to wake people up.
godzilla lowkey chill and on his midnight stroll
This is so realistic, since Godzilla’s scaling has never been fully accurate.must be very tall buildings
Excellent job! Great work for one person. I do, however, have some minor constructive criticism for any future similar stuff you might do in the future.
The van scene in execution is a bit flacid feeling. This is because the speed of the impact of the foot results in no actual movement from the van. The van deforms incredibly and correctly lift partway away from the ground, but there's no impact. The van almost looks like its made of clay and a big foot slowly dropped down to squish the clay, but the footage gets played too fast. Part of the van would lift up from the impact and drop back down. No part of the van would be stationary until it slowly settles back into its new place. The van would shudder as ripples of force run through it. Similarly, the other cars in the shot, (and if you wanna be a little fancy, maybe the camera) should also jump slightly. The lift off of the van is also a bit too clean. The foot acceleration is too fast with very little lead in to the lift. The other foot had barely made an impact before Goji was already moving foot for the next stride, and it goes straight up with no lifting upwards motion. (The van also could have stuck a bit to his foot as crushed objects rarely disconnect from a heavy object, especially if that object caused plastic deformation, but thats more of a 'for flare' thing and isn't that necessary to the shot.)
This ones a minor nitpick, but the 'goji passing the window' animation is missing some side to side motion. Theres a bit of neck movement, which is a very nice lumbering touch, but goji really should be alternating between leaning toward and away from the window with each successive step, and not merely up and down. If you image a dot on the hips tracing a line as someone walks, it creates an infinity shape.
Other than that, really good stuff. Looking forward to future projects.
this video should be common practise for all vfx artists : making stuff under a ridiculously tight timeframe
If you want to make like a giant monster better at moving use a motion capture suit that will really help a lot
The shot from the living room looks more than good enough to be in a movie. I also really love the lighting in the harbor shot.
What would really take your sequences to the next level would be some really good sound design. As sound just adds so much to any video. But I get that you probably have neither the time nor the nerve to do it working 12-16h a day.
I spent 17 hours editing this video and another one yesterday. I spent as much time as possible on the sound for this, but it's not a great skill of mine. It's pretty hard to find appropriate sound clips for this sort of shot. The footsteps sound is a guy hitting a drum full of water. The screams are from a theme park. You work with what you have. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@DECODEDVFX i get that and appreciate your work a lot. Sounds is a massive pain in the ass, because there's no real reason to it. Sometimes the real thing sounds faker than the actual fake sound.
Part of what made the Jurassic Park (and the Blade Runner one) so great is that you were able to use the original soundtrack with all its perfectly done foley and rich sounds. But for original scenes like this (or heavily copyrighted ones like Star Wars) that's not an option. Looking forward to your next video, as always!
Really impressive especially for the deadline! Honestly the only really noticeable thing that could be improved upon is the sound design, usually the last thing on a vfx artists mind but it's pretty much as important as the cgi in building a believable scene. Amazing work though!
Yeah, it's not one of my strong points, and unfortunately on a shot like this it has to be left to the last minute. It's also pretty hard to find appropriate sound effects for a lot of stuff online. For example, the sound of people screaming as they run away is actually a recording from a theme park.
You make the best of what you've got. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@DECODED Totally understandable, it's a totally different artform! Maybe music could help but in the same breath it's probably very hard to find good royalty free music as well
I use epidemic sound for music, which has a pretty great library. Most of my animations use music, but I wanted to go without a score for this one.
I really like the TLOU background sound hehe :D
If you had lengthened the time to a month, it would've been interesting to see your own original take on Godzilla's model for the movie, considering how Godzilla movies pretty much all have a different version for Godzilla
Good sound effects, too. 🐉👍
Wonderful work and really informative and enjoyable process.
really well made, but the sound effects could be better like for example when Godzilla broke down the car there should've been some windows breaking.
That 4090 went to work on this! This is really good. I particularly like the apartment scene 👍
Thanks. The apartment shot came together really quickly. I almost didn't bother with it because I was worried it would slow the pace of the animation, but I think it worked pretty well in the end.
And yes, the 4090 is a workhorse.
how about you make a movie from scratch?
Womp womp
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Great work, fun to folow your workflow.
Could have done with a tiny bit of camera shake at strategic times and vibration of the road and light sources to give weight to the monsters steps and affect on city infrastructure. As well as light flicker as he would be affecting electric flow when he goes through a city with power lines and ground based substations . Just my 2 cents of work that doesnt cut back on too much productivity that can be implemented in a few minutes for more realism and sense of immersion.
Something that takes a little more time but not necessary to add would be some sparks and flying garbage dabree like magazines and concrete dust .
I actually planned to add a bit of camera shake to the van stomp shot in post, and I completely forgot. I also originally planned an entire shot of Godzilla pulling out electric cables and causing loads of havoc, but that shot had to be scrapped because it was another 15 hours of work.
The roar is from the old godzillas it would be a nice touch to add the legendary godzilla roar
Very Good Work Respect👍
Amazing job with this one!
Thanks a lot!
You did absolutely fantastic, outstanding work! I like it a lot! Ya really need a shutout from UA-cam or something cause this is just amazing!
If I had a complain it would be the kaiju's movement is a lil faster then useal, lacks the lumbering aspect when it walks, otherwise everything else is spot on!
Keep up the amazing work Hope ya get more attention!
Challenge: the city destruction scene from the DaiKon short and Akira. The explosion from a centre point, migrating outward, destroying the city.
that was pretty good for the time you put in. I think the doll scene was janky #1 and the stomped car#2 overall it was good scene creation. and the roar was the best.
Thanks
I don't want to seem like a critic of anything but I feel that it is a but too quiet and I would like it if you added Godzilla's roar when he comes out of the water but considering you had only a week, as an avid Godzilla fan I can say that you did an awesome job
For a lot of the parts of when he’s making the short I have no idea what he means ( mainly computer stuff) but I like the way he says it
Next time you do this challenge can you focus on "Quick and dirty" out the gate? then spend the rest of the time tidying up/improving? i want to see how dirty you can make it and how much you get cleaned up before time runs out.
Great work especially for 80 hours of work, bravo
Incredible! If you want constructive criticism then what caught my eye as "off" was the rotors of the helicopter. Basically you shouldn't see them rotate, LOL.
Thanks. Propellers can cause lots of different optical effects depending on the speed or the rotor vs the frame rate of the camera. Sometimes they look like they aren't moving at all, other times they appear to move, just slowly. Here's a good video about it.
ua-cam.com/video/AYQAKwCxScc/v-deo.html
(So far, nobody has noticed that the helicopter doesn't even have a tail stabilizer. The rotation got messed up just before render time so I deleted it entirely).
@@DECODEDVFX Yeah there are even some shutter speed sync ones where the rotor blades look frozen as the helicopter flies. In the render though there's something off (to my eye) about the rotation that makes it look very toy like, but that might not be bad at all given the nature of the way the original films were made! Anyhow it wasn't really a criticism just a tiny little detail that caught my eye. I LOVED the vid and thanks very much for doing all that work. So cool.
Dude this is a very
nice animation!
Thanks!
this is brillinat.. no words.. amazing work man
Thank you. It means a lot.
Awesome job! Thanks for the breakdown.
looks soo good
so impressive. well done dude.
Thanks a lot!
This is crazzzyyyyy
That is very good for a weeks worth of work! :D Well done!
the nolstagia ...bro created a whole ps2/xbox360 game trailer in a week
some realistic camera shake would be cherry on top, loved the cinematogrphy ....😉
The ship really looks real and overall this looks like a real movie
Honestly there's only 3 things that I have a problem with, one is that at the beginning when we see his dorsal plates going behind the boat it looks like the boat is nearly the same size as him, the second thing is that he is a bit too quiet and you don't even really hear his footsteps, the last thing is that I feel like the bottom of his neck is too big and it just makes him look a bit weird
this video make me realise that how much Sound editing is important.
Wow! Amazing! Subscribed, this helped me out so much! Could you please upload your Godzilla model somewhere so that we can use it? (Not the one from sketchfab, your improved one) I would really appreciate it!
Fantastic final short and brilliant and clear process video, even for a noob like me! I'm inspired to start my Blender journey and will keep checking out your videos for inspiration, so thanks! Oh and how about a Jaws /Deep Blue Sea inspired video for the future?
Great to hear!
With more time I would have liked to see zilla come from further out in the bay and splash his way to the docks, making for a more impactful experience of his huge size… also going right to the city in flames after the van crush is a little jarring, but again time constraints etc. … and finally would have loved to see him zap the copter with his breath… should you ever go back to revise this some simple tweaks would really bring it to life. This is a great results for the time you put in great job!
i liked darkness near the ocean but add more lights in city
Would love to see you take on something like The Matrix in a video! Ideally something IN the simulation vs in the "real world" but I could see you doing something awesome in either realm!
yeah, like wave modif or ocean mod for the matrix mirror effect ...
@@MultiArtartart Or he can recreate the Burly Brawl 😅
I've planned a few matrix videos over the years and never got around to finishing them. I got about half way through recreating the "dodge this" scene but I hit a bit of a technical wall.
And I'd love to recreate the whole sequence of neo waking up in the pod, but it's a long shot and so much work.
One day it'll happen.
Looks awesome!
One quick trick I think would work here, would be to maybe add some cloth physics to some key parts in the Godzilla mesh (with vertex paint).
It creates a bit more "smushy" skin when animating.
If I had more time I would have.
I think you should’ve changed the sound for the roar to monster verse godzillas roar, and and make the roar be more intense. but you didn’t have a lot of time and you still did really good compared to other peoples animations!
well done
Will make a great cutscene for a godzilla based game
WOW amazing modelling
Great work! It looks like a really cool Godzilla game could be...
Great work. A really inspiring video to show how much can be done in just a week with some premade assets and a bit of a fix up. However, I do feel the need to call you out on the clickbaitiness of using the word "movie" in your title. Would struggle to call it a "short", let alone a "movie".
damn! hot for 1 week
Thanks man
Really cool! Really impressive!
Just one little criticism: I think you could improve on the sound design of the final video. Sound is really important when it comes to selling the visuals, I think and in this case the sound design was kinda bad.
Really looking forward to your upcoming projects 😎