The Cabal Cutscenes - TTLG Forums

str8g8 on 13/10/2010 at 23:01

I've uploaded the cutscenes from The Cabal:

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh1d4j0EFZQ) The Cabal Part 1 Titles

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRdfXkaZ1C8) The Cabal Part 1 Intro

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BglpUGV7ieE&feature=player_profilepage) The Cabal Part 1 Cutscene

The Cabal is a mini-campaign for TDS. Part 1: Furious Flames, by Tiens, is available now (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=133525) over here

Thanks to everyone who helped me out with these, especially the voice actors, who I think did a fantastic job.

I will add the rest of the cutscenes as the chapters are released.

Enjoy ;)

jtr7 on 14/10/2010 at 00:44

Enjoy, I did. Great job! :cool:

Vernon on 14/10/2010 at 00:59

spectacular

clearing on 14/10/2010 at 02:22

Cool. Thanks, str8g8 :thumb:

Herr_Garrett on 14/10/2010 at 06:18

By the Builder! The City looks so REEEEEAL!
Who did this?
Can I kiss their hands?
Their feet?
WOW.

LordBafford on 14/10/2010 at 08:53

The City looks amazing, great job.

str8g8 on 14/10/2010 at 09:17

thanks for comments

In answer to your question, I did the cutscenes (Tiens made the actual mission for Part 1). I tried to capture something of the original cutscenes, especially the depiction of the City, so I'm glad you picked up on that

Part 2, Night of the Long Knives, by Ziemanskye is coming soon, so stay tuned!

TheJoker on 14/10/2010 at 11:16

Wow, just awesome!

LordBafford on 14/10/2010 at 11:21

str8g8, which programmes did you use to make the intros and how long did it take to draw and animate?

str8g8 on 14/10/2010 at 11:43

too long :sweat: - I have been working on them on and off for a couple of years (more off than on though)

I started out using after effects but I soon realised it was virtually impossible to do anything other than simple camera movements. So I ended up using 3dsmax to construct the shots - this gives you full 3d, good camera and animation tools, + particles and so on.

I don't know how the original cutscenes were done, but I suspect they did the same thing, also look at Infamous 2 cutscenes - though a different style it's using the same techniques.

Basically I tried to avoid modelling as much as possible - because its time-consuming, and tried to use billboards, cut-out images from photoshop applied to planes, wherever possible.

If you look at the Intro shot with the slow pan across the rooftops (this was the first thing I tried to do incidentally) the rooftops in the foreground are 3d (but very simple) but everything else is flat planes, in 3d space - each layer of buildings is pushed further back, so you get proper parallax effects.

The biggest challenge with this technique are characters and facial animation, which again, was kept to a minimum. Some of the later cutscenes have a lot of this though.

The advantage is speed, in terms of not having to model absolutely everything, and retaining a hand drawn feel to the animation, even though it is in 3d space.