Hyper Realistic CG Animated Short using the Unreal Engine | Irradiation
While being escorted to a mysteriously irradiated site, a scientist experiences strange visions.
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Using a realtime game engine, a motion-capture facility, and off-the-shelf visual assets, acclaimed VFX artist Sava Zivkovic showcases the immense potential of Virtual Production to filter down to indie filmmakers everywhere.
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IRRADIATION
Directed by Sava Zivkovic
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"Did you know that Jon Favreau "shot" the latest Lion King in VR? That the reason The Mandalorian is able to produce such epic landscapes on a TV production timetable is that it is filmed in front of a giant LED screen which adapts to the camera in realtime? Oh, you did. Disney is the biggest name in entertainment and never suffers from a lack of publicity, so it makes sense that you've encountered one of the many trend pieces that describe the emerging field of "Virtual Production" and how it is a "gamechanger" and "the future of filmmaking".
You may know this, but it is one thing for these bleeding-edge tools to be in the hands of creators at multi-billion dollar studios, what you might not know is how close we are to their adoption by the rest of us.
Today's short is truly a fascinating glimpse at the current state of play. From acclaimed VFX artist Sava Zivkovic, Irradiation is a 9min mood piece that crosses sci-fi horror with "Chernobyl"-inspired imagery, creating a heady CG animated short long on atmosphere and menace. Many of the usual hallmarks of a sci-fi proof-of-concept apply here: detailed, photo-realistic characters that might trick more than a few of you, terrific motion, cinematic direction, and detailed environmental worldbuilding are all featured. What is even more notable than the end product though is how it came together; both its workflow and the film's status as a personal passion project.
Using a realtime game engine, a motion-capture facility, and off-the-shelf visual assets, Zivkovic creates a million-dollar-looking animation largely by himself. Irradiation is great, but it's not terribly dissimilar from work we see all around us-in movies and TV, or advertising and gaming. However, as recently as a couple of years ago, you'd expect work of this quality to require at least a small studio and/or for it to take months of labor. Instead, Zikovic produced Irradiation in 4 weeks in a manner more akin to an indie guerrilla shoot...
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CREDITS
Written and Directed by - Sava Zivkovic
Assets provided by - Big Medium Small
Motion Capture and Animation - Take One
Motion capture performance:
Evgeniy - Nebojsa Jez
Mirbek - Dejan Jovanovic
Usmon - Lazar Djukic
Voice Acting:
Evgeniy - Oleg Fedorov
Mirbek - Andrey Matveev
Usmon - Andrey Matveev
Translation - Marnia Vasilkina and Polina Zabrodskaya
Dialogue Recording Coordinator - Eugene Krasnoded
Dialogue Recording - NevaFIlm
Dialogue Processing and Final Mix - Bogdan Brakovic
Sound Design, Foley Artist, Foley Engineer, Sound Editing and Mixing - Marko Zivanovic / Devotion Studios
Music by - Iz Svemira
Realtime TD - Michael Zaman
Rigging Support - Lucas Salamon
Special thanks - Jama Jurabaev
Tools: Unreal Engine, Blender, Zbrush, Substance Painter, Adobe Suite.
Reproduced on this channel with the permission of the filmmakers.
Highly recommend for those interested in the behind-the-scenes aspects of this film's creation to check out Sava's process video. It's a work of art in its own right, and provides great clarity into the techniques and workflow. You can see it on Sava's Vimeo: vimeo.com/585806244
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Please sir upload this video part 2 or same category video
amazing cant wait to see what you guys can do with Unreal engine 5
This is truely amazing work. Can't event tell that it's CGI.
what is name of the soundtrack?? especially from 5:04 ? please
Jesus, guys are now rendering whole episodes of love death and robots on their PCs? This is incredible! well done!!
Yeah, looks like the new Unreal engine is a game changer for CGI and gaming indeed! Making cinematic photorealism accessible to all.
@@axelhopfinger533 and making everybody unemployed.
@@blacksheepbr66 no it's not. Since the engine is that good, the demand is higher now, more works for you to do. People demand will never stop at 1 point. If you think we lost our jobs beacause of this engine, it is stupid. Now the demand is high, which mean all the animation, gameplay, facial anim must be close to the realistic, level design is now getting harder to do because of the demands. Which mean? When every company have the similar graphic quality, the graphic will be no longer a mesurement anymore, instead the gameplay design, environment, moods, characters, stories will be the main element which determine a game is bad or good. Except if you have an AI that is able to write better than any human being, then we lose the jobs. As long the deman keep increasing, we still have jobs to do. Like now you can make the fur texture look reals, but people want to see it with single fur that can acutally be impacted by wind. When you can do that, they will ask more if you can make the fur breaking a part when get impacted by a sharp or blund objects, and so on. The reason you lose this job, 1/ You are tired of it, 2/ you suck at it, 3/AI took yours. XD if you were number 1 or 2, then it's time for you to call it a quit.
@@danhdao7417 Well, the problem is limited time. There's huge numbers of games and movies and shows out there I want to play and watch, but can't. There is simply a saturation point in the market for media that can be consumed by people, like anything else. So with how tech is going, this will mean we will eventually hit that point that giant big budget films employing hundreds or thousands of people may just not be practical anymore, since the AAA budget for visual quality at least wont require that. And if they have more competition from small time producers making stuff then they'll sell less themselves possibly, meaning less budget to pay for more people, for any given movie. Though they'll also use it to make movies faster with the same number of people, or the same with less. In the end, some people will lose their jobs, but for the shorter term with just what UE5 brings to the table, it's mostly just some people losing jobs in one area that may be replaced with other areas (like old miniature makers being phased out for modern 3d modelers). But another twenty or thirty years, and I do see this being a bigger issue. Great for consumers though when they can watch tons of things that fit their own specific tastes and preferences that today there might barely be anything in that particular niche though.
@@terricon4 You are right. It is true to the movie industry, not video game though. I can think with that engine, the time can be saved to make a movie with perfect VFX in short time with just 20 people. You are totally right about that. But the situation is kinda reverse for video game, because this art model is a new thing, and everyone has very high demand on it. Some games don't need flashy graphic but still can beat other game such as Ori, Journey Ps4, The Last of Us 1 Ps3-4 (except 2th), DMC series, God of War (except 4th), Hollow Knight, Life is Strange series, Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice, Metroids, Castlevania, Beyonetta, Street Fighter... . these games prove that the gameplay, sountrack, level design, concept, story always beat graphic. And these job plots always need a lot of people working on that. To design a game we need many people to create it, you think with this engine we can save much time to create a game, but tunring out it doesn't. It only creates a problem which is like I said above, the graphic doesn't mean anything anymore, it is a battle between stories, level design, character concepts, environment design,... the graphic is basically give them more accessibilty to design, equal more jobs. The time of creating game is still balance, we can focus more on other things like story and level design, and develop new algorithm & physic making the game unique. Also we have some kind of game that only hire people to design the accessories, and cosmetic for game like skins & costumes. :^ Also more jobs to do on it, because the engine doesn't give you ability to design better, it just gives you accesibility to perfect it on high level of quality. :^ The design itself still costs a lot of times, same with story and other things. You mentioned limited times, don't worry video game have various genres. The game gives you many choice, and one of the choice is that you can finish a game in 3-4 hours which the movie can't. In 30-40 years later, we could have AIs replacing human in every industry but it can't replace the old school human style of design which people are trying to find back to the root, both consumers and makers. The instinct of tracing back to the root is very interesting once you getting old. That is also a great signal in this era and next few years. More game makers try to get back to the old school time video game which makes me feel very optimistic about game industry. Lol, I can't wait to see AIs replace us someday mate. Elon Musk might be right about AIs after all, or might be not, we have choices to make it our King, or defy it. I don't actually belive at some points, our consumption will be sarturated. You know why, we have limited life which means we can never reach to that point. It only happens with somebody who is immortal, this guy is a machine of experiencing all kind of things on earth and soon the guy will get bored with everything. For us human, the generation keeps repopulating. Young man will only have 80-90 years to experience everything. It points out our bilogical body can only allow us limited time experience to know what is precious. And then when we die, another generation will be born, and they start the study all over again, everything is new to them. I call this point is reset point. Human will never get bored.
This is straight out of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R games, even down to the Anomaly. I would love a proper movie made of that Universe. There is soo much potential for good stories.
ah yes, the S.T.A.L.K.E.R love that game.
Never played STALKER, but you might check out Into the Radius if you have a VR headset. It gives off Irradiated vibes.
Blowout soon fellow stalker.
Basically the whole fandom of dudes in body armor looking at weird stuff went to scp (even though it wasn't about the mtf when stalker came out)
You know the game is based on a movie, probably one of the greatest in Russian cinema, which is its self based on a book. That said the games are much more action focused, the book/movie is more philosophical.
I simply love how the creeping entity here isnt some mishapen animal or human but pieces of the control rods, its really an original concept
Fuel, rods go in holes.
They actually look like the blocks that cover the reactor roof at Chernobyl, which have holes in them for the rods.
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@@conniepoo yeah, the graphite blocks that house the fuel. that was my first thought as well.
I thought that's what they were. Seems I'm smarter than I thought 🤣´_>`
The sound design of this short is the real star - the visuals and framing, color pallete are no doubt amazing, but the precision editing for capturing footsteps, environmental interaction and dialogue muffled and mixed is tremendous!
Well thank you very much sir! ❤️
@@markozivanovic117 i can agree, the sound design is so good, makes me rewatch it
@@tmtatty ❤️ that's the best feedback a Sound Designer can hear.
@@markozivanovic117 as a sound designer myself (ametuer), i can also second that the sound design is incredible here.
@@cameronhuff5170 Thank you Cameron :)
Are you telling me that this completely CGI, and it was rendered in 4 weeks, with the help of a free program??? What??? That's so cool. People say that George Lucas said that one day what he was doing with his movies (special effects wise), would be something that anyone could do in their garage. Some people in Disney said that the screen technology used in the Mandolarian (aka Volume/Stagecraft) was that, George's garage. But I disagree. This is George's garage, in my humble opinion. So cool!!!
Sava is definitely a pro, but exactly what you say, this film really makes George's vision feel imminent, and I'd expect to start seeing work like this coming from creators of a non-technical background soon.
@@shortoftheweek That would be amazing! And I am beyond exited to think that this could be a closer possibility for creators from all backgrounds! Holy, even I might give it a try given time. Thanks for answering! I really enjoyed the article and the part of video that I saw. Thanks for that!
you know mandalorian used UE5 as well
@@fivemeomedia it did but it also used that special stage (can’t remember what it was called) a small production like this likely wouldn’t have access to. This on the other hand can actually be done all from home
On a multi-thousand dollar a day motion capture stage with thousands of dollars of actors. Still, far cheaper than going on site and then adding all the CG in later.
Me at the start: "That orange suit must mean he's a lead scientist or something." Me at the end: "Ah... that orange suit just meant he was D-Class...."
Lol exactly
Thought the same XD
sry but what does that mean?
@@stefanstanciu4175 It's a reference to SCP. In the SCP foundation Class D personnel wear orange jumpsuits (like a prison) and are used primarily as test subjects for experimenting with different SCPs.
@@cd33music ohh i see, thank for explaining.
I like to Imagine the anomaly as a thinking, feeling being. Almost as scared as the scientist at first, but smart enough to realize what was happening. Smart enough to realize the threat to itself was not the one approaching, but the ones forcing confrontation. Empathizing in its own alien way. It felt sympathy, and thus mercy. And while it could not speak, it could make itself heard. Not a monster. Simply alive TLDR : The anomaly wasn't Evil
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Yeah, that is literally implied by the very movie itself. I swear shorts like this all over youtube are filled with people pointing out the obvious as if it's some amazing revelation.
@@oxymoron02 i don't want to be rude to you because there is some truth to that statement but some people will not get it, emphasis on the SOME, like me I had a little idea of what was happening but not understanding the ending, so im not disagreeing with you but there will be a few people who don't get it.
@@oxymoron02 yea im literally Stalker fan and someone who plays the games and even i didn't think this way i just thought he took control of it and got his revenge not that the anomaly took pity on him
@@oxymoron02 I cant believe people still are saying things like this. When will people get that not everyone thinks like them?
The creator of this made such a good atmosphere, seeing the anomaly for the first time and even now after watching it still gives me chills even if I know the main character will escape with his life.
You mean the AI as the main creator?
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This is UNREAL. Look at the gas tank on his back slightly shifting as he walks and those subtle movements, even the camera looking handheld. These small details make it immaculate. The mud like whhhattttt. Incredible.
Look at the water and the steps
The only thing i didnt like was the face camera. i know some movies have done it but honestly i feel like its a really low effort, dumb effect that serves no purpose. To better show confusion, they are better off with the camera looking out from the persons perspective and going in and out of focus like the person cant focus on what they are seeing. To me that serves the purpose in a much better way. The only time a face camera should be used is if the actor is actually wearing one in the scene and its showing us the videos perspective, even then its not great.
the gas tank looked way too light.
@@festusbojangles7027 Like empty, but the lead protagonist has been panting and breathing heavily throughout. So wouldn’t that sort of indicate that his tank is practically empty, from treading and plodding ever onwards?! That’s the feeling that I come away with after noticing the same detail, it seems rendered, but I am not really any type of CGI guy, nor film even. I’m really stoked to see the tools made available are at least serving someone who isn’t making just strictly video games, but is actually rendering damned great realistic action films, this is really encouraging, and the UnReal tools will likely receive even more contribution that will ever make those tools extremely cutting edge and on par with the more expensive tools. I’m gonna watch it again now, and I’m gonna keep my eyes on the tanks this time. Thanks for noticing, because these types of differences between animation and real life are important to spot, especially while I’m totally falling for these animations and I’m thinking it’s real.
@@jimmy_jamesjams_a_lot4171 im assuming about half of the weight of the SCBA tanks are from the weight of the tank rather than the contents.
i think its cool how russian artists/authors are so intrigued by this type of sci-fi. from stalker to metro, roadside picnic etc. i assume it stems from chernobyl and the cold war. its a genre defined by many russian authors i love it.
This film is created mostly by Serbian authors.
Metro and Stalker were created by ukrainian authors.
Roadside Picnic is older than the Chernobyl incident so the fascination with this genre is even more peculiar
@@dusankostic6401 all slav same slav.
You mean games, but both Metro and Roadside picnic (stalker was heavily inspired by it) books have russian authors. I still think such genre is east european thing.
Атмосфера погружения просто максимальная, я прям чувствовал как ему было трудно дышать, как ему было страшно, и как это всё разом прошло. Очень годно
This is now my favourite CG short film. I am happy to see animations with good fps instead of just extremely high quality but low fps animations. 11/10
Animation and Mocap actually suck in this video. Or did you mean the CGI video in general?
@@bifrostbeberast3246 lol sure... Sure...
As soon as I didn’t see human features in the other characters I quickly recognized that they were walking body bags. This was good, why wasn’t it included in Love, Death x Robots?
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It's nice being Russian sometimes. It felt like watching a Russian movie
Dont you feel like you are looking out of the window?
@@Frenchkisssss nah not a single bear around there
It felt like going out at my grandma's province town
@@EvgenLion это шутка была а
The Stalker, a trip into the zone.
Doesn't matter how many times I watch this, it never gets old.
as a guy that makes youtube content and is starting to create 3d animations, i have to say, this is amazing, i cant imagine the work you had by doing this, you deserve so much more views and subscribers, its a shame that channels like your's doesen't have the ""respect"" you guys deserve in this platform
I have no idea why, but I LOVE these types of post-apocalyptic stories. With anamolies, hazmat suits and gas masks. It's such a cool idea for movies or video games. Like S.T.A.L.K.E.R and the Metro games. And it's absolutely insane that this was made with a free program and rendered in 4 weeks! Imagine what an entire studio or company could do with this type of power!
Here's a book called OUTSIDE Don't know the author tho Oh wait I'll put a link to an audio book
@@Homiebear1 aight where's the link or u jus fuckin wit us?
@@richard-er6zn OH SHIT MY BAD DIDGJWJDBDHD I WAS DOING HOMEWORK
@@richard-er6zn here I gotchu
@@richard-er6zn My bad doggy 🐕
This really gave me an SCP/Chernobyle kinda vibe, so well done, man!
Aye it’s you. Love your videos man.
for me it gave more Stalker vibes
based on STALKER video game and books
Lies again? AIA Money
to bad it's fucking stalker
an animation so good I didnt even stop to think about how good the animation was. i just immediately accepted the world that the characters were in for everything that it was. everything was in place as it should have been.
One of my favorite shorts. Love the amount of mystery and dread it creates without any exposition.
It has a real stalker call of Pripyat feel to it, the graphite, the ecologist wearing a suit and a duty mercenary behind him :) The forest they walked into kinda looked like the red forest. Plus the stingray chopper they found.
The helicopter was an MI-8 and I think it was basically taking inspiration from roadside picnic or just the genre of russian apocalypse. Not everything is stalker cause it has an anomaly.
@@eve_squared Jeez dude chill out, he was just comparing it to something he knows. Not everyone can be all knowing and perfect like you.
@@theslavicllamayt161 sorry if that came off as mean, I didn't mean to convey hostility.
i think you mean Mi-26?
@@kiddo1893 seems like it, just kinda hard to make out the shape in the fog. Also I was really sick yesterday lol, nearly passed out a few hours later from god knows what.
This was disgustingly good, Really felt that Erie's unsettled feeling of paranormal powers.. anomalies from beyond our world of knowledge, from the likes of Control, Chernobylite, Prey, Stalker, Atomic Heart, and the Metro games.
Yes! Having played (and loved) both Prey and Control, I was getting pretty heavy Remedy and Arkane vibes from this short.
Nero Wolfe you would love the shit out of STALKER and games inspired off roadside picnic if you liked those 2
you know all of those games, but not the legendary STALKER...
Atomic Heart looks so good
all of those are amazingly delicious games thank you
Wow, the graphics are superb and the story line too. Hats off to who created this.
Fabulous realism. The dead forest, fog, intricate details - just wow. As for the characters, I at first thought were real people. Their movements are very realistic and natural looking. Great work.
This was f'ing great! Nice work.
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Very well executed! Specially the way Evgeniy walks. It’s not a monotonous way of walking but a little uneven, making it very convincing. Same goes for the soldiers. It’s all in the details, like the condensation droplets on the inside of the masks and such. Absolutely love it 😊
This is simply mocap. Get a human to walk in the mocap suit and you got your little irregular, realistic movement. Honestly for mocap, I gotta say the animations suck a bit.
@@MatthewHyatt In the works. What's your excuse?
@@bifrostbeberast3246 His is on the works too. Mine as well. Everyone has one in the works. That's how this works right? We pretend it's on the way, while acting stuck up.
the uneven walking is the first thing i noticed, already knew this is gonna be amazing, wasn't mistaken.
@@bifrostbeberast3246 yo how goes it this guy who made the animation made it in a few weeks
bro big credit to the composer, brings it all together, great work.
Its just incredible what these people can do. The tech is crazy too.
Watch some youtube videos how to use UE5 Engine, Blender and get started. It is not as incredible as you might think and just diligent work that leads to your goal.
I love how the RBMK graphite fuel rod casings were used as a design theme throughout the animation.
And also vehicle of liquidator's, rasted BTR-60 putted one at one and Mi-26. This is nice details
Reuse of assets. It's cheaper this way.
@@bifrostbeberast3246not really
@@grzyb11 I mean there is nothing wrong with combining the useful with the stylish. Especially if it works so well.
Can't wait 10 years from now where every game looks like this.
With full VR support
@@TheIndieGamesNL Well, if they actually do that that would be sick(literally because your body cant handle over realism too much)
I was saying this 10 years ago... sadly innovation is not as important to publishers as money is
@@mouse8669 meh I can easily go hours in VR you just need your VR legs just like getting used to a boat, i never get nausious anymore
@@ambientvirtual Even today we can see some games that has super realistic something, but it's more like showcase what we can do, not fully working game.
This is a really well put together short film. Everything from the animation/motion capture, lighting, cinematography, composition, graphics/cgi etc… are just so crisp. The story itself is also intriguing and yet so simple. Excellent job to the creator.
Потрясающая работа. Во время просмотра меня всего окутывало чувство гнетущей тяжести, страха и какого-то странного помутнения, прямо как героя. Атмосфера Зоны передана донельзя точно, именно такой она и должна быть - страшной, опасной, непонятной. Черт возьми, будь я на месте эколога, я бы дал себя застрелить, чем полез бы в аномалию. Это тот самый случай, когда пуля - милосердие, и короткометражка это ярко передает. Хочу больше подобных работ, больше иррационального страха, больше боли и ужаса Зоны. Зона в играх и в большинстве книг показана каким-то простым местом, где ты больше боишься встретить какую-то стремную зверюшку, и атмосфера совершенно другая, более охотничья что-ли. В этом случае все совершенно иначе, чувствуется вся слабость человека перед необъяснимыми явлениями. В общем, шикарная работа.
I am such a sucker for those blaring industrial sound effects, they induce a great feeling of being small in the face of something overwhelming
Russians are so good when it comes to audio engineering check raid movie tarkov
@@iHaeVal Yeah, their audio is great, but their animations and mocap suck tbh.
Annihilation and Arrival are movies with exactly the soundtrack you're looking for
@@MrAndersn yes was going to say this reminds me almost exactly of annihilation from the music
@@bifrostbeberast3246 Man are you really just going through all the comments to say how much it sucks? The mocap and animations are brilliant, the only thing that needs work is the sometimes stiff hand movements. Other than that the animation is spot on.
The anomaly is made from the core graphite blocks we see at Chernobyl
Yup, strong vibes from the HBO series.
@@chpsilva JFL, stronger vibes from STALKER
Are those the things nuclear engineers use to prevent the core from going into critical mass?
Yes..I was wondering where i have seen them before.
you didnt see any graphite...
This was remarkably done. The atmosphere was very palpable
i feel like this is a perfect example of why CG is amazing in moderation, it looks really good and can do things we could only dream of doing in the real world. But as you look at the same thing for so long you start to notice some things that will be easier to fix as technology advances.
1:03 Those industry waves almost killed me during scene with an entrance to the forest
Reminded me of Annihilation's soundtrack.
Good catch noticing the graphite blocks! Haunting.
@@sintay8002 love that movie
Having the faces hidden in the suits helps sell the realism. Im going to go for it and use UE for my next animation.
True, human faces are one of CGI's biggest challenges
Uncanny Valley, my dudes
This reminds me actually a lot of Darkwood. With the dark, menacing trees, an unknown yet unimagineable horror, really gives me that feel. I love slavic horror
To this day this is still the top 2 best Unreal Engine short film I've seen (the first been the one in Love Death & Robots) in every aspect. This visual is really impressive, especially considering it doesn't even use Unreal Engine 5.
High S.T.A.L.K.E.R vibes coming off of this one.
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Are you talking about Tarkovsky's movie or the video game ?
I get vibes of the show Dark. The gravity blob, the colour palette, the music, the foreign language, the protective suits and radiation. etc
@@ImTheCatman88 stalker in a nutshell . has existed way before the show dark , all elements you see here
Get out of here stalker
For being CGI, that was absolutely incredible. The details were insanely well done. Don't know who made this, but they've got some skills.
-нам еще прилично идти 10 сек идем мы почти пришли ))))))
Imagine if this was a movie Id pay to see it
Это видео помимо своей красоты и атмоферности учит нас так же не доверять Мирбекам :)
Там еще один чувак обозначен в титрах Усмоном.
*My theory on the short, altogether* So I'm gonna guess that the orange guy is some kind of psychic / scientist who can "communicate" or envision moments of the anomalies creation. Hence the flashback with the grathite blocks, its birth from the radioactivity around a Chernoble like source. And the time that it escaped, the helicopter crash site. Since this anomaly is *new* and or *different* the government sends him in, to find out what it is/wants and because he is feeling fear after being threatened by his peers at gunpoint. So, because he can somehow communicate with the anomaly, it goes both ways meaning that the anomaly is able to see inside of the orange guys mind, and that he wants to escape, and that the best way to do so, is by killing his captors. Hence why he is the last one left alive. And the anomaly much like orange guy in the end, escaped. I think...
Exactly my theory as well!
I mean, is it really a crash site? The helis would be in much worse shape. Its most likely similar to Chernobyl, where they got rid of the vehicles involved with clean up after due to contamination.
@@TacticalPhoenixYT If they wanted to get rid of irradiated helicopter they could just land it in transport cemetery and somewhere in the forest
I remember how much eerie this film was when it first came out was absolutely amazing and horrifying
The atmosphere and the textures are amazing, looks like it was shot for real for the first minute or two. There were only a few moments that something seemed even somewhat off .. like how stiff Evgeny's pants were, and when he dropped the mask at the end... but otherwise extremely well done. It was palpable.
I'm sure you could do better. /s
Although CGI has a feel points to improve overall, we've never been so close to totally mimic reality. You could show me this video and I would never be able to tell it's CGI
I must say animating the rubber boots and having them look real the way they fold and contour is really impressive.
Wow :D This music, this atmosphere, amazing!
Now this is what truly good cinema looks like. Hats off to all involved, your mastery of your craft really shines here. I saw the shapes of the "blocks" and immediately thought of Chernobyl. Again, well done! We definitely need more of this...
after playing alot of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Metro including Chernobylite...i have to give you big applause for this animation and the Anomaly was truly unique one of Psychological emissions and its crushing effect on the once it comes across. Very very well done ! GSC Game World would be proud
This is goddamn amazing! Love anything remotely SCP/Stalker/Roadside Picnic/Control/Lovecraftian etc!
I am reading Roadside Picnic (Stalker) right now. Any Soviet-era sci fi is awesome. Horsemen from Nowhere is my favorite-- found a used English language edition of it in a the basement of a bookstore at Vilnius University in 2004. It has the vibes.
Then you should enjoy what I'm cooking up. Let me know if you're interested and I can add you to my beta readers list.
Yeah, obvious Control vibes at work here, which looks and feels great. Nice work.
@@eo6311 Out of curiousity, what is the premise & name of the book? Where can I find it?
Just watch someone in the comments writing a whole ass SCP document about this anomaly from this video
Damn, THAT WAS 10 MINUTES OF PURE GOODNESS!! Better than half the movies I've seen.
too the group that made this , PLEASE PLEASE make an actual full length film of this world , its very well done and I would love to see more of it .
This was very entertaining, I loved the atmosphere and the music by Iz Svemira was so perfectly placed. I am definitely looking forward to what Sava does next. The Unreal Engine is making dreams (or nightmares) become reality and I love it
This has some "Control" game vibes, especially the anomaly! Very well done and awesome atmosphere! 👌👍
I could watch an entire series about this, beautiful work!
This film had me on the edge of my seat going "What the heck?" Definitely deserves some awards
This was absolutly fantastic and sent shivers down my spine! As a kid i had a re-occurring nightmare of a bunch of boulders floating in the air grinding against eachother, and even though i couldn't see it i knew there was a person in the center of it. This kind of brought me back to those times, like this actually got me scared and breathing hard and it usually takes a lot to scare me!
This is one of the best short films I've seen. I'm really bummed that this isn't a full feature movie and a video game. It looks awesome everything the atmosphere, the cinematography, the graphics , the sound effects... The concept. One of the best cosmic horror concepts I've seen.
if you like this sort of thing a lot, you may be interested in the STALKER game franchise and its community-supported incarnations, if you have not heard of it already
It kind of is a video game franchise. The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Games are almost exactly like this, from the atmosphere to the setting. I am certain they were the inspiration for this short.
all the hallucinations of cores, the anamoly made of tungsten cores, hella cool idea to see done so well visually
This felt like an episode of love death and robots, absolutely astounding...
For me this looks like "Dark" and "Annihilation". Perfect Soundtrack and Setting.
Sound design and music really tied it all in. Love it keep up the good work
This video should be named "10 minutes of intense goosebumps".... We need a part 2 for this🔥🔥🔥
That was unbelievably excellent- I was truly involved and mesmerized throughout. One of the best I have seen- LOVED IT! Simply amazed at the talent behind this!
Now in the Matrix demo we're getting it in real time. Crazy. So exciting. And this was done only in 4 weeks as well! The more accessible these tools are everyone benefits.
The fact this is made in free software is absolutely wild. We are in the future my friends.
1:10 ..that sound gave me chills. That said, this entire short is amazing.
Это выглядит просто прекрасно, мой друг. Вы проделали огромную работу. Так что спасибо за это.) (Кстати, приветик от Fantom)
тоже здесь после его видосика)
а я в коубах)
Wow... This could be an SCP movie, with the orange dude being a Class D and everyone else being security personnel and scientists. I thought that as soon as the guy in the large dark green suit said ''You need to try and touch the anomaly''. Extremely well-made, keep up the great work 👍
SCP? No, this is definately S.T.A.L.K.E.R clip
@@jezpaa stalker, scp, control, prey, chernobiliyte i honestly dont care. Anomalies across any type similar to this is cool
pardon my ignorance. What's Class D? Class D of what?
@@iwatchwithnoads7480 D-class are disposable personnel from the SCP universe.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R is one of my all time favourite experiences of my life. There's something alluring about an unseen power that is gruesomely fatal to Humans, yet at the same time promises abundant energy to create a prosperous civilisation. I guess it's that element of Pandora's box...
10 Minutes worth of film and it's better than a 1 hour film
Чёрт, до чего же атмосферно! То чувство, когда хочешь чтобы ролик не заканчивался! Кто бы это не сделал: спасибо за подаренные эмоции!
Надеюсь он потом их залутал) А вообще было бы супер если бы новый сталкер был вот таким вот, сюжет заинтриговал)
а новый сталкер перенесли на UE5, так что есть некоторый шанс)
Как вступительный ролик, а потом начинаешь игру)))
Музыкальное сопровождение на заднем фоне божественно, которое художественно, при этом идеально, дополняет показанные в видео некоторые отдельные моменты, а также таким вот "музыкальным образом" описывает и придает детали общей визуальной картине самого видео и того, что происходит, звуковое глубокое погружение в атмосферу, при первом появлении и демонстрации "леса", позже самой аномалии, вот эти вот звуки перегруза, саунд режессура на высоте, как и остальные составляющие этого кинематика, от визуального дизайна и атмосферы, от сюрреалистического и научно- фантастического сюжета...
OMG, that's amazing! And everything is done with animation! That's a huge work. The atmosphere is so stunning. I'm deeply impressed. Guys you're awesome! Thank you ❤️
Right! They did an INCREDIBLE job.
this honestly had me more hiiked than most movies today. The writers of this masterpiece did an astounding job. If i could show more support i would.
Amazing! The visuals, the sound design, the story. It kept me in suspense more than any movie I've seen in a while.
the ticking moment when the big square was above the scientist's head incredibly matches the thing that i feel when my brain starts storming , like hyperactivity of brain when you're sick ,if it calls like that...
Love this and I come back frequently to see it again This is my favorite kind of sci fi
Notice that when the soldiers fired their weapons, the closest soldiers dust cover on the 18inch AR was closed. If the people were animated then had me fooled. Great job!
there are times where it legitimately looks completely real and then it just goes back to looking cg (looks insane though)
If someone made a movie with a concept like this I would totally watch it
The audio is spectacular and visually breathtaking
Absolutely insane... great graphics, great sound, great story.
This was an incredible display of what Unreal engine can do, I'm very excited for the future of the software and to see how far artists start to push it
like the Muller-Powell ?
we want a full film using this hyper realistic CG Animation. Sci-fi, war, zombie genre is generally preferred. Just voice actors and a computer is all it takes. Please please do it like Star-craft- brood war
The director is working on a feature-length project in this vein at the moment: www.shortverse.com/films/beckoning
gotta appreciate how such a simple concept of ”radioactive sentient floaty stones” can be made so terrifying
because stalker
What in the sorcery... This is incredible! The atmosphere and premise pulled me in immediately. I hope these kinds of projects can be part of the future for films.
Эй сыграй S.T.A.L.K.E.R который игра прям лопнешь от атмосферы обещаю Ну если её поймёшь русский человек поймёт атмосферу и другие национальности страна СНГ поймут атмосферу S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
@@Arsen_303 сталкер все играют, не только русскоязычные
@@Arsen_303 I thought it was S.T.A.L.K.E.R at first haha
The atmosphere of this short film is just..... so good.
Just WOW! What got me was the immersive atmosphere. I could feel the cold fog around me, I also felt the disorientation, the doubt and the pure fear Evgeniy was feeling! Thank you for this amazing piece of work. (btw ...I reacted to it 😉)
... no words ... amazing experience, sound design etc. congrats!
Amazing score! Those few notes were so fitting and immersive for this short! Bravo!
Pretty compelling short. If you can suspend disbelief for an animated movie, you could definitely do it for this. Of course, it was partly the story line that kept me engaged. Nice work.
I would never have known this was an animation if you hadn't told me...incredible realism.
This was incredible, it looks like something out of a triple A title or high budget Hollywood movie
Nicely done.