TesseracT - War Of Being - Behind the Scenes

Here's a look at the Making Of and BTS of our motion capture shoot for War of Being!
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Watch the entire music video here: • TesseracT - War Of Bei...
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

[@JoshToonen]

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And watch TesseracT's War of Being music video here: czcams.com/video/UnkpPIupQxM/video.html

[@Hyperspeed1000]

is the full thing still coming its been over a week now?

[@user-bf1ky2hl1c]

CZcams Recommended your video and I'm so Thankful, Really great stuff man,
BTW,
I was wondering do you need any editor for your videos?

[@skampster]

Nice job guys, probably the best music video ever made.

[@AnxMa]

I had an experience with Motion Capture and voice acting but this is something else. Such a seriously stylish fight and movement choreography you guys created. Also, following the news about the Writers/Actors Strike, I have to say even though gaming industry is a colossus these days, voice over actors and mo cap performers are not fully considered 'equal' talent as regular actors. PS. You almost saw me as Leon in the new Resident Evil games :)

[@songzhanzong]

I especially appreciated how well-paired the choreography and story (not to mention world-design!) in the video were with the music. Raw aggression and adrenaline during hard-hitting riffs; vulnerabilities showing and exhaustion setting in during the more emotional moments in the music. Cannot praise enough all who worked to make this possible!!

[@YEAHSURETHINGMAN]

Here I was thinking you were animating the characters in Unreal - I feel so much better now LOL

[@leo.in.3d]

Looking forward to seeing the whole thing! Very inspiring and really cool to work on something for such a great band 👏

[@jason.martin]

Boy did you guys punch above massivly, well done!! and amazing

[@rottenapple5566]

Amazing band, amazing project!!!

[@gabriel475]

Just watched the whole video on Tesseract's channel. Both animations and song complemented each other so well. Both are poetry. Congratulations for the whole team.

[@SynysterGates70]

Fascinating. Makes the experience and appreciation of the art tenfold.

[@ToxicTeddyMusic]

This marriage of the song with the visuals you guys have done is going to be tough to match anytime soon! Kudos!

[@hailstone_]

You guys did an amazing job

[@sadau16dec]

Amazing and nicely choreographed.

[@jamesc5801]

Yes. More BTs please 🙂

[@jcwmusic9123]

Incredible! Well done.

[@simonflash_edit]

maaan, i'm really excited!

[@user-bf1ky2hl1c]

CZcams Recommended your video and I'm so Thankful, Really great stuff man,
BTW,
I was wondering do you need any editor for your videos?

[@juanmaliceras]

Really nice job and… I’m a huge fan of tesseract. So, unreal + Tesseract is a explosive mix. Well done!

[@rowanb4395]

Awesome!

[@chelo111]

so dope

[@TheAF01]

You would think doing it in that environment with all the metal parts and cars and whatnot would hurt the rokoko mocap big time ... and yet :D Congrats guys, really well done :)

[@no_damage]

Your website doesn't et use contact you.

[@auteur8188]

is it a film or video game or any commercial ?

[@abelinkinxvi1735]

Music Video for a new Tesseract song “War of Being”

[@arrtma]

let speed movement to 1.3 it in normal speed look like they training not the kind of fight until last one standing