Armored Titan first appearance in 3D - Blender fan animation and DemoReel

[@sintelaris]

I'm sick and tired... of walls.

[@user-sn1hi7my7x]

So I gotta outline for a live action AOT series. Any idea how to get it approved? If I get approved, I’d hire you

[@sintelaris]

I have no idea since I haven't met a single official AoT representative in my life.

[@user-sn1hi7my7x]

Did you do this all by yourself? Rigging, modeling, etc?

[@sintelaris]

@@user-sn1hi7my7x yes. Completely

[@Shembha_8]

Amazing bro

[@Onsvaltti]

Textures look amazing, his body movement looks a bit uncanny. I can't even imagine how hard it is to animate something like that, combining weight and speed to something that is 100% fake. 😩👌

[@damian._.grmaden]

This is pure unfiltered TALENT!! The time and effort put into this really show Not only that but the passion to do something like this Truly a work of art!!

[@sintelaris]

Thank you for such a heartwarming comment. It makes a huge difference to me, honestly)

[@darkbolt5494]

I'd say skill

[@MoisesLopez-do6jd]

Armored Titan was pure aura in the first season

[@sintelaris]

@@MoisesLopez-do6jd they did him dirty later... :(

[@strelis6615]

​@@sintelaris Actually, he looked more menacing and powerful in the manga. The studio probably finds it hard to animate him in 2d because of how much details he has.

[@panzernerd8486]

It looks insane. Maybe the only thing I'd change would be that Reiner appeared much closer in 0:53 to the soldiers in the anime but that aside it is a 10/10

[@sintelaris]

@@panzernerd8486 yeah that was a tough shot, I really tried to make armored titan to appear bigger, but that was the best I could come up with, maybe just a skill issue :)

[@panzernerd8486]

@@sintelaris It's no problem. I am doing stickmen animations and I did this scene too and this shot obviously was impossible for me to make in side view so yeah. Don't worry about it. I know how hard it can be to animate and how time consuming

[@samh2222]

This is crazy holy crap, seeing all the simulations and renders after, I’m impressed you made it work on a laptop! My 2070 laptop has trouble with more than one AE comp in premiere. Great work man!

[@sintelaris]

To be honest Premiere and AE are lowkey poorly optimized and for this reason I will try to replace them in the future :)

[@tiacool7978]

@@sintelaris There's a streamer I watch who also mentioned one, or both, of those crash often for him. So I believe you when you say that.

[@yussufabukar32]

You are disgustingly underrated! Hope algorithm gets to you very soon, this work is impressive and deserves to be seen by millions!!

[@anonimowelwiatko9811]

You really made it all by yourself? Mad respect man. Also thanks for including list with your software.

[@sintelaris]

Yeah, I made it completely myself basically from nothing... Sometimes it seems unbelievable even for me

[@AndreasRoss00]

As a 3d animator i respect your work sooo much❤️👍. Keep it up, always here to support 💪

[@sintelaris]

From the bottom of my heart, thank you!)

[@Saltedquite]

This looked like it came out straight from a game adaption

[@Survey_corps_]

great job man, i didn't think it could be this good

[@jontysb]

Yoo man. My mind is blown 🤯. 15 months of work on this masterpiece by single person is definitely mind blowing. I wish you success in your career.

[@ismayilkismu906]

Realy Good work bro,1:30 just mind blowing shot, iam not an expert, but here are some advises, u should combosite and add more stuff like particles and camera effects.also turn on motion blur,heat distortion for explosions and smoke etc, u can use cascadeur to animate and use blender animation layers addon to animate aditional stuff

[@xavionlayne]

These needs so much more recognition. Great work, this is beautiful!

[@Fennic_zo-ch]

Holy moly! Now this a god tier shit right here! It's so incredible. I can't understand why your channel is so underrated...

[@sintelaris]

Hopefully time is all it needs

[@Fennic_zo-ch]

@@sintelaris I hope for the same thing.

[@Idk4x]

This art needs more views

[@lastyhopper2792]

His running animation lacks weight. But you've recreated the scene's atmosphere faithfully, well done.

[@PhantomKanal]

Yeah, that's true

[@pootahh]

This is so underrated, this is absolutely breathtaking

[@jdub9119]

That was incredible - amazing work

[@urbanguy1191]

That looks incredible man! Great work! 👍

[@krypto61]

Thats really really really a lot of work for one person. Holy shit, you managed to do a very nice job

[@oskanoviznaur5759]

It's freaking cool! Keep it up, my friend! Good luck

[@PrototypeZR]

Почитал статью, выглядит великолепно, честно. Тем более с тем учётом, что ты сам все это сделал. Боже прости мою придирчивую жопу, но возникает такое ощущение, будто титан не бежит, а скользит всё-таки. Как будто не хватает какого-то веса и инерции что ли, от земли же всё-таки отталкивается при беге, а тушка немалая при такой броне... А я ещё и не разбираюсь во всей этой теме и сижу тут умничаю. Но это просто моя придирка. Я полагаю, это сложности анимации. А в целом, правда, потрясающе выглядит.

[@oralord5659]

OMG what a work ! Its so clean

[@treking8888]

This is pretty much spot on. Phenomenal job 🔥

[@b1ackr3aper12]

As a motion graphic designer, I would say that you're so unbelievably talented bro. This work should definitely have more views and better algorithm, as it's so freaking amazing and well-made. Keep it up bro💪💪

[@larvaoioioi_]

This os amazing bro

[@pizola3285]

Well done! It highly reminds of our sequence. We chose the same shots hahaha. Super cool!

[@sintelaris]

Yeah thats what im saying!)

[@pizola3285]

@@sintelaris well done! Keep learning, you are on the right path :D

[@mordo2692]

AMAZING JOB DUDE!!! CONGRATS!!!

[@axendroo2541]

this is fireeeee brooo, great modeling skills and textures are on point, this deserves millions of views 🙇‍♂🙇‍♂, love from Bharat.

[@k-mm60]

Fantastic work !

[@xxmeme5terxx706]

Yo this so cool, good work

[@preheatinggobble]

He crushed my parents with a boulder.

[@AlexiosLair]

That is an amazing result, man! Congrats on finishing the project, it's really impressive that it was all done in Blender! I'm wondering how did you manage to determine the scale of Shiganshina and with the overall layout of streets to be positioned properly?

[@sintelaris]

So... I took a lot of screenshots of episode 2 season 1 (basically around the action in the video), googled a lot of references and by the end of it gathered about 100 images total. The PureRef file weighs 180 MB. The layout of the streets is semi-original and I added a lot of my vision to it. My version of Shiganshina is about 5 times bigger than the original since otherwise Armored Titan would run through it in about 10 seconds :D P.S. Armored Titan speed is 250 km/h at its peak

[@AlexiosLair]

@@sintelaris the thing is I'm doing Shiganshina in UE5 myself and I found there's a lot of confusion in references. Many of them confuse Trost with Shiganshina apparently :D Also the scale is an interesting thing, Shiganshina in S1 is different in scale than S4, this is very noticeable by the height of walls which is probably the only constant so far haha. I really like the layout you picked! It's not too dense, but dense and diverse enough to express the overall style of the city.

[@realmale07]

​@@AlexiosLairits hard to make the scaling right in anime(s) since its all 2D and/or CGI so I can assume that scaling is also hard in UE. Good luck on your project though!

[@KaziooFX]

Very impressive work!

[@pavlestial]

That's so cool , amazing

[@BotherRed]

Looks super dope my good sir

[@Sycatrax]

model and particles are gorgeous. If you started a Patreon for motion capture, I'd donate - would truly bring it to life

[@sintelaris]

Wow... I will consider that... as an option...

[@MegasLagann]

not gonna lie, if it's an option, I'd like to offer to reanimate the charge-up and sprint for free.

[@sintelaris]

@@MegasLagann maybe couple of years later... I am really tired of this project to the point I do not want to even think about it :)

[@MegasLagann]

@@sintelaris aye, fair enough. I know the feeling lmao

[@Krishna-r2r4d]

Great work bro 😊

[@xyz-dharak]

This is absurd amazing

[@ThatOneCarnotaurus]

OH MY GOSH THIS WAS SO COOL AND AMAZING i know it took forever to make but it would be awesome if there was more vids like this

[@sintelaris]

Well, I will make more high-quality stuff in the future and even maybe my OWN MOVIE 10 years later, so even if it will not be AoT anymore, it still will be the highest quality 3D content I can produce.

[@vozich1536]

Incredible work!

[@PaynetoTheMax-gg1hu]

*"BURRRROOOCKK LLESSSNAAARRRRRR"* - Paul Heyman

[@dfethrvftrgtr]

Great work!

[@SzYmOn-zf4ws]

It looks AMAZING!

[@kiyasuihito]

Cool! 🎉 it's got a realistic look to it and the animations have a claymation feel. 🎉🎉

[@armanshuakpayev8701]

Omg 1 person does a better job than MARVEL 😮

[@YusoCrio]

Great job!

[@panzer.1]

Dude this is amazing

[@elliottcooper7767]

This is incredible!

[@Ithallokid]

brooo this is amazjng !!!

[@404-AnimationYT]

Great work! Only thing I have a very slight issue with, (although it might just be me) is the pacing of the titan running at certain parts of the video feel slightly off, that's the best why I can describe it, it just feels a bit slow and unnatural, a bit linear if you will. maybe some variation in the arms swaying, a little more camera shake, a little variation in the distance between the keyframes, but overall, its great!!

[@sintelaris]

Yeah I got your point, it is valid. The problem with the fact that it feels a little bit unnatural is that this was my first time rigging and I didn't want to go too extreme with the movement since I didn't want to break it (Clipping polygons and mesh through each other). The pacing is a little bit off because it was supposed to be synchronized with the footsteps from the original audio and 0.5 seconds might be too much of a time between the steps, but maybe it is just my lack of experience.

[@ifnarta]

My take is the Titans doesn't feel like it have massive weight, since the movement is as smooth as a normal human. The movement is too smooth, unlike something at that size should have been. But hey, it's incredibly good for a first-timer!

[@mohammedhajomar4400]

Great animation good job

[@mrbrightside6264]

This is so good and underrated

[@tangmoza1000]

This deserve more views.

[@劉育瑄-r9l]

This is so talented

[@joemars2621]

Well done good job way better then I expected.

[@shyamendrahazra3440]

It's accurate, frame by frame, inch by inch, and give the same fear it felt on that day

[@Ayeato]

Motion blur would help sell the speed of the armored titan

[@sintelaris]

Its present at 10%. I had technical reasons to make it that low, even though at first I wanted to do 30-50%. By the way, 2, 3 and 5 shot have it at 50%. Unfortunately, I have solved the technical issues only after 3 months of rendering.

[@Ayeato]

Unfortunate, still great work@@sintelaris

[@era7studios]

Amazing!

[@Mortis1990]

amazing work bro

[@GUTS340]

better than the live action, this really impressive for being made by only one person

[@MAX69-d7v]

Thanks for this it amazing

[@isr2879]

that was incredible

[@roske1624]

It looks amazing ngl

[@blikkcg]

this is mind blowing bro

[@FinoClips]

you deserve much more views

[@sintelaris]

Yeah... Thats why I ask people to share it. KZbin algorithms think that I am not worthy(

[@manum8170]

God damn man this looks amazing. Also seeing something like that IRL no wonder they were "fuck this shiet I'm out". Very nice

[@sintelaris]

YEAH THIS IS THE VIBE I WAS TRYING TO SELL, I am really glad you got it!

[@KorbynTaylor]

It's awesome!

[@shimizu_wakaba]

beautiful

[@charlytutors]

Wow! 🎉 Keep it up!

[@sintelaris]

Back in the day, when I was starting learning 3D in 3Ds Max, I was watching some of your videos. I wish I could have seen my face back then if someone said that Charly Tutors would comment on my work!)

[@charlytutors]

@@sintelaris Well, you are just talented and there is no surprise here. I too did not know how to do something a long time ago and learned from someone else's lessons here on KZbin. The main thing is that we are growing and not stopping. I think you have a great future. The main thing is that you don't stop and if someone will hate you in comments, don't listen. Just bend your line! You can do it! You can do everything! I believe it!

[@King_Aegon]

Give this man a job at WB to run the CGI and VFX for the upcoming movie

[@cordster]

the side eye from the black dude at the beggining lmao

[@sintelaris]

@@cordster Finally someone noticed!)

[@sanctionednewt_]

heavily underrated!

[@brycecgi]

Sick bro

[@amandazhou1696]

Truly amazing！

[@초람-m5s]

It's such a high quality 3D armor giant...

[@KorbynTaylor]

WOW! Why has nobody thought of this before!?

[@warmachine8239]

WTF this is too good to be true!

[@shawn8226]

0:17 there was no black person in paradise. are you trying to make a netflix adaptation or something?

[@sintelaris]

"Technically in the original guy looked like latino and thats my fault, since I used references with latino guys, but didn't manage to make latino skin look right, so I darkened it to make look more natural."

[@dizzyfool1]

Incredible

[@jqegermv3592]

BEAUTIFUL

[@Dachusttin]

DAMN thats good!

[@Khayreee]

I love how you got the body positions right 0:08

[@sintelaris]

This whole shot was wild. For example, to make it look similar to the original I made the camera FoV extremely low. To make Armored Titan look fine in the shot I was testing several positions based on the step sounds. So basically I synchronized steps with the audio first and then tried to put them in a way so it makes sense since otherwise feet would be too far apart from each other and Armored would look like it does a leg-split :D

[@Khayreee]

@@sintelaris tbh you could make your own short episode like armor vs female this looks fantastic

[@ENDPEARL]

Better than mappa 3d animation

[@January1983_1]

15 months??? you're actually soo underrated

[@sintelaris]

Imagine my feelings when I got just 1500 views in the first 3 weeks. 170k views compared to this do not feel that bad...

[@Majitsu_san]

Вот что за намёки это были)) Ато всё завтра, да завтра)

[@jaidenwood9247]

If this had the same lighting as the show and more dust affects I think it would be perfect.

[@sintelaris]

I tried my best for lighting to match the original and make it realistic at the same time🤷

[@wendz6042]

So cool and accurate! can you also make the scene of Erwin with the Scouts charging to Zeke in the outside of the wall in season 3

[@sintelaris]

If I am gonna get sponsored, since I cannot do it for free anymore :(

[@xscizor.x]

Hey bro your work is amazing.I suggest you to make more aot animation content.This video was surely a work of art

[@jamaalvibes]

This was soooo goood

[@JakeYolk]

Dam the direction is like 1:1, good shut

[@sadmoyt]

We hope for a second part as soon as possible🔥🔥

[@sintelaris]

There will be no part (unless people will start donating me), but I will surely make more 3D content with the highest quality possible

[@joesama8818]

Absolutely beautiful

[@gabrielarizmendiz8995]

Wow, te quedo genial👍 1000/10

[@zephyr9437]

New sub gained!

[@nuke2625]

Really welldone. I know howmuch time and effort this takes.

[@bpf10]

This is amazing I'm not an animator or anything but if I can add some slight criticisms- 1. The Armored Titan seems to lack momentum and weight in its movement, in the Anime shit looks like a freight train here it kinda just seems like he's moving 2 - The human characters look a bit off too (Not just the facial expressions I know they're hard but everything else about them) I am nitpicking tho and tbh I'd have no idea how you would go about fixing these but it does look really good keep at it 👏

[@sintelaris]

Well, that's just a skill issue - it is hard to combine different professions, but I think I will become an expert in every field of 3D at some point as I polish my skills.

[@newchangeunlisted_viewer5594]

I really wish the lighting was more dynamic and that there were more effects to really emphasize just how fast Reiner is moving

[@sintelaris]

Unfortunately, there were technical limitations so I was forced to lower the motion blur. At the same time, lighting changes almost every shot to make it look better for each individual shot.

[@Saltedquite]

Yknow this looked good already, oh also maybe some bloods and gore would be nice