STIFF - Film made with Unreal Engine 5.4, Blender and OpenUSD

[@jkartz92]

Beautiful

[@tiedtkeio]

Thank you so much!! 🙏

[@Unreal_KatyaFedak]

Amazing Film! The textures and lighting are superb!

[@tiedtkeio]

Thank you so much Katya! 😀 Hope it inspires you to create! 😀

[@jonathansud]

I love the care put into their movement. beautiful work.

[@tiedtkeio]

Thank you! Great to hear, it was my first animated film and animating characters were quite scary. 🙂🙏

Congratulations to you and your wonderful art. (life outside all mental frameworks)

[@tiedtkeio]

Thank you so much! It makes me happy that you liked the film! 🙂

[@zakirhussain4740]

This is Awesomeee

[@tiedtkeio]

Thank you Zakir! I'm happy you enjoyed the film! Thanks for watching! 😃

[@Phillefx]

Super nice lighting! Little feedback as I also often overlooked such things in UE. Watch out for framerates. It appears that your mannequin moves in a stop motion like manner, probably the animation that is stepped. But the particles move at a way higher framerate and literally destroyed the stop motion feeling that it had for me. Just a heads up :) Love your content

[@jonasbentzen8148]

It looks incredible! Really great work :) the look, animation and lighting is all great! I felt it was a bit difficult to follow the story to be honest. I thought that it was missing an arm that made the mannequin cheap and uninteresting. So they painted themselves and then ended up in a kitchen? I think part of the confusion is in the pacing. It feels really slow in the middle with a lot of similar shots and then they start dunking in paint buckets and it seems clear that they wanted to paint and make themselves more interesting for a buyer. I was quite confused when they are in a kitchen all of sudden and there is a big book about culinary art and another mannequin with a chef’s hat. So sorry for a super long and chaotic comment, but I love the vibe in this and think that it would maybe help the story to give it a bit more time in editing. Or just keep it in mind for the next one 😉 Again fantastic work on the look and animation, it’s really good.

[@tiedtkeio]

Thank you Jonas, both for watching but also for your incredibly detailed feedback and comment, I love it! I'm not sure if it would've helped or not, but the original script and storyboard there was a cut between the paintbuckets and the kitchen of a human hand holding Stiff and buying the mannequin at the register to show that a customer finally found interest in the broken doll after years of neglect. Due to time and most I importantly that I wasn't able to animate very well at the time I skipped that shot. I've heard several people comment on this now later on though, so I should've probably stuck to the original script and storyboard haha. Thanks a thousand once again! 🤩🙏

[@jonasbentzen8148]

@@tiedtkeio Cool, yeah I do like that there aren’t any people in it (and also humans are a pain to not have look super cg 😉). Maybe it would help to just do a crossfade or a fade to white to imply that some time has passed between the last shot in the store and the kitchen😊 anyways really great achievement dude, the quality is fantastic!

[@TallSilhouette]

Rendered in Unreal? Lumen or path traced?

[@tiedtkeio]

Yes, rendered in Unreal Engine. Lumen! :)

[@RealTimeFilms]

@@tiedtkeio But I'm guessing at second 20 -path trace is used ? Since the puppet guy has blurry transparent edges from DOF. As far as I know only path trace can get that effect. With Lumen you would get a less transparent edges on the foreground DOF.

[@akfanclub8625]

hello sir, I don't want to sound mean but just littel feedback that your background and foreground lens bulr is too much it appears like artificial, i am also a 3d artist so a review from a fellow artist. btw your story, animation style, cinematography, animation are very amazing.

[@tiedtkeio]

No it's not mean, that's great, I love feedback! It's what makes me improve! Thank you! 🙂🙏

[@theomiddehghan]

I didn't get the story at all!

[@tiedtkeio]

Interesting. So I wasn't able to convey at the start that he wanted to paint too? 🧑‍🎨

[@theomiddehghan]

​@@tiedtkeio Honestly no! Throughout the video, I had these questions in mind: 1- Why is he trying to get that brush? 2- Is he trying to use it as his hand? Ridiculous I know! 3- is he trying to help someone get her brush back? 4- Why is he jumping into those cans of paint? 5- Why there is a wooden chef here reading a cooking book?

[@tiedtkeio]

@theomiddehghan Great feedback, I will work on my storytelling to my next film! Thanks! 🙂