CINEMATIC CUTSCENES
Cinematic Cutscenes and Video Trailers
Our Cinematic Cutscenes and Video Trailers service delivers high-quality visuals tailored for maximum engagement on platforms like YouTube and Twitch. Designed to captivate audiences and enhance storytelling, these trailers and cutscenes help million-subscriber influencers and gaming reviewers differentiate their content, increase viewership, and showcase exclusive or early-access content that drives follower engagement.
We create impactful visuals that meet the high standards of top-tier channels, ensuring that each piece feels unique, professional, and memorable for viewers.
Creating a Metahuman in UE 5
Our Metahuman Creation service offers lifelike, highly customizable 3D characters built with Unreal Engine 5. Using the powerful tools of Metahuman Creator, we produce characters with incredible detail in facial features, skin textures, and realistic movements, ideal for enhancing immersion and storytelling in any project.
Our Metahuman Creation Process Includes:
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Concept and Customization: We start by working with you to define the character’s appearance and personality. This includes selecting the base model and customizing facial features, skin tone, and body structure to reflect the character’s unique identity.
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Hair, Grooming, and Accessories: We select and tailor hairstyles, facial hair, and accessories to give each character a distinct look, further enhanced with realistic textures and grooming options.
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Clothing and Attire: Our team outfits your Metahuman with clothing and accessories that match the character’s role or setting, creating a cohesive visual style.
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Animation and Rigging: Each Metahuman is fully rigged and ready for animation, allowing for fluid movements and expressive facial animations. We test each character’s animations in Unreal Engine 5 to ensure smooth integration.
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Scene Integration and Optimization: Once created, your Metahuman is seamlessly integrated into the game environment. We optimize performance to maintain high visual fidelity without compromising game functionality.
Our Metahuman Creation service is ideal for publishers, studios, and brands looking to elevate the realism and emotional depth of their characters, using advanced Unreal Engine 5 technology to engage players on a new level.
Creating characters with Character Creator, DAZ studio
Our Character Creation service leverages Character Creator and DAZ Studio to design realistic, customizable 3D characters tailored to your project’s needs. Using these advanced tools, we create characters with lifelike features, unique personalities, and detailed textures, all optimized for integration into game environments or other interactive media.
Our Character Creation Process Includes:
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Concept and Customization: We begin by collaborating with you to establish each character’s appearance, personality, and background. This includes selecting the base model, customizing facial features, body type, and skin details to bring out the character’s individuality.
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Clothing and Accessories: Our team provides a range of clothing and accessories, tailored to each character’s setting or role. Using Character Creator and DAZ Studio, we apply realistic materials and textures, ensuring that each piece complements the overall design.
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Hair and Grooming: We select and refine hairstyles, facial hair, and grooming details to match each character’s aesthetic, using high-quality textures and realistic styling.
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Rigging and Animation Ready: Each character is fully rigged, allowing for smooth movement and compatibility with animation software. We test for seamless integration, ensuring the character is ready for any required animations.
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Export and Integration: Once completed, we export the character in a format suitable for your platform (e.g., Unreal Engine, Unity) and assist with optimization for performance, preserving detail while ensuring efficient gameplay.
Our Character Creation service is ideal for game developers, animators, and studios looking for high-quality, customizable characters that enhance narrative and engagement. With expertise in Character Creator and DAZ Studio, we deliver characters ready for immediate integration into AAA or indie projects.
Creating Location
(Environment, Lights, Fx)
Our Location Creation service offers high-quality environments, lighting setups, and visual effects (FX) tailored specifically for cutscenes and trailers. We create visually captivating scenes that set the mood, enhance storytelling, and make your project stand out. Using advanced tools in Unreal Engine and cinematic techniques, we craft immersive locations that elevate the impact of any game trailer or cinematic sequence.
Our Location Creation Process Includes:
1. Environment Design: We start with detailed environment design, building atmospheric settings that align with your narrative and aesthetic vision. From natural landscapes to urban settings, we create immersive locations that draw viewers into the story.
2. Cinematic Lighting: Using sophisticated lighting techniques, we create dynamic and dramatic lighting setups that highlight key areas, emphasize emotions, and add depth to each scene. Our lighting experts ensure every shot looks visually stunning.
3. FX and Atmospheric Enhancements: We incorporate special effects like fog, particles, fire, rain, and explosions to amplify the visual impact. Each effect is crafted to match the tone and atmosphere, enhancing the cinematic quality.
4. Optimization for Real-Time Rendering: To ensure smooth performance in cutscenes and trailers, we optimize environments and FX for real-time rendering, achieving high-quality visuals without sacrificing performance.
Our Location Creation service is designed for studios, publishers, and content creators seeking breathtaking visuals that bring their cutscenes and trailers to life. From AAA projects to indie releases, our environments, lighting, and FX add depth, emotion, and cinematic appeal to every scene.
CINEMATIC CUTSCENES
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Communicate with customer
Usually, we need to get from customers:
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Description of the game and its features that you want to show in the trailer (or idea\script of the video)
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High-quality video recordings of gameplay moments that you want to include in the trailer
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Music, text and voiceover, if you want to see them in the trailer.
*We have our amazing voice actor and sound designer too.
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Game build, location assets, character models
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Key arts, logos, fonts
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Reference links
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Storyboard
cutscene
Our storyboard process for cutscene or movie creation provides a visual roadmap, ensuring a cohesive narrative flow and a clear vision for each shot. The storyboard includes:
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Scene Breakdown: Each scene is broken down into individual frames, illustrating key moments, character positions, and visual details. This gives a step-by-step overview of the cutscene's progression.
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Camera Angles and Movement: The storyboard outlines camera angles, framing, and movement, such as close-ups, wide shots, and tracking shots, to enhance the scene’s dramatic impact.
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Character Actions and Expressions: Each frame shows character actions, body language, and facial expressions to communicate emotions and interactions, capturing the essence of the storyline.
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Lighting and Mood Cues: Lighting and mood notes are added to define the scene's atmosphere, indicating where shadows, highlights, or special lighting effects will enhance the emotional tone.
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Dialogues and Sound Cues: Any dialogues or key sound effects are noted within the frames, giving a sense of timing and impact for voice lines and auditory elements.
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Transitions and Visual Effects: Descriptions of transitions (e.g., fades, cuts) and special effects (e.g., explosions, sparks) are included to ensure seamless flow and highlight key moments.
The storyboard serves as a foundation for the cutscene, aligning the creative vision with technical planning and providing clarity for both the client and production team before full animation begins.
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Character Animation and Motion Capture
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Character Rigging: Our team rigs characters for fluid movement, preparing them for animation or motion capture.
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Motion Capture and Animation: For realistic movement, we use motion capture or hand animation techniques, adding facial expressions and body language that convey emotions and actions.
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Lip-Sync and Dialogue Animation: If characters speak, we synchronize their lip movements to dialogue, ensuring accurate and natural expressions.
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Scene and Environment Design
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Location Setup: Using custom-built environments or adapting existing assets, we create detailed settings that enhance the atmosphere and support the story.
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Lighting and Mood: Cinematic lighting is applied to highlight key moments, characters, and dramatic points, ensuring a visually cohesive and immersive experience.
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FX Integration: Special effects, such as fog, explosions, or particle effects, are added to increase the scene’s visual depth and intensity.
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Camera Work and Cinematography
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Camera Placement: We plan each shot's composition, deciding on angles and camera movements that maximize emotional impact and keep viewers engaged.
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Cinematic Techniques: Techniques such as depth of field, tracking shots, and focus shifts are used to guide the viewer’s attention and add a cinematic quality to each scene.
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Sound Design and Music Integration
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Sound Effects: We add sound effects that enhance immersion, such as footsteps, weapon sounds, or ambient noise that matches the environment.
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Music Selection or Composition: For a cohesive atmosphere, we choose or compose music that supports the tone of the scene, intensifying key moments and adding emotional depth.
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Dialogue and Voiceover Integration: Dialogue is recorded and edited to fit the scene’s timing, adding clarity and emotional expression to the characters’ voices.
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Editing and Post-Production
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Scene Editing: All elements—visuals, sound, music, and dialogue—are synchronized and refined in post-production to ensure smooth transitions and seamless flow.
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Color Grading: Colors are adjusted to match the desired mood, whether dark and intense or bright and hopeful, enhancing the visual consistency of the cutscene.
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Final FX Polishing: Additional effects, such as motion blur, light flares, and subtle particle effects, are added to polish the final scene.
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Testing and Final Adjustments
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Quality Control: We conduct multiple rounds of testing to identify any technical issues, ensuring smooth playback and compatibility across devices.
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Client Review and Revisions: After presenting the draft to the client, we incorporate feedback and make adjustments to meet expectations.
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Export and Delivery: Once approved, the final cutscene or video is exported in the required format and quality, ready for integration or distribution.
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