Using VFX to become Handsome Squidward

some say beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, so look at me today, we are all going to make improved and more perfect versions of ourselves today we will all

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beautiful squids, let's take a look so we can really delve into the unreal. engine because it is a very powerful tool to make virtual productions very quickly. We normally star in our live action videos and so we want to represent ourselves in these virtual production videos as well, however, we have an advantage here as we control everything we do. It seems like we are going to perfect our way now we are facing a bottleneck, although it is easy to create environments, it is easy to have an animated camera, but the characters require a lot of work, there is texturing, there is modeling, there is sculpting, there is rigging, all kinds of things that require days, not weeks per character.

I need each step of this process to be as agile as possible. Last week they made a human project

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Unreal Engine and released a preview. It's a really cool thing, however, it won't be available. maybe a few more months, if not more, maybe a year, that's fine, but it's still not a viable option for us to generate characters, so today we are going to try a new path to creating characters. There is a really cool app called character. Creator three, these guys have been around for a long time, but recently they've taken big steps and made everything a lot more realistic, so we all need to get our hands a little dirty because we want to reach our most perfect form, etc. today we are all going to make these improved and more perfect versions of ourselves and for that we turn to the most perfect form, the

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Squidward, you are even more

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now, this is the perfection of the human form, this is this It is pure beauty here Squidward himself was hit in the face by SpongeBob by accident, somehow his face became prettier and more chiseled, so it's like he forced SpongeBob to hit his face with the door again, but when he looks at him He is even more handsome. the perfect specimen, it's just the perfect being, it's just incredible, almost like an alien creature.

I've never seen something so beautiful in my deepest, darkest moments, when people look at me and, as a friend, that guy is so ugly, you know, it's like you know what I want. I had something for that person. I wish I could turn around and be like you know what and they're like oh oh my God, this is the most beautiful man I've ever seen in my life. There is a movie that has I tried to make its actor Squidward more handsome and that was Prometheus. Look at him, look at how handsome he is, just look at the bone structure of him.

Yes, he's making me rethink some things. I mean, if he could be milky white, hairless and with the highest huge cheekbones you've ever seen. I would sign up for that program in a day. What if I told you that such a program existed? Oh, there is now. I just want to guide you as if this is the general order of operations. It's really easy. app to use there is a button up here that says morph if you click on it it allows you to select body parts and you know play with that oh my gosh so there are also full body morphs so we can turn them into lady real quick , but we can also turn them into someone more polished and we can turn them into a fucking oh my God, wait, no, I want to see that guy, I want to see an amateur slacker and then you want to go see the maximum benefit. nest they have a matching upgrade head the transformations are pretty sweet they are very powerful they allow you to get results really fast we can apply the herculean texture to this which starts to make it look a little more realistic come on oh my gosh but we can take that further far here, you can take a baby fur texture and put it on suede.

Am I going to make it with baby skin in suede? Man, you're telling me we can motion capture this guy with facial capture in unreal mode and bring him to life in full? ray tracing beauty yeah like we could bring it to life you'll walk around talking peter I'll take a photo of you three two one geez okay wait do you put that photo in the program and it generates your face? Outside of the photo, it's not that bad, it's actually something like the video game version of you that still has the same facial structure, it's not perfect, but it gets you pretty close to trying to make a person or recreate one, which we're going to do. do.

We'll just stand in a circle and then pick the person on our right and we'll all take a nice, flat, neutral photo of them and try to recreate the other person or make them much better. at least a hint of body dysmorphia, so the only way we can really get a true picture of our true perfect self is if someone else does it. I have Clint. I hope to capture your image and make it even better. Sam as soon as I capture him. your image I will turn you into a Neanderthal and send a photo to Sarah.

I'm doing Peter. Everyone says Peter is perfect, but I think there is room for improvement. I have damn Nico and I will make him handsome. There is a checkbox. that says select if the subject is a baby so I was like sam is a big baby that's a big old man baby baby that baby is rich baby I was

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the umbilical cord as a tension wire so I have digital peter okay it's like I mean, he certainly looks like him. I realized that it was actually sunburned, so I found layers of sunburn that I just put there to give it a little more discoloration and unevenness, so I look at it, it's like it's close, but this is where I just . it gets to the overall artistic element of how well you can recreate someone's face, how you pick up the details.

I'm trying to match the profile right now, you know, because you feed it the front of the image, which works pretty well. but it doesn't have any data on the side of the head, so I'm going to go in and manually adjust the shape of Nico's profile to match it. I'm trying to be a little more realistic before we dive into the craziness of Clint's ears. They're way up, most people's ears here, Sam, look at me, man, still going through the normal routine. Most people's ears align with the bottom of their nose. I literally had the slider all the way up and still not enough to make your ear heavy. influenced by the Prim Tech video is that the baby from Spirited Away is really good, I'll tell you if you want to see Peter, it's like he's Peter, like he looks like Gary Oldman.

You're right, Peter is a young Gary Oldman, but. Instead of getting into acting, he got into Blender, so I got pretty close to Niko. I feel like Nico looks great in a cute jumpsuit. This is a weird conversation at work to take this to the next level. What should we do? What should we enlarge, stretch, shrink, that's actually not bad? Sam put some paint on it to have pants, it had pants, there's a million sliders for me to go through, but as much as possible, someone in the office will see this and they'll be like oh, that's Peter, I think we've gotten there, but that's really impressive, he looks like him, yeah, that's Peter 100, his hair is too brown or whatever, yeah, maybe I'll do a little more touch-up and then I'll perfect it. .

He's getting cuter by the second, okay, I'm going to make him look exactly like handsome Squidward, the key to being a handsome Squidward, his face is swollen from hitting things, swollen lips, swollen eyes, swollen cheeks, excellent Oh, we're making Nico beautiful, you look like the joker. I know big eyes are attractive so I thought why not impart these beautiful big bulbous eyes on Nico. You got it, you got it, dude, I need like oh Sam, I've done some work. This is simply a caricature of Clinton. Now you don't have to. going too far, although I think there's a key element here, which is that bottom lip and that top lip, that's it, that's it, it's important that I have nuance in my approach, oh my goodness, man, that's pretty good , look at that pose, look at them. look at that like that's what I want I want the grace of a dancer I need more abs oh wait no it's not the skin it's all in the skin did it?

I think that's it no, I think he's perfect mate, oh my God, oh God. Oh my god, it's Adrian fucking Brody, so not only is Hanson Squidward a very buff guy, it's like he clearly skipped leg day. Okay, this is giving me inspiration for mine. I feel like I went too crazy from the beginning and need to tweak a lot more things. much slower rather than just exaggerating some selected features, handsome peter look look look look he's handsome I see he's so handsome oh by the way he's also like four feet tall right now I think he I have marked.

I don't think I'm going to move forward. I'm ready for the big lights. I have re-evaluated and come back with a new mindset. Now I feel like I still have Nico's essence here. but he is more beautiful and handsome

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i practically rubbed niko with baby oil i think i have something great nico is going to be really beautiful i mean niko is a handsome boy but i don't know if he is beautiful beautiful not like handsome

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so this is Sam in its final form. I thought giving him long, flowing Fabio-style hair was totally appropriate.

He kept the jeans because they were sentimental to him and so are the boots. I think it really highlights his abs, so my perfect Sam is ready. I'll send it to you and I hope Peter's motion capture can live up to the beauty that this render oozes, so everyone made their models, so today is the special day where we bring everything we go to life launch. Here we have a mocap suit, we have some gloves, we even have a head support that we can use with phones to track our face. We are going to capture the image of the previous man and the image of the new man afterwards.

I have a newfound respect for Clint for wearing this all day in the desert because it's so tight, luckily they give us modest shorts so you can get around the curvatures you want to keep modest, you gotta be nice and uptight dude, no, you know , crush your ACLs. the fields oh darling, it's okay, you look stupid, I look like fucking Nigel from the thornberries, what characteristics does my beautiful self have? Uh, big muscles, a beautiful face, very shiny, very, very shiny, okay Peter, get ready to show off your new body, okay, ready and in action. what oh what oh no happy dance happy dance where's that music everything crashed everything crashed and we lost all our data it never works out project data not saved sound yes unique need to be a tough guy you're like a robot you're a perfect automaton You're so high on steroids you could break someone's neck.

I wasn't feeling like my inner spirit was being captured right there. Oh, this is going to be you, this is going to be me now, what do you feel? I feel naughty. we have to try to be naughty, I can do naughty, let's do naughty, make me proud, peter, you know, I felt very naughty when I was doing that, what's called leaving, okay, sounds good, you said you'd never work with me again after avatar too. I appreciate you coming back for one last stripper job. It was fun. I'd be happy to do it at any time.

Okay, so all we have to do now is check everyone's files. Export character models. The advantage of using iclone. right now it makes it so you can take this mocap data and swap any body model in there, even if it's bigger or smaller, because it's magic, which makes it sound really easy. I hope it is, so I built this game environment based on the Krusty Crustacean. I basically went through it as I removed all the lighting and rebuilt all the lighting with ray tracing lighting and built a fancy truss system for the stage. They have this truss system.

These Hollywood lights, so I pressed play here. You will notice that the entire environment

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s active. The equipment and things are starting to move well, so everything is in place, we finally have all the animations, many lessons were learned again in this project. The big lesson is that it's incredibly difficult to get all your motion capture software to work well together. What's five six like? Basically all the systems run together and you know it's all great software when used individually the moment you start putting them together, when something goes wrong and everything falls apart and gets complicated we've got it all working here it's definitely better than avatar.

Also, this is just the beginning of our exploration of virtual production for Unreal Engine and this is all building towards future ideas for runner videos and also a project called local xero which is on runner digital.com and has already been greenlit if Have not you done it yet. Visit our site still, please do. It has everything you see on YouTube, except no ads, as well as other exclusives like our vlog and a bunch of other cool upcoming shows like our d d show and functional cinema where we present some things to you. really interesting conceptual tutorials and we show you what we do here.

Furthermore, asmember ofcorrerdigital.com, we also offer discounts on all products, so it's a great deal as all camera angles are included, plus all the technical improvements we make. We will eventually do this workflow from the point of view of creating beautiful squid from ourselves. I think we definitely did it. Okay, time to see it. I don't know if I can live this way after seeing my perfect self. The reason I never made it in Hollywood is because I don't have the looks, but now with an unreal motor I do, so you guys go see a little fashion show if you want, so I'm so ready, I'm just ready to look. , Sam, imagine Hello, maybe you remember me as the handsome Squidward.

Now we have four young gentlemen with a common problem with those faces. There's no way they can make it in Hollywood, but we have a solution with a simple slam of the door. a door in their face we can chisel away all the unnecessary fat and bones and create the most beautiful versions of themselves let's take a look oh my god the bone structure but they are thin at the same time okay amazon that's my favorite. Amazing Peter was my favorite by far, you're like looking at his face and the door slams shut and then he's gone and then you look down, he's there.

He was honestly amazing. I love anger. I love the passion. I remember when he was. doing that exact mocap for mikko because he was making a bagel and then he comes out bothering everyone in the kitchen something about niko just gives them dead eyes makes you look like a titan or something the poses are so good you're really spot on actually yeah You pull off some really good poses like that, you did a really good job on Niko's face, yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, I think so. He definitely looks like the real characters when you see them up close, he really, really looks.

Well, it's just now, I think the overall animation needs to taste a little better so that it feels a little smoother and more organic. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my entire life. Dude, micro Peter it is. Oh my god, I could only wish I could measure up to that man, my shoulders were very bulbous which is good, and you also chose an opera dance for me, yes, that was completely directed by Sam, you have to thank him so, that was good, yeah. That was pretty cool, you know, in two or three years, when it's time to do a little retouching, I'll take this photo to the doctor and tell him I'm going to make it happen.

Yeah, I mean, you'll see them next time. video room while acting as ourselves, if you like this video, please consider subscribing to the runner team.