The Halo Infinite material system is incredibly flexible and customizable, like you can do all sorts of crazy things without having to make any new texture assets or anything. Too bad they don't let you use any of that stuff in-game...
This reanimation series is looking great. I also like how each character has some unique aspect to their armor design without deviating from the overall look of the default Mjolnir armor
It helps that they got significantly easier to produce. Like, even without mocap, just making every shot its own file instead of trying to do the whole thing in one timeline as saved me so much headache and trouble. Also Blender features like linked libraries, eevee, etc.
This brings back so many memories! And DAMN this animation looks incredible, they move realistically with gestures and the way they stand. The shine in their armor is soooo good too! Holy crap the damn quality is elite level 🤩 Damn this looks so freaking awesome!!
btw, I love the detail on caboose with the sniper aim. when it point to church it had a enemy mark, but then when he pointed at tucker it was green lol since caboose always team killed church lol
Depends on what you mean by "classic"; The original Halo CE models were of course available, but I didn't have the means to make them look exactly like they did in the Halo 1 engine, and half-assing the look was simply something I'm not comfortable with. The anniversary Mark V looks... bad, in my opinion, Halo 3 did not have a way to recreate Mark V to an acceptable degree of closeness (and I don't really like the Halo 3 rendition of the helmet regardless), and Halo 4 and 5's models are just bad and/or ugly (and Halo 5 wasn't even out when I made the first episode). So, seeing as the Halo Reach armour is supposed to be the actual Mark V suits in a different art style, it seemed to me to be the obvious choice. Plus, I just really like how Halo Reach looks in general. If I were to start over from scratch, I would likely dedicate myself to faithfully recreating the look of the Halo 1 engine in Blender or do the same realistic style, but with high quality and authentic Mark V models, which I know do exist now. The Marcus Lehto model, while fantastic, is a bit oddly proportioned and lacking in certain details for me. Plus, it's not set up to use the highly customizable Halo Infinite shaders, which means I'd have to painstakingly hand author custom textures to allow for color changing, which is quite the task for my general lack of texturing skill and the lack of source high-poly models needed to generate the various data layers for use in a program like Substance Painter. The new Halo Infinite model for the Mark V armour is, generally, pretty fantastic. It's exactly what 343i should've been doing since Halo 4. I use its arms, helmet, and boots in the later episodes, but I could not commit to the chest piece, simply because its overall hugeness tends to get in the way of a lot of things, and I don't really like how they've altered the shape of the chest piece to have a ridge instead of just being smooth like the original model seems to imply. So, it's all a bit of a compromise. To be honest, I would one day like to go back and re-render all the episodes in pure Reach Mark V, pure Halo Infinite Mark V, and maybe the original models in a faithful recreation of the Halo 1 renderer if I can make it work. Maybe once I finish the season 1 episodes in year 2135 or something.
@@IrrelevantNonFilms dude, first of all, thanks for taking the time to write all of this. Second, I agree with you for the most part, since CEA had dinosaur arms and made the Chief look fat (maybe for Grif!) and H4 and 5 sucked too. Infinite’s, while the best one yet, kinda looks very chonky. So I guess I see why you ended up using the Reach chest, but at least you used the classic MK V helmet in the later ones!
@@ChefandTheArbistor Yeah, it's always a struggle when I see that beautiful giant mark V backpack on the infinite model, and I'm like "but maybe it could work..." but then I see that chest piece and how big it is around the trapezius area, and, y'know. If someone kitbashed the original backpack onto the reach chest, I'd probably use that in an instant. If I'm also quite honest, one way to look at the Reach armor (and art style) in the context of Red vs Blue is that the more grounded and gritty military aesthetic serves the military-industrial complex commentary that much of the series has. The Reach Mark V just kinda looks more, "Recruit", to me? It has the same effect as soldiers with plastic bike helmets seen in things like Metal Gear Solid 4, where all the soldiers are super cheap disposable fodder, much like the simulation troopers in RvB. That's just one take, though, and not even one I necessarily share. I believe I mention it in another reply somewhere but over the years I've come to realize how much of the humour in the earlier seasons is derived from it being a video game, and attempting to recontextualize that humour with _gritty military sci-fi realism_ comes off as a bit, odd. But hey, art is all about open interpretations.
@@IrrelevantNonFilms the one thing I think RvB ISN’T known for is being realistic and gritty. It’s literally set in one of the most colourful FPSs of all time. Which is why I think Reach’s art style just doesn’t fit RvB. Y’know, I really don’t mind Infinite’s MK V, and would honestly probably prefer to see it in this animation. It’s a bit chunkier than it was in CE, but it adds to that ‘tank on legs’ look that Mjolnir has had. But, at the end of the day, it’s your project. Do whatever works best for you and what you see fits.
@@ChefandTheArbistor Like I said, just one take, and not even one I'm completely on-board with (Though my description isn't particularly well articulated), hence why I made the armor super, super brightly colored and shiny as hot wheels spectraflame when that really makes no sense from... _any_ logical perspective. Much of the humour, in the CE seasons at least, is built within the context of Halo CE's colorful and clean aesthetic. The earlier episodes I added a ton of extra props and details to the bases, because at the time I was going for "but what if all the things implied to be around the base were actually there?", but I've slowly stripped back those props over time because I realized, y'know, what the _joke_ is. I guess what I'm doing now is trying to recapture kind of the "vibe" of CE (Had to keep those bright orange cliffs, no exceptions) with the more detailed and physically accurate models of Halo Infinite. It's a complex balancing act where most of my decisions are based on what I think looks nice. And to clarify, I was not trying to say RvB is realistic and gritty, only that a lot of the jokes from the series can be basically summed up as "Being in the army sucks", and I think by making the visuals more grounded and familiar to the actual military, those jokes could be made more effective, possibly with an underline of "it's the future but basic problems with the military still exist". Humour is, of course, _extremely_ subjective and that change might not pay off at all for some people. I don't really have a final big statement to make about this, I just think the debate is interesting. Ideally, of course, I'd love for there to be a remade version of RvB for everyone's specific tastes and preferences, and that serves what the series means to them, but alas I can only truly create the version of RvB that's for me. I guess.
I dont want to give criticism, because it’s REALLY not my place (this is really fucking fire) but everything about this is immaculate, except for the speaking. It looks a little too smooth, and doesn’t match up too well with the audio. I really don’t know what the fuck I’m talking about though. This is still really good
I actually agree (in most places), I could've spent more time manually tweaking the headbobs to better match the dialogue. Having a 120ms delay when recording the mocap didn't particularly help either, as well as the smoothing filter I applied to the recorded motions to clean up the jitter. All things to keep in mind for the next one, I suppose!
This is cool but my biggest gripe is not having enough emotions being shown through their movements based on what they say specifically. Sorry if it sounds a little much but i too animate about everyday of my life for years lol
Technically I don't animate about everyday, I have a massive 6 year gap (followed by 5 months) in my record where I did absolutely zero animation. And then most of this is mocap, so, arguably not quite animation.
Yeah I'm really making a mess of my upload patterns. One year between E1 and E2, One year between E2 and E3, Six years between E3 and E4, Five months between E4 and E5, Four days between E5 and E6.
I'm not really good at doing the whole public speaking voice, so I'm just gonna say I'd be pretty saddened if you did stop - I'm always in favor of more RvB content existing, and honestly I think your videos are a great time, too.
I wonder why I'm here Seriously I got a notification about this while watching season 15 and I don't know what to make of this. You won't finish this when the final season starts
Ehhh, I've thought about it, but I don't know if my work ethic can support the added pressure of maintaining a regularly updated Patreon. Maybe a donate button would work better.
Blender for animation/rigging, my Valve Index for motion capture, models mostly from the Halo Archive Discord server, Halo CMT SPV3, or custom made by myself.
I liked the touch where Tucker's armor is imperfectly black because it's only dust, great attention to detail
The Halo Infinite material system is incredibly flexible and customizable, like you can do all sorts of crazy things without having to make any new texture assets or anything.
Too bad they don't let you use any of that stuff in-game...
@@IrrelevantNonFilmsthat is very upsetting we cant do that :]
I love how bright everything looks as well more colorful
Almost makes the box canyon in the middle of nowhere seem like kind of a nice place.
@@IrrelevantNonFilmsWhoopty-fuckin-doo
@@IrrelevantNonFilms Yes indeed
I love that Caboose’s targeting recital turns red for Church and Simmons, but green for the warthog briefly.
“The jeep followed me back in time!”
my boi
Also: Caboose’s reticle going red over Church was an excellent touch.
Interesting that Caboose’s sight turns red briefly when passing over Church… 2:50
2:49
Hopefully it's only the sniper that does that and not any of Blue Team's *other* weapons.
Lopez with the Grenadier Helmet, also a little closer to Church getting team killed by Caboose
I love Red vs blue. The animation is great for the first few episodes of the original series
I like that the sniper reticle identifies Church as a target, but not Tucker
Man I forgot they changed the Warthog music a few episodes after
Dude please do more don’t give up on this awesome project
Just found out you exist and I'm convinced you need your own animation team.
This reanimation series is looking great. I also like how each character has some unique aspect to their armor design without deviating from the overall look of the default Mjolnir armor
This is PEAK
Wow. You've really been busy lately. I remember watching these like 6-7 years ago and then wondered why you stopped.
It helps that they got significantly easier to produce. Like, even without mocap, just making every shot its own file instead of trying to do the whole thing in one timeline as saved me so much headache and trouble. Also Blender features like linked libraries, eevee, etc.
This brings back so many memories! And DAMN this animation looks incredible, they move realistically with gestures and the way they stand. The shine in their armor is soooo good too! Holy crap the damn quality is elite level 🤩 Damn this looks so freaking awesome!!
btw, I love the detail on caboose with the sniper aim. when it point to church it had a enemy mark, but then when he pointed at tucker it was green lol since caboose always team killed church lol
This is by far the best animated version of RvB yet. My only gripe is the use of Reach models, were there not any classic CE MK V models available?
Depends on what you mean by "classic";
The original Halo CE models were of course available, but I didn't have the means to make them look exactly like they did in the Halo 1 engine, and half-assing the look was simply something I'm not comfortable with. The anniversary Mark V looks... bad, in my opinion, Halo 3 did not have a way to recreate Mark V to an acceptable degree of closeness (and I don't really like the Halo 3 rendition of the helmet regardless), and Halo 4 and 5's models are just bad and/or ugly (and Halo 5 wasn't even out when I made the first episode).
So, seeing as the Halo Reach armour is supposed to be the actual Mark V suits in a different art style, it seemed to me to be the obvious choice. Plus, I just really like how Halo Reach looks in general.
If I were to start over from scratch, I would likely dedicate myself to faithfully recreating the look of the Halo 1 engine in Blender or do the same realistic style, but with high quality and authentic Mark V models, which I know do exist now.
The Marcus Lehto model, while fantastic, is a bit oddly proportioned and lacking in certain details for me. Plus, it's not set up to use the highly customizable Halo Infinite shaders, which means I'd have to painstakingly hand author custom textures to allow for color changing, which is quite the task for my general lack of texturing skill and the lack of source high-poly models needed to generate the various data layers for use in a program like Substance Painter.
The new Halo Infinite model for the Mark V armour is, generally, pretty fantastic. It's exactly what 343i should've been doing since Halo 4. I use its arms, helmet, and boots in the later episodes, but I could not commit to the chest piece, simply because its overall hugeness tends to get in the way of a lot of things, and I don't really like how they've altered the shape of the chest piece to have a ridge instead of just being smooth like the original model seems to imply.
So, it's all a bit of a compromise. To be honest, I would one day like to go back and re-render all the episodes in pure Reach Mark V, pure Halo Infinite Mark V, and maybe the original models in a faithful recreation of the Halo 1 renderer if I can make it work. Maybe once I finish the season 1 episodes in year 2135 or something.
@@IrrelevantNonFilms dude, first of all, thanks for taking the time to write all of this.
Second, I agree with you for the most part, since CEA had dinosaur arms and made the Chief look fat (maybe for Grif!) and H4 and 5 sucked too. Infinite’s, while the best one yet, kinda looks very chonky. So I guess I see why you ended up using the Reach chest, but at least you used the classic MK V helmet in the later ones!
@@ChefandTheArbistor Yeah, it's always a struggle when I see that beautiful giant mark V backpack on the infinite model, and I'm like "but maybe it could work..." but then I see that chest piece and how big it is around the trapezius area, and, y'know. If someone kitbashed the original backpack onto the reach chest, I'd probably use that in an instant.
If I'm also quite honest, one way to look at the Reach armor (and art style) in the context of Red vs Blue is that the more grounded and gritty military aesthetic serves the military-industrial complex commentary that much of the series has. The Reach Mark V just kinda looks more, "Recruit", to me? It has the same effect as soldiers with plastic bike helmets seen in things like Metal Gear Solid 4, where all the soldiers are super cheap disposable fodder, much like the simulation troopers in RvB.
That's just one take, though, and not even one I necessarily share. I believe I mention it in another reply somewhere but over the years I've come to realize how much of the humour in the earlier seasons is derived from it being a video game, and attempting to recontextualize that humour with _gritty military sci-fi realism_ comes off as a bit, odd.
But hey, art is all about open interpretations.
@@IrrelevantNonFilms the one thing I think RvB ISN’T known for is being realistic and gritty. It’s literally set in one of the most colourful FPSs of all time. Which is why I think Reach’s art style just doesn’t fit RvB.
Y’know, I really don’t mind Infinite’s MK V, and would honestly probably prefer to see it in this animation. It’s a bit chunkier than it was in CE, but it adds to that ‘tank on legs’ look that Mjolnir has had. But, at the end of the day, it’s your project. Do whatever works best for you and what you see fits.
@@ChefandTheArbistor Like I said, just one take, and not even one I'm completely on-board with (Though my description isn't particularly well articulated), hence why I made the armor super, super brightly colored and shiny as hot wheels spectraflame when that really makes no sense from... _any_ logical perspective. Much of the humour, in the CE seasons at least, is built within the context of Halo CE's colorful and clean aesthetic. The earlier episodes I added a ton of extra props and details to the bases, because at the time I was going for "but what if all the things implied to be around the base were actually there?", but I've slowly stripped back those props over time because I realized, y'know, what the _joke_ is. I guess what I'm doing now is trying to recapture kind of the "vibe" of CE (Had to keep those bright orange cliffs, no exceptions) with the more detailed and physically accurate models of Halo Infinite. It's a complex balancing act where most of my decisions are based on what I think looks nice.
And to clarify, I was not trying to say RvB is realistic and gritty, only that a lot of the jokes from the series can be basically summed up as "Being in the army sucks", and I think by making the visuals more grounded and familiar to the actual military, those jokes could be made more effective, possibly with an underline of "it's the future but basic problems with the military still exist". Humour is, of course, _extremely_ subjective and that change might not pay off at all for some people. I don't really have a final big statement to make about this, I just think the debate is interesting. Ideally, of course, I'd love for there to be a remade version of RvB for everyone's specific tastes and preferences, and that serves what the series means to them, but alas I can only truly create the version of RvB that's for me.
I guess.
Another one so quick!? Heck yeah!
3:04 the little walk.
I'm really pushing the potential of my 12 feet of available space in my apartment...
@@IrrelevantNonFilms motion capture???
@@sampolanco1684 Yeah.
I love the little bits of blue that are on tuckers armor, its a nice attention to detail about how the black stuff covers over his suit’s colors
It's like watching RVB for the first time again. Love this so much!
I dont want to give criticism, because it’s REALLY not my place (this is really fucking fire) but everything about this is immaculate, except for the speaking. It looks a little too smooth, and doesn’t match up too well with the audio. I really don’t know what the fuck I’m talking about though. This is still really good
Tucker? What the FUCK are you babbling about?
I actually agree (in most places), I could've spent more time manually tweaking the headbobs to better match the dialogue. Having a 120ms delay when recording the mocap didn't particularly help either, as well as the smoothing filter I applied to the recorded motions to clean up the jitter.
All things to keep in mind for the next one, I suppose!
Do you plan to make the entirety of Season 1, or if given the time, animate more seasons as impressive and monumental of a task that would be?
Season 1 as a goal doesn't seem that unreasonable. Who knows when I'll burn out and switch to another project, though. It's a common issue for me.
@IrrelevantNonFilms No problem, man! Don't feel pressured to put in more work than you have to for a fan project.
This is cool but my biggest gripe is not having enough emotions being shown through their movements based on what they say specifically. Sorry if it sounds a little much but i too animate about everyday of my life for years lol
Technically I don't animate about everyday, I have a massive 6 year gap (followed by 5 months) in my record where I did absolutely zero animation.
And then most of this is mocap, so, arguably not quite animation.
Awesome! I’d love to see an animated version of the OG title sequence.
It's certainly something I'd thought about but I'm not sure I'm *quite* there yet in terms of editing ability.
Holy crap, this is still being made? I remember watching the first episode like 5 or 6 years ago. It’s looking awesome
Very sporadically, but yes
its like watching the show and having to wait for the next episode again :) much fun.
that was fast
Yeah I'm really making a mess of my upload patterns.
One year between E1 and E2,
One year between E2 and E3,
Six years between E3 and E4,
Five months between E4 and E5,
Four days between E5 and E6.
It’s nice to see more of this, especially since Red Vs Blue is getting its final season.
Was not expecting another episode so soon. Loving this!
I would love to watch all RvB again reanimated, some of the funniest stuff I've watched
Actually incredible. I might quit my version because of you lol. This is amazing dude
I'm not really good at doing the whole public speaking voice, so I'm just gonna say I'd be pretty saddened if you did stop - I'm always in favor of more RvB content existing, and honestly I think your videos are a great time, too.
But, I mean, don't get me wrong - If there's something you want to work on other then RvB, I'd be more then happy to see that too!
Omg I am so happy I got to see this. I'm excited to see all of the Blood Gulch Chronicles animated
I just found your channel and now I want to stitch this together with my Blu-ray copy's audio while you get this animated! Amazing work my dude!
I wonder why I'm here
Seriously I got a notification about this while watching season 15 and I don't know what to make of this.
You won't finish this when the final season starts
One of life's great mysteries.
this is beautiful bro
keep making these but dont overwork yourself
The animation has improved LEAGUES since when you first started! Is it all hand animated?
It's mostly mocap with some hand animated stuff sprinkled in.
Tucker looks so nice
Holy shit, these are amazing! Please keep making these!
This is incredible work man nice job
Shut up and take my money
Always look forward to your work
This is amazing!
This is amazing to see! I still remember when I discovered your channel years ago, glad you're back at it!
Warthog music feels a little wrong
Are you gonna upload the next episode when Restoration comes out or...?
I love everything about this xD good work!!!
Continúa esto Man. Adoro el remake de esta franquicia. Continúa esto.
Yes!!! More!!
awesome job!!!!!
i need more
Nice job man
Three days now?
im sad that you removed the THREE!!! from tucker
Did I?
@@IrrelevantNonFilmsNo, It's still there after he comes out of the teleporter
More please more
You plan on animating the whole series?
I think season 1 is a reasonable enough goal.
@@IrrelevantNonFilms fair enough
I would love to support if you have a patreon. Your work is art and gold wich brings back memories when i was young watchimg RVB for the fist time
Ehhh, I've thought about it, but I don't know if my work ethic can support the added pressure of maintaining a regularly updated Patreon. Maybe a donate button would work better.
Anything to help support art 👍
@@IrrelevantNonFilms I believe you can make it so it only takes money every video, so if you stop for a while people won't get charged if that helps.
@@samuskayharding Interesting
What do you use to make these rvb videos?
Blender for animation/rigging, my Valve Index for motion capture, models mostly from the Halo Archive Discord server, Halo CMT SPV3, or custom made by myself.
@@IrrelevantNonFilms nice