March 17th, 2021 Satisfactory Update 4 Patch Notes vid commentary

Snutt & Jace Talk: Compositing the real-life Lizard Doggo

https://youtu.be/axU3LUij9RU

Topics

• Environment > Creatures > Lizard Doggo
• Coffee Stainers > Simon
• Satisfactory Updates > Teasers & Trailers > Update 4 Patch Notes Video

Transcript

so yeah so that's this shot it's it's three different shots on top of each other's staggered and then you have simon's, vfx of the lizard doggo, with a similar setup as before he's done like, he blocked it out in blender trying to match the shot he also we also had to measure, like how far away is the lizard dog go like physically from the lens and then I give like simon like this is a lens we're using it's it's a 35 millimeter shot on a 35 millimeter, sensor, so that he can like calculate like where what the perspective will be in 3d, to be able to like match it properly match it properly and then he comped it out masked it, added the liza doggo animation which is which is like pre-made animation by the way from from big, that simon just like took and tried to match it and did a little bit of of like tweaking, and especially on this shot where, this is this is the animation of the lizard doggo in this shot is com is the teaser video for, yeah for the reveal like we're like this is this is before our like the e3 announcement yeah yeah this is like old animation two or three years old it's it's like the announcement of satisfactory that that video where the lizard always like eating from a berry or something and it's scratching it's it's it's, ear or whatever that's that animation same animation just reused because our animator bigga or christopher we have a we have a, developer highlight video with him, check the coffee stain youtube channel, he left you guys he left, he has left and he was like our only animator he did all the animations in the video game and trailers and [ __ ] all right it's [ __ ] crazy how one person does all that okay yeah, so he was gone so we we do we actually just recently got a new animator, and so we had to reuse, yeah animators before so there was a window where we didn't have any animator for the game yeah exactly up at this point no wonder why he left if he only knew what we did, and then same thing before he this is his composition because he added he adds like noise grain and [ __ ] to the the render to make it match like the the noise from the camera, and this shot was a lot easier to like these shots when it's filmed from my camera with its long footage it's a lot easier to like comp the the colors to make the match and [ __ ], but yeah he did a amazing job with this shot as well and, did a bit of custom animation and like a little bit like clo cloth and like, what's the word, yeah what is simulation simulation yeah for the ears and stuff like that, so yeah also shout out to, emil our sound designer by the way oh yeah can I just play this clip one one one second I'm just gonna show the video again, I'm gonna cut away from you I just just just listen to the lizard dogger guys and listen to it like when it sits down and stuff like that all right something to build from a higher vantage point oh jace look it's a real life lizard doggo oh and it's like panting and stuff so that yeah that whole thing was did email did audio for that and the particle accelerator, and one more thing I think I'm gonna bring your stream back on okay yeah, usually email does like all the audio for