Promo video for Dead Blood, mobile 3D zombie shooter by Crazy Panda.
The plot of the video was quite loosely related to the Dead Blood game itself, but was clearly inspired by The Last of Us franchise: three men return to the camp in the forest but on the way they get exposed to spores of predator fungi which instantly transformed them into zombies. The other two characters that are in the camp are a teenager girl and a man, who end up embarking on a journey together.
What I had was this script, the storyboard and a pack of character models.
I built the scenes, set the lighting in Unreal Engine 5, imported the characters that I rigged and animated in Cinema 4D. I chose the camera angles and positions and animated the cameras. The fungi covering faces and bodies of zombies I modelled in Maya and textured in Substance Painter. The mushroom on the ground was also modelled in Maya and textured in Substance Painter.
The process process of modelling the face mushrooms on zombies
It was my first time animating the horses and it was a pain in the ass.
Some of the characters animation
In the camp
Transforming
Approaching the camp
Denouement
Thanks for watching!
