STARKILLER: A Star Wars Teaser | Cinematic Captures Contest | Animated Fan-Film | Unreal Engine 5 Shain Animations 2021-09-17 | My submission for the Cinematic Captures Star Wars Fan-Film Contest! Hope you enjoy :3==Set before New Hope on a far away forest planet called Fedje, where a small team of rebels, led by one of the surviving Jedi, found an ancient abandoned Jedi Temple in one of the not inhabited areas of the planet.Unfortunately for them, soon after they arrive in the Temple, Emperor's Sith Assassin - Starkiller (This film goes more with the Force Unleashed DLC story rather than the new canon, so there is no Inquisitorius etc. and Starkiller isn't a secret apprentice anymore, but a known Sith in the Empire), arrives with an Imperial fleet to kill the Jedi and Rebels and to make sure that all the forgotten knowledge and findings that can be located in the Temple, will go straight to the Emperor...==Music by the amazing Luis Humanoide, thank you so much for allowing all creators to use your music! youtube.com/c/LuisHumanoideSongs used: 'Canto Bight Chase' | 'Order 66 - Inquisition' | 'Order 66 - Memories'Models and SFX from:-EA Star Wars Battlefront I and II-EA Star Wars Squadrons-LucasArts Star Wars The Force Unleashed-Epic Unreal Marketplace and Metahumans-Quixel Megascans-SketchfabMocap Animations:MixamoEverything not credited above is most likely made by me.==Autodesk Maya - Animating, RiggingUnreal Engine 5 - Lighting, FX, RenderingDaVinci Resolve 17 - Editing, Sound Design==
Cinematic Visualization Artist | SHOWREEL 2023 | Sebastian Kuder Shain Animations 2023-06-05 | E-Mail: sebastiankuder@zoho.euWebsite/Portfolio: sebastiankuder.comYouTube: @ShainAnimations LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sebastiankuderSince my last showreel was super outdated, including only my uni work, here's a new one, that actually has SOME of my professional work in it, unfortunately not the previs shots themselves but the final shots.Also, I've worked on many more shows since the ones shown in the showreel, but they're still under NDA and haven't yet premiered.Song used:Audiomachine - Fountain of Passages
11 Seconds Club Epic May Competition | Top 10 | Unreal Engine 4 | 4K Shain Animations 2021-09-18 | A shirtless madman captured our hero and is about to unleash his revenge onto him... But first! A villain monologue!All hand animated/keyframed which made me realise how badly I want a rokoko suit, hahaha.
Cinematic Designer | 3D Layout Artist | SHOWREEL 2019 | Sebastian Kuder Shain Animations 2019-05-19 | E-Mail: sebastiankuder@zoho.euWebsite/Portfolio: sebastiankuder.comYouTube: youtube.com/shainanimationsLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sebastiankuderSong used:Tom Player - Anomaly
Good Ol Days | Funny Automotive Short-Film | Unreal Engine 4 | 4K Shain Animations 2019-05-17 | A short-film about an old man who once was a race car driver, but now, retired, he misses it and wants to feel the speed one more time... or a gruesome story about a chicken life, depends on how you look at it :DThere are many things I think could be improved to make this look better, but this had to be done in a week so it was quite rushed.The inspiration for this short-film actually came from Forza Horizon 4. I was playing with a friend and we ended up doing a race that starts uphill with old Ford Anglias, and when the race started, we hit the gas and yet we started rolling backwards. I think the max speed we achieved during that race was 40mph. That said, it was one of the funniest races I ever did and I thought why not, let's make an animation out of it.- CREDITS -If not credited below, then probably made by me :D That includes stuff like animations, cinematography, camera animations etc.Lada by http://korneelov3d.comTesla S by evermotion.orgJaguar XFR-S free3d.comBMW 8 Series hum3d.comMain Character cgtrader.comChicken and Procedural Landscape Ecosystem unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/storeIf I forgot to credit something, then please let me know and I'll update it asap!- SOFTWARE USED -Autodesk Maya – Animating, rigging (Advanced Skeleton)Epic Unreal Engine - RenderingAdobe Premiere Pro – EditingAdobe Audition – Sound Design
Adam and Eve Mk.II | Animated Sci-Fi Student Short-Film | Unreal Engine 4 Shain Animations 2019-05-10 | Adam and Eve Mk.II is a sci-fi spin on the story of Adam and Eve and how the humanity came to be (Well, if you believe in it).It also takes inspiration from few other things:Immortality Drive - 'a large memory device which was taken to the International Space Station in a Soyuz spacecraft on October 12, 2008. The Immortality Drive contains fully digitized DNA sequences of a select group of humans. The intent of the Immortality Drive is to preserve human DNA in a time capsule, in case some global cataclysm should occur on Earth. (Wikipedia)' - As of now, we have this drive, but we cannot really do much with it if something would really happen on Earth. As this animation happens in the future (If you’re keen-eyed you can actually find out what year it is by watching the short-film), I took it a step further where we cannot yet create humans but we’re able to transfer the brain into a robot. So now, NASA has these two robots stationed outside of Earth that in case something indeed happens on Earth, will be ‘injected’ with digitized brains of two selected humans. Their mission will be to continue the research into creating humans with the DNA from the Immortality Drive. And similar to the story of Adam and Eve, these two will again be the origin of humanity.The ‘tin-foil-hat-theory’ that we came from Mars – There is a theory that a long time ago humanity lived on Mars, and then something catastrophic happened, killing almost everyone and making Mars into the barren wasteland that it is today. According to this theory, two humans (Adam and Eve) were able to escape Mars to Earth were they reproduced and re-created humanity. I think you can see how this became an inspiration for this story :DRecent claim of some scientists (Although it already has been debunked few times) – Not a long time ago, some scientists claimed that they found evidence of a mass extinction that happened about 200,000 years ago and that we all come from a single pair of humans from around that time. Again, I think you can see why this became an inspiration for this.- CREDITS - Animations, cinematography, sound design, pretty much everything that isn’t credited below, is made by me – Sebastian ‘Shain’ Kuder :PSome animations (Walk and the idling animations at the end) are from MixamoAdam – Unity / Oats Studios - For anyone wondering why I'm using this model, it's because the way he looks felt really fitting to my story. I'm not a 3D Modeller so I wouldn't be able to do such a great job at making a totally new original robot. Also this is a student short film, and I was graded not on 3D Modelling but animation, cinematography and lighting so when I saw that you can actually download Adam from Unity Store, I just had to do it... I didn't see anything in the EULA and ToS about taking it into the other engine, only about not using it in any commercial work. Again, this being a student short film, it was made for my degree, I didn't make and I'm not planning on making any money off it. I didn't expect this little film of mine to gain that much views though :PMost of the station 3D Models - unrealengine.com/marketplace/sci-fi-interior-prop-packunrealengine.com/marketplace/sci-fi-interior-asset-packOther station 3D Models (Mostly the lab room where he wakes up) – unrealengine.com/marketplace/modular-scifi-experiment-medical-facilityMoon Landscape –unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/the-moonMusic by John D. Boswell (melodysheep) – ‘Dust to Dust’ and ‘Aurora’Destroyed Earth is actually taken from one of the episodes of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.DStock footage in the flashback sequence is taken from Google and YouTube, I don’t remember from who exactly, please don’t beat me :c- SOFTWARE USED -Autodesk Maya – Animating, rigging (Advanced Skeleton)Epic Unreal Engine 4.22 – Rendering – I was hoping to use RTX (I’ve got a GTX1080), and I could get it to work in the editor but it would crash constantly. The reflections and his eyes were MAGNIFICENT :D That said, I was able to use RTX shadows (If rendered in 2K and not 4K) which actually didn’t do that much of a change, unless you’re actually looking for it (There are so many lights in the corridor that it looks like a smooth raytraced shadow :D), but it was able to fix some issues with non-raytraced lights that I had before. That’s why I decided to use them nonetheless and render in 2K.Adobe Premiere Pro – EditingAdobe After Effects – Credits, flashback sequence and the screensAdobe Audition – Sound Design
Planet Mars | Parody of Planet Earth | Unreal Engine 4 | 4K Shain Animations 2018-05-16 | The second and final group project of my 2nd year (of 3) on animation course in uni (Escape Studios). This time the brief was to create a wildlife documentary or mockumentary. So I thought - let's do a parody of Planet Earth but why not take it to a different planet. And yes, Planet Earth was made by BBC not National Geographic but I couldn't resist after a thought of "Universal Geographic" and that logo came to my mind. Additional credits:Viking Lander and Rover from NASA:nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/detail/viking-cnasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/detail/curiosity-dirtyCamera animations, motion graphics and Viking Probe model by Sebastian KuderEscape Studios Mug by Aaron Hopwood Music by melodysheepmelodysheep.com/library"Chapters of Time""First Moments""Awakening""Satellite""Swept Away"and Initial D - "Deja Vu"The Doors ft. Snoop Dogg - "Riders on the Storm"Software used:Autodesk Maya - Animation, 3D Layout, modelingUnreal Engine - rendering, fxAdobe Photoshop - storyboards etc.Adobe Premiere Pro - EditingAdobe After Effects - Motion GraphicsYes, the footstep sounds are from Minecraft :D
Assassins Creed | Cinematic Fan-Made Trailer | Unreal Engine 4 |4K Shain Animations 2018-03-29 | In uni, we had a brief to create a trailer for anything we want, so we made a teaser thingie for Assassin's Creed. Personally I think there was so much more that could've been done, especially in terms of story, unfortunately due to "limited time" etc. we created this 50 seconds thing.Credits:Director:Katarina ZachariakisCo-Director:Sebastian "Shain" KuderCinematography, Camera Animations:Sebastian "Shain" KuderAnimations:ESTBL Shots - Sebastian "Shain" KuderEagle Cycle - Adam ScrivenerAssassin 0:16 - 0:18 - Adam ScrivenerTemplars 0:18 - 0:21 - Stephen MealandRun 0:22 - 0:24 - Sebastian "Shain" KuderAssassin Run Cycle - Sebastian "Shain" Kuder0:24 - 0:32 - Katarina ZachariakisAssassin 0:32 - 0:37 - Katarina ZachariakisTemplar 0:32 - 0:37 - Adam Scrivener0:38 - 0:43 - Sebastian "Shain" KuderMotion Graphics:Katarina Zachariakis & Sebastian "Shain" KuderRigging:Sebastian "Shain" Kuder3D Layout:Sebastian "Shain" KuderSound Editor:Sebastian "Shain" KuderCharacter Models:Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed UnitySet/Map:Unreal MarketplaceMade, rigged, animated etc. in Autodesk MayaRendered in Epic Games Unreal Engine 4.18Sound design in Adobe AuditionMotion Graphics in Adobe After EffectsEdited in Adobe Premiere ProMusic:Colossal Trailer Music - Machine Gun (Although heavily edited)Meow.
CHASE | Car Visualization | Unreal Engine 4 | 4K Shain Animations 2018-02-17 | We had a "specialization" module on my 2nd year animation course at Escape Studios, and we could TECHNICALLY do whatever we wanted. Most of the other students went with creature or character animations but I decided to go with something else that would help me challenge myself and develop my cinematography/camera animations skills more.Fortuitously a friend of mine, Marek, was modelling a car and he was going to finish by the time this module starts, so I thought - why not, let's do a car visualization! (Like in the old days... As we did two other car vizs before, you can find them on my channel for now - Until I'll decide to remove them because I'm ashamed of them, cos they are old and awful :D) So I watched some car commercials and movies, and I ended up getting highly inspired by the Pennzoil ads (Which are amazing, you should check them out). Also there were meant to be interior shots as well (Pedals, stick shifting etc.) but Futuro doesn't have an interior, and the Elegy doesn't have a good enough interior. So here's the outcome, tell me what you think in the comments below ❤Credits:The Futuro RS3 (Car Prototype) byMarek “Heleaver” DrezińskiThe main character is from EA Dice Battlefield: HardlineAll the other characters models are fromIO-I HitmanAll the other 3D models are fromUE Marketplace or were found onlineThe Escape Studios mug by Aaron HopwoodEverything else by meThis includes: Directing,Cinematography, Animating,Rigging, Editing, Sound Design
Dinosaur | SHORTS | Unreal Engine UE4 + V-Ray Shain Animations 2017-11-25 | We had to create a dino walk cycle in uni, and this 'totally original' idea came to my mind. I was going to use the walk cycle but it ended up being too slow so I had to create a run cycle anyway.The environment was rendered in UE4 but I couldn't import the dino rig into UE4 so I rendered it in V-Ray and then composed them together.
Star Wars: The Escape | Fan-Made Animation / Cinematic | Unreal Engine 4 | 4K Shain Animations 2017-11-13 | Here's another Star Wars animation. I really have to stop doing Star Wars related stuff :DI had to reupload this because of some weird issues with the previous version.nyapnFAQ (not-yet-and-probably-never-Frequently Asked Questions)What the hell is this animation about?Two Dark Jedi. This is a prequel to my previous animation called "Star Wars: Dark Jedi". Just like the sequel, this is set during the Jedi Purge (Between Revenge Of The Sith and New H… Rogue One), that's why they are always on the run from the Galactic Empire. I have an entire backstory for these two guys written somewhere, I might upload it at some point.What the hell are those cuts to black?I wanted to show that the time has passed between the two scenes, and I thought this would be the best way to do it. I think I might have failed at this.What the hell is Starkiller doing here?I always was a big fan of Galen Marek/Starkiller and I’d love if he’d be brought back to canon but I understand he’s way to OP for that to happen. But I thought I’d use him in my animation (After all, this is fan-made, not canon so who cares). I preferred the Dark Side Ending in TFU2 and so in here, he’s still Vader’s apprentice or a Sith Inquisitor. He’s not being attacked by Stormtroopers like in TFU because by the end of the Dark Side Ending in TFU2, he was even escorted by TIEs so it seems they already knew who he is.What the hell is Greedo doing here?This isn’t Greedo. It’s Entwan Windsmuggler, he’s an inside joke for me and few of my friends. Where the hell did you get the models from EA BF?There’s an amazing forum that I found (Special thanks to Corra_Ashu, badhorse, Rancor022 and the rest :3)What the hell did you use to make this?I did everything inside of Autodesk Maya 2017, plus a plugin AdvancedSkeleton for rigging and ZvParentMaster for well… parenting stuff. Then I imported everything into Unreal Engine 4 where I rendered everything in the Sequencer. Edited in Adobe Premiere Pro and I used Adobe Audition (For the first time) for sound mixing etc.Who the hell are you?I’m an undergraduate student, studying The Art Of Animation in Escape Studios in London, who loves Star Wars and is very passionate about filmmaking and cinematography. I want to become a DoP for Game Cinematics in future. And I love cats. Meow.
Stormtroopers Baseball | SHORTS | Unreal Engine 4 Shain Animations 2017-10-04 | SHORTS is my new „series” in which you’ll see some random animations that I did out of boredom, or for some short school projects. They will rarely be Star Wars animations though.So today in class we were supposed to animate a rig throwing a ball. I thought I'll take it a tiny bit further and I came up with this.
Warehouse Shootout | Unreal Engine 4 Cinematic Shain Animations 2017-06-16 | After all this time I decided to finally try and render my animations in Unreal Engine and so here is my first attempt in doing so.I wanted to switch over to rendering in Unreal rather than in V-Ray because of the rendering times since after all Unreal is a real-time renderer, and now with the Camera Sequencer it was a perfect moment.Also I love atmospherics/volumetric fogs but I always had to limit myself in using it because in renderers like V-Ray or Arnold they add a lot of rendering time and in the newest version of Unreal (4.16) they added real-time volumetric fog and I think that was the final "push" for me to go and finally switch over, and as you can see in this animation, I abused the hell out of it :DCredits:Warehouse models - unrealengine.com/marketplace/warehouse-equipmentBullet VFX - unrealengine.com/marketplace/bullet-vfx-packTrees, foliage - unrealengine.com/marketplace/open-world-demo-collectionOther models were found onlineMusic:-S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky - Bandit Radio-Johan Skugge & Jukka Rintamäki - Battlefield 4 "Warsaw" ThemeSoftware Used:Autodesk Maya - Animations, riggingUnreal Engine 4.16 - Scene set up, lighting, rendering and pretty much everything elseAdobe Premiere Pro - Final editing, sounds etc.
Star Wars Asteroid Field Test Shain Animations 2017-04-17 | Software used:Autodesk Maya - Animations etc.ChaosGroup VRay 3.5 - RenderingFoundry Nuke - CompositingAdobe Premiere Pro - editing, adding sounds etc.
AT-ST Walking Test Shain Animations 2017-03-28 | Just a short video (That took over a week to render...) testing my AT-ST walk cycle. I also wanted to see how long it takes to render a small forest scene. So here it is, feedback is much appreciated.Animated in Maya, rendered with V-Ray 3.4. Comp in Nuke, final edit in Premiere Pro.Models from DICE Battlefront found online.Trees from xfrog.
Assassins Creed Short Animation Shain Animations 2017-02-18 | 3D Models from Assassin's Creed Unity.Eagle 3D Model - highend3d.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/bald-eagle_rigg-for-mayaSoftware used:Autodesk Maya - animations, modellingChaosGroup VRay - renderingFoundry Nuke - compositingAdobe Premiere Pro - editing
Star Wars: Dark Jedi | Fan - Made Cinematic Animation Shain Animations 2016-10-17 | So yeah... Sadly Maya scenes got corrupted and I can't finish this thingie. I would have to redo entire scenes which I can't now because I have to spent more time doing projects in University.btw, there's a secret link to a secret video somewhere at the end of the video :3Special Thanks:Corra_AshusnackynakbadhorseJasonAlbertoShahanMarek:3
80s/New Retro Wave style intro Shain Animations 2016-10-15 | First small project in my university, we were supposed to rebrand our uni into an 80s / New Retro Wave style VFX/Animation/Games company :DSoftware Used:Autodesk Maya - Modelling, animatingVRay - RenderingAdobe After Effects - Creating the ending of the introPlugins in AE:Sabers by Video Copilot - the Neons in the ending of the introRed Giant Universe - VHS lookSong used: Power Glove - Telecom
Dragon On My Table Shain Animations 2016-06-27 | I was bored and I felt like I need to create something short and fun as a break from the 3/4 minute Star Wars Cinematic that I'm making. Yeah, I know, the GI is terrible but I couldn't get anything better even on the highest settings :cDragon Rig downloaded from creativecrash.com Boujou - 3D TrackingAutodesk Maya - animating etc.FumeFX - firebreath simulationVRay - RenderingNuke - CompositingAdobe Premiere - Editing
Experimenting in Unreal Engine (plus WorldMachine) Shain Animations 2015-12-31 | So yeah, I was "experimenting" in Unreal :D The spaceship was modeled in Autodesk Maya, textured/painted in Substance Painter. I made the terrain in WorldMachine but the textures were crap so I exported a bitmap with three colours, Red for Grass, Blue for Stone and Green for Snow. Then in Unreal I replaced it with some better textures, though I couldn't find any textures for big rocks etc so you can see some tiling.
Imperial Star Destroyer Crash (FumeFX and After Effects Element 3D) Shain Animations 2015-10-24 | I always wanted to do that since I played Star Wars: The Force Unleashed few years ago :DI simulated the explosions in 3ds Max using FumeFX. Everything else was made and composited inside of After Effects with help of Video Copilot' plugin Element 3D. Then I added the sounds etc in Premiere Pro. I hope you like it, write in comments what you think about it ^^The Star Destroyer was made by Fractalsponge. You can download it from www.scifi3d.com
Dragon in Real Life Shain Animations 2015-07-21 | Animated and rendered in Autodesk Maya, composited in Adobe After Effects :)You can find the dragon rig here: http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/dragon-shaththan-rig
Unity 3D FMP Spaceship Walkthrough Shain Animations 2015-05-13 | A walkthrough of a spaceship that I modelled for my Final Major Project for Year 1 in Animation and Games Design.Write in comment what you think about it :)Hope you like it :3Music used: Ecstatic Wave by Jens Kiilstofte machinimasound.com/music/ecstatic-waveLicensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
Unity 3D Spaceship Cinematic (Architectural Visualization) Shain Animations 2015-05-13 | This is my Cinematic/Architectural Visualization for my Final Major Project in Year 1 of Animation and Games Design. Write in comment what you think about it :)Hope you like it :3Music:"The Descent"Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Unity 3D Futuristic City Cinematic (Architectural Visualization) Shain Animations 2015-03-12 | This is for my school project. We had to model out a place in a period of history (And I just said "Ah f*ck it... We're going to future! :D). So this is some kinda futuristic place, with lights everywhere etc :D There is a big elevator in the middle of it, which you probably already noticed. It's taking you down to something like an "dystopian underworld" - something like low levels of Coruscant :) Modeled in Maya and recorded in Unity. Write in comments what you think about it and if you like it then subscribe and hit that like button :3
