" Scene marker, take 4-S." " Action." "It is a true sequel to the previous Degeneration." "Fans wanted to see what happens next." "So we have Leon as the hero once again, after a few years." "We aimed for the highest-quality CGI." "I think this story is a big turning point." "This is the first time in the Resident Evil universe that creatures are used in war." "Creatures fight against other creatures and this is really great to watch." "It's cool, entertaining and it also gets quite emotional." "Moving into position." "The story takes place after Degeneration between Degeneration and Resident Evil 6." "It is set in a small Eastern European country going through a civil war." "This is a war and things are different." "No one can do anything without backup from the American government." "Not even you." "Well, then I guess my only option is to lose my American citizenship for a while." "Leon!" "What's fun to watch is how the hero overcomes tough situations." "The director really wanted to make sure Leon went through rough times." "When the producer asked me what I wanted to do I said I wanted Leon to go on a "tour of hell."" "Hey" "Don't say a word." "Leon is all on his own, alone." "In a situation similar to those in the games." "Leon ends up in a country he's never been to." "Initially, he gets to talk to Hunnigan but then is cut off from all ties." "He goes around and gets dragged into trouble." "All we could refer to as an example at the time regarding Leon was Resident Evil 4." "I aimed for a RE4-ish Leon and increased the level of human touch from Degeneration." "He's cool but also has this sort of cuteness." "He shows his real self when he gets in touch with a woman." "Good day, Madam President." "Gentlemen." "I have been sent here by the BSAA." "My name is Ada Wong." "The games these days feature Leon and Ada." "In Degeneration, we had Claire, just like in Resident Evil 2." "Fans asked for Ada, so we made it our mission to include Ada." "Looking for someone?" "Ada." "She is very mysterious." "She was even when we were making the film." "A mysterious woman." "Also strong and smart." "It's been a long time, Leon." "Leon and Ada did not appear in Resident Evil 5." "But they obviously lived their lives during that time." "They might have had some sort of contact." "Maybe, maybe not." "By the way when are we going to carry on from where we left off that night?" "Any time but now." "You're angry with me, aren't you?" "They might have had this conversation." "One night, maybe a romantic one." "Maybe they had some free time to spend together." "I imagined all this while writing the lines." " I have to go and get it." " Go and get it?" "Why?" "We need somebody to take over for Ataman." "I wanted to make this a buddy film." "And the name of the character pretty much remains "Buddy."" "Paired him up with Leon I wanted him to be a mirror to Leon." "As far as I am concerned there is no difference between this and using B.O.W.s." "If you want to keep this from happening again put down your gun." "Leon wants to stop the proliferation of B.O.W.s." "That's what motivates him." "And Buddy confronts this principle strongly." "The two are enemies pretty much all the way." "But they start to understand each other towards the end." "Wanna go grab a few beers?" "Are you buying?" "You'll have to go without me." "I don't think a friendship really develops." "Placed in the same circumstances they just start to understand each other a bit." "So this is what you're here for." "Well?" "Are you satisfied?" "When we created this country called the Eastern Slav Republic we wanted someone on the opposite side of Buddy showing us how..." "That is Svetlana." "What will you gain by killing me?" "Have you thought this through?" "Who will lead the country once you gain independence?" "You?" "She is not necessary the ultimate evil." "She has her visions but her methods are wrong." "I thought you guys hated America." "Sure, we hate it." "But things made in America?" "Now that's different." "While being a former Soviet state Eastern Slav must have been influenced by the West particularly the American culture." "We knew the story was going to end up being dark so we wanted to include a funny character." "He is my favourite in this film." "We are pursuing the highest quality using the most cutting-edge technology." "Since the game is visually realistic we are going for realistic characters and backgrounds." "It is more realistic than Degeneration." "We try to make the emotion show even more, along with a lot of action." "I don't say to myself:" ""I must do this because it is a CGI film."" "I work on it as if it's a live-action film." "Living in Japan, we know very little about Eastern Europe." "So we visited Eastern Europe to study the architecture, the atmosphere." "I think we were able to reflect in the film what we saw." "We have people in Eastern Europe working on the film and they have been really helpful." "Even a telephone pole over there is different from that in Japan." "Such details have ended up being very realistic." "While creating the imageboards we discussed with the Eastern Europe staff to make the details realistic to improve the quality." "We created a low-polygon-count town before doing it in a high polygon count." "Here the ground is flat." "Then we determine how we want to show this then create the imageboard and finally work on it with a high polygon count." "This is the honeycomb dome in CGI." "We place the camera inside and the characters act inside this." "I think the personalities of the CGI characters stand out more than in Degeneration." "Since the film is set in Eastern Europe we took 3D scans of people from that area to use their bone and muscle structure as references." "This is the image we got from the director." "And this is the CGI that we created." "There are 100 cameras in our huge motion-capture studio." "We can film a maximum of 20 actors at once." "There are very few limitations." "Gathering 100 cameras' worth of data to one PC could make the PC crash." "So we use two and link them by time code." "This one is for 46 cameras and this is for 54." "This is from the bottom, this is from the top." "For Degeneration we used 4-million-pixel cameras." "This time, 16 million." "That's four times." "And with the markers half the size the accuracy is up to eight times as much as last time." "Move." "Go!" "Good." "Again, we got help from our military advisor Mr. Mori." "We had him teach the actors how to move professionally." "Push the gun against your right shoulder and press against the gun with your right breast." "Like this." "Contact." "Front." "Fifty feet." "Assault!" "Really better." "I think it will show up." "Ready?" "Action." "So you missed me?" "Yeah." "In your dreams." "You seeing what I'm seeing?" "Yeah." "It's like a beehive." "So you missed me?" "Yeah." "In your dreams." "You seeing what I'm seeing?" "It's like a beehive." "I have some more questions for you." "Action." "It's been a long time, Leon." "What are you doing here?" "I was about to ask you the same thing." "Did you release the Plaga?" "Don't make me laugh." "What are you doing here?" "I was about to ask you the same thing." "Did you release the Plaga?" "Don't make me laugh." "We also have a facial mocap studio." "So once an actor is done with regular mocap we have the actor go do the facial mocap." "Don't shoot." "Don't shoot." "Hey." "My name is Ada Wong." "Great." "Now I got a cowardly lion to deal with." " We got it down." " Okay." "After doing the mocap, we fix the camera work." "We determine the layout what lines are to be said in a cut and finalise the length of a cut." "When all this is fixed, we know how each background will be seen." "We create the background accordingly, tweak the lighting and work on the facial expressions." "We did facial mocap for Degeneration but the data was not as fine as desired." "We wanted to incorporate more of the actors' facial expressions as loyally and realistically as possible." "But we prefer to call ourselves pro-independence fighters." "Each actor has different ways of showing expressions and nuances." "We construct rigs suiting each actor individually." "The director wanted to exaggerate some of the facial expressions." "We took that into consideration." "And we worked carefully with where exactly the characters are looking." "That element is added here." "You people in the CIA call us terrorists." "But we prefer to call ourselves pro-independence fighters." "With everything going for realism we simulated the movement of fabrics." "If not simulated properly the fabric will not show wrinkles when bent." "This deprives the film of realism." "We simulate all fabric motions so that it really looks like the clothes have been moved." "This is a joint." "Bone can be moved with joints present." "The more natural the motion looks, the better." "We hope people find all of this natural." "We use the mocap data with a software called MotionBuilder." "We add camera work create each scene and have the director check the scene." "We use a lens just like with a live-action film and move it so that we can make the film look photorealistic." "There is much more expression of liquids, particularly blood, in this film." "Blood effects are the most difficult." "There are just so many effects:" "Explosions, gunshots, etc." "We hope you enjoy watching them." "If a film is two hours long, you don't want it to be tiring." "And you want to show 3D effectively." "First we focus on screen depth." "Then with characters in the forefront, visual depth is enhanced." "But we must keep in mind that we want things to jump out of the screen towards the audience occasionally, so that it does not get boring." "Easy to watch but dramatic at the same time is what we go for." "We create a depth information scoreboard." "The blue is cuts focusing on depth." "Yellow is for average 3D cuts." "Red is when the focus is toward the front closer to the audience." "Here, the Licker comes forward." "We check here for the parallax of the deepest part of the background." "Then where the Licker points its claws." "We want this to stick out from the screen." "We look at this percentage for the parallax of the claws." "The construction is all based on the fact that the film will be in 3D." "That is why the action sequences work so well in 3D." "I don't want to change into one of those monsters!" "Is how it goes." "Kamiya-san is really into military stuff." "He has a very loud voice." "Energetic all of the time." " Okay." " Yeah, yeah, you surprised." "Being a fan of weapons he asked us to make the sling move realistically." " Oh, is that right?" " That's all." "He really keeps an eye on the most delicate details." "Like the slightest of character expressions." "I want an expression with pain and chagrin mixed with no voice coming out." " All right, again." " She's working on him." "I don't understand English at all so all I can really observe is whether or not the right emotion is shown in the acting." "Since I don't check whether the lines are said correctly I focus on the expression of emotions." "So it ends up being directing in the purest form." "It should be a peaceful and relaxing moment but carrying this tension of kill or be killed." "Imagine that the table comes flying in this direction." "So we want you to keep the table to that way." "So that" " Like that." "Okay." "I try to act out each scene." "Showing them how I want it done works best since I cannot speak English." "I learned this from my experience on the previous film." "You are in the wall." "So" "You understand?" "You understand." " We have a wall here." " Got it." "Got it." "Yes, like that." "Action." "All right." "He just has a sense of fun about him." "Whenever he starts to give direction, he has a smile." "He gets really into it." "It's sort of a childlike quality." "So he's very kind to the actors, and he's just fun to work with that way." "He's very focused and knows what he wants." "It's amazing to watch him explain scenes because you can tell he's got a very clear idea in his head of what he wants and that makes it more easy for us when somebody is able to tell us what they need and want." " That looked pretty good." "Was it okay?" " It even works out." "Very good." "Great." " Great." " I think it went great." "Is that wrapping, then?" "I started working on visual-effects films such as monster films." "I think I am good at showing monster-like motions." "This was the first time I got to wear a mocap suit." "The Ganados are of human form so doing mocap for them is no problem." "With Lickers that crawl on four feet we do mocap." "However, since they show nonhuman motions our animation staff have to work on the animation manually." "The Tyrants in our film are larger than those in the games and live-action films." "They morph into Super Tyrants B.O.W.s that seem complete as weapons." "Showing creatures fight against each other is something new for Resident Evil." "We've never done it in our games where it's mainly the hero vs. creatures." "It's a new world in which you get to see characters from the games together with original characters that appear only in this film." "Creature vs. creature and Leon's vulnerability are not seen in the games." "It's a must-see to engross yourself even more in the Resident Evil world." "The most enjoyable point is that these Resident Evil CGI films are spin-offs of the game universe." "Being able to focus on enjoying the story is the beauty of it." "Those whose first Resident Evil experience is this film can then play the video games or watch Degeneration." "Damnation is only one part of the vast universe." "I would be very happy if this film serves as a first step for your enjoying more of Resident Evil." "I believe this film is entertaining for anyone." "It's got horror elements." "It's got a lot of action." "It's got this emotional bond of two guys." "There's just so much in this film to enjoy."