Small Soldiers War for the Nekron - Props Toys Part 2 (UE 5)
Ray Razor walks down the aisle between shelves filled with toys
We managed to bring a lot of life to the warehouse
Below, the last bunch of toys i did
Bean Wheelers, bean shaped toys with wheels. Ment for kids aged 1-3 year old.
I reutilized the bean shape and transform them in different animals
A glowing night lamp, the lamp is turned on by pressing the hat down
In this case I did some color variations in Unreal Engine
Lions from the route 66, "On the roar again".
Someone might wonder, 'At this point, how do you come up with these ideas for making toys, especially with a tight deadline?
We brainstormed different themes, types of toys, age ranges and sizes. Then, we'd spin a wheel to randomly select a theme, type, age group, and toy size. It was a fun way to come up with ideas as we moved on to the next model
We achieved a wide variety of toys
Samba dart gun, I had the chance to create my own nerf gun.
Shark shaped anti stress balls. This are one of my favourites. They came out so cute.
Below, the set of toys I created for the warehouse
In our small team, we had many other tasks to handle. Normally, I would alternate more technical Environment props with a set of toys, for me served as a way to refresh from more technical ones.
Speaking of more technical and complex tasks, the police toy car that falls at the end of the video was one of those
Sharp Saya is introduced in this shot. That silhouette at the right is a stress shark bouncing around.
Ti Tank hits a box and makes the police car fall. Animated by co-director Julen Urrutia
This asset took longer than the rest of the toys. It took from 1 to 2 weeks to model, rig and shade it.
Once again the model was done in Zbrush, painted black and white.
The rest of the details were decals
The car had various moving parts so Julen could animate it.
There is even a switch on the back of the car.
Detailed underneath of the police car
[DISCLAIMER: Small Soldiers War for the Nekron is a Proof of Concept project in which our team was hired by Comadran Studios to create a set of toy characters during some months from 2022-2023. The conclussion of the project was the Proof of Concept trailer that brought those new characters to life. We would like to clarify that our team does not own these characters and we do not know what comes next for them after the this Proof of Concept. Designs and story might not represent the final product as they are subject to change during production.]
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The entire action of the proof of concept takes place in the warehouse of a toy store, we had to design a wide variety of toys to dress up the warehouse. Many of them can be clearly seen in the first shots, but there are others that go more unnoticed. In this post, you will see some of those designs that we created on the go to bring the warehouse to life.
In order to have a decent amount of toys, we set a tight deadline of 3 days for each set of toys, from modeling to shading in Unreal Engine. Our workflow allowed us to model and color the toys in Zbrush and have them directly working in Unreal Engine, thanks to our shading system using vertex color.