Rival Schools x Attack No1 - Intro Animation (Personal Project)

This is a passion project I've been working on for over a year (on and off).
I'm a huge Rival Schools fan and Natsu is my absolute favorite. I love fighting games and I love volleyball and so it feels like Hideaki Itsuno and the team at Capcom made a character just for me =D

On top of that, I always felt like Natsu's last name (Ayuhara) is an homage to the classic volleyball anime Attack No 1 and its protagonist Kozue Ayuhara. Both Rival Schools and Attack No 1 have very memorable intros in their own right, and that's where the inspiration for this little animation originally came from.

I created the character and a lot of the stadium assets myself. For the outside area I modified assets from SFV's Rival Riverside stage.

For the animations I started out with a motion capture pack from Motion Cast. I then moved to Maya where I made adjustments and added keyframe animation.

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The scene was assembled and rendered in Unreal. The PS1 look is achieved with modified version of Void Pepsi's post process material

https://void-pepsi.itch.io/ue4-dither

For the editing I used Davinci Resolve.

The music is the intro song of Rival Schools : United By Fate - Atsui Kodou.