How I get UNREAL ENGINE to look like a movie | FULL BREAKDOWN

Download Unreal Engine and go make something incredible! Getting started is easy -- You can download the latest version for free here: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/solutions/film-television?utm_source=video&utm_medium=influencer&utm_campaign=pwnisher&utm_content=ue4_internal

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After a year and a half, I feel like I've finally leveled up in Unreal Engine, so I made this mini-masterclass style video to breakdown my latest project, and fast-track everyone's UE journey by sharing everything I know in this one video. This one is for my past self and everyone else asking, “How do I make awesome art in Unreal Engine?"


CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:42 My Favorite Unreal Educators
01:37 Ideas, References, and Concept Art
02:20 Enable Raytracing
03:24 Blockout Your Scene
04:07 Unreal Marketplace
04:26 Add Spot Lights
05:03 Create an Emissive Master Material
07:02 Adding Atmosphere
07:51 Create an Emissive Video Screen
09:15 The Sequencer
10:45 Cinematic Camera Settings Intro
11:21 Cinematic Aspect Ratio
12:20 Depth of Field
14:00 Lock the Framerate
14:21 Disable Auto Exposure
15:28 Post Process Volumes
16:16 Add Bloom, Vignette, Film Grain, and Motion Blur
17:36 Clean Up Raytraced Reflections
18:59 Motion Capture with Rokoko Studio
19:42 3D Characters from Mixamo
19:51 Combine Mocap Data w/ Mixamo Characters
21:09 Fix Character Deformations
22:38 High Quality Movie Render Queue Settings
24:04 Console Variables for Improved Render Quality
26:14 Final Thoughts and Announcements


RESOURCES
Imaginary Pathways Album: https://open.spotify.com/album/0IzdsLjTXSGlY83hjT8Ax2?si=YVwelYF5QYSjD5Q6ue_7rg
Buy the Vinyl: https://tigerbloodtapes.bandcamp.com/album/imaginary-pathways
Mount Shrine: https://open.spotify.com/album/41XDP8MfJW2hVieF62J0Rl?si=FCqYNuGLT4KHwck52G-iEA
SkyTwoHigh: https://open.spotify.com/album/7FOVguooYGUQaX6f9uSyGn?si=ByhgGGhjRc2ivKaiIKR8HA
@WilliamFaucher
@JonathanWinbush
@RokokoMotion
Steve Biegun: https://twitter.com/sbiegun1
PureRef: https://www.pureref.com/download.php
Emissive Video Screen in-level: https://youtu.be/IlnUyAIgDa4
Improve Depth of Field: https://youtu.be/osHpBZ47ZfU
Connect Custom Mocap to Mixamo Character: https://youtu.be/sOuRxFlfPGk
Movie Render Queue Documentation: https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/RenderingAndGraphics/RayTracing/MovieRenderQueue/


HOTKEYS
- - - in viewport - - -
navigate your scene: R-click + W, A, S, D
boom up and down: R-click + Q, E
snap view to selected object: F
duplicate object: hold ALT and drag
show/hide icons: G
show FPS: Ctrl + Shift + H

- - - in material graph - - -
create an RGB node (constant3vector): hold 3 + L-click
create a multiply node: hold M + L-click
create a scalar parameter: hold S + L-click


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GRAB SOME SWAG:
My VFX Assets: https://gumroad.com/clintonjones
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TOOLS I LOVE:
Camera: https://amzn.to/3ihzNg8
Lens: https://amzn.to/3cBB6TJ
360 Camera: https://amzn.to/3w1PKLn
Studio Lights: https://www.aputure.com/
Desktop Mic: https://amzn.to/37JmQoN
LAV Mic: https://amzn.to/3vg9wlh
Monitor Lamp: https://amzn.to/37JfyBI
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MY RIG:
https://pugetsystems.com
Motherboard: Asus Strix TRX40-XE
CPU: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 3.7GHz 32 Core 280W
Ram: 8x Kingston DDR4-3200 32GB
Video Card: Nvidia Quadro RTX a6000
C: Samsung 980 Pro 500GB Gen4 M.2 SSD
2x Samsung 980 Pro 2TB Gen4 M.2 SSD
Western Digital Ultrastar 12TB SATA3
Samsung 870 QVO 8TB SATA3 2.5inch SSD
PSU: Super Flower LEADEX Platinum 1200W
Display: 2x 1080p 60Hz ASUS VP278H

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