Visual Effects

Hamilton, A. S. (2021) Rural Australia [Asset Pack] Available online: https://unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/rural-australia [Accessed 02/01/2023] Mixamo (2022) Crouched Sneaking Right [Animation] Available online: https://www.mixamo.com/#/?page=1&query=Crouched+sneaking+right&type=Motion%2CMotionPack [Accessed 02/01/2023] Mixamo (2022) Idle [Animation] Available online: https://www.mixamo.com/#/?page=1&query=Idle&type=Motion%2CMotionPack [Accessed 02/01/2023] Mixamo (2022) Male Crouch Pose [Animation] Available online: https://www.mixamo.com/#/?page=1&query=male+crouch+pose&type=Motion%2CMotionPack [Accessed 02/01/2023] Mixamo (2022) Ninja [Asset] Available online: Read more…

Now that I knew the basics of animating in Unreal Engine, I wanted to find some more advanced settings I could work with. I found various settings I could tweak by watching the youtube video How I get UNREAL ENGINE to look like a movie | FULL BREAKDOWN (pwnisher, 2021) Read more…

Following the YouTube tutorials How To Make Rain Niagara Rain Particle System – Unreal Engine Tutorial (2021) and Thunder And Lightning – Unreal Engine 4 Tutorial (Aspland, 2020), I added rain, thunder and lightning VFX to an Unreal project. The first tutorial I followed was how to add thunder and Read more…

This post will cover the lab content covering lighting in Unreal. The content for this weeks lab covered lighting in Unreal Engine. I had to build two rooms and light them differently. I built the room by placing a cube then placing a subtractive cube on the inside. I then Read more…

This post will detail the completion of the Unreal Engine camera control lab content. After opening the provided Unreal scene, I allowed cinematic control in the viewport settings. This would allow me to view the camera sequence in the viewport. I then added three cameras at different angles around the Read more…

This post will document the initial planning of my animation for Visual FX and Post Production. To plan out the animation I drew a storyboard. I drew out the key point of the animation, annotating them to include camera motion and VFX in the frame. The animation is inspired by Read more…