Wednesday 22 January 2020

Unreal Engine Tutorials at Vimeo

We've uploaded a new series of tutorials at our Vimeo Channel on how to use the Unreal Engine rendering pipeline.

Realtime rendering is a growing part of the animation production pipeline. Whether our students are studying VFX, animation, or games, Unreal Engine offers big savings in render times.

Many of our short films are rendered in Unreal Engine. The short films Planet Mars, Minuet and Adam & Eve Mk II were all rendered in Unreal Engine and enjoyed festival success, winning many awards.


Real Time Rendering with Unreal Engine
Unreal Engine renders shots in real time, allowing our students to focus their energy on animation and character performance, without worrying about whether they will manage to make the production deadline.  No more late nights crossing your fingers and hoping that the Arnold render will come through; Unreal Engine offers a much faster solution. 

Maya to Unreal Engine with Paul Harrison - 2023
Maya to Unreal: https://vimeo.com/showcase/10558978
In this series of tutorials Head of Animation Paul Harrison explains how to manage the pipeline from Autodesk Maya to Unreal Engine. 
To see more, see this blog post:

Lighting and Rendering in Unreal Engine with Paul Harrison - 2023
Lights & Render: https://vimeo.com/showcase/10581878
In this series of tutorials Head of Animation Paul Harrison explains how to light and render in Unreal Engine. 

To see more, see this blog post:


Introduction to Unreal Engine 5
An introduction to "The Wonders of Unreal Engine 5"

Downloading Unreal Engine
Getting Started (9 minutes)
How to download Unreal Engine with Michael Davies. 

Navigating the Unreal Engine Interface
How to navigate the Unreal Engine interface with Michael Davies. 

Manipulating Objects in Unreal Engine
Manipulating Objects in Unreal Engine with Michael Davies.

Importing Objects into Unreal Engine
Importing Objects into Unreal Engine with Michael Davies

Creating Wind Effects in Unreal Engine
Creating Wind Effects and Atmospherics in Unreal Engine, with Michael Davies (4 minutes). 
Atmospherics in a scene are very useful to bring an environment to life.

Creating Environmental Fog in Unreal Engine
Creating Environmental Fog in Unreal Engine, with Michael Davies. Adding depth and realism into an Unreal Engine environment (5 minutes).

Third Person Character in Unreal Engine
Learn how to travel within a game environment as your own character, with Michael Davies. This video demonstrates how to take your own character model and attach it to the existing Third Person Blueprint in Unreal Engine. (27 Minutes)

Importing Animation into Unreal Engine
Importing Animation from Autodesk Maya into Unreal Engine, with Michael Davies.
(7 minutes)

Importing Camera Animation into Unreal Engine
Importing Camera Animation from Maya into Unreal Engine, with Michael Davies.
(6 Minutes)
https://vimeo.com/showcase/5414193/video/379716080

Importing an Alembic Cache into Maya
Importing an Alembic Cache into Maya, with Michael Davies.
https://vimeo.com/showcase/5414193/video/379716677

Creating Butterflies in Unreal Engine
Creating Butterflies in Unreal Engine with Will.
Materials in Unreal Engine VFX


Unreal Engine Tutorials
Michael Davies
These tutorials explore how Unreal Engine works, including how to build assets and textures for a Realtime pipeline, as well how to import and edit animation to get the best results.

Michael Davies
The tutorials were recorded by  Head of Animation Michael Davies.

Michael has worked on many VFX blockbusters such as Batman vs Superman, Doctor Strange and Thor Ragnarok.

Unreal Engine Accreditation
Rendered in Unreal Engine
Michael is an Accredited Trainer for Unreal Engine, as a well as a Certified Instructor with Maya at Autodesk.

Unreal Engine Tutorials
You can find the Unreal Engine tutorials at our Vimeo Channel here. As with all our Vimeo Channel Tutorials, they are password-protected.  If you're a current student or recent Escapee, just ask us for the password.

Festival Winners
To see some of the award-winning short films made at Escape Studios and rendered in Unreal Engine, follow the links below:
The Escape Studios Animation Blog offers a personal view on the art of animation and visual effects. To find out more about our BA/MArt, follow this link.  To apply, visit the official page here.  
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