Friday, 25 August 2023

Lights & Render in Unreal Engine with Paul Harrison

Lighting & Rendering in Unreal Engine with Paul Harrison
Escape Studios' Head of Animation Paul Harrison has prepared a new series of tutorials on Lighting and Rendering in Unreal Engine, available to our students at our Vimeo Tutorial Channel.

Unreal Engine renders shots in real time, allowing our students to focus their energy on animation and character performance. https://vimeo.com/showcase/10581878
About Unreal Engine
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.

Lighting & Rendering in Unreal Engine
 Tutorials
Overview of Lighting & Rendering in Unreal Engine

Lighting & Rendering in Unreal Engine 1
Overview of the different lights available in Unreal Engine

Lighting & Rendering in Unreal Engine 2
Set up an integrated environmental lighting system.

Lighting & Rendering in Unreal Engine 3
Post production process volumes and how they work in Unreal Engine.

Lighting & Rendering in Unreal Engine 4
How light linking works in Unreal Engine using the "Channels" system.

Lighting & Rendering in Unreal Engine  5
Introduction to light shafts using environmental fog.

Lighting & Rendering in Unreal Engine 6
Emissive shaders and how to create them and use them.

Lighting & Rendering in Unreal Engine 7
How to control depth of field and focal length in Unreal Engine.

Lighting & Rendering in Unreal Engine 8
How to render out a sequence or shot.


The Lighting & Rendering in Unreal Engine Tutorials can be found here:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/10581878

Paul Harrison
Paul Harrison
Paul Harrison
 is a veteran animator, tutor, VFX Supervisor and 3D generalist; he has recently been appointed Head of Animation at Escape Studios. Paul teaches our third year undergraduate animation students. 

Paul brings a wealth of animation and VFX experience to Escape Studios; he has worked for clients including The Mill, DNEG, Prodigious, Smoke and Mirrors, Mainframe, and the BBC.

Paul is also a comic book artist and writer, and a content creator for children’s media. He is the creator of the Urban Squirrel series of comics.

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. 

Festival Success
Many of the short films made at Escape Studios are now rendered in Unreal Engine. 

The short films Planet MarsMinuet and Adam & Eve Mk II were all rendered in Unreal Engine and have enjoyed considerable festival success, winning festival awards since as early as 2019.

Unreal Engine at Our Vimeo Channel

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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