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Product type Book

Published in Feb 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801813808

Pages 480 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Animation

Author (1):

Hussin Khan

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Pre-Production: Project Development and Gathering Resources

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Unreal Engine

3. Chapter 2: Understanding the Principles of Photography, Film Cameras, and Lenses

4. Chapter 3: Understanding the Art of Storytelling and Creating Your Storyboard

5. Part 2: Production: Creating the Environment

6. Chapter 4: Importing 3D Objects and Creating Levels

7. Chapter 5: Creating Environments with Quixel Megascans

8. Chapter 6: Creating and Applying Materials to 3D Meshes

9. Part 3: Production: Adding and Animating Characters

10. Chapter 7: Creating Actors with Unreal Engine MetaHumans

11. Chapter 8: Retargeting the MetaHumans for Unreal Engine 5

12. Chapter 9: Adding Animations and Facial Expressions to Your MetaHuman Characters

13. Part 4: Production: Shooting the Scene

14. Chapter 10: Adding and Animating Virtual Cameras Using the Level Sequencer

15. Chapter 11: Enhancing Set Dressing, Retiming Shots, and Adding Niagara Particles

16. Chapter 12: Setting the Mood with Lighting and Adding Post-Processing Effects

17. Part 5: Post-Production: Adding Post-Processing Effects and Music

18. Chapter 13: Exploring Color Management, Additional Camera Settings, and Rendering Your Shots

19. Chapter 14: Adding Sound and Finalizing Your Virtual Film

20. Index

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Appendix: Creating Material IDs Using Blender

Creating individual shots using the Level Sequencer

In Chapter 4, we created the first sequence (the spaceship interior) with four camera shots and the second sequence (the space scene) with a single camera shot. Then, in Chapter 5, we created the third sequence (the planet), which consists of four camera shots.

In this section, we will revisit these individual shots to add a virtual camera for each of them, and in the following sections, combine all these shots into a Master Sequence. The plan is to use the Master Sequence > Sequence > Shot method covered in Chapter 4. Let’s start:

Open the A_New_Beginning project.
Then, in the Level folder, double-click to open the INT_Spaceship Level. Press 1 to go to Bookmark 1 (the spaceship flight deck view).
In the Cinematics folder, create a new Level Sequence by right-clicking, and then selecting Cinematics | Level Sequence. Rename it Shot_01 and double-click the Level Sequence to open it.
To create a camera...