You're reading from Virtual Filmmaking with Unreal Engine 5

Product type Book

Published in Feb 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801813808

Pages 480 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Concepts

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 Master Materials and Material Instances

In this section, you will learn how to create basic PBR Materials from scratch using the Unreal Engine Material Editor, which we briefly looked at in Chapter 4, and then you will learn the significance of Material Instances and why we use them.

Remember, we are making a film, so I will not dabble too much in the nitty gritty of creating complex Materials for our use – I’m going to keep it simple. There are tons of ready-made Materials accessible to us through Quixel Bridge and the Unreal Engine Marketplace that we will utilize in our project, which I will cover later in this chapter.

Creating plastic, rubber, and metal Master Materials

To learn how to create Master Materials, we will start by creating some basic Materials that will be the building blocks for creating any other Materials. Let’s start by creating some common Materials: plastic, rubber, and metal-looking Materials. Let’s get started...