You're reading from Virtual Filmmaking with Unreal Engine 5 A step-by-step guide to creating a complete animated short film

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801813808

Length 480 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Unreal

Concepts

Animation

Author (1):

Hussin Khan

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

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

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

Setting up cameras in Unreal Engine 5

In this section, you will learn how to open an Unreal Engine project, create bookmarks, and create your first camera. To follow along, you will need to have Unreal Engine 5.2 installed (please refer to Chapter 1 if you have not done so), and the project file downloaded and ready to go (see the Technical requirements section for the link).

Opening the project

To open the project, do the following:

Download the VirtualFilmmaking.zip project file, then move it to the largest and fastest hard drive on your system (Unreal Engine files tend to take up large amounts of hard drive space).
Then create a folder called Unreal Projects, which you will use to create all other Unreal Engine projects. Move the project file into this folder and unarchive it by right-clicking on the files and choosing Extract to “VirtualFlimmaking\”.