What are Cine Cameras and the Sequencer? Cine Cameras are a particular type of camera in Unreal which are specially designed to be used for cinematics instead of gameplay. This is helpful when you want to make cut scenes or just general animations in Unreal, as you could use it for that. And in my…
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The concept I initially came up with hasn’t changed; however, when developing it, I made some changes to it, such as not just being a general commercial for the console itself. I decided it should focus on one game which is the horror game concept that I came up with earlier, and the reason for…
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Here is the storyboard for part of the commercial, which will include a forest which will be a made-up horror game for the commercial and the basic idea of how I want the scene to play out, which is that some friends will be on a camping trip and having a conversation around a campfire…
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Creating Fire and Smoke VFX For this week, I was tasked with creating two small VFX In Unreal: smoke and fire. I will include a summary of how I have set up these VFX and their emitters. How I would use this in my environment is that one of these made-up games featured in this…
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Another effect I wanted to create was fog in one of my environments. For that environment, I tried to make it look like a horror game such as Silent Hill, so I want to give the environment very dense fog so you won’t be able to see where you’re going clearly, and it makes it…
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Storyboard & Lighting in the Bedroom Environment I drew a storyboard for the commercial I am going to create, and the reason I did this as it would allow me to plan out how I want the commercial to play out, such as what camera angles I want to use in a particular scene etc.…
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Creating Pixelation VFX For this piece, I will need to create a pixelation effect. I need to do this because, as mentioned earlier, I want my piece to have an early 3D look to it, as they have a bit of a pixelated look to them. Since this will be used in a commercial for…
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Smoggybeard- Playstation 1 Model (16th of October 2020) https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/playstation-one-cde3de80e796410791b365d2f13c92e6 [Accesssed 7th of December 2022] Poncho – PS1 CD Model (21st of March 2021) https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/ps1-psx-cd-0ea94ab9f9fe4acfb49eabed5a99179d [Accessed 7th of December 2022] Artem P – VHS Player Model (16th of June 2019) https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/vhs-player-dba56aa822254ab7b6be0a6a2735b42f [Accessed 7th of December 2022] Etherlyte – Lava Lamp Model (4th of March 2019) https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/lava-lamp-9a229700b95f44089033c6c9cec0eacc…
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Overall, I will cover how I created various visual effects In Unreal and the general process of coming up with ideas for the environment/scene in which my visual effects will be featured. This includes a storyboard, animatic and general stuff I did to help develop ideas. Also, I will show which tools I used in…
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