Learning Unreal 5 in One Year (Progression + Lessons)

Here’s How I Would Learn Unreal Engine (If I Could Start Over)

Join me on my journey of learning Unreal Engine! It's been a wild ride filled with mistakes, lessons, and victories. In this video, I'll share my experiences and tips for anyone looking to get started with Unreal Engine to make films and cinematics! I'll break down a high-level learning path for beginners and people who've struggled learning Unreal in the past including Niagara, Sequencer, Movie Render Queue, UE5 lighting, along with Mixamo character animation and animation blueprints.

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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
1:15 - My First Project
2:15 - Drone Lightsaber Battle
3:15 - Lesson One
4:20 - Niagara Muzzle Tracers
6:45 - International Space Station
7:50 - Niagara + Flipbooks
9:08 - Lesson Two
11:05 - At-home Virtual Production
13:47 - Sample Projects You Should Download
16:00 - Getting Started with Vehicles
16:40 - Heatseeker
19:30 - Horror ICVFX
20:15 - Lesson Four
22:35 - Photoreal Renders + Lesson 5
24:05 - Mr. Freeze Project

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[dchick]

I've been working with Unreal for about two years, and as many who use it for filmmaking, have avoided the game aspects as much as possible--I second what he said about actually learning it. It really slowed me down to fight that aspect rather than incorporating it. This is an awesome video and resource, Josh, thank you!!!

[MortalShores]

I started at the same time as you did, February of 2022 to make films myself. Your work is so good man, and inspiring! I share a ton of these lessons as well. Im now full time working on different productions, and my own now. Heres to a huge 2023!

[thegnomesayinsayin]

Hands down best unreal intro video I’ve seen. Honest and informative. I hope you make more videos!!

[JoshToonen]

What if you could create your own Lightsaber Battle in just 10 minutes?
Learn how to add characters + animations to your scenes WITHOUT knowing keyframe animation!
(demo project files included!)

[_strife]

This dude is giving up the sauce. Been struggling to create a curriculum for myself but 100% agreed when you said don’t waste time learning modeling. That’s what’s so insane abt unreal are all the free assets that can get you up and running as a filmmaker

[PixelPalette_Pro]

So hard for me to hear not to waste time modeling because I love doing it! yet learning Unreal on top of extending my modeling knowledge seems tedious. Yet having both skills under my belt seems paramount!

[HBasch]

amazing video ! even though i've been working with ue for years, i always love watching tutorials like these ! thanks ! looking forward to that "soldiers in the mud" breakdown !

[summermeng]

This one year progress is impressive Josh ! Thanks for sharing! 😊

[ericluna_]

this is hands down the best unreal video I have seen in the year ive been learning. thank you!

[Sssseytha]

I finally started to learn unreal for vfx, thanks for the great tips man! You are absolutely right about the importance of learning the game part of unreal, i though i could just skip those but they are really important for animations! I'm looking forward for your tutorials on what you have learnt so i don't make the same mistakes! Gotta be a exciting realtime year! :)

[PanMan]

Welcome back! Great insight in this video

[AsAsAsASin]

As a starting artist this video is very motivational and helpfull. And who knew, I already been going into right directions, but decided to create something big. With your help I changed my mind and postponed it) Thank you for your work and and documents, you are a blessing!

[Megasteakman]

Great video! That stage in Vancouver sounds awesome, but I know I would never be able to shoot there, haha.

What is the wireless transmitter you are using for your vCam? I build a VCam for my mocap project, but I find the latency on most wireless stuff I buy is too high, so I end up just looking at my computer monitor when I capture.

[dchick]

Ooh, I'm so excited about future tutorials and how-tos! Subbing! 😀

[BingGeaux]

@0:04 - yes!!! finally someone who says it! And UE5 tutorials that they put out are absolutely no assistance for instruction to someone who has never been a "gamer" or has touched any software other than AutoCAD or SketchUp Pro in almost 15 years. ~that being said, I'm looking forward to your videos in this playlist.

[tobiasmyers]

Good stuff. Thank you. Just pointing out; you said hit F11, but your text graphic said F1, for hovering on a feature for documentation.

[caliburpictures]

Awesome Video! Thanks 🙏
I really want to built one of the location from my book I wrote in UE now. Let’s see how it will turn out 😂

[faustoprieto]

Just starting to actually study UE after been around the idea of it for over the last year. All your work and grind on this its amazing. You are making the difference.

[KevinUSATV]

Bro im new in this and ur videos r so good i learn a lot in each video😮‍💨🇨🇺

[aashay]

Please teach us how to composite live action actors in Unreal environments 🙏🙏🙂