How Unreal 5.4 Changes Filmmaking

Unreal 5.4 has huge updates for VFX artists and Filmmakers! I've had a week to play around and start testing it out on real projects, these are my first impressions and how to start using them!

My 3 favorite updates in Unreal 5.4 that we'll cover...
- Learn about the new Motion Graphics toolset (Motion Design + Material Designer)
- How to detail your environments with Nanite Displacement
- My take on the new Movie Render Graph

I've included a quick-start guide for each to start applying them when you upgrade!

For those new to Unreal, just a heads up that you don't need to update your engine and project every time, just upgrade if it's got the tools you need for your project.

Excited to see all of the new support going to VFX and Filmmaking, props to the Epic Team for continuing to listen to the community and add new meaningful updates!

We'll go in-depth, showing you how to use Sequencer for Cinematics and create renders, animation, previs. In just 90 minutes you'll learn my whole filmmaking workflow step-by-step! If you're new or advanced in Unreal Engine, I promise you'll learn something new you can start applying immediately!

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Edited by the talented David Carmichael

Chapters
0:00 - What's inside Unreal 5.4?
0:50 - C4D in Unreal 5 - The Motion Design plug-in
2:40 - How Material Designer works
3:30 - Update to Nanite (Add Displacement in your Material!)
4:55 - Other Exciting Updates in UE5.4
5:45 - Movie Render Graph
7:35 - Make Custom Menus in MRG
9:00 - Overall First Impressions and Final Thoughts

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[JoshToonen]

Epic has made a bunch of great in-depth tutorials written by the staff members who created each new feature! Check out the page below to dive deeper

Are you busy this Thursday 8pm EST? You should join me in my live Godzilla Masterclass!

[jazzman]

Absolutely mindblown. By making it work in a way that’s so familiar to 2D artists, they’ve just onboarded millions of people onto Unreal in an instant.

Bring it on!

[yonghengshouhu]

Looking forward to more comprehensive tutorials related to motion design

[PhilEdwardsInc]

i really love your unreal experiments and would love a guide to help ae people convert to unreal motion. i have a lot of trouble figuring out how to adapt a motion graphics workflow beyond some templatized options

[visartema]

Thanks Josh for the info. You're great.

[davidgomes]

I want to see tutorials on material designer and movie render graph.

[faustoprieto]

SO great to know all these new features. You are amazing Josh, keep it up.

[IasonasKlapakis]

So I installed Unreal the best time.... Right?

[estate]

I would really love to see some Motion Design tutorials from you. Haven't seen any tuts about integrating actual video footage and combine it with 2D and 3D elements like in AE. Is this even possible yet?

[EdVizenor]

Please more tutorials on Motion Desiger! Thank you!

[goldenmikytlgp]

To be fair..ue5’s features are interesting, but I may need some time to learn them to properly start cinematic production.
I mean there’s a lot of new things.
Procidural texturing in-engine, custom rigs and weight painting systems..

[agnesslovehealz]

Oh yay ita like u read my mind haha was researching all this Oh I so happy you and I'm in for your master class what a blessing we ask and receive

[qweezed]

What about new retarget options, they are really interesting. Greate video as always!

[DimaSO_]

I’d really like to learn more from you about motion design)))

[MangaGamified]

as long as it doesn't involve thousands of dynamic trees, cause nanite doesn't work as expected on those tho

[mayanksrivastava]

I dont know if you know this but you sent an email about your Godzilla course to Stripe. I work for Stripe hence got a solve because of you. Thanks!

[SantanuProductions]

So far we have been doing all these in other software and bringing it into the game engine. I am not sure if motion in UE replaces after effects that has a huge legacy, library templates and support system. Moreover Adobe has successfully positioned its 2.5D graphics being cooler compared to 3D. Whenever we made 3D motion graphics, our clients always felt it was dated. So, its the mindset of customers that need to change. The designers always want something like UE 5.4

The bigger demand would be the ease of making custom assets something like in Reallusion iClone. (Though iClone is also limited). So that we can focus in our storytelling.

[descendinguniverse]

trying to finish some Blender stuff and hoping to do the next music video with Unreal someday

[edber]

will nanite tessellation work if your running 5.4 on a Mac with the M3 Chip? (supposedly normal Nanite works with the M3 but I'm not sure about tessellation... thanks! (btw, I just subscribed, love the info and the energy of your channel!)

[faithaloneinchristalone]

cant find your Godzilla masterclasses on your youtube page anymore is there away you will put them back up