How I get UNREAL ENGINE to look like a movie | FULL BREAKDOWN

After a year and a half, I feel like I've finally leveled up in Unreal Engine, so I made this mini-masterclass style video to breakdown my latest project, and fast-track everyone's UE journey by sharing everything I know in this one video. This one is for my past self and everyone else asking, “How do I make awesome art in Unreal Engine?"

CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:42 My Favorite Unreal Educators
01:37 Ideas, References, and Concept Art
02:20 Enable Raytracing
03:24 Blockout Your Scene
04:07 Unreal Marketplace
04:26 Add Spot Lights
05:03 Create an Emissive Master Material
07:02 Adding Atmosphere
07:51 Create an Emissive Video Screen
09:15 The Sequencer
10:45 Cinematic Camera Settings Intro
11:21 Cinematic Aspect Ratio
12:20 Depth of Field
14:00 Lock the Framerate
14:21 Disable Auto Exposure
15:28 Post Process Volumes
16:16 Add Bloom, Vignette, Film Grain, and Motion Blur
17:36 Clean Up Raytraced Reflections
18:59 Motion Capture with Rokoko Studio
19:42 3D Characters from Mixamo
19:51 Combine Mocap Data w/ Mixamo Characters
21:09 Fix Character Deformations
22:38 High Quality Movie Render Queue Settings
24:04 Console Variables for Improved Render Quality
26:14 Final Thoughts and Announcements

RESOURCES
@WilliamFaucher
@JonathanWinbush
@RokokoMotion

HOTKEYS
- - - in viewport - - -
navigate your scene: R-click + W, A, S, D
boom up and down: R-click + Q, E
snap view to selected object: F
duplicate object: hold ALT and drag
show/hide icons: G
show FPS: Ctrl + Shift + H

- - - in material graph - - -
create an RGB node (constant3vector): hold 3 + L-click
create a multiply node: hold M + L-click
create a scalar parameter: hold S + L-click

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[WilliamFaucher]

Awesome video dude! Thanks so much for the feature, and keep kicking butt :)

[SipodshowTv]

I expect to watch this about 100 more times! Will quickly become most peoples number 1 go-to vid!

[SteveBiegun]

Thanks for the shout-out Clint! Your enthusiasm for 3d art is amazing and the knowledge you share with everyone is really great 🙌

[spuddie]

Something to note here is that you don't *need* an rtx card to use ray tracing in UE4. It will be much faster if you do, but it will work with a regular GPU, I use a gtx 1660 and it's low fps, but it does work to get renders.

[HomAxz]

William Faucher is the BEST! can't wait to learn something new in this vid, thank you

[quinndacre]

Clint this was literally the best and most artist friendly tutorial to unreal I've ever come across. You broke it all down simply and to the point without delving into crazy technical detail. Please make a series!

[MrJonFinger]

The timing for this video could not be more perfect. Finally forcing myself to start using unreal.

[freddymakesamovie]

Seriously, from one VFX artist to another, I can’t put into words how much I appreciate your tutorials, they are incredibly Well done and extremely easy to follow. If I were to start my career again, I’m sure these videos would quickly become my bible! Keep up the great work!

[cgooch_]

I relate to this intro - thank you for helping us all out, even though I’ve gotten much better over the last year, I still don’t quite grasp this software as much as I’d like.

[plotcoalition]

Dude! This breakdown was so good! Can't stress enough what you said about understanding real world cameras and cinematography to get more cinematic results. This breakdown was top tier and really helped me understand your Unreal Engine workflow at the level I am at (which is really just getting started haha) Thank you for putting out this incredible content!

[CitiesoftheFuture]

Thank you, Clint Nice Mocap haha! We just started making videos analysis on future projects in cities around the world ...the plan is to make them with the help of Unreal! I'm sure we will come back to this video. Thank you!

[Fafmagic]

For a slight performance boost, and to keep things tidy, set any emissive materials lighting mode to ‘Unlit’.

[theNimboo]

It really encouraged me to hear that real world camera experience translates to 3d art. I am just getting started learning about 3d art, but I have a long past history of photography education and experience. Hearing that that will translate really puts my mind at ease, makes me feel like I am not making an unwise decision by spending time learning 3d art. I was worried that I had wasted all my time learning about photography if I was just going to learn about this anyway, but now I don't feel that way at all!! I am actually more excited.

[peterjoslyn]

Great video, I wondered why my reflections in the final render looked so bad, now I know!

[NevermoreVisuals]

Hey it's really hard to find tutorials that're actually relevant to my skill level and learning style. Just here to say this video was a god send, thank you.

[ReubenAStern]

I've been using Unreal for a while. I'm pretty confident with blueprints. But I really need to be able to make cinematic scenes. Also, a game I'm making needs a nightclub scene! I'm glad you're here to help!

[mrcreepyDJ]

i have a crappy 2021 macbook pro. I have never tried anything like this, and its way above the computing power i have. But, I have just sat and watched the whole thing. I find that this is something to throw on an chill out to. Keep up the great work!

[handdrawnbink]

Probably the best Unreal tutorial out there for animators and filmmakers. Perfect timing, perfect pacing, the right topics, the right approach. PERFECTION!!

[carlgraham]

This is so great. Finally a ground-up intro to Unreal for cinematics. Thank you!

[hookkch]

Dear pwnisher
you don't need a red cape to become a hero,
you're already my hero ... our hero .
THANK YOU !