Phoenix' 2021 - my first Unreal Engine short film ;)

New Year and a new tool in my Personal Filmmaker's Toolkit. Encouraged by the effects of working with a real time cinematography simulator @CineTracer, seven days ago I started learning @Unreal Engine 4. The best way to learn is through practice, so after two days of watching YouTube tutorials and five days of hard work (including four lonely hours on the green screen set) I'm giving you my first short film created with Unreal Engine.
This video is non-commercial, made for educational purposes and for fun. It is of course an illustration of my hopes for the New Year: in real life, like any reasonable person, I still wear a mask, keep my distance and disinfect my hands frequently. Healthy New Year!

Behind the scenes:

The software I used:

[notcancanomar]

Absolutely phenomenal composite work! And props for matching the lighting and color scheme of your live-action footage with the CG elements. You've managed to avoid many rookie mistakes that even seasoned filmmakers make and I can't wait to see more from you :)

[marenioo]

Is it's a Real life? is it's just fantasy?

[mikoajdobber]

Super! Też zaczynam naukę silników, teraz wiem, że poza przeznaczeniem dla gier video zainteresuję się też możliwościami filmowymi!

[Falcon]

Amazing job man. I love the 'Death Stranding' feeling of it

[jchan]

0:03 So that's where I left my mask.

[artemkononov]

How did u made this shadows, man? This is mind blowing!

[MRDDev]

Beautiful work, more people need to see this, gonna highlight it on my channel soon

[denisgabriel]

The whole idea of "this will end in 2021" was completely wrong sadly.
But still, this was a very nice short film that tried to see things in a positive way.
And, as a Unreal Engine project, it was great.

[AdiusOmega]

This is the best compositing that I have seen from a non-studio environment. Pretty good color matching etc. Impressive results using just a green screen really. Cool what we can do 2 years ago! Even better nowadays.

[kerryzhang]

Wow, so impressive! How did you make the vfx at 0:26?

[brightsorcerer]

I loved the entry!!!! You are definitely subbed, bro!

[fabianoperes]

AMAZING Work!
Nice camera moves.
The actor looks photorealistic. CONGRATS!
(I know he is real, just a joke)

[소인환-zy]

Oh... how make ending tilt-up scene... How did you do the non-chroma studio part?

[aashay]

Amazing work...Please show us the tutorial to integrate live action footage with unreal backgrounds... Thanks a lot

[jayshambhuraje]

please make video on how to create this.

[spatulemalediction]

Woowwww it's amazing
Is it only green screen ?

[FILMFRAT]

Awesome tutorial! Thank you so much! I have filmmaking related tutorials also. Any support would mean alot! Thanks again

[nenproductions]

Great work! How did you place your tracked green screen footage to your unreal engine world??

[pjmielnik]

Super praca! Sam też staram się klikać cinematici w UE - mega inspirująca rzecz!

[Oli_BeatZ]

Pleas Tutorial. How to make it Self in Unreal Environment and how to Make it the Smoke the Camera move with the Focus Pleas