【Final work】Cabin in the wood

Prepare work in UE

Make landscape material

The background of the story is set in the wooden house by the lake, so I think the land here needs to include at least three materials: mud, pebble and grass. Then I used Landscape Layer Blend to blend these three materials so that I can piant them on the landescape.

Water

The water body in UE always takes up much memory, makes the frame become stagnant. So I decided to creat a piece of water. The change of normal line is used to represent the fluctuation of water wave.

PFS_Grass (procedural foliage spawner)

I added 3 kinds of foliage into the PFS_Grass, I think they can creat a nature forest as I want.

I got a good reasult, then I copy and put more PFS_Grass and made them suround the lake, at least no mistake in the camera.

Sequences

I didn’t have a specific storyboard, so I felt a bit confused while making the sequences, which made me spend some time organizing the shots I wanted.

Animations

I got most of my animations from Mixamo. After I put mixamo animation into UE, I retargeted it to my MetaHuman, so my MetaHuman got animations easily. Then I put MetaHuman into sequences and add corresponding animation into body.

The face animation I use live link face capture. This sounds simple, but my phone and computer are always not in the same domain name, obviously with a wifi, so the phone and computer can not connect. I found it could be solved by connecting to the same phone hotspot.

Use Take Tecorder can record the face capture animation, this is a test of acting, all the performances are from myself, which makes me a little embarrassed, my acting is very blunt. It is good that I got some good performances after tests.

Modeling in Maya and Substance Painter

I created a model of IPhone X in Maya, and Split its uv. Then I put the model in Substance Painter to bake textures so that I can paint on it and add some detail. At first, I did’t see any overlap in the UVs of the models, this caused some problems when I baking textures. I went back to maya and adjusted it several times.

It lookes much better now, for the convenience of post-composition, I changed the screen material to green.

Rrender in UE

I met a lot of problems with rendering, the GPU crashed, the graphics card ran out of memory, I changed the graphics card Settings and added a virtual cache, but the problem was still unresolved until I saw someone in the UE forum saying that I could change the RHI to DX11, luckily I succeeded this time.

In order to improve the rendering effect, I added a lot of console instructions, added anti-aliasing and warm up frames.

Compositing in Nuke

What I need to do in nuke was to use roto to pull a bird out of the original video and adjust its color to better fit into my video

Editing and dubbing

I cut, color, and dub the video in PR to make it look Dreamcore style video. Dreamcore is a surrealist aesthetic that uses motifs commonly associated with dreams, daydreams or nightmares, portrayed through media such as images, videos and, on occasion, music. So I made the picture quality lower, blurry, dimmer, and the quality of the music the same.