ARRIVAL | 到着

cheers #hive @onchainart , Its the beginning of the week, And i have decided to put some of my time into good use, Creating something cool with Unreal Engine, and doing some lighting R&D creating cinematic look, Taking the engine to the next time, Most CGI artists who creates films and artworks are more fimilar with Autodesk Maya or Blender as it got better look and control over the lighting and shading, So i wanted to challange that by creating something similar with UE engine, transfering my knowledge in the pre render industy into real time :)

I started with this artwork by downloading the SubwayTrain scene from Epic games marketplace ( I will link all copy rights links at the bottom of the post ) ,After adjusting the lighting and put my spin into it i added the Paragon character into the set creating something creepy ! , a scary witch coming from the other world taking a subway underground to start her mission of distruction ! but hey, gotta avoid traffic first :P

Made with UnrealEngine 5

I have created this artwork with Unreal Engine5, Using Lumen and Movie render que, Movie render que is a better tool than the normal Render Capture in UE, with this tool you can increase your render resolution, as in the movie render que you get more advanced options as Anti Alias and so on, Making sure your render can be as crispy as possible

Scene Setup and render

For the lighting, I kept things simple and clean, 3 Point characer lighting keeping the look contrasted, a front key light and two kick lights from the back, separating the character from the background and adding more details in the shape, As for the train i added few fill lights in the back, without distracting the main focus on the witch, making things more balanced and clean

After setting up my lits, I locked my layout, and prepared for the rendering stage

I made sure to keep the neon lights on in the train, and centered the Character in the middle creating a perfect focus point framing

Close up render

This was an experiment trying different lighting color and different shift in the camera, But it was more of a draft, but it was nice to share to show the progress of my work before reaching out to the final resutls

Different color grade

I wanted to check out how far i could push the look more, just some fun with lightroom trying different Cinematic looks

and this was the icing on the cake ! it was an idea maybe if i get some sponsership i can turn this into a short movie somehow :D , let me know what you guys think ^^