Until Dawn

Session:Using High-Quality Cinematics To Nail Your Pitch Without Breaking The Bank - Robert Craig.

The presentation outlines a methodology for creating high-quality, cinematic game pitches and trailers using Unreal Engine 5, emphasizing efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

• Unreal Engine 5 tools like Nanite and Lumen allow developers to bypass traditional, time-consuming workflows such as retopology, enabling high-quality cinematics to be produced with minimal budgets and small teams.
• The Metahuman framework, combined with digital casting via 3D scan libraries, allows for efficient creation of realistic characters by ingesting raw scans into the Metahuman rig for shading and animation.
• A physically based lighting and camera workflow—matching real-world lux values for specific times of day to engine directional lights and HDRI—creates consistent, cinematic results that are easily adjustable shot-to-shot.