Forest Path - Cinematic

Forest Path was created in a week using Unreal Engine 4.25, with a focus on layout, lighting and rendering, sourcing all the assets from #Quixel's #Megascan library and #Epic's Marketplace.

The only parts that did not come from an existing asset library was the path, created in #Maya, and applied to that, a blend material, created in Unreal's Material Editor. Whilst the colour grade was done in Unreal, #Nuke was used to apply the DOF (rendered as a custom depth pass, see below) and crop factor which provided a higher quality output, with more control.

The project outcome on the whole is successful but there are definitely aspects to Unreal that I'm still working out - rendering, for example, has a lot of limitation coming from a VFX background, but then it is a games engine where the emphases is maybe not on VFX quality cinematics (yet).

Useful Resource - Wiktor Öhman tutorial - Create a Forest in UE4 in 1 Hour - got me started.