Want to Create blockbuster films without the Hollywood Budget? Kickstart your filmmaking dreams and make your own movies with Unreal Engine 5
Create your own action scenes in 21 days. A guide for beginners to create films inside of Unreal Engine 5
Are you a filmmaker wanting to take your movies and ideas to the next level?
Maybe you're a VFX artist, eager to level up your skills, but scattered YouTube tutorials aren’t solving your problems
Or you're an industry pro, comfortable with Maya, Cinema4D or Blender, but the transition to Unreal feels steep and intimidating
Then you’ve realized the learning path of Unreal and Virtual Production can be unclear.
Master the Fundamentals:
- Go from a beginner to creating your own animated films in days!
- Learn where to download Characters and Environments for FREE
- Build unbelievable Niagara and FX systems created from live-action footage
- Avoid the pitfalls of troubleshooting alone and sifting through endless tutorials
- By the end you’ll be ready to create films with characters and animations
- Chapter 1 - Getting started
- Whether you’re a VFX Artist or Filmmaker, let’s get you up and running fast in Unreal
- Chapter 2 - The basics
- Create your first environment the right way. We’ll start learning Unreal as we go.
- Chapter 3 - Game mode
- Beginners make mistakes because they skip over Game Dev. Guess what. We’re using a Game Engine to make movies. Thankfully, you’ll create your own game in just 30 minutes and focus on what matters for VFX.
- Chapter 4 - Environments
- Build an Environment from Scratch complete with Lighting and FX. By the end of this chapter, you’ll be ready to create environments on your own.
- Chapter 5 - Characters
- Master the complete Character Workflow in Unreal Engine. Learn the workflow for indie Motion Capture.
- Chapter 6 - Materials
- This is the fast-track to mastering materials to turn your environments from flat, boring surfaces into cinematic sets
- Chapter 7 - Lighting
- This is the secret ingredient. Lighting takes your work from amateur to pro. Learn on-set techniques and how to recreate them in Unreal
- Chapter 8 - Niagara
- Create Drag and Drop VFX elements for your scenes. Includes templates for spark hits, dust and debris, and dynamic gun tracer fire.
- Chapter 9 - Putting it Together
- Assemble assets and create a fantasy environment built step-by-step! Master sequencer for final animations and rendering.
- Chapter 10 - Rendering
- Includes my Personal Nuke Render Template and 8 Rendering Presets. Understand how to Render AOVs and comp in NukeX in ACES
- Chapter 11 - Filmmaking
- Combine characters, animations, and environments to create your first shots and direct your first film
- Chapter 12 - Aerial Filmmaking
- Create your own plane battle complete with animation-ready models, and a step-by-step filmmaking guide. Take your shots to the next level and build your first demo reel
- Rendering just became easy
- Create lightning-fast renders with perfect color accuracy. Get full creative control with our AOV and Pathtracing presets.
- Unleash your inner filmmaker
- Learn the fundamental techniques by creating your own films, environments, and previs animations with over 85 lessons in this 18-hour video course. This is the core skill set needed to start working in studios or on-set in Virtual Production.
- Instantly improve your renders
- Steal my EXACT compositing template that I use on commercial projects. This is the secret behind photorealistic VFX, and I’m giving it away completely for free in this program.
- Become a material master
- Two years of Unreal in a single template. Skip the guess work and start making Master Materials like a pro
- Blueprints Simplified
- We’ll demystify blueprints to create your own artist-friendly tools. No, you don’t have to learn to code, you just need to understand logic. No technical programming skills required.
- Hotkeys for cinematics
- Create cinematics faster and discover Hotkeys useful at every skill level in this handy guide!
- A community of filmmakers
- Have a question? Want feedback? Or maybe you’re trying to crew up for your next film. Join our private Unreal Fundamentals Discord and meet the next generation of filmmakers just like you.
- The filmmaker’s glossary
- Cut through the confusion with simple, non-techy explanations of Unreal’s tools and menus. Here’s a written guide focusing on what matters most for filmmaking in Unreal
- We even built a search engine
- Find any answer or technique with a simple search. We built our own AI-powered search engine so you can dig through our 18-hour video library and instantly jump to the right timecode!