Sam's Garage - Experimental Unreal Engine 5 Short Film
Sam's Garage is a 2 minute short film made in Unreal Engine 5 with the help of Autodesk Motionbuilder, Metahuman Creator, Maya, QTM and Blender. It was made for the last assignment of the first semester of Visual Magic VFX21.
Team:
Felix Berglund
Michael Tiedtke
Lukas Lindberg
Mathilda Persson
Sandra Kallaanvaara
The story follows a driver stuck in limbo or a time loop. The driver enters his car and starts trying to get out of the parking garage but the rooms keep repeating. They drive in one direction but keep hitting walls, dead ends or just the same room again. They turn around and try another path. One room has a car phazed through the ground in the middle of the road. From here it starts getting more and more glitchy. Random pillars the driver needs to avoid, more random cars sticking through geometry in weird positions. The environment starts getting more and more glitchy until the end.
The character was created using Epic's Metahumans and were after creation imported into Motionbuilder (MOBU) where we re-targeted the animations from the motion capture session. The VFX of the floor breaking into pieces were made in Blender 3.1 and imported into Unreal as an Alembic cache.
All of the models and the car was from Unreal Marketplace, but the car was rigged with a custom rig using the Control Rig feature in UE5.
Finally the head tracking was made using a Blueprint with a Valve Index and base stations for tracking.
Enjoy!
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