How I Made this LEGO Horizon animation in Unreal Engine 5
Earlier this year I directed this music video for the theme song of LEGO® Horizon Adventures™! And now I'm excited to finally share EXACTLY how we made it. In this new video, I'm breaking down the entire production process from the first pitch to shooting on-set to final animation!
In this video, you'll learn...
✅ How to plan + execute your own animated films in Unreal 5
✅ A full roadmap for live action shoots and animated films
✅ The shortcuts to create stylized lighting + animation
As someone who started out self-taught on YouTube, I always wanted to share EXACTLY how a real-world production is made at a VFX studio, and today you'll learn exactly how it's done!
If you've ever wondered how animations like this are brought to life, you'll finally have a roadmap to do this yourself :D
Thanks to the LEGO Group, Guerilla, PXO, mxmtoon, and Sony for allowing me to share this look behind the scenes
This was such a fun collaboration and only made possible with the incredible animation team at PXO bringing their A-game to every shot!
Check it out and let me know what you think!
Credits to this AMAZING Team + Artists at Pixomondo Innovation Lab
Song - post-post apocalyptic dance party by mxmtoon
Director + VFX Supervisor: Josh Toonen
Chief Innovation Officer: Mahmoud Rahnama
Producer: Linda Vo
Production Manager: Duygu Cuhadaroglu
Art Director: Simone Rizzo
Creative Technology Generalist: Nicole Herr, Joseph Bonilla, Nav Singh @creaturestation
Unreal Generalist: Salva Gómez, Moufid Dechicha, Vladimir Ilic
On Location Crew (Los Angeles)
Global Producer (Moon7): Jacob Crawford
Executive Producer: Kris Roller
Producer: Emileigh Barrett
Live-Action Director: @MitchellMullins
Director Of Photography: Ben Meserve
2nd AC/DIT: Raquel Wajner
Gaffer: Zied Jendoubi
Grip: Samuel Mendoza
Sound Mixer: Anthony Wong
Prop Stylist: Daniella Soltero
Prop Stylist Assistant: Michael Shafer
HMUA: Emily Dimant
Production Assistant: Anton Sereda
Location Owner: Meredith Marshall
Guerrilla
Studio Narrative Director: Ben McCaw
Lead Producer Franchise Development: Tim Symons
Sony
Sr. Director, Business Development: Laurie Kassebaum
and thanks to the Guerrilla team behind LEGO Horizon Adventures for your support and collaboration :D
Chapters
0:00 - We're animating the theme song for LEGO Horizon Adventures
1:11 - How this project got started
1:56 - Inspiration + Concept
3:22 - The First Pitch
4:34 - Writing the Story
5:12 - The Production Schedule
6:20 - Creating the Storyboards
8:18 - The Live Action shoot
10:23 - Building the Environments
12:45 - Animating the Characters
16:32 - Animating the Machines
17:48 - Stylized Lighting in Unreal 5
20:43 - The First Delivery for CES
21:32 - Designing the Action Scenes
22:19 - Thunderjaw's Cave