You got a knack for tutorials.

It's the same thing a "physical" filmmaker does, they don't build a city, they find one, the don't build a house, they find one, and if they do need props made, they are made for their visual attributes, not their actual attributes. Filmmaking is about what is seen, no matter if it's practical, or digital, just focus on what is being seen in the scene. Example, I watched someone recreate a scene in UE5, they created a whole 4km landscape, but the entire scene took place in a vehicle, only a few frames even looked right outside the vehicle, a lot of wasted energy, time, and pixels. This is something I need to remember when planning,... thanks for the video, it helps to put things in perspective when you feel overwhelmed.

Stunning work! I lost my breath thinking they were gonna throw the dog into the fire. Beautiful story and amazing animation work!

It seems I am talking to Myself when I was listening to you man in this video. I was bit confused regarding who I am and what I am doing in this huge 3D world. For creating my own dream film I wanted to be everyone in the Production Pipeline. But I am now clear and realized that I am a Virtual Film maker from bottom of my Heart . Three Points you said are well acknowledged. Thanks. This will help in putting efforts in right directions. Waiting for your future videos.

Thank you. we are waiting you next lesson

Thank you. Please how you did in time 0:17 the character is very nice .. when you will explain this??

I just subscribed to this channel. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. For The Empire!

Very good advice, thank you

Thanks for the video

Considering how compatible Iclone and Unreal Engine are, I was expecting a much more smoother migration process between them. Don't get me wrong, it's still immensely easy but adjusting the roughness of the models, tearline and scalp timeline etc. it's driving me crazy. Although limiting, I found myself buying assets from Reallusion store and working solely on Iclone for rendering my videos. Maybe it was their plan all along 🥲

I always have problems doing this facial animation, and I appreciate you go step by step to show how to do it using facial puppet and face key.

Plz bring a course on it

Well done! Very Touching

Wow your video spoke to me directly, it justified what I was already gathering which is "I Dont need to master everything.. Keep your eye on whats most important, Film Making!" Much appreciated

I love your vids. I look forward to a longer, detailed, 'making an animated film.' Maybe charge for it!

Love your work, but I'd prefer the term Human over creatives.

Thank you, but how you set up the light >> please any video explain this

"PromoSM" ☝️

The era will soon begin where we will have the News and the "Nooz," no one in a very soon to be future, will be ABLE to tell the difference between a speech from the President or Prime Minister, or a "talk from the Prez, or the Prym", if you follow. I suppose what I'm trying to say, is as soon as those lip-sync problems are solved, who will be able to tell one from the other? We truly will be in "the Matrix." What say a flesh and blood human leader, though merely an "underling", gets a crazy idea, like a real life "How I Learned to Stop Worrying, and Love the Bomb?" And have "the Prez" give us all a ten minute speech on "why I let the Bombs fly," while we're all stunned, like 9/11, hundreds of millions of people around the World just simply sitting, glued to the screen, Mr A.I Prez, the President of the USA, tells us why we all had to "die." ... And just like that, "Transmission Ended"

AI is machine learning which means Sora will need source material to learn from. When I look at the examples, it is pretty clear that the results are just a synthesis of video materials that the AI has consumed. For example, the Gold Rush town video has the same quality as many old western movies made in the 1950s and 60s. The source material is obvious. Sora results will never be better than the source material. In order to get better, Sora will need more and better source material and where will that come from? Human filmmakers. The reality is that everything Sora produces is just derivative content.

I feel like AI content lowering the barrier to entry for creation will just lead to an excess of low to mid-quality content and making it harder to find good stuff -- even harder than it is now. I think that this may lead to a burst of new content followed by a massive decline when people realize how hard it is to 1) make good content 2) get people to care about it. I hope that this will lead to more curator-type apps, websites and algorithms that are designed to promote good quality content. I believe that many of these employers who are laying off their talent will find themselves in competition with these same talents, as AI will make it easier for people to get their projects off the ground. You can get an AI to write code for you. You can get it to make all your graphics for you. You can get it to help you write a story. Perhaps we'll get to a point where we can get AI to generate 3D assets for you. And as the tech gets better, we may reach a point far off the future where all creative media has had no human input unless regulations are put in place or more techy artists / programmers fight back with anti-AI technology like Glaze and Nightshade. I don't know what the future holds for real creatives, but I guess we'll see.

Loved it! Thank you for posting this. :)

Thank you, how you make the color or the lighting in your shot on UE for your character its is fantastic

Well, economies are headed for a crash. In the extreme people may no longer afford to get online and content creators dependent on subcribers and patreon will take huge hits and may have to close down. We may encounter what the DUNE universe called the "Famine Times". No one is going to have the luxury to indulge in these new toys. Also, currently, google's AI is being raked over the coals. The piblic are already souring on AI.

Yup. I see both sides as I want images for my stories on my website but I can’t afford to hire artists to make them. So I am both a creator and a customer. I want both and I am sure there are a lot of people that feel the same way. But I have a question, aren’t companies already replacing talented artists with cheap low-wage hacks already? I predict that the talented artists will use AI to elevate the quality and scope of their art.

On one hand, tech bro's have a long history of overpromising and lying through their teeth on the long term capabilities of their technology. On the other, this is stuff should be scaring us, at the very least raising awareness of the consequences of this technology is important. I can see studios racing to adapt this tech and, hopefully, getting painfully costly bad results.

I was just listening to a podcast earlier today where they quoted George Lucas lamenting that the Soviet movie makers of the time had more freedom in their works because the Hollywood movies always had to be money focused and that really limited what he could do. Love this, would love to see more.

inspired by your vids. struggling to learn unreal but hopefully starting to get somewhere. i managed to quickly make part 1 to get a workflow using the master sequence/shots and now focusing on part 2. its already alot better visually ,animation and camera then part 1 so i think just making stuff start to finish has helped getting head around the process. i dont have expierence making real videos so am also learning cinematography/editing aspect too which iam finding isnt easy :} ..link to part 1 kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5DbZ4V3mrxkgLM

BRAVO! Both of our journeys through the jungle of 3D are so close it's uncanny, and it is so refreshing to hear it relayed with such encouragement to others that want to create 3D films. Reallusion and Unreal Engine 5 have been my 'god send'. I came upon a cross roads not too long ago where I was trying to learn absolutley everything, and achieving nothing. I had seen the way Blender animation could look, and I wanted so much to emulate it in my own productions - but I, like you, am not a 3D animator; moreso because of the time it takes and how much time it takes away from all the other aspects of 3D filmmaking. I realised after learning what I could of Z-Brush, Blender, and Maya - that I also was not a modeller, but I learned the theory behind it, and it helped immeasurably. Deep diving into Unreal Engine and Character Creator 4/iClone 8 has been such an amazing experience and it was the right decision for 'me', not the most popular choices, but it was for me, and me alone, and I'm very happy with the results. One thing that has recently occured to me though, totally out of the blue, is after all this learning I started to doubt myself. It was if I was all-of-a-sudden fearful that I wouldn't be able to achieve the visions I had in my head. I realised that I was doing far too many tutorials and taking way too many notes. In order to get back in the game I had to go back to square one and just start buliding, making, creating and imagining from scratch again. When I didn't know how to do something I stopped, looked it up, learned it, achieved it, and then moved on until the whole idea had been realised. I have learned and retained more about Unreal Engine this way rather than sitting through long 8 hour courses. BTW thanks for the iClone Lip Sync video - you will never know how much this has helped me. Truly.

How much time it took for complete production?

Damn.. this was a cool video and really makes me think about my 3d path so far. Entered the world of 3d 6 months ago and spent a lot for time with modelling. This last month i've discovered Reallusion software and its making me think i'm more interested in "film making" as you put it, rather than the step by step process of modelling, texturing, animation etc Really given a few things to think on and you results usig the software speak for themselves. Great work.

Disney is cancer to Hollywood, it needs to be removed.

I think with games and movie entertainment people are getting into 3D to take matter in their own hands due to corporate failures on projects or not being in sync with fans instead do the opposite which can get quite frustrating. I'm getting into 3D I'm a person with great ideas and have different talents, with drawing, music and sound design. Now that I see 3D is getting easier with other potentials like making cartoons it's a great investment to start learning it now especially with ai on the rise. If you are smart with it you can deliver high production value yourself.

Thought this might be a re-released video😅 thought I slipped back a few weeks cause half way through I swore I had seen this exact video already. Great info as always! 🤙

I describe myself the same way. The reason I initially picked up Blender was because I wanted to use it for a VFX shot. I describe myself as a filmmaker who uses 3D to tell stories. I don’t call myself an animator.

Good stuff! I'd also be interested in your methods of stylizing your characters. I've got a few that I've stylized and I'm pretty happy with it, but curious what other people do.

Comment for the algorithm but very interesting to learn about this.

thats me. i am a filmmaker using 3d animation. i have several. feature films out already

Wow, the honesty that was just shared is worthy of an award as well as “For the Empire”.

I’m going on the 3d animation path and want to use unreal facilitated the production going after (texturing, vfx, environment,…)

I like your thinking. Thanks!

Sound thinking and great inspiration!! Thanks so much. Love your work as well!

Perfect timing, I'm building a pc this weekend.

Thank you for this

Thanks , you is the best.

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Did you learn blueprints?

If you're going to create a film-making course, I'm interested.