'Faerie' - Unreal Engine 5.4 short film

Hello there,
It's been a while. 2024 so far has been fiilled with lots of project work and I recently finished my biggest solo project of my career, which was a hybrid fashion show with Unreal Engine. After working on that for quite a while, I finally felt the urge to get back to Unreal for personal work, and whenever I do so, I try to find a way to test something new or something I haven't done before. And so I came to RealityCapture becoming free to use with Unreal Engine as of 5.4. I'd used it before, but now it's free I allowed myself to go a bit bigger and I went for a walk in my local forest, photoscanning every interesting treeroot I could find. When placing a metahuman next to that high resolution photoscanned model, I suddenly got an idea. An idea about faeries.
There is a whole lot of metahuman editing, marvelous designer simulating and niagara particle system-ing going on here. Let me know what you like about this and if you would like to see some evil spirits in a next video. I might just revisit this Faerie on her adventures yet.
Cheers,
Sam
Music Track: IngwaR - Wardruna
SoundFX from Artlist.io

[@veith3dclub]

Love the visuals!! And the anamorphic lens the most

[@sunny99179]

very good! with wardruna music it is so incredible! i really wonder to make some animations as well..i think you gave me an idea,instead of do it inside blender,start on unreal with metahuman, just some shorts videos

[@silkevanderbeck323]

Amazing! Great work

[@yochintohere]

Has vibes from HellsBlade's Senua. So cool

[@upcomingvillain]

That was really cool!

[@WillyCash69]

Concept is eerie at first, visuals are top notch though!

[@celestejamar1849]

I love this!!

[@mistercardenas]

man, so good!

[@galinmonev]

Loved it😊

[@Daniil_Melititcky]

wow>good job

[@eriklarsson7933]

Inspiring video!

[@fictionhomedesigns]

Woww bro Amazing

[@Matitos3D]

Me encanta 👏

[@Native_Creation]

More please

[@BibhabRaj]

This is cool, great job!

[@vasiliiiakovlev8234]

looks damn good man! would love to see vfx breakdown or behind the scene style video on this short film

[@CinePinda]

Cool Sam!

[@thebridge6701]

Really crazy work! Love the creativity. Though was wondering, did you you use any particular software for facial and body mocap?

[@samgielen]

Foe the body mocap I used rokoko, with the Smartsuit Pro II, and a little cleanup of the shoulders and hands afterwards, and for the face mocap I just used metahuman animator!

[@thebridge6701]

​@@samgielenSince you are more experienced, I just wanted to ask. For facial mocap, do you think metahuman animator is the best thing out there (keeping cost effectivity in mind) or are there any other softwares worth the upgrade? Also is rokoko headrig (costing $300) worth the purchase?

[@samgielen]

@@thebridge6701 I’ve only ever used Metahuman Animator, but it’s most definitely the best free to use tool out there. When it comes to the rokoko headrig though… I have it, but the position of the phone on the rig is too close. You lose depth data for metahuman animator use. So you get lesser quality. I’m not sure if I would buy it again.

[@thebridge6701]

@@samgielen Thanks for taking the time to reply mate. Appreciate it!

[@CraziestBoat]

How long did it take you to make this amazing short film?

[@samgielen]

@@CraziestBoat I think 4-5 working days if you would count the hours :)

[@cubaf7]

love it but decrease the noise from video,

[@Cripton94]

The most boring piece of work I've ever seen, I didn't understand anything, 3 minutes of weird metahuman animation

[@mehranvaysee8927]

Boring, please tell a good story

[@samgielen]

Boring, please show me you can do better ☺️😘

[@mazreds]

Amazing work !!!