Japan - Unreal Engine 5 Cinematic Scene

This time I tried to create Realistic Realtime Scene in Unreal Engine 5 and here are the final results. This Project really helped me to learn Realtime Lighting, Material Creations, Photorealistic Texturing and much more.
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[@GrillOctopus]

I am Japanese. This CG is exactly the Japanese scenery I see when I commute to work.

[@jurajchobot]

Just imagine that around 2012 it would take 2 weeks for a million dollar computer to render such a video. Fantastic job. Never underestimate the power of well written software. It can take you far.

[@Tactic3d]

and well designed processor!

[@vladyslavserdiuk2893]

Just imagine, in 2012 you could say anything you want on KZbin. Imagine, in 2012 there were movies without: Actors by quota, and the correct ratio of straight / gay, women / men (of course, men and women do not exist, there is only a gender that you invent for yourself) as a percentage. It's certainly cool that computing power has jumped ahead. But what is the price for this? What happened to the games? They make AAA shit WITHOUT SOUL on the pipeline, with quotas and microtransactions. The world has not only taken a step towards virtual reality, it has also taken a leap towards Anti-utopia... I have RTX 3080 and I play.... Unreal Tournament 1998, Warcraft 3, Indie games... I tried playing most of the modern AAA games. Boring, I always play for several hours, and then quit playing. We have a realistic Control game, but I would rather enjoy Warcraft 3 than Control....

[@unrealsimon93]

​@@vladyslavserdiuk2893 cringe

[@ssabykoops]

@@vladyslavserdiuk2893 you ok ? would you go outside for some fresh air please.

[@Selrisitai]

@@vladyslavserdiuk2893 Meanwhile, as the technology improves, and the efficiency of making games, independent creators are becoming more relevant, which means that creativity is on the rise!

[@elck3]

That’s pretty incredible. Meaning most of it looks unreal but some parts still need work. Like the furniture and the soda machine, things generally when they’re zoomed in. Not dissing your effort, just the limits of this technology

[@meshmonde]

Thanks for your Feedback! Yes I agree with you buddy. The glass of soda machine is not looking good at all. Maybe next time I'll try to use Raytracing. 🙂

[@bradleymcwilliams3139]

@@meshmonde 5.1 will have a fix for lumen reflections on glass (a "high quality" option in the PP)

[@meshmonde]

That's good news🥳

[@BakeTanuki]

The quality is beyond Japanese technology, it is indistinguishable from reality, it is not a bizarre mixture of Chinese or Korean that resembles Japan overseas, but the correct Japan, and I am sure most Japanese, including myself, cannot distinguish the difference. It's too much, it's genius.

[@richardede9594]

Seriously??? This video looks AMAZING.

[@httkback5334]

日本への理解度がすごすぎる　わかりやすい都会とか田舎じゃなくて、廃れた駅前の町みたいになのがまた素晴らしい

[@yasinkaratas8679]

👌

[@markycee7092]

I would love to see this in 4K 60fps natively. This is kind of like listening to a live classical music concert through a telephone. Scene is beautiful though!

[@hola1235ify]

Just imagine a Shemnue remake with these grafics. WOW!

[@MrSvante88]

My exact thought lol. If a shenmue looking like this came out I’d move into it and never come out.

[@eduuklee9453]

dont blame everything on the graphics. to make a game look good it needs design and custom level building piece by piece and scene by scene. Most developers just do not want to put the work, they rather use random generated stuff that looks semi convincing to save as much time as possible. the general strategy for all developers is getting as much work done in the shortest period of time as possible. They could create something that looks alot better than this but they dont need to

[@lets_see_777]

or Yakuza

[@adijaya4517]

and also Tenchu or Yakuza

[@takedown243]

shenmue is china, this should be Yakuza

[@-Burs]

Great work! If only there were no micro-stuttering (or is it just me?), it would be near perfect.

[@bluediamond2309]

Massive stuttering.

[@vladyslavserdiuk2893]

Shuttering, 1/10 animations, 20 fps, no Anti-Aliasing, shimmering puddles.

[@kbaldeo]

Excessive stuttering. This should be deleted.

[@syndromeX]

You are right camera stutters a bit when panning sideway

[@Freshbott2]

It could be the recording or maybe they’ve got multiple GPUs. If you just build an environment in UE you shouldn’t expect it to stutter normally.

[@Pluvillion]

The imperfections are what makes the whole composition look more realistic. People complain about the stuttering while I love it because it reminds me of uploaded media in which the video compressor wasn't able to do its job right and causes hitches in framerate. I love it.

[@centurionstrengthandfitnes3694]

mid and long range shots are incredible and believable (I live in Japan and, if you'd not told me it was UE5, I'd have sworn some of these shots were real!). Only the close range shots and the camera movements, and as someone else said, repeated patterns, give it away. Frankly, this is incredible work!

[@meshmonde]

Thanks Buddy😇

[@OhtaniEvolution]

I do love the atmosphere of rainy Japan in this video!

[@redsamurai192]

absolutely incredible. the amount of detail is astounding. everything seems smooth and natural that it feels so real.

[@yakizakek2995]

暖簾に「おはようございます」「おはようございます」と二つ書かれているのが 日本人としてはなんだか奇妙で恐ろしい。 看板の日本語が変だし間違っているが、 逆にそれがCGのクオリティもあいまり 現実っぽいのにそうではない異世界観を出していて面白く感じる。

[@ryolee_yt]

凄すぎる。日本人としても嬉しい🇯🇵👍

[@ShaneMcGrath.]

Extremely impressive, 👍 Blows my mind how far we have come, I still remember playing the original Pong. This new engine though is on another level compared to other graphics engines, We are going to be amazed at the upcoming game worlds in the next few years. I can't wait to see this in VR especially, Will seem like you are the star in a movie.

[@mrlightwriter]

@@GhostInTheShell888 Well, with at least 8k in each eye. It will take a while to get there...

[@unfgames]

Amazing! Love the lightning, the mood, the little details moving, super realistic!

[@meshmonde]

Glad you like it!

[@doingmypart666]

funny .. i hate the lightning, so fake it hurts my eyes .. games almost never do it right past 15 years

[@AlessandroSchiassi]

Overall impressive scene! As a fellow UE5 artist, here is my constructive criticism: While the wetness helps a lot, the rain itself is terrible. Drops are too big and mostly in front of the camera, like they were composited after. No ripples from the impact. They were also very vertical, while the wind would have them fly diagonally. The wind was too strong, it was distracting. If you are using the Quixel wind system that comes with the Black Alder tree pack, you should increase the noise, otherwise all the elements move at the same time. I'd just cut it to a minimum, especially if you get rid of the rain (but keep the puddles). Last but not least, some camera movements were too artificial and clean. One of the selling points of the UE5 train station by Drago was the handheld movement of the camera. You don't have to do handheld, but you could still create dolly and crane movements you'd be able to do in real life. Or at least with a drone. The shot at 1:18 is VERY fake. You should also keep it nice and sweet, just a few shots (your best ones) and you are good to go! Anyway, cograts again, everything else I didn't mention was amazing!

[@meshmonde]

Thank You Buddy for your valuable feedback. I will definitely try to improve these things :)

[@berdel]

Second this, the first thing that jumped to me was that there seemed to be a lot of wind on objects, but not on the rain which was pretty calm. But great job nevertheless

[@Nonameron]

Personally, I don't mind the smooth camera movements. They yell artificial, but I interpret that as stylized realism. Something that is better than the actual counterpart

[@giannilyanicks1718]

he just do what he could

[@AlessandroSchiassi]

@@giannilyanicks1718 He could do better and he thanked me for the feedback. You are welcome to ignore it, I even congratulate him because the work is great overall.

[@ТемурТурсунбаев-л8ю]

felt some raindrops on my head after watching this ) good job

[@meshmonde]

Haha! Thank You 😊

[@Tezorus]

The overall impression is very good. I would say that the Ao is a bit strong but you nailed the almost shadowless lighting of a rainy day. Great work.

[@meshmonde]

Thanks so much for your feedback! 😊

[@getsthespacehawk4839]

すごいね本物のようなCGではなくてCGっぽくした本物の映像のような感じがする

[@Ascent62]

Bro, it`s more realistic than real life! Looks insane!

[@alexvladi_mm]

These details and atmosphere! Absolutely stunning. Feeling like home.

[@meshmonde]

Glad you like it! 😊

[@jamesgreen2495]

I like the rain and ground texturing is so real.

[@realitycapturehk-danny915]

Extremely incredible! Amazing and great work!

[@meshmonde]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@thecatishere.]

Awesome, I wish it were rendered at 60fps but i guess this alone took more than a week of rendering.

[@DidierLegrand]

He says in the presentation that it is real time

[@unnamed7462]

60 fps looks like animation/game, 24 fps is movie standard/cinematic, 30 fps look like phone recording, and FYI in UE5 if you not using path tracing that only took a couple of minutes to render

[@quasi-intellecual3790]

@@unnamed7462 Animation also uses 24fps.

[@unnamed7462]

@@quasi-intellecual3790 yeah, also animation uses 12 fps too

[@hamkatsuya]

Great Work! 日本の風景っぽさがすごいですね！

[@blairco]

Its when the patterns repeat that we spot the real and digital. This is getting close.

[@danielkuttel7867]

You almost got my wife. I didn't tell her that this was UE5, at 1:31 the wind in the tree was too artificial. At 1:41 the lights don't react correctly when the wind moved the entrance. But it was very hard for her to see, that this is not real. It's stunning.

[@furthergr884]

You may received constructive feedbacks but I really admire this type of rendering lighting texturing it is just pheonmenal I thought it was real all the time thank you for your works.

[@meshmonde]

and thank you for your kind words :)

[@Godmil]

Really great sense of atmosphere in the scene, makes me just want to be there.

[@meshmonde]

Thanks a ton!

[@radgamerrach]

We’re coming closer to realistic virtual reality in gaming. Well done

[@doingmypart666]

people said that 20 years ago and they will say it in 20 years too .. if you think this is close to reality, you lack any sense of realism

[@simonvalent]

@@doingmypart666 i mean, if you've really tried VR you would know it won't take 20years to get to a sufficient level to feel it real

[@simonvalent]

and seeing the incredible improvement rate we are having.. it is almost surely going to be very impressive in less than 20 years.. 22 years ago was released the Playstation 2 :D

[@pinkpocketTV]

This is amazing! Keep up the good work!

[@meshmonde]

Thank you so much!

[@NaniNandatoDoyukotodaE]

これは凄い。 変な日本語が無かったら現実そのもの。

[@anemoia000]

刃速和命

[@Aero3D]

I want to see this in VR! Beautiful work!!

[@meshmonde]

Thanks Man!

[@pravinhatkar]

@@meshmonde Amazing Need tutorial for this Please make tutorial on this video

[@ToNi-go5pn]

Looks incredible, Amazing.

[@e-frame5344]

Oh the stutter is beautiful, but the rest is unbelievably EPIC!

[@JerseyJester]

thought the same thing...... "that stutter tho!"

[@kunze50]

Really good! The physics of the swinging lamps is the only things to throw me off. They seem to be made of extra lightweight materials

[@solortus]

That's scary realistic. If it wasn't for the stuttering people would think it was real. The still images look so convincing

[@jso19801980]

i hope youll make a walking game with this scene for us grown up people, just walking around and exploring

[@timewastinghero]

That looks incredible! Just imagining it populated with AI Metahumans. Great work

[@meshmonde]

Yes, i tried, even vehicles :) But they were too heavy for my GPU😄

[@timewastinghero]

@@meshmonde shame. But a fantastic effort. It’s so realistic!

[@wivvix]

The textures and scene detail is impressive. There was some micro-stutter. Wind physics and lighting aren't quite there yet. The tree at 1:30 was shaking briskly back and forth despite being heavily sheltered from wind. The lanterns were constantly swaying, many in sync like a pendulum - not independently, and they weren't affected sequentially by wind (as in real physics). There was weird shimmering off the pavement as the camera pulled back at 1:50.

[@Soluchi-InfiniteCoCreatorGod]

Incredible work. 😊👍💯

[@meshmonde]

Thank you so much 😀

[@osushi-g3x]

すげえ、、暖簾の言葉が変なことくらいしかツッコミどころがない。。

[@johnny5805]

If this were posted on, say, a Japan themed KZbin channel, like 'Abroad in Japan', as a real video of somewhere in Japan, you really wouldn't know it wasn't real.

[@asinagaritoru]

This is next stage.

[@Yigit_Hacioglu]

When i was like 8-9 years old and saw Mortal Kombat 1 at Arcade, asked myself how much a game graphic can be developed more? This is incredible...

[@abibackground]

woah,, speechless. Great work, man

[@meshmonde]

Thanks a lot!

[@Xavwanderboy]

Great attention to detail :)

[@meshmonde]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@PashaDefragzor]

VR chill room, nextgen rekall tours

[@ntonAnton]

OMG OMG OMG thats just aweseeeeomeeeee! would be great to see the procces of making this scene!!

[@meshmonde]

Noted! 😇

[@digimikeh]

A cloudy day that handles this kind of realism is REALLY HARD to do.. congratulations.

[@rhcorr]

Amazing how far we've come. IMHO though, the asphalt and sidewalk are too reflective. I believe the tarmac and stones are porous and uneven materials, and as such would reflect light much more diffusely than portrayed here (except for the puddles). Everything else is extremely well-done and I would love to explore the environment. Lastly, I'm not sure if it's on my end but the video was very shaky. I had a hard time focusing my eyes on a single object because of this and it's a bit uncomfortable to watch.

[@realcolormusic]

Without your title, I would have thought it is real. Only after 01:00 I could see that it is made by you. But I watched it on the phone. Still impressiv.

[@ayaneayane7215]

Awesome.

[@nyaa104]

Amazing. Effort is clear. Epic is certainly pushing it to limits

[@meshmonde]

Thanks a ton!

[@shingo336]

Wow! Just amazing.

[@meshmonde]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@dietrichdietrich7763]

I love Japan, so awesome!

[@blacksmoketv2023]

This is incredible! If it wasn’t for some details of the white led lights at the beginning , the vending machine and some camera movements i would totally buy it. Good job!

[@abc-ku8rc]

omg..... great work!

[@meshmonde]

Thank you so much 😀

[@horisonkhang9245]

GREATE WORK! might be nitpicking but rain drops does not go the way the wind blows

[@earm5779]

Playing a game with this graphics would be very immersive

[@yabuharunoka6845]

Wowwwwww Perfect, But we need a minimum of 60 Hz frame is required

[@korganos]

Insane uncanny valley. Some ideas: in real life, 2 things are never constant: lens effect (flare, abberation, bokeh, geometric distortion) and white balance. So perhaps adding some of those randomized elements can add to the realism.

[@meshmonde]

Thank You Buddy for your suggestions. I'll try those :)

[@ZypexM]

Despite the people in the comments here sitting comfortably on their high horses despite still working on their toon shader in blender. This is literally some of the best work i have seen ever when it comes to straight up realism, in both offline and realtime rendering. Fuckin hell man. you gotta track some Camera movement and put it out on tik tok, make it go viral.

[@meshmonde]

Thank you so much for motivating😀

[@myxomatosisity9977]

UE5 is insane!!!

[@GakuranHituji]

すげぇぇぇぇぇぇ。これでゲーム作って欲しい!

[@meshmonde]

😇😇

[@MrJinsuke]

怖っわ CGだったのか… 「おはようございます」ってw

[@osobq]

I'm Japanese. How beautiful work!

[@meshmonde]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@nicolascorre6830]

I want to travel there. Stunning work ✌️

[@3dd205]

Wow, congratulations! VERY realistic! I subscribe to your channel to wait for your next releases. Just wow.

[@meshmonde]

Thank you so much!

[@nyorohebi7318]

建物は村上市にある『千年鮭きっかわ』ですよね。ウオロクもあって新潟県民としては何だか嬉しい。

[@isurupradeepa]

Amazing. This is some nxt level stuff. 👌

[@meshmonde]

Thank you 🙌

[@hanz_artworkz5346]

this is amazing! I Love it !

[@wutdafeezi]

This is awesome

[@jostasizzi818]

This looks amazing please work on the cinematography next you did an excellent job it seems your computer specs limits you in getting into more realism at this point but still I love it all the way how you did this Maybe some material didn't seems really realistic imo it was a loophole maybe like some non-artist like me can able to see it,hope to see more projects in future from you

[@meshmonde]

Thank You Buddy! You got it 😀. Wanna add alot more details like humans, vehicles and more small details, but unfortunately wasn't able to do it because of spec limit. But will try to do it in next project 😇

[@GodOpadna]

あ、これすげーや。 昭和に取り残された現代日本として全く違和感がない。 これインド人が作ったらしいのが驚き。 この人の他のモデリングもちょっと見てみたいね。

[@vankyer]

I can't wait for the next decade of games.

[@anihiyoko]

holy! from Japan.You did real great job.Maybe I passed through this city a few weeks ago ;)

[@meshmonde]

So cool!

[@RYO-B4]

瓦の上の室外機がいい味出してるな。

[@meshmonde]

😊

[@yanzhihan6576]

That's awesome

[@user-ph9lb5ys9s]

I am totally confused! Thumbs up!👍

[@loudspider316]

Some terrific stuff going on in there, huge number of different camera angles etc, nicely done. Two comments, you likely already know: Firstly you might try increasing the camera frame rate a little to bring down the stuttering on pans, even if you've got it set appropriately subjectively more frames might remove some of the juddering (and I've shot stuff at 24/25p myself and afterward thought: crikey, that's got some judder), and likewise a longer exposure time might make the rain blobs a little more smooth tho generally your motion blur looks fine. You can actually bring a bunch of post tools to bear as well if you'd rather not re-render, like Twixtor which will generate intermediate frames to smooth, and there's a few AI tools now on that list. Overall, a lot of effort and nicely done!

[@meshmonde]

Thanks You Buddy :) I will definitely try to use that tool.

[@chunzprocessor]

Outstanding! I'm pure Japanese but this is unbleathably realistic! What a great work! It would be more perfect if you replace the words "いらっしゃいませ" instead of "おはようございます".

[@Danjovisagat]

Looks really good, i like the atmosphere and can see the potential from this. I really hope you can get improved hardware for rendering this, some youtubers who complain are looking for 4K 60fps. This is a really nice demo, keep doing what your doing.

[@meshmonde]

Thank You Buddy for your kind words :)

[@hybridroid]

imagine VR in such quality... We're getting there

[@hugoguarch]

Really good job I would recommend using a software that will capture camera movement in order to get s more realistic vibe if not adding some camera shake in davinci resolve may do the job INCREADIBLE MODELS THO REALLY REALISTIC

[@meshmonde]

Thank You Buddy :)

[@WARASUBOFACTORY]

日本語さえ無ければかなり良い感じ。しかし時々、変な日本語が目に入って来る度に「ああコレは外人が考えるおかしなニホンなんだな」と現実に引き戻される。つまり逆説的に言えば、ネイティブでは無い人が外国の風景をCG作画する場合には、その画面内の言葉や文字を徹底的に排除するか、或いは実際の現地画像などから抽出した文言を加工せずにそのまま貼り付ける様にすれば違和感がかなり抑えられると思う。

[@TA-xw1lx]

ここでの試みはあくまでレンダリングのリアルさなので、文字などはまぁ笑

[@Constantinesis]

The only thing that gives it away is the camera movement. Congrats !

[@gamogm8234]

ue5 definitely a good tool to make short flim than actually game :D

[@uzi5446]

素晴らしい作り込み

[@user-Taru2119]

のれんの日本語で？？？ってなるけど他がめっちゃ綺麗ですごい…！！！ 京都の観光地からちょっと外れたところっぽさがすごい好きです

[@boedillard4541]

ok - this is FANTASTIC. Please consider making No One Lives Forever 3 with this same level of detail. I think it would be my new favorite game!

[@sakuuu6296]

damn, this is sick

[@Im_DJ]

I used memc to increase framerate , it became smooth af

[@wakka53i]

日本そのまますぎて実写なんじゃないかと疑ってしまった、すみません。最高です

[@Aldraz]

It may be just 10 FPS, but honestly I am not even surprised. Hopefully with next-gen GPUs we will be able to run games that looks like this in real-time (at least 30 FPS).. would be really a big step forward.

[@meshmonde]

New Gen Graphics can Run this Scene on more than 40FPS. It is well optimized :)

[@Manddos]

Sick!

[@Romeo615Videos]

that shit look fire bro

[@jmadmachine9819]

Plot twist, this was actual footage from camera posted as unreal engine 5

[@yashmunankarmy6120]

Beautiful work

[@nightofshanghai]

I think if you reduce the saturation just a little bit, it will bring it closer to reality.

[@meshmonde]

Noted Sir! Thank You for feedback.