How I Create Photoreal 3D Environments using Unreal Engine 5 | Art Breakdown

[@currenluna]

"inspired by the thought, 'If I can think it, I can create it'" -- that's exactly why I started making 3D art, too! great video, Clint!

[@pwnisher]

Heck yeah!

[@zensation.]

Same

[@boohoo5419]

and then he used an AI to THINK and pushed 10 ads to the viewer? 20 days rofl..

[@KatzeKriegerin]

@@boohoo5419 right lmao. "I can create anything... as long as a machine does it for me."

[@Basilisk_Eternal]

@@boohoo5419 Its called reference you mong

[@AjitheshGuruprasad]

You know what I like about Pwnisher's video is that he makes the most complicated things look so easy! Such an entertaining yet informative video. Keep it coming! 🤙

[@pwnisher]

Glad you enjoyed Ajith!

[@sotomonte_]

My goodness! The real time nature of UE shines on this breakdown, what a pleasure to watch through your process in such a good looking and fun way. Keep up the incredible art and videos! 🙌🙌

[@Starcle-Studio]

Epic changed the game

[@pwnisher]

Much love Soto!

[@GhostUEP]

ure insane man, ive been following you since 2012 and you always inspire me

[@pwnisher]

Glad to hear you're still checking in =] Thanks for watching for all these years.

[@Enders]

Been using Kitbash 3D stuff for a long time, Its a endless amount of fun, especially when they give it away free. You did a great job on this mate.

[@dfa_evans]

These breakdown videos are some of my favourite ones on the channel! So sick seeing the workflow of such a long project broken down

[@Shape1999]

Your breakdowns are always so clean, so calming and motivating at the same time, well done!

[@pwnisher]

Yaaaaay! Glad you enjoyed this one =]

[@coma13794]

7:25 "oh my goodness...WHAT if there is a fire?" That was a nice break in the tempo. Amazing editing and pacing throughout. Learning a ton just by watching. The cable simulation was a mind blower.

[@lejostin6826]

Your work is really inspiring. I spent years of studying computer science only to discover 3D art a bit more than a year ago (after seeing your challenges). I'm still afraid to start over and fully commit to it but your content is really pushing me to do so. If one day I become a 3D artist, it will be thanks to you 🤙🏼

[@pwnisher]

Incredible. Hey I mean, you can just start doing it as a hobby and see where it goes.

[@turbochargedfilms]

@@pwnisher hey, I know it seems like a tiny thing, but such a statement coming from someone of your stature does actually mean a lot. I'm a music producer by trade, and 3D art has always scared me because of how consistently shit I've been at all forms of 2D art, but this comment and this video in general is what finally got me to download UE5. Can't wait to create some album art, at the very least!

[@JulesOtway]

13:27 In case anyone can't find the MF_tiling function. You need to make sure you import at least one asset from bridge before searching for it. Adding any asset from bridge will load the mspresets folder into your content folder with all of their material functions along with it.

[@samuelbreuer]

i have absolutely no idea what you where doing and am not at all familiar to animation but boy - I was captured for 20 minutes and in a totally different world. Thanks!

[@JonathanWinbush]

Awesome breakdown so far beautiful 🤙🏾

[@pwnisher]

Yooooo, thanks a ton Winbush! Much appreciated dude.

[@TavishMusicOfficial]

Not gonna lie. I thought this was a tutorial for the screen cube - cuz that itself just looked cool. When I saw you creating the whole freakin warehouse my mind jumped off a cliff. Absolutely incredible work!

[@scorpion666lair]

Same here!

[@quochungang4200]

this piece of art was too perfect to be exist. wow, really impressive. Keep up the brilliant works man, i think u deserved to get more recognition. Loving it, pwnisher.

[@DarkSpaceStudios]

I'm glad you're making videos like this Clint. It's enjoyable to watch your process and I learn so much each time. Your talent shines in these videos. Thank you for sharing

[@samsara5333]

dude, what you are doing with these competitions is just amazing and greatly valuable for 3d art. thank you. :)

[@swiftuplift5207]

Clint - That tutorial was SO GOOD. It’s been so long since I’ve watched something so informative and entertaining. Thanks for reigniting my fire for 3D. And thanks for being such a chill dude to talk to at Half Rez in Chicago this year! This is Stephen btw - hope you can still find time to watch some more Jackie Chan movies like “Operation Condor”!

[@pwnisher]

Yooooo! Thanks for saying hey and for the super kind words! I hope to be back in Chicago for Half Rez agian next year!

[@Fafmagic]

Looks really good. Just an optimisation tip… on your scaffolding, it would be more efficient to select all the individual cylinders and merge them into a single static mesh. It’s not about saving triangles, it’s about draw calls. Won’t really affect render times from MRQ, but it will make working with your scene a lot more pleasurable. Especially if you’re on a lower spec PC.

[@pwnisher]

Totally! Would making a blueprint actor of them be the same thing, or no?

[@Suthriel]

@@pwnisher Don´t think so, because the Merge creates a completely new static mesh, that contains the shapes and materials of all the merged meshes, fused together into one big thing. A blueprint actor that contains all meshes would probably be the same as having all the meshes as separate actors in the scene (mabe collected in a folder), each piece is still it´s own separate thing. Think of Minecraft or any Voxel world, that have to merge all voxels into bigger clusters to become performant and useable.

[@1Chitus]

You know what I like about Pwnisher's video is that he makes the most complicated things look so easy! Such an entertaining yet informative video. Keep it coming!

[@LUMAREFILM]

what is the setting at 18:41? Do they have to be set before starting the project? I never went into that section. Is this necessary?

[@ryndesign5309]

Clint, thanks for the video as someone who has a basic understanding of unreal, but still trying to learn more these little deep dives into some of your techniques are awesome for gaining practical knowledge. The material breakdowns were especially useful. Thanks for sharing.

[@pwnisher]

So glad you're finding these videos helpful!

[@larrybarnes1241]

This was awesome. I love your brutal honesty about the time it takes to create things like this and the dreaded render process. Having multiple failed renders in a row can definitely make you start to question your sanity but its just part of the game. Thanks for sharing this!

[@theshyamojournal]

This breakdown is fantastic. The fact that you covered multiple things in such a short space of time whilst explaining it really well and in an easy to understand way is incredible. I hope to start learning Unreal Soon and I will be back looking at these breakdowns to try and figure out my own ideas and bring those to life! Thank you so much!

[@楊子慕]

In case if ppl didn't know, there's a tilling feature that you can use to separate the highres render to tiles and render them indivisually, so it fits in your vram budget. I think it's called High res render in Movie render queue. You can use that to render super high quality images

[@pwnisher]

Oh shoot! Solid tip, i'll definitely have to look into it for the next one.

[@snailone6358]

Great for still renderings, but I always get seams when using it in animation sequences

[@楊子慕]

@@snailone6358 have you tried adjusting the overlapping settings? I’ve never tried on image sequence

[@Frank2_]

I paused the video ready to get them textures then realized the video is 4 days old with 62k views lol no way I’m not late for that party. Either way great video man I love it!

[@hanneshuber3d]

Duuude, this is so sick!! Thank you so much for this epic tutorial :D By the way, love this tiny wooden stool with the sneakers in front of the Holodeck

[@BWallin]

Wow, that thumbnail tip you shared is a big QOL game changer. Thanks!

[@lightologyau]

You're Storytelling Skills are outstanding, thanks for this amazing insight!

[@RCLIFTOFF]

Dude I thought the warehouse was real in the beginning! Mind Blown!!!

[@imlookingforanoriginalnick1208]

Hello wow it's crazy how realistic the scene is I have a question where can i find your factory window

[@henrijs1733]

the quality of your videos is refreshing and inspiring

[@Aydmain]

Thanks for the very helpful websites you randomly included that would help 3D artists become more efficient, such as Dynamic Sky, Daz3D, and Kitbash3D.

[@MattZipper]

Clint thanks for the breakdown of the project, elements, details and little tricks from C4D. You have such a pleasant way of showcasing the workflow. Installing UE5 now and learning this thing! Mission to Minerva here I come!

[@pwnisher]

Zippeeerrr!! Yo dude! So glad you liked it! :D how you doin post camp?

[@MattZipper]

​@@pwnisher ayy! Chilln, staying up on that cold therapy and mace flow!

[@troxmo]

KZbin shoved this video into my face for days and it knows why! What a treasure of knowledge and inspirarion compressed into one piece 🥰

[@cutupmusic]

Impressive scene, especially the cable mess on the floor. Jaw drop at 7:44-7:59. Is there an alternative for people that can't afford Cinema 4D? Simulation within Blender? And some feedback: Push contrast POST film grain and bloom so grains become more visible in the mids. I'd expect low-light scenes on cameras to have been shot "flat" and then grains become much more apparent after graded with contrast.

[@volocom7]

The value you gave us from this video is incredible. Wow! Thanks so much for your hard work to show us the behind the scenes here

[@pwnisher]

Totally! I try to bring the heat every time.

[@ivntrx9651]

My man is the KING of surface imperfections, holy

[@therealPelo]

I haven't watched many videos that actually leave me inspired and wanting to create more. This looks amazing. I've always thought to myself "If I can imagine it, I can create it." That's exactly why I love 3D art so much. But my issue is, I can't think of anything. My question to you is, how do you come up with things and ideas to create?

[@dracon436]

Didnt know this much work done on the scene, i was only focused on the middle, glad i watched this video and saw all the tiny details you added to the scene

[@LaloSampieri]

OMG, you just gave me the best idea for a music video, Clint. Thanks brother. Keep it going!

[@gabrielelangerame]

Amazing video and job with the environment. Some parts really helped me to understand how can I improve my projects

[@EvanMapleMaggot]

I love to watch your videos when im tired. It gives a lot of inspiration and energy to continue studying and making my lowskilled but happy art

[@SuperNicktendo]

Fantastic work. I have zero experience with this and when you said I could follow along I was like "hmm.. Might be worth it to just start" and then away you went doing some wild work. This is awesome and you did this in less than a month.

[@TeunSegers]

Your seeming god-level control of these tools is...intimidating af

[@Offbeater]

Seriously create more this type of videos i loved it...❤️❤️

[@pwnisher]

Definitely! Coming right up =]

[@farazshababi1]

Goddamit I had plans to run some errands with my morning coffee but instead I watched this and no regrets! I learnt a lot .. thanks pwnisher for always showing your genius ways! Appreciate it

[@gabrielestupinan]

Awesome!!!! That has a lot of knowledge behind the scene for doing that kind of work. I think is impeccable. Congratulations!

[@OMG3Dmax]

This is an amazing tutorial, it contains the subtleties of the detailed beauty of realism

[@KingKingTravels]

I wanna do this too! But I don’t have the pc needed for it! Please can you specify the specs you use for this? Thank you!!!!

[@p0rt3r]

I love that you even put his shoes in front of the stage

[@stevewilldoeverything4852]

Always love your tutorials man keep it up and never stop because you are better then most teachers

[@evanwhite2845]

Dude your voice is so calming

[@ReelAESklarzykVO]

You are literally blowing me mind!!!!!! Thanks for the step by step please show more unreal, maybe some archviz?

[@avistryfe4534]

Awesome! Thank you. I get frustrated easily as i am just learning 3d modelling and animation and unreal5... and juggling real life with 3 kids...so these motivations really help and matter.

[@MsAlenka1993]

Your channel is something else.... My new inspiration! Like a breath of fresh air. Just wow!! I need to start learning Unreal. But dunno how to start. Any tips? Thanks in advance

[@JustinPerea]

I love how midjourney is incorporated into this

[@DGFA-]

Thank you for this tutorial. Do you have a hint for me on how to place the footage when the camera is moving around or the subject is moving in space (right to left for eg)?

[@aravian_]

i would love to watch this kind of video all day

[@caleblantz9228]

I thought you were creating a room like Star Trek Discovery is shot in. Literally made it half way through the video before I realized you were working the entire scene. Fantastic work.

[@gudeandi]

As UE5 depecrated Displacement (with tesselation) and people remesh within UE (thanks to nanite) , use a mesh displacment to create displacement. How did you do it for decals? Just curious. Thanks

[@nicklavin3d]

Such a great break down video! Always love the music on your vids too, it doesn't go unnoticed!

[@pwnisher]

Heck yeah!

[@ollihro82]

nice tutorial... is there a chance or option to minimize the highlight flickering as seen on the metal structur? cheers

[@lazer_world3177]

I just reacently got UDS on the marketplace, and holy hell it is so good and the customization on the sky is amazing glad you found and and used it as well!!

[@pwnisher]

Yeah it's kinda the best thing ever!

[@abdallammar]

Amazing Work.. but what's wrong with the shadows of that box on the left cylinder at 20:35 ?

[@stevencrawford6503]

Once I build my new PC I know who to goto in order to learn them 3D art skills!

[@Stormsearcher75]

Speechless, to be honest! I actually thought the warehouse was real at the start of the video. Insanely good stuff. Also got me a bit depressed. I am just starting out on UE and just realised how far i have left to go.

[@shashank_d_a]

Really ur awesome dude, my mind is blown watching this. All the hard work you have made is clearly visible to us. Hat's Off to you for your work

[@MuhammadArshad-oj4fr]

Bro your lectures and your words inspired me lot. Thank you so much for your valuable lessons.

[@harrybrownell]

Amazing work as always - thanks for always teaching and inspiring

[@pwnisher]

Absolutely! Thanks for watching and showing your support!

[@rogerregor2489]

Sick! What’s the music at the end?

[@baynana6911]

You're an inspiration. I appreciate the dedication you've put in and during my own 3d journey, I've come across your content more than a few times whilst exploring.. creative tangents. look forward to seeing more from you and learning from your unique brand.

[@pwnisher]

Thanks a ton for the kind words my friend.

[@naprimer8534]

Hello! Is it possible to see how you've created wire in blender and then imported them in UE?or maybe a good advice from you.. i've made some wires in blender but not sure if im on a right way..

[@Mocorn]

Who would have thought that the hilarious siren man from the corridor videos would go on to become.. This!? :) I love it Clint! Keep up the good work :)

[@pwnisher]

LOL!

[@muralikrish2690]

so i used blender to create something and is there any way to import it to the unreal with the textures on it without seperating it??

What a pleasure to watch… thank you Clint for the amazing video!

[@corentinprovost903]

These breakdowns are GOLD

[@nobodyishere]

Great work, Clint!

[@tzerland]

The video I was waiting for to get started!

[@strikingtwice]

This is just astounding.

[@cookiigames]

Not gonna at first I actually thought it was a real setup. That’s very powerful!

[@GamersDk123]

Thank you for inspiring us all to become better artists

[@journeyofadigitalartist5021]

could you please recommend the computer specifications that are needed to run these programs. I can't run 4D cinema in my After Effects. Thanks in advance

[@bauraz]

Dude thank you so much. You helped me a lot to solve my problems in the project.

[@SEWebDesign]

Amazing presentation. That was alot of information presented so graspably. Thank you!

[@pwnisher]

Yaaay, I'm glad you enjoyed =]

[@Dj3ndo]

Amazing video and result! Thank you for sharing!

[@kristinakoraia5739]

BROTHER, YOU ARE THE BEST!!! You oooh really helped me!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

[@xRip4Tresx]

Very talented!! This is beautiful 🥲

[@JackHorsburgh]

Great break down as always! I laughed out loud at the "next time you're in San Diego on the aircraft carrier...." instructions XD

[@zubbapmdemeli4684]

you are an amazing guy and artist Clinton. Thank you so much.

[@fruityloopsquan]

Awesome vid man! Im trying to emulate this warehouse but my dimensions keep turning out wrong. it keeps looking way too small. What is your warehouses outter wall dimensions?

[@deadoutside9014]

soo talented man.... nice job!

[@Ano_Niemand]

always positive vibes, keep it up you all. peace

[@Mephilth]

Great video! One tip: If you do project with a game engine it is advisable to use version control like Git. This way you can track any changes you made to files that or not binary. Would have saved you from moving everything to a new project. Even if you did not start the project with Git you could have used a diff tool like BeyondCompare to compare your project settings to one that works.

[@whyanubis2848]

I appreciate you. This was an incredible breakdown you have no idea what you did for me in this video. I'm still studying the UE5 and slowly applying new knowledge. This for me was a perfect example of work flow that I needed. Does anyone have any great project breakdown channels that they believe I should check out?

[@pwnisher]

I'm glad you enjoyed and it brought you some value =] As far as project breakdowns, I do alot of them here, but I would definitely check out William Faucher. he's got solid tutorials.

[@MohamedAlmohanedHassanDabora]

Very Nice . . . You Are My Best C4d Man . . . Go Forward.

[@AndyMogren]

Great video Clint! Loved it

[@kudjo24]

18:01 is how it's done folks, 50% of any creative work is troubleshooting Windows / your OS / the program. Love to see that kind of technical investigation, that's how you make it the best!

[@123austeja]

Bro! it's Amazing You solved my problem! Thanks!!!

[@VagiPeti]

Dude this is freaking awesome! :D

[@shanepurcell8116]

Well done. My only critique is that the sky sunset is basically the same across the entire scene. It would look more believable if one side of the scene looking out had a brighter sky suggesting the setting sun isn't perfectly behind the back wall creating a uniform sky.