Scars of War | Short Film | Unreal Engine 5

[@DallasDrap]

the fact that this video doesnt have as many views as it should is a crime. This is really great work! Gave me Diablo 1 cinematics vibes but better quality. Great work!

[@ScarsOfWar]

@@DallasDrap Thank you so much! Haha feel free to share it so we can get more views!

[@phoenixstudios7520]

Your short has amazing attention to detail. I would love a breakdown of some scenes, mainly the landscape at 0:45 and the detailed interior at 1:30

[@ScarsOfWar]

@@phoenixstudios7520 Thank you, glad you like it! :) And yes, we are preparing breakdowns for some of the shots, stay tuned!

[@sarahascanio9214]

So cool 🙌😎 really great project! 🔥

[@art_of_success]

only 291 likes? That is a crime. This looks very good.

[@ScarsOfWar]

haha thank you for that, please share it so we can get as many views as possible!

[@reinereine1896]

Can i hope there will be a followup?

[@nix7r]

amazing!

[@josh_mak]

Absolute masterpiece

[@shreyamroy]

This looks so dam cool, amazing work .!! 🔥❤️

[@zacharydembinski7486]

Beautiful!

[@JacquelineCooper-iy9ui]

loved it

[@gastonsaillen]

I wonder how much render time this piece took and how much antialiasing and render settings did it took to output this level of detail. Im amazed about the niagara particles not getting bluriness into the render, I got so much troubles with depth of field with those particles

[@ScarsOfWar]

@@gastonsaillen If I remember correctly we rendered it using 1 spatial and 32 temporal samples for AA, resolution was 4K with 120 screen percentage.

[@gastonsaillen]

@ and render time ? I think it should be around 12 hours

[@ScarsOfWar]

@@gastonsaillen it depends on the shot, but for most of them it took way less than 12 hours, it was all rendered using Lumen, so it didn't took that long. I think around 45 minutes for some of them, rendered on an RTX 4080. If you mean for the whole thing, adding all the render times of all the shots together then yes, it would be close to 12-15 hours.

[@gastonsaillen]

@@ScarsOfWar you create different levels for the shot or do it all at once and create a render que for each one ?

[@ScarsOfWar]

​@@gastonsaillen Each shot has its own master level, but inside that master one there were some sub levels that were shared across all shots. I had like 3-4 different render configs that I used depending on the shot, some of them required more samples, others more or less resolution, others needed to use spatial instead of temporal samples etc.

[@AnimeMusicStationEntertainment]

can you make a masterclass about creating this masterpiece?

[@ScarsOfWar]

@@AnimeMusicStationEntertainment haha not sure about a masterclass but we'll definitely share some breakdowns :)

[@starresther]

Wow❤❤❤

[@paruguff5594]

Which location are you staying and your work ...????

[@sufail_Msk]

Woow

[@mystyyy6663]

Was this made with mocap suits?

[@ScarsOfWar]

We captured all the motion data with a smartphone camera, we didn't use suits :)

[@locodooms]

wow!!! ray traced all in unreal?

[@ScarsOfWar]

It's all Unreal yes, and we are using Lumen and Virtual Shadow Maps :)

[@locodooms]

@@ScarsOfWar and how was the motion capture done? xsens? and facial? sorry so many question but i think youve made one of the best cinematics ive seen from unreal engine. makes me excited for indie film makers like ourselves !

[@ScarsOfWar]

@@locodooms haha all good, I'm happy to answer questions about the short. Our character is a custom metahuman, so we are using metahuman animator in an Iphone 14 for the facial mocap and then for the body mocap we are using Wonder Dynamics (also recording our movements with a smartphone).

[@locodooms]

@@ScarsOfWar all round great work sir. when can we expect to see more ? hehe

[@ScarsOfWar]

@@locodooms Thank you so much! Glad you like it. For now we are taking a break, but we will be definitely sharing more content in the near future, mostly some breakdowns to show how we created some of the environments and what was our process for the animation, mocap, etc. :)