'The Wizard' - Unreal Engine 5.3 - Fluid Flux +

'The Wizard' marks the 50th video on my youtube channel and I am very happy with the way this one turned out. There is only so much free time I have on my hands next to an almost full time 'unreal' working schedule, so there comes a point where there is SO much I want to try out I just have to start packing it together.
'The Wizard' combines Fluid Flux, Megascans, Procedural Content Generation (PCG), the Kitbash3D 'Enchanted' kit, Metahuman Animator and Heterogeneous Volumes.
I had so much fun working on this, accompanied by the usual frustrations of rendering and realising how much time it takes to make something like this. I hope you enjoy it! Let me know what you are most looking forward to to try out next in Unreal Engine 5!
Sam
‪@UnrealEngine‬ ‪@KitBash3D‬
#UnrealEngine #UnrealEngine5 #UE5 #metahumans #metahumananimator #facialanimation #animation #lighting #3Dlighting #cinematography #film #digitalart #digitalartist #PCG #fluidflux #water #realtime #realtimesimulations #volumes #smoke #fantasy

[@raycaputo9564]

Ohhh wow, find No words!

[@JohnnyAlex]

You are a wizard keanu!

[@brendanjohnjones]

Bro was working remote before electricity was discovered

[@KSPictures-p1i]

All your work are so Beautiful and Inspiring.... Please start making the tutorials ...

[@petrsehnal7990]

Incredible!

[@samgoldwater]

Congratulations Sam! Fantastic env work!!

[@samgielen]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@SteviesCornerYouTubeChannel]

Whoa! The mood, environment, lighting, sounds, music, VFX, etc etc etc are simply stunning! 😁I'm not really into the Wizard part of the video but I do appreciate all the camera work, animation, VFX you created 😄

[@pinaboytoons]

Beautiful! 🤩🤩🤩

[@ninjagraphics1]

Stunning

[@kingsleyadu9289]

awesome that is great

[@sb4photos]

Freakin awesome

[@TheTinker394]

Love it 🥳

[@badxstudio]

Sick work dude!

[@samgielen]

Appreciate it!

[@Eduard_Baias]

Incredible WORK!

[@samgielen]

Thanks a lot!

[@ccambron]

Incredibly good. Great sound. Great visuals.

[@samgielen]

Thanks a lot!

[@Sharko-pt5kr]

WOW I bet somebody could make a whole movie

[@MortalShores]

Breahtraking shots Sam! I am blown away. is this fluid flux and cinematic ocean renderer?

[@samgielen]

No this is only fluid flux! I've used cinematic ocean for rendered cinematics before on my Mission to Minerva video but in all honesty, I think this works better. Here you've got actual color absorption in your water from the get go, without having to modify anything in the material.

[@waitisthatcobalt]

Wow! nice work

[@samgielen]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@ejwkwk]

You're such a great man!

[@CompunctionTime]

Looks great!

[@archviz4you]

Amazing work!!

[@ManuelOrbeaOtaola]

Amazing! Will be one day gameplay will look like this, with cinematic look which is the most expensive to render.

[@TheCynicalNihilist]

Alan Wake 2 and Calipso Protical look exceptionally better than this already on maxed out graphics. were already there man.

[@ManuelOrbeaOtaola]

No way callisto looks better than this.

[@0ldinside]

Impressive work!

[@samgielen]

Thanks a lot!

[@TallSilhouette]

Nice. Is this all real time?

[@samgielen]

All the river shots are yes. I'd say about 30-40fps on my RTX3090. The Wizard's room, more like 15-20fps, so them not really. and once I add those big volumetric smoke things above the river shots the performance also goes down by a lot. But I'd say it would run smooth on a 4090 ppbly

[@oldschool_bamagatrader9960]

any toturial for this :DD .. well done dude .. keep it up

[@gevad1ch]

Amazing dude. Just wondering what are your pc specs?

[@samgielen]

Thanks! I’ve got an intel i9, RTX3090 woth 24GB VRam and 96GB RAM. I’m craving an upgrade to the rtx4090 but I don’t think it fits in my case

[@gevad1ch]

Damn man, crazy build as well. You think this lvl of work would be possible with like 4070 ti 12gb VRam or not really? BTW 4090 would be crazy@@samgielen

[@Shadowclaw25]

looking forward when your movie releases :P but seriously if you work on that even a few years....its truly a million dolar movie possible :> Wonder if you put Npcs and wildlife in the game at which gpu is it running smoothly ? rtx 3060 ? rtx 7900 ?

[@smepable]

Amazing. For me the best Things: Environment Composition, Hair and Teeth of the Wizard, Ocean Water in the Wizard Tower Shot, Music and Sound Design, Facial Animation, Cinema Lens effects Like anamorphic Blur. What I didnt Like: particle effects over the House didnt Look detailed enough and was composited with black edges. The 360 Dolly move looked Strange, maybe too perfect move, or the Angle, maybe it was how the wizards Arm looked, something was odd...

[@samgielen]

I absolutely agree about the particle effects. Now I have taken some distance from making this video, I think it should have been cut. That being said these videos are meant to also just document my progression. They don’t *have* to be perfect per se. I’m following a pretty detailed course about Niagara fluids, right now and it will already look way better next time + by 5.4 it will probably respond to Lumen correctly, meaning that it will not look as ‘composited’ on the image. That is not happening now, this is all inside Unreal.

[@TimothyTruesdell]

amazing? Is this ray traced reflections?

[@samgielen]

It’s lumen! It has some improved quality in ue5.3

[@TheChristianverse105]

Pretty amazing, dude! How long did it took you to do this?

[@samgielen]

Thanks! This took me about 8-9 fulltime days, spread out over a month or so

[@paperino0]

@@samgielen that actually seems really fast, your workflow must be quite efficient

[@Digi9vfx]

environment and water is wow and amazing but kindly improve the niagara FX

[@CaptPanda]

Wow... makes me imagine how Skyrim would really look in UE5

[@zizzonedibattipaglia6247]

Sparse volume texturing on volumetrics? Also phenomenal work :)

[@samgielen]

It’s done with Niagara fluids here! I tried to use existing VDB’s with SVT’s at the start of this project but I couldn’t get the results I wanted. To be honest, I think there is a lot more freedom in determining the look of it all with niagara. Only the resolution isn’t the best… yet.

[@BeriaDesign]

Amazing work, pls make tutorials🌹

[@SanjeevKumar-be4dd]

Path tracing or lumen? Great render

[@samgielen]

This is all Lumen!

[@SergiBouTorres]

how long did it tak to you? how many things you modeled yourself?

[@samgielen]

This took my about 2 fulltime weeks. Which is not a lot. I don’t model stuff myself a lot, that’s not mu desired department. I focus more on lighting, shot design, metahumans and FX. I’m using Kitbash3D, Megascans and Evermotion in this scene.