Unreal Engine 4 glowing bridge scene

This scene was initially inspired by the leaf bridges I saw in the trailers for the new pixar movie Coco and thought it would be fun to try and recreate some of that effect in Unreal. I also haven't done any new scenes since the new volumetric fog effects came out so I wanted to try and do a scene that used these effects very heavily.
The bridge was basically made by placing bridge meshes into the level that were set to not render, then painted thousands of individual fully 3D leaves unto the bridge meshes using the foliage tool covering every inch, ended up using over 400-500k leaves in total not counting the vfx ones. On top of this I created a shader for the leaves that had some good variation in color and made it so that they were bright at the top of the bridge and faded down into a darker red color towards the bottom. If you look closely the lower areas also have a panning effect to fake lots of leaves falling while the top remains more still. I also created a few VFX to throw on it to fake the leaves falling similar to the trailer.
All leaves, leaf vfx, and shaders for the bridge were created by me. Several of the other meshes were taken from the Unreal Marketplace and some were bought from turbosquid.
The music used in this video was created by bought from Tybercore

[@kingbaba1981]

Waow, You should come to Mordor. We can redesign with this architecture.

[@Maverick99]

Beautiful. Love the setting. Scene at 0:42 looks great.

[@Vemrah]

how did i end up here - that is the best bridge i have seen in my life .. and mood is ethereal .. !

[@darkwoodmovies]

Damn, these graphics are like blockbuster level CGI

[@AngelOf1000]

:O ...now that's just beyond awesome, good to you back.

[@ole3122]

It looks absolutely amazing!

[@StephaneCharre]

Impressive render, well done ;-)

[@wunawunacom-sc9yi]

Great work as usual. Thank you for sharing!

[@syice]

Man your work is incredible, it inspires me so much :)

[@granatengeorg]

Cool, looks like lava leaves.

[@waterrox1]

amazing work as always

[@MrAlucardDante]

Impressive. You are way too talented to work for Wildcard

[@LiuKun]

awesome,coco

[@Hawkwinds]

Cool scene man!

[@mhnoni]

Beautiful.......

[@ninjamister]

Magical

[@RyanQuris]

Ow, this is so uggly ... No i'm just jealous, this is SOO BEAUTIFUL GIVE ME YOUR SKILL PLEASE !

[@1620ADD]

very cool....

[@jwls8483]

Damnn that's nice Is it dynamic or stationary lighting?

[@ZeroTheHunter]

That was most impressive, maybe you can make your own game! you always do your maps really good evilmrfrank, i just purchased a new gaming/designer pc i hope i can learn something from your videos when i create my test map with UE4.

[@Haigen64]

Is there a reason you painted the leaves and didn't use some sort of shader or other automated effect to generate the leaves? It looks amazing!

[@evilmrfrank]

I wanted the leaves to be fully 3D double sided leaves so that the bridge looks like it is actually made out of leaves entirely

[@Haigen64]

fair enough! How was the performance on this? Usually large amounts of foliage destroys my computer.

[@tiffles3890]

Surreal. Also, second!

[@myguy2656]

Nice

[@DiogoSantosvfx]

it looks like CoCo bridge :D

[@evilmrfrank]

That's what initially inspired me :)

[@DiogoSantosvfx]

amazing work x)

[@18majc]

Brutal. How can I make that glow effect?

[@K_3_V_R_A_L]

when will you do a tutorial, especially this! Pliz

[@mhnoni]

check the description, you almost have everything you need.

[@K_3_V_R_A_L]

but, i nub

[@TimmyTurner421]

Do you actually work on a game of is this "just" your hobby?

[@evilmrfrank]

I've been working in the gaming industry for over 10 years now, currently working full time on Ark Survival evolved. I also enjoy doing this stuff in my free time to better myself and because its fun :)

[@winterdreams9525]

Sorry to intrude but you work with ark? Thats sooo cool *0*.

[@Mister_Gerbelle]

Music Name? It inspires me so much!

[@evilmrfrank]

The song is Spread Your Wings by Tybercore

[@Mister_Gerbelle]

@@evilmrfrank Thanks ;)

[@Mister_Gerbelle]

How'd you make that material for the bridge where it makes the leaves fall

[@Mister_Gerbelle]

Nvm just found it out

[@Otters-oe2pz]

Inspired by Coco?

[@evilmrfrank]

Yes, I still haven't seen the movie but the bridges from the trailers were what initially made me want to create something similar in Unreal.

[@InstantCasette]

Arenanet

[@evilmrfrank]

My wife said the same thing when she saw it :P