Unreal Engine - Creating The Girl | FIREFLY Music Video

Music Video: • Esoterica - Firefly
Behind the scenes, Making of Esoterica’s Music Video Cinematic - Firefly
This is the my process of sculpting the initial head in Zbrush, Converting it into a Metahuman, Customizing its textures in Substance Painter, Prepping the rig in Maya, Rendering it inside Unreal Engine 5 and Color Grading in DaVinci Resolve.
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Music from #Uppbeat
uppbeat.io/t/weary-pines/birth

[@AjaythedogMale1606]

Masterpiece

[@astraz]

Truly incredible!

[@99SBX]

Brilliant work!

[@Gametime05577]

Awesome ❤❤❤

[@lauroterica]

Absolutely incredible 👏

[@ManifestTheMusic]

Amazing! I’ve just started learning unreal 5 and it’s opened up so many possibilities. Great video😊❤❤

[@MasteringCinematics]

It's a great tool. Happy for you 👍

[@duongdoan59]

so good

[@NestGFX_]

Dammnnnn! You are so talented man

[@galinmonev]

So much work and love went into this

[@MasteringCinematics]

Indeed

[@wayne9954]

Incredible!!! Subscribed to your channel :)

[@MasteringCinematics]

Amazing, thanks!!

[@faithaloneinchristalone5824]

wonderful work flow bro love it. thank you, love Maya still and Zbrush that's where i started

[@MasteringCinematics]

Thanks! Yeah, Unreal still has a long way before it can beat maya at animation

[@faithaloneinchristalone5824]

@@MasteringCinematics totally Agree

[@paniks]

Hi! How many months did the project take? How were the appearing symbols implemented?It's also interesting to look at the camera animation keys during her flight.

[@MasteringCinematics]

Took me about 6 months. The tattoos appearing were achieved by animating masks and adding glow in After Effects. I'll post a video about that and other stuff soon. 👍

[@AshkanZ]

dope. nice work. can u post tutorial about hair simulation flow?

[@MasteringCinematics]

Thanks, I might

[@olanrewajukayode]

Awesome Stuff!!! Would love to see the animation process.

[@MasteringCinematics]

Thanks! I'll show that in the upcoming videos

[@TobiasFigura]

It is simply beautiful, a true masterpiece. How long did the rendering in Unreal Engine take?

[@MasteringCinematics]

Thanks! The whole thing is real time, so almost instantaneous at 4K, that's the beauty of it. 👍

[@CountMount-Cristus]

Amazing. How long it took?

[@MasteringCinematics]

Thanks, about 6 months

[@Sam-zf1zt]

Beautiful piece! Congrats! How did you make custom metahuman rig? Any tuts or plugins I can buy? Because I really need that right now.

[@MasteringCinematics]

Thanks! I used the Advanced skeleton script (its free if you are not a studio). There's a tutorial on its youtube on how to create a rig from a generic metahuman skeleton.

[@Sam-zf1zt]

@@MasteringCinematics Hey thanks for replying. Where can I get the Advanced skeleton script?

[@r-pix1410]

Incredible . Love it ! What is that on 2:01? How did you make weight paints for hair simulation????

[@MasteringCinematics]

Haha, no just wanted to show the hair follicles and make them stand out. It's just a viewport display thing.

[@r-pix1410]

@@MasteringCinematics got it , thanks )) It would be a huge discovery ahahha

[@user-PayWorld]

How can I fix my eyelids becoming thinner when using Metahuman?

[@MasteringCinematics]

You are probably distorting the metahuman too much with your custom mesh. It's a juggling act.

[@Gr8dame666]

Any tips on learning this? Metahumans are my kryptonite lol

[@MasteringCinematics]

Honestly I learned all this by watching random KZbin tutorials. The metahuman app is not that bad, it's just a bunch of sliders. Animating the face manually takes a bit of time to get used to with all the controls.

[@msg360]

amazing how long did this take?

[@MasteringCinematics]

Thanks! About 6 months

[@msg360]

@@MasteringCinematics wow that’s amazing , what was the hardest part of development.

[@msg360]

@@MasteringCinematics may I ask whats your system specs?

[@MasteringCinematics]

I think the hardest part was getting the girl to look right, I did so many iterations until I got something decent. Metahuman is a bit challenging when it comes to creating kids.

[@MasteringCinematics]

Half way through the project I decided to build a new machine in order to get some high quality results. I was using an RTX 2070 Super but was a bit laggy on some scenes. So in the new setup I got an RTX 4090, i9 13900K, 96GB Ram, and some fast SSDs.

[@3ertin]

In the 17th century Dutch painters were at their best. Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Vermeer. Then technology improved and the artists lost their skills. I see this happening with 3d modeling. We're at the peak of modeling skills. Soon a.i. will replace it and people will be amazed by the craft of previous generations who had to tweak everything by hand.

[@madhur3476]

total time sir?

[@MasteringCinematics]

About 6 months