Simple Stylization Techniques in Unreal Engine | GDC 2024

Visuals feeling a little too close to default? Join Chris as he steps through a bunch of easy stylization techniques to help your project stand out!
Find graphs from the presentation and more information on making the final effect at dev.epicgames.com/community/l...

[@swrcPATCH]

Whenever I see this guy coming on stage, I know already it's gonna be good!

[@nawhz6292]

where can i find the rest of his appearances? i cant find them

[@dannys_85]

i agree love this guy. he is tech artist, he explained it very well.

[@roy_tanmoy]

Exactly, I was just going to comment the same. Chris Is epic

[@StopBlurryGames]

Yeah I was thinking that same thing.

[@vikexp]

Please let Chris do a whole UE course... by far the best presenter.

[@bigpictures555]

Get this guy to do all the tutorials please. Please give him another 100 tutorials and focus them on film production within the engine. He is really good at his job.

[@GamingDrifterGD]

This was so awesome to watch. Also I never knew how easy it was to get rid of the black outlines in the sky with the post process. So useful!

[@srisair]

IKR! Had to be my personal fav talk. Especially as a beginner who never knew what post process materials could do :D

[@Mittzys]

Every time i click on a talk and see Chris I get excited cos I know it's gonna be a good talk

[@nawhz6292]

where can i see more of his videos? i cant find them

[@efwfew]

Man I wish this video was 2 hours longer. Awesome tips

[@SirCalalot]

My god though. He just keeps going and it's all gold. I've never seen all these techniques in one place before.

[@emmlu369]

This had the flow of a magic trick

[@HelloBard]

Chris needs to start his own Unreal Engine KZbin channel, this was Epic!

[@rexalbel]

Seriously!

[@satorilotus5398]

This is so huge for people trying to get dynamic cel-shading, I'm excited to revisit some old projects that were scrapped due to difficulties getting lighting information in materials.

[@Atl3m]

Omg I want to know the last part. Sad there was no time for the render target.

[@JustNukeIt_]

There is a link in the description for the full tutorial. The render target is explained in it.

[@Atl3m]

@@JustNukeIt_ oooh nice thank you. Popcorn 🍿 time

[@halftempted1047]

@@JustNukeIt_Any luck getting it to function correctly? I ran into some issues.

[@claudiuschwartz605]

Hands down the best educator Epic has nowadays. It also used to be Zak but he's either not there anymore, or doing some other things. Mad respect for this guy here!

[@jbach]

Your presentations always the best! Beautiful technique.

[@Arloc9]

He is a master of the light and color theory. He Has a lot of domain in color theory and visual perception theory. Great lesson

[@jamesvarley8578]

The best tutorial I have ever seen UE produce. Great stuff!

[@RolyPolyGames]

Thank you Chris and Unreal for getting this recorded for us. Valuable stuff

[@NoTengoIdeaGuey]

Only 30 seconds of footage of the biggest hand-gesture game in the business, let the man cook.

[@metafuel]

He's a bright lad Chris is.

[@andreb7436]

A ton of knowledge just in a few minutes. Thanks you!

[@KenMaerran]

So much in a 30 minute talk...amazing!

[@DillonBoucherDesigns]

Amazing. Thank you Chris!

[@pricklyprickle]

Was there for it and he was super helpful answering questions afterwards too.

[@CAHEK71]

So much new information in half an hour. Excellent!

[@IstyManame]

That was beyond great and useful

[@sleepingcolossus]

Great session. I'd love to see more of these kind of quick feature showcase videos

[@RogerCaudle]

I love a good Bill and Ted reference

[@tc8557]

damn that sun/sky demo is bonkers good!

[@alexjudin5380]

That looks absolutely incredible!!

[@DeeOdzta]

Great talk and chalk Chris! Really cool!

[@ElCalvoDelG0W]

Amazing presentation!

[@egretfx]

dang this guy is a good teacher!

[@sporeolegy]

Great sense of humour

[@daslolo]

this was out of this world!!!

[@Hallis6818]

This was awesome, more of these please

[@bd_dev]

I've always found his talks interesting!

[@cj5787]

chris is such a crazy mad scientist..

[@WingTzu343]

This was so cool! I can't wait to try this out myself

[@UnboundTechArt]

Thank you Epic Games. Thank you Chris

[@johnykallisto6488]

As always, Chris Rocks!

[@simonfinnie2900]

Chris Murphy is a legend

[@UnrealDojo]

been waiting for you Chris

[@jrp1021]

This dude is just the best.

[@dekyleung]

I have to admit, i am a big fan of Chris. Whenever he is on stage, i learn something real solid.

[@wallasace]

Gosh this is gold mine

[@RTO1992]

Thank you!

[@Fafhrd42]

This cel shading effect for the character looks like it has the same issue that a lot of cel shading effects in Unreal have in that while it keeps the intensity of the lighting information, it doesn't keep the lighting color. I'd love a good solve for that.

[@Tamitaki4]

Awesome! Thank you

[@darkcornerstudio]

Great Video. Thank you.

[@darreneriksen]

This man is not human.

[@epicgames_simone]

Chris is the best

[@GeekL30N]

♥ Its Amazing.... Thank you.

[@AnimatorHeadSpace]

That was insane!

[@TrentisN]

Give the man more time! Great sesh.

[@CP-Mohammed]

Great work!

[@Domosedik]

how i wish more tutorial about Stylization like this

[@SixthFourthEighty]

This guy's incredible

[@Novarcharesk]

I wish I could watch this and just understand it all and take it away and be able to make it all myself.

[@rshad4ever]

I wish you do constant tutorials that start from the beginning especially with the release of Anil engine 5.4

[@l_t_m_f]

Godlike!

[@takyonstudio]

Amazing.greetings from Turkey🎉

[@DBproductionsBadJuicy]

Bill and Ted quote mentioned!!

[@UpsideDownOwl]

Hail to chris

[@perfectionist724]

Wow! Amazing! 😅

[@UnrealBucket]

This guy 🔥🔥🔥

[@thefr0sk]

My mind is blown away, what has this?!!

[@user-sm9kt3jt8q]

That’s so good

[@invrse8070]

At 1:17, right at the beginning, what is the keyboard shortcut to zoom in the viewport without moving the camera? I’ve never seen that before!

[@rk_iv]

Hold rmb, press c to zoom in and z to zoom out. When you release rmb it will reset

[@MrProjecthalo]

Wow. Didn't know you could blend it like that at the end. I wonder how you'd go about having it not blend back, so you're kinda discovering the undiscovered world, permanently.

[@zellot_gaming]

Let's gooooo!

[@petrstibor2993]

Crazy stuff here...

[@BoarsInRome]

You are a G

[@hassan1867]

🔥💯

[@neitherworld]

chris

[@V0L4T1L3]

Hey Chris i was doing something similar to re-create the spiderverse mixed styles and I had issues with the sky. I ended up using custom depth render passes to handle it but I was wondering if you knew a better way?

[@muhsinhameed5446]

Anyone know how I can keep just the outline effect without the hatching effect (although that was epic!) as I can't seem to use the height lerp without a height map texture.

[@quinnpurcell]

@nerdchomp have you seen the last 3 minutes of this? Curious if it would help with Nectar!

[@marcthenarc868]

The link redirects to a 403 status.

[@chrismurphy6966]

Getting it fixed but here's the link! dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/talks-and-demos/XayP/fortnite-simple-stylization-techniques-in-unreal-engine-5

[@MarblaGarb]

how does one get a cell shading post process to work correctly with lighting? post process is emissive, and if you have a CELL SHADING style, when you lower the lighting values in a scene, any part affected by the post process shader, stays lit up at night or in dark scenes.

[@ColossalCake]

This video thumbnail doesn't do this video justice, as the thumbnail is the "before" stage without the techniques demonstrated in this talk!

[@kummingchang5243]

gaming close White fogs beauty

[@asdfman7007]

"so we can say hey"

[@3datonement687]

this guy is unreal

[@rexalbel]

any idea how we could go about adding color back into it? I see the last part colors everything around the player with a texture, but it doesn't have the cel shading affect from the outlines, what if I essentially wanted this cell shading to multiply back with the original scenes colors/textures.

[@rexalbel]

Never mind, figured it out!

[@hakanerunsal4800]

Where to find this asset pack and the map?

[@kyuuketsukikun420]

Does anyone know how to adjust outline width with this?

[@flotto7045]

I love the video, but please just give us access to the actual light attenuation texture :(

[@bauboshelis]

Unreal

[@HoneyedOasis]

the link in the description doesnt work

[@Isaacrl67]

Link in description gives a 403 error.

[@SinanWP]

description link is broke fix it please.

[@chrismurphy6966]

Getting it fixed but check it out here in the mean time: dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/talks-and-demos/XayP/fortnite-simple-stylization-techniques-in-unreal-engine-5

[@SinanWP]

@@chrismurphy6966 thank you

[@Kor3Gaming_Ghost]

i love it when he say math's is fun while in our island math's hard af😭😭😂good thing i finish collage 7 years ago and am happy there's no math's exam🥲😂

[@mr.johnson3889]

I want Roblox graphics but the limitations of Unreal Engine 5 so I can focus on gameplay and loads of AI 🤯

[@meerminman]

I wish that Epic games made better documentation on all the material nodes

[@not_amanullah]

🖤🤍

[@mr.johnson3889]

I’ve been thinking of “low poly” for months and months don’t have unreal but buying PC to make a game with up to 60+ unique characters/ faces 👀 with combination of facial hair, eye color, body build. I don’t care for quality but I do want plenty of AI, I was thinking a shooter but like SIMS style driving ? Any guys been thinking of something similar ?

[@not_amanullah]

Linux support 😢

[@swrcPATCH]

what even is linux

[@slackamacgaming6721]

6:53...all the nodes were...there is no commonsense to ANY of the names 🤣🤣🤣

[@sahinerdem5496]

if Those magics were in Engine then why didn't I see them before? I have a conspiracy theory that Epic games shares its super knowledge with just a few. Not with us.

[@alhimovivan]

It's not a GDC level insite...

[@user-mn3qm4zj3n]

How amateur are you? Release a compilation error version in the official version