Sam Eisenhower – Unreal Engine for Filmmakers

UNREAL ENGINE FOR FILMMAKERS

GO FROM BEGINNER TO PRO IN JUST 10 DAYS

THE ULTIMATE CINEMATIC TRAINING

We teach industry-standard techniques and workflows so you’re ready to work in any environment, from Indie Film to Hollywood!

What You’ll Learn In Unreal Engine for Filmmakers

DAY 1 – GETTING STARTED WITH UNREAL ENGINE

• Basic terminology for film & visual effects
• How to create a VFX shot from start to finish
• Installing & setting up Unreal Engine

DAY 2 – THE BASICS

• Basic menus & navigation in Unreal Engine
• Working with photorealistic 3D meshes & assets
• Getting started with Materials, one of the fundamental building blocks for any Unreal Engine scene

DAY 3 – CREATING YOUR FIRST UNREAL ENGINE SCENE

• Professionally organize your project with industry standard Naming Conventions
• Scene creation techniques – landscape creation, lighting & atmosphere, working with cameras
• Basic animation

DAY 4 – ADVANCED SCENE BUILDING

• Create a Mood Board & learn how professionals find & utilize inspiration
• Learn scene blocking & composition to achieve cinematic, story-driven, emotionally impactful images
• Learn the full process & tricks for creating ANY scene in Unreal Engine, utilizing professional environment creation techniques for achieving maximum detail & photorealistic landscapes

DAY 5 – LIGHTING

• Become the MASTER of light – learn lighting theory & the science behind lighting
• Learn industry standard, Hollywood lighting techniques used in the visual effects industry
• Learn to create 3 cinematic lighting setups in Unreal Engine – Sunset, Overcast/Moody, & Night

DAY 6 – ANIMATION

• Breathe life into your scene by adding cinematic movement & animation
• Add character animation using a variety of industry-standard techniques
• Work with motion capture animations to achieve realistic, life-like character animation

DAY 7 – SIMULATIONS

• Learn how industry professionals create CGI fire, smoke, explosions, & fluid/water
• Use the award-winning OpenVDB framework to add cinematic quality fluid, fire, and smoke simulations to your scene
• Create FULLY DYNAMIC, realtime fluid & gas simulations natively inside of Unreal Engine & make them interact with your scene

DAY 8 – COMPOSITING IN UNREAL ENGINE

• Learn 3D camera tracking & how to composite moving camera live-action footage with your CGI scene in Unreal Engine
• Learn industry-standard color management techniques so you can work in ANY professional pipeline efficiently & effectively
• Work with Unreal Engine’s built-in compositing tool, Composure, to combine any live-action footage with your CGI scene

DAY 9 – RENDERING

• Prepare your scene to be rendered with maximum efficiency & quality in both Deferred & Path Traced rendering modes
• Set up your render with cinematic quality settings to achieve maximum detail & realism
• Export your scene with industry standard Render Passes for manipulation in a Compositing Package like After Effects, Nuke, or Fusion

DAY 10 – COMPOSITING IN AFTER EFFECTS & FUSION

Set up the color space of your CGI scene & live-action footage using industry standard workflows for compositing
Utilize Render Passes to quickly & easily composite CGI renders with live-action footage
Add a cinematic color grade & imperfections to put the final touches on your shot

LEARN THE FASTEST-GROWING TOOL IN THE FILM INDUSTRY

BUILD A CAREER IN FILM & VFX

The Unreal Engine for Filmmakers course offers something for everyone, from pre-visualization & storyboard artists, to visual effects artists, filmmakers, and game cinematics creators. After taking this course, you’ll be equipped with all the skills you need to work in any professional setting, and trained in the most up-to-date, industry standard techniques & workflows available.

INDIE ROOTS

The Unreal Engine for Filmmakers course was born out of a need to create visual effects for an Indie Sci-Fi film I started in 2020 called Gemini. In my research for the project, I discovered Unreal Engine which, at the time, was just making its way onto the film scene via The Mandalorian and Virtual Production.

I started learning Unreal and quickly discovered the benefits and accessibility of the software. But it wasn’t an easy journey for me. I spent hundreds of hours stuck on problems and snags in the process, sorting through hours upon hours of YouTube videos and trying to learn information that was scarcely available to begin with, and most of it completely out of date. This is what led me to create the Unreal Engine for Filmmakers course.

About Sam Eisenhower

LEARN FROM A PROFESSIONAL WORKING IN THE INDUSTRY RIGHT NOW

Why spend $100K+ on film school when you can learn from a real professional working in the industry right now for less than 1% of the price? With over 32 hours of in-depth video lessons, the Unreal Engine for Filmmakers course teaches you the same techniques being used by the top VFX artists around the world!

SAM EISENHOWER

Director, Cinematographer, VFX Artist, Creator of Boundless Entertainment
Sam has been working professionally in the film & VFX industry for 10+ years. He is an Indie Filmmaker and created this community for artists to learn, connect with other artists, and share their work.

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