Last Eclipse - First try for realistic cinematic short

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Hi Everyone,

for the past couple months I was working on a personal project called “Last Eclipse” which I would like to share with all of you.

As I am mainly working as a developer, I wanted to try myself out from the Artistic side and create a project from start to finish while using the latest features from Unreal Engine 5, including Metahuman Creator, Nanite, Lumen, Niagara Fluids, VDBs and many more. Unfortunately I didn’t have access to an Iphone so I couldn’t use Metahuman Animator but I managed to create a decent animation with Nvidia Omniverse’s Audio to Face.

I learned a lot during the whole process and I hope I can improve it further in the future.
I hope you will have as much fun as I did with this short!

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Wow, that was cool and really well done!

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Howdy there @Mozomino,

Congrats on your first realistic short! Such a huge accomplishment. Especially one done so beautifully. The tension built with just a minute long video is incredible. Also, the eyes. Just wow. Such a great bit of storytelling.

Do you currently plan on making more of these? :slight_smile:

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Thank you very much, it means a lot to me! :slight_smile:

Yes, I am planning to do more in the future. I learned a lot from this, but there is still much to improve. I will try to get my hands on an Iphone so I can experiment with Metahuman Animator. Also it would be great to use Mocap for body movement, but that is another challenge to tackle.

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I look forward to seeing what you create - iphone use or not the animation in this was fantastic.

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I really enjoyed this Zoltan @Mozomino ! The world, the lighting, your camera moves and story telling were excellent.