Hi everyone! We’re a group of final-year students from the University of Hertfordshire. We’re creating a sci-fi cinematic trailer for our game SHIFT in Unreal Engine, and we’ll be documenting our process and progress in this thread with regular updates.
Feedback on anything (story beats, environment art, lighting, camera work, animation, VFX, editing, audio) is hugely appreciated. Thanks for checking it out!
Core Members:
Valen Kua Wei Lun: Director, Art Director, Concept Artist - ( Artstation )
Ong Nanxi: Lead Concept Artist, Level Designer - ( Artstation )
Lim Jie: Lead Environment Artist, Prop Artist - ( Artstation )
Zen Seah Song Wei: Lead Character Artist, Environment Artist - ( Artstation )
Synopsys:
In a decaying virtual world on the edge of collapse, you play as a lone maintenance technician sent to restore failing power cores. Wander a tranquil, utopian landscape, then enter broken dimensions within the cores themselves, where gravity twists against you and your shield drains with every step. Navigate perilous platforms, survive the hazards, and ultimately decide the fate of this fragile digital realm.
A little interesting OOB point of view. I created a procedural generation blueprint to place the background blocks more efficiently. Its controlled by seeds to maximise the variations while preserving the placement without it regenerating every time we run Unreal.
Hello everyone! I would like to announce that we’ve finally completed our final year project film!
I haven’t updated this thread in a while since we were fully focused on production and polishing for submission, but I wanted to share the final result along with some behind-the-scenes progress.
Huge thanks to everyone involved who helped bring this project to life
(The film link may temporarily become unlisted/private during festival submissions, but we’ll make it publicly available again afterwards!)
Made a simple animation for our animators to reference
