I took part in the ASUS ProArtist Awards 2023 contest and this was my submission in the animation category. I didn't win 1st place but I was in the top 10 finalists. Announcement video--Animation category starts at 5:07: https://youtu.be/1QaVw7MfDf8
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This years theme was Seeing an Incredible Future and my take on it was a fully biodegradable laptop made with natural elements which Nature would have no issue reclaiming.
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This was my first time doing anything meaningful in terms of animation and I learned quite a bit about Unreal Engine 5.
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The environments were built using all the Twinmotions packs, Megascans, Apartment Tech Props, City Sample Buildings, Ultra Dynamic Sky, Ultra Volumetric and a couple more. The laptop was modeled by me and textured using a mix of Substance Painter and the Substance library. I wish I could have spent more time on design and texturing but animating everything was my biggest headache.
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Big thanks to Ronan Mahon (https://www.artstation.com/ronanm) for his advice on how to approach animating something like this. Use master sequences! Thanks to the UE forums for their help in the posts that I made and all the things I found there as well and my colleague Ethan for his advice regarding UE. And finally my biggest thanks to my mother for putting up with my endless request for feedback when I was making all this.
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I will follow up with renders of both environments soon.