Unreal Engine 5 | Procedural Vfx Motion Graphics

Harness the power of Unreal Engine 5 to create real-time procedural VFX Motion Graphics.

What you'll learn
Understand how to convert visual ideas into Blueprint code
Learn key techniques to optimize your interactive art projects for performance
Develop Blueprint programming techniques as an artist and/or designer
Gain comfort in using Unreal Engine as an art and design tool
Requirements
No programming experience required, but be ready to transform how you think and develop ideas.
Description
In this course, you will learn how to harness the power of Unreal Engine 5 to create a real-time fully procedural or generative FX motion graphics. No more waiting around for hours to see your renders finish. You will be able to generate a new Houdini FX like VFX motion graphics just with a click of a button in real-time.As an artist or designer, it's not easy to dive into programming and Unreal Engine can be quite overwhelming, especially as it is still heavily catered towards game development, ArchViz, virtual production etc. That's why you need to develop comfort by practicing and training through a project based course like this. Then, eventually you will get the hang of how to turn your visual ideas into working Blueprint code.I have both formal training in design and computer science, so I will help you explain difficult concepts or techniques in a way artists and designers can understand. Along the way, you will pick up important tips and tricks that will help you in your future real-time motion design projects, interactive art installations etc. Configuring a project for motion graphics or interactive art Dynamic material and Blueprint interactionOptimizing physics and graphicsPresentation/demo ready user interfaceTurning Unreal Engine into a traditional offline renderer

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Course Intro

Lecture 2 Explanation

Section 2: Configure Project File

Lecture 3 Project Setup

Lecture 4 Project Settings

Lecture 5 Scene / Level Setup

Lecture 6 Material Creation

Section 3: Blueprint Logic

Lecture 7 BP_Cube Setup

Lecture 8 Spawn Locations Array

Lecture 9 Plan Implementation

Lecture 10 Event Begin Play

Lecture 11 StartSplit Event

Lecture 12 Disable Parent Cube

Lecture 13 SpawnCubes Event

Lecture 14 Fixing Mistakes

Lecture 15 Randomize MaxGenerations

Section 4: Dynamic Material

Lecture 16 Advanced Material

Lecture 17 Material Blueprint

Section 5: Optimization Techniques

Lecture 18 Physics Optimization

Lecture 19 DLSS Plugin

Section 6: Particle Effect

Lecture 20 Niagara Particles

Section 7: User Interface

Lecture 21 Custom Splash

Lecture 22 Widget Material

Lecture 23 Widget Layout

Lecture 24 Widget Blueprint

Section 8: High Quality Rendering

Lecture 25 Movie Render Queue

Lecture 26 Setup For Rendering

Lecture 27 Render Settings

Section 9: Course Outro

Lecture 28 Final Words

Artists and designers who want to utilize the cutting edge real-time rendering technologies.