Learn the core tools and creative techniques to begin crafting visually compelling scenes in Unreal Engine. You’ll start with lessons on installation, interface navigation, and essential workflows like importing assets, designing landscapes, and placing foliage. You’ll explore tools like Quixel Bridge, lighting techniques, and cinematic scene design principles, then build a static environment scene that conveys a specific mood and atmosphere.

Build confidence in using Unreal’s animation pipeline and Sequencer tool to bring scenes to life with motion and emotion. Begin by exploring key animation techniques including keyframing, camera movement, and animating props and environments. You’ll also learn character animation workflows, such as importing animated characters, using Animation Blueprints, and retargeting animations. Through hands-on practice, you’ll animate a short cinematic sequence, applying depth of field, camera transitions, and storytelling techniques.

Focus on polishing cinematic projects in Unreal Engine by enhancing visuals, sound, and final output quality. You’ll discover how to add ambient audio and music to your projects, trigger sounds within Sequencer, and explore simple visual effects using Niagara. This module also covers post-processing techniques like bloom, LUTs, and color grading. Final touches include camera adjustments and rendering sequences using the Movie Render Queue with high-quality export settings.

Understand the core principles and workflows of virtual production, focusing on real-time filmmaking using Unreal Engine. You’ll have an overview of key techniques such as ICVFX (In-Camera Visual Effects), pre-visualization, virtual scouting, and live compositing with green screens. Plus, you’ll learn about essential virtual production studio infrastructure, like LED volumes, camera tracking systems like Mo-Sys and OptiTrack, and supporting hardware and software tools.

Dive into the technical setup and project management aspects of virtual production using nDisplay. You’ll configure your own nDisplay systems, set up CineCameras, and operate virtual cameras within a multi-display environment. Then you’ll cover best practices for asset management, explore tools like the Outliner and Content Browser, and discover the importance of gathering visual references to build your own structured, production-ready project environment.

Learn to build production-ready virtual environments specifically designed for LED wall workflows. You’ll explore how to design scenes that account for perspective, parallax, and horizon management within curved or flat LED volumes. You’ll also cover advanced lighting techniques using the Environment Light Mixer, dynamic time-of-day setups, and Sky Atmosphere tools tailored for virtual production. Additionally, you’ll develop landscapes and implement foliage systems optimized for LED displays.

Create detailed and performance-optimized interior environments for virtual production. You’ll get familiar with making interior set dressing with a focus on visual depth and performance efficiency, and integrate interactive elements, ambient animations, and lightweight particle systems to bring environments to life. By the end of this module, you’ll be equipped to design rich, dynamic interior scenes tailored for real-time production.

Optimize materials for virtual production environments to ensure both visual fidelity and performance efficiency in real-time production settings. You’ll get familiar with various lighting types, their functions, and performance considerations, with a focus on interior and LED volume-specific lighting setups. In terms of materials, you’ll adjust and optimize materials for LED walls, implement decals, and use material variation systems to add richness and flexibility to scenes.

Refine the visual quality and performance of your project for final delivery. In this module, you’ll apply post-processing effects like bloom, vignette, and lens flare tailored for LED volumes. You’ll also optimize texture resolutions and compression techniques and get familiar with GPU stat tools and view modes. Then you’ll render your final cinematic using CineCamera, Sequencer, and Movie Render Queue to prepare it for on-screen presentation.