The Desert
As a studio we started to get interested in Unreal Engine 5 when we saw the potential of this tool in the motion graphics field. Soon as we started to play with this marvellous tool we immediately felt thrilled by the possibilities it gives us, whether it is how quick and easy that it is to build worlds or the unbelievable real time results. The constrains of waiting to see a beauty shot are all instantly gone.
We wanted to see how we could implement our knowledge and identity in this amazing tool. It resulted in a little travel on a ruin trough a desert landscape where it lays the central piece.
Since the integration of Cinema 4D projects and assets are fairly easy, thanks to Data-smith plugin we decide to bring some baked animations and assets to Unreal. For the flags we made a solid behind the last ones to simulate the hit on a hard surface so in UE5 the flags wont intercept in the mesh, after that we baked all the simulation into keyframes and imported it as a .c4d project
As for the O on the second part of the film, we made a similiar aproach as the flags, the main diference is that we baked the simulation to alembic first and then converted the baked animation to keyframes.
Lumen is powerful tool in terms of real time render, so in this project we wanted to take advantage of this with the help of hardware Ray tracing instead of the Path-tracing solution.
As for the envirements we used the Quixel Megascans assets, it's game changing to just be able to add, move and edit assets so easily with such level of detail. Unreal Engine helps a lot with their build in tools such as the Foliage tool and Modelling tool.
What it started as a simple test in Unreal Engine, quickly became an idea to make a short video around our logo, a little manifesto to the O, our symbol.
Olga Studio
