Imagine - Better Light Than Never Submission

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/better-light-than-never-tom-bentkowski/589800

Hi all!

It was pure fun to create something very different from what I usually do. At first I wanted to go with environments and mood that are with me everytime I get to light something but then I looked at my daughter’s table with various LEGO creations, so different from each other but all together in every possible story she imagine everyday just like I did and to be honest - still do.

After coming up with LEGO, I’ve searched for tool where I can find, construct and export lego sets to Unreal Engine 5, to test how it behaves with Nanite and Lumen and - it’s perfect.
For this I used Studio 2.0 and it’s library - Great tool!

Also I’m waiting for Lego game made in UE5 - just look at the interior!

Then I spent some time to recreate this specific feeling of LEGOs’ surface, shiny plastic but with fingerprints and scratches addition to it’s story.
Also figuring translucency for green plastic helped a lot.
For the lighting, besides directional and skylight I used couple of filling/composing lights around models just to help them shine. I established bloom to make the image softer and then the cameras with proper DoF settings did the magic
The real fun begun when I found this song from Billy Murray - in a second I was taken by old Disney mood and knew that there will be more than closeups. I had to make everything dance and really wanted to make it a magical moment.
I used 25FPS for the camera and random, glitchy animation for Lego with Constant keyframes to simulate stop motion feeling.
Anyway - This was a great ride! Kudos to all Artists in here - hats off!
Thanks Unreal for this and thanks all my friends and teammates for feedback.

Credits to sourced content:
Music - Billy Murray and Haydn Quartet - By The Light of The Silv’ry Moon

LEGO - Bricklink Gallery

Interior - SMART ArchViz Interior Pack 01/Dekogon

Made with 5.0.2.