The world needed a new poop song, so I used Suno to create a song about a poop lost in space after being accidentally ejected by astronauts. Then I used Unreal Engine 5 and iClone 8 to make the video for it. Yes, that virtual character is me, Cory Williams and no, I didn’t actually sing this song. Do you REALLY think I can sing that well? Flattering if you do but no. My singing voice belongs in the trash.

Anyway, enjoy!

An Alchemist's Confession - This short film was created by Cory Williams in Unreal Engine 5 in only five days.

BEHIND THE SCENES:
https://youtu.be/kbWzJkFAmg0?si=-u0mJrOrnF9lNDL7

On Wednesday, September 20th, I found some really cool assets on the Unreal Engine Marketplace that I wanted to do something cool with. So I downloaded them, prepared a scene and optimized the characters for motion capture inside of Character Creator 4 and iClone 8. The next day, I wrote the script and posted a screenshot of the new project set on LinkedIn. Then on Friday, I recorded the audio and motion capture and exported the data from iClone 8 into Unreal Engine 5. As I was getting out of my Xsens suit, I got a message from Mark Otim on LinkedIn who had seen the screenshot I had posted earlier and asked if I'd like any help with sound design. His reel was impressive, and I love to collaborate with other artists, so of course I brought him on. Then a few minutes later, Angel Roché Jr. reached out to me and asked the same thing, but he was offering to create an original score. His reel was amazing, and I would be crazy to turn someone like him down. So, then I made the introductions and the 3 of us got busy. Angel and Mark spent the next few days making great audio while I spent more time focusing on animation and other VFX inside of Unreal Engine. Then Tuesday night, we had a finished piece.

We hope you enjoy it!

Unreal Engine Marketplace Assets Used:
Alchemy Workshop by Dekogon Studios
Wassermann by Dary Palasky
Big Niagara Bundle by Soer Game

The fact that current technology allows me to do all of this on my own is freakin' mind blowing. It's a great time to be alive my friends!

This is my first showreel by the way. So go easy on me!

Most of what I made here was done in Unreal Engine 5 with the help of AI and other virtual production and character creator tools like Blender, Character Creator 4, iClone 8, AccuRig, Xsens, Manus, Apple ARKit and various others.

Other credit for collaboration go to Solomon Jagwe, Nick Romick, Adrian Carter and Eric Lee. Also special thanks to Taiyaki Studios for allowing me to help grow the virtual creator community. It was great working with them.

Here's how you can turn any toy into a 3D character that you can use in Unreal Engine, Unity or any 3D modeling software easy! All you need is your phone and the free tools listed below:

Meshroom for Photogrammetry
https://alicevision.org

Blender for 3D modeling
https://www.blender.org

Mixamo for free animations:
https://www.mixamo.com

Unreal Engine 5
https://www.unrealengine.com/

Xsens (my mocap suit):
http://www.xsens.com

Here are some tutorials to help you even more:

Meshroom Tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKbyVDK2Ep8

Blender For Beginners:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIoXOplUvAw

Unreal Engine 5 Beginner Tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptCN4cysDig

How To Use Mixamo (free animations) with Unreal Engine 5:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L0rH9nyVlU

How to convert animations from one character to yours in UE5
(aka retargeting animation):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQJcU65CvpQ

How to Create cinematics in Unreal Engine 5:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jHhIah8H7U

YOU CAN DO THIS! I believe in you. Just have fun with the process!
-Cory Williams

Want us to make YOU a custom character? Let us know!
http://www.TaiyakiStudios.com

I turned my He-Man toy into a 3D character and animated it with my body using motion capture in Unreal Engine 5. If you'd like to learn how to do this or if you'd like my team to make a custom 3D character for YOU, visit our website:
http://www.taiyakistudios.com

Here’s a list of everything I used to create this UE5 short film:

Motion Capture:
Xsens MVN Link suit
Manus Prime II Gloves

Engine:
Unreal Engine 5

Additional Animation:
Reallusion iClone 7
3DXchange

Asset Creation tools:
Blender
Photoshop
Meshroom

For business, marketing or collaboration:
[email protected]

These are story taken from real life and retold in the Metaverse. This Metaverse Story was from Matt Kohrs’ live stream on Friday, December 17th.

Here’s Matt’s original live stream:
https://youtu.be/B_oQsCzpz44
(skip to 51:48)

Here’s Matt’s live reaction to this on Monday, December 20th.
https://youtu.be/9_ejhQteV9s
(Skip to 8:03)

This animated short film was made in Unreal Engine 4 using motion capture and custom built assets. Here’s a list of everything I used to create this UE4 short film:

Motion Capture:
Xsens MVN Link suit
Manus Prime II Gloves
iPhoneX Apple AR Kit

Engine:
Unreal Engine 4.26

For business, marketing or collaboration:
[email protected]

There's a bad little monster tearing up our house and I can't catch him to stop it! Anyone know how to get rid of these little monsters?

This bad little animated short film was made in Unreal Engine 4.

For business, marketing or collaboration:
[email protected]

#UnrealEngineShortFilm #Animation #UE4

This Unreal Engine short film was created for the 2021 Four Points Film Project, a 77 hour international film competition.

Here are the required elements that were required for this film:
GENRE: Children's Film
CHARACTER: A cake decorator named Taylor or Tanner Loss
LINE: "You did a bad thing for a good reason."
PROP: An umbrella

This version of our unreal engine film has been modified for YouTube.

THE TRUE STORY OF THE GOLDEN DRILLER:
A version of the Golden Driller was originally built in 1952 by the Mid-Continent Supply Company of Fort Worth as a temporary feature of the International Petroleum Exposition. Six years later, one was erected again for the 1959 show. Due to the positive attention it attracted, the company donated the statue to the Tulsa County Fairgrounds Trust Authority which had it anatomically redesigned and permanently installed in front of the Tulsa Expo Center for the 1966 International Petroleum Exposition. The statue's right hand rests on an oil derrick which had been moved from a depleted oil field in Seminole, Oklahoma. An inscription at the base of the statue reads: "The Golden Driller, a symbol of the International Petroleum Exposition. Dedicated to the men of the petroleum industry who by their vision and daring have created from God's abundance a better life for mankind." In 1979, the Golden Driller was adopted by the Oklahoma Legislature as the state monument. His stats are said to include: Belt size - 48 ft in circumference, Shoe size- 393DDD, and Hat size - 112 hard hat.[5] His belt originally read "MID-CONTINENT", but was changed in 1979 to the current buckle that says "TULSA".

CREDITS:

Written by:
Cory Williams
Kristen Williams
Blake Isaacson
Lucinda Isaacson

Director / Editor / Animator / 3D Modeler / Unreal Engine Virtual Production Specialist / Cinematographer / Motion Capture Specialist / Sound Design:
Cory Williams

Live Action Photography / Live Action Colorist / Live Action Editor / Title Graphics:
Lyndon Alvarez

Production Manager / Motion Capture Assistant / Assistant Editor:
Kristen Williams

Production Assistants:
Blake Isaacson
Lucinda Isaacson

Actors:
Man / Narrator - Cory Williams
Young Man - Liam Isaacson
Dad Voice / Body and Facial Motion Capture - Cory Williams
Son Voice / Body and Facial Motion Capture - Liam Isaacson
Grandma Voice - Angela Swift
Grandma's Body and Facial Motion Capture - Cory Williams
Golden Driller Body Motion Capture - Cory Williams

Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound via commercial license.

Tools and software used:

Unreal Engine 4.26 and Unreal Engine 5
Unreal Marketplace Assets (listed below)
Xsens MVN Link mocap suit (for body motion capture)
Xsens Animate Pro (mocap data optimization)
Manus VR Prime II gloves (for hands motion capture)
iPhone X (for facial motion capture)
Standard Deviation HMC (helmet for facial motion capture)
MetaHuman Creator (for human models)
Character Creator 3 (for animated golden driller)
iClone 7 with 3DXchange (for motion capture performance adjustments)
Meshroom (for photogrammetry of real life golden driller)
Blender (animating real life golden driller and prop / environment creation)

Unreal Marketplace Assets Used:
Western Desert Town by KK Design
Rural Australia by Andrew Svanberg Hamilton
Dust and Smoke Effects by VFX4GAME

All of the character animations were created during the 48 hour film festival.
#UnrealEngineFilm #virtualproduction #animation

Watch my new unreal engine short film "The Golden Driller":
https://youtu.be/J6idreh9s44

This animated unreal engine short film was made in 77 hours using Unreal Engine 4 with Xsens motion capture suits and Reallusion animation tools. Here’s a list of everything I used to create this UE4 animated short film:

Motion Capture:
Xsens MVN Link suit
Manus Prime II Gloves
iPhoneX Apple AR Kit

Engine:
Unreal Engine 4.26

Additional Animation:
Reallusion iClone 7
Reallusion Character Creator 3
3DXchange

Asset Creation tools:
Blender
Photoshop

For business, marketing or collaboration:
[email protected]

#FourPointsFilmProject
#48HFP
#UnrealEngineFilm

“A Pirate’s Last Song” is my new animated music video made for the #iClone #LipSyncAnimation contest using Character Creator 3, iClone with #AccuLips and Unreal Engine.

Behind The Scenes - Plan and writing
https://youtu.be/_fwaGttV5YE

Behind The Scenes - Animating w iClone
https://youtu.be/3aOWrPV0WJg

Behind The Scenes - Facial Mocap
https://youtube.com/shorts/V2mbvs1AJvM

Workflow - https://forum.reallusion.com/495744/A-Pirates-Last-Song

Here's a link to the iClone AccuLips Lip Sync Animation contest:
https://bit.ly/2Ui5VpP

I hope you enjoy watching this as much as I enjoyed making it! I wish it could have been longer but 30 seconds is the max for this contest. If you think I should win, be sure to tell Reallusion in the comments!!! Thanks!

Learn more about iClone here:
https://bit.ly/3w8aUa5

If you liked this Unreal Engine short film / music video, be sure to subscribe! I make lots of fun stuff like this.

For business, marketing or collaboration:
[email protected]