Unreal Engine 5 - The Complete Automotive Cinematic Course

Create a new Unreal Engine 5.3.2 project from scratch, enable ray tracing, name it cinematic, and open it, then locate the project in the Epic Games Launcher for later steps.

Download automotive materials from the Epic Games Marketplace and import them into your Unreal Engine 5 project. Reuse the scene assets and HDRi to recreate a highway automotive cinematic.

Discover how to download car 3d models from Sketchfab, including a free Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500, download the FBX, and prepare for uploading to Unreal Engine in later lectures.

Duplicate the beach scene to create two levels, beach scene b and p1, then arrange decals, materials, and lights for the Mustang cinematic camera sequence.

import a car asset into unreal engine 5, create a Shelby folder, drag the model into the level, enable skeletal mesh, and apply car paint and other materials.

Install Blender from blender.org, accept terms, and choose an installation location, then download the Unreal Engine for vehicle rigging addon via direct link to prepare car animation workflows.

Install and enable the Unreal Engine for vehicle rigging addon in Blender, load the zipped file, and activate it in preferences to access the vehicle rigging menu.

Rig a car in Blender by importing the mustang asset, removing unused parts, assembling the body with wheels and brakes, and exporting the model as an FBX for Unreal Engine.

Import a rigged blender model into Unreal Engine 5, enable skeletal mesh, convert tires to spheres and generate a multi convex hull for the body to prepare for blueprint setup.

Learn to build a car control rig in Unreal Engine 5, creating body, wheel rotation, and steering controls, linking them with offset transforms and rotation limits for animation.

Place the car in the beach scene, then apply automotive materials—exterior car paint, glass, interior leather, seats, tires, mirrors, and calipers—to achieve a polished cinematic look.

Learn to collect and organize assets for the level using Quixel and Sketchfab, choosing asphalt, road, sidewalks, barriers, signs, and industrial props, and locate items by their exact names.

Create a cinematic highway level by selecting the beach scene, hiding decals, placing and texturing a road with Megascans asphalt, tiling adjustments, and duplicating road segments for a seamless course.

Place sidewalks and edge assets using Megascans, duplicate and align sections, adjust scale and decals, and refine lighting with HDRIs for realistic automotive scenes ready for the next car animation.

Learn to create a road turn and drift sequence in Unreal Engine 5 by faking terrain with duplicated road segments, adjusting rotation, camera placement, and adding traffic barriers.

extend sidewalk edges and place a modular metal guardrail from Megascans via Quicksilver, then duplicate, rotate, and align barriers along the street, copy to the opposite side, and save.

Select three game-ready buildings from Sketchfab, download them as FBX, and import into the project, while also exporting blend files from Blender for future use.

Export the Blender project as an FBX by selecting all and using export FBX with selected objects, then drag the FBX into Unreal's content driver to finish.

Import a building into unreal engine 5, create and apply materials from textures, connect metalness, roughness, and base color, then place the textured asset in the scene.

Learn a fast workflow to texture Unreal Engine 5 assets using Megascans, selecting steel and concrete materials, adjusting tiling, and applying textures to lamps and buildings for automotive cinematics.

Add the final cinematic details by duplicating and rotating buildings, placing traffic lamps, benches, and construction assets from Megascans and Quixel, and adjust pivots to refine street realism.

Enhance Unreal Engine 5 road scenes with decals from Quixel and Megascans. Download, place, rotate, and scale graffiti, bike lanes, and manholes before animations.

Learn to use the sequencer and cinema cameras to animate a car scene, set up a perspective camera, and adjust focus, aperture, and focal length for realism.

Master the sequencer in Unreal Engine 5 by creating level sequences, animating with keyframes for location, rotation, and scale, and coordinating multi-camera cinematic shots.

Set up a camera in the scene, build a smooth path with the camera rail around the car, enable tracking, and adjust focus and aperture for cinematic results.

Place a camera in the level, attach it to a crane, and configure look-at tracking to follow Shelby, using keyframes and sequencer for fast, cinematic crane shots.

Animate the first scene by adding a camera and creating a sequencer, then set keyframes for the car’s position and focus to achieve a sharp end view.

Create and refine a car cinematic by duplicating a level sequence, editing keyframes, adjusting camera focus and focal length, and rendering with path tracer to preview and optimize.

Duplicate and adjust keyframes to craft a front of the car camera move, tuning focal length and brand focus. Vary speed with time dilation, then transition to the next scene.

Design a complete automotive cinematic scene in Unreal Engine 5, refine car placement, keyframes, and lighting, and implement a Perlin noise camera shake via a blueprint for dynamic motion.

Unreal Engine 5 scene 5 teaches animating a Shelby car in a cinematic sequence, with level sequence rigging, wheel rotation, camera motion, shake, and focus for realism.

Unreal Engine 5 Scene 6 demonstrates attaching the car model to a Shelby control rig and creating a level sequence with keyframes for camera and wheel rotation.

Scene 7 guides setting up a sequencer shot in Unreal Engine 5, wiring the car to an aerial rig, configuring a dslr camera, and applying tire rotation and camera shake.

Set up and animate a drift sequence by extending the track, placing the Shelby rig, aligning the car's body and tires with keyframes, and configuring camera movements.

Duplicate scene seven to scene ten, set the camera to follow the Shelby car, and fine-tune keyframes, rotation, and camera shakes for a smoother cinematic sequence.

Explore Niagara in Unreal Engine 5 and build an infinite fountain using sprite renderer, textures, and flipbooks, and tune lifetime, spawn rate, velocity, gravity, drag, and color to create car smoke.

Create a smoke material in Unreal Engine 5 by combining animated textures, texture coordinates, and multiply nodes to build a translucent shader for use in Niagara.

Create a Niagara smoke system from a new emitter, assign a material, configure sprite size, lifetime, velocity, and uv animation, and apply fading and scaling to produce realistic automotive smoke.

Create a drift smoke fx in Unreal Engine 5 using Niagara: set up smoke and fountain emitters, configure textures, adjust lifetime, color, rotation, velocity, gravity, drag, and scale over time.

Add drift scene smoke with Niagara, keyframe its location to follow the car, then adjust post-process textures and volume settings, bake a fixed life cycle, and preview a realistic render.

Create a content/assets effects folder, then import unreal assets and materials via the Epic Games launcher into the project's content folder; drag-and-drop may not import unreal assets.

Explore Unreal Engine 5's post-process volume as a compositor for cinematic looks. Adjust bloom, depth of field, color grading, exposure, lens flare, and motion settings with bound or unbound scope.

Configure path tracer render settings in Unreal Engine 5 to enable motion blur, set antialiasing to 64 and 16, adjust sample counts, and define output resolution and frame range.

Learn to use After Effects for cinematic scenes, perform basic color corrections with Lumetri Color, import EXR sequences, build a composition timeline, and render to MP4.