Epic Games' Unreal Engine 5 provides next-generation tools to developers and artists, allowing them to create content and games with high visual fidelity and interactivity. From films to the latest games on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, Unreal Engine 5 utilizes cutting-edge technologies to bring forth stunning scenes and immersive gameplay experiences. To showcase what Unreal Engine 5 is capable of, an artist created an impressive summer scene based on a vintage photograph.
Unreal Engine 5 introduces many new tools and features, such as Lumen, Nanite, and Temporal Super Resolution. Lumen is a dynamic global illumination system that enables adaptive lighting across different geometry. For instance, Lumen handles lighting during a sunset and affects how shadows are portrayed in a scene. Developers can create large worlds and games with Nanite, a virtual micro polygon geometry system that renders pixel scale detail and high object counts. Along with the built-in upsampling feature, Temporal Super Resolution, developers are able to create high-fidelity experiences without a major impact on overall performance.
Artist Makes Impressive Short Film Using Unreal Engine 5
Reddit user and artist u/AGC_ONE created an incredible summer scene using the tools present in Unreal Engine 5. The scene is based on Helmut Newton's vintage photo from France in 1984, «Morning at the Cote D'Azur.» A debonair man stands near his French Riviera balcony, reading a newspaper from the French city of Nice.
In the original photo by Newton, the man is leaning on the balcony as he reads the newspaper. In u/AGC_ONE's scene, the man is standing upright instead of leaning. In Unreal Engine 5, u/AGC_ONE used the photo as a reference and attempted to
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