In 2020, the inaugural Unreal Engine Quick Movie Problem had greater than 1,800 registrants. In 2022, the second UE Quick Movie Problem attracted over 2200 registrants, expanded its coaching program and partnered with seven educational establishments throughout Australia and New Zealand.
College students obtained two weeks of free on-line Unreal Engine 5 animation coaching, courtesy of Epic Video games. They shaped groups, and created pitches for animated quick movies. The seven profitable groups then had eight weeks to create an animated movie, with superb outcomes.
Verify them out under!
ROBO RAMEN
UTS Animal Logic
Set in a futuristic neo-Venice, Robo Ramen tells the story of a dishwashing robotic who desires of turning into a prime chef. However, solely when the proprietor has an surprising accident does he get the possibility to step as much as the plate.
ArtStation profiles: Benji Barlow, Lydia Riccioni-Brown, Yuge Yang, Jessie Hamley, James Walsh, Minh Quan Nguyen, Ava Williams, James Weeks, Alvin Ding, Izzy Anastasi.
DEFLATED DREAMS
VCA Faculty of Movie and Tv
In a used-car yard lives Tony, a wacky, waving inflatable-tube man, who desires of being extra than simply an promoting gimmick. Spending his days flapping within the wind and peeking within the workplace window, Tony is mesmerised by a industrial for an all-new, shiny purple convertible. Whisked away by his creativeness, he desires of a world past his personal and a life behind the wheel. As time strikes on, Tony turns into as drained and worn because the used-car yard. However when the automobile he’s longed for lastly arrives within the dealership, Tony is pressured to interrupt his limits to guard his dream from a gaggle of thieves.
ArtStation profiles: Hyelee Cho, Matilda Berger, Sasha Gorman, Natalie Saunders, Kent Aldemir, Luca Brisbane, Leon Tran, Moira McMahon, Ruby Ricci.
SEEKING SANCTUARY
Massey College
When the crew of a zoological area station refuse to obey the ship’s prime goal, its AI takes management; unleashing an historical horror thought lengthy extinct.
ArtStation profiles: Alexander Walker, Antonio De Gregorio, Caleb Wright, Char Wilson, Evan Ryan, Emma Ward, Jacob Karam, Kate Raine, Rebecca Riordan.
FORBACKWARDS
AFTRS Australia Movie, Tv and Radio Faculty
We observe two protagonists in an airlock who’re dwelling the opposing realities, actually circling one another in area and time, shifting in reverse time streams. Regardless of how exhausting they struggle, they can not transfer in sync to speak. Nevertheless, when seen within the perspective of bigger scale, we because the viewers see that they’re shifting in good reverse choreography.
ArtStation profiles: Menachem Spielman, Kayla Groombridge, Ariella Broyda.
EIDOLON
Curtin College
A 12 months after surviving the crash of their area station, the captain lastly finds a possibility to flee the jail they as soon as referred to as dwelling, whereas avoiding the damaging, non-corporeal beings that now stalk the desolate wreckage.
ArtStation profiles: Melanie Tan, Maximilian Wright, Steven White-Smith, Lewis Fuller Hill, Macgregor Lawson, Jet Trijo, Hayley Zeller, Scarlett Josephine.
DISPLACED
Griffith Movie Faculty
Nik escaped the horrors of battle and located security in a international land. As he explores the busy streets of a vibrant metropolis, his thoughts retains shifting again to his war-torn hometown. The noise and the crowds are overwhelming and summon painful flashbacks. Disoriented and distraught, Nik is misplaced between two worlds: the actual world and the one in his recollections. However a useful hand and a pleasant face is there to assist him in each worlds.
ArtStation Profiles: Maximiliaan van den Boogaard, John, Daisy Quodling, Jiang Kang, Maria Zelenskaya.
WALLY WALLACE AND THE MAGIC CASE
College of South Australia
When a cranky and reclusive 80-year-old man has a magical lounge room expertise that sends him again in time to satisfy his youthful self, he finds a brand new lease on life.
ArtStation profiles: Tommy Ford, Nigel Remillosa, Anthony Hood, Christina Rossi.
TESTIMONIALS
“Having to rapidly grasp navigating and utilising Unreal Engine 5 with no prior expertise to create a brief movie in 8 weeks was a useful expertise in making ready us for the fast-paced nature of trade. We learnt the significance of teamwork, fluidity and taking up new expertise, and had an incredible time creating the story about our little robotic chef who all of us got here to like and root for. Not solely the scholars however the employees needed to rapidly be taught Unreal Engine 5 and subsequently a brand new workflow and pipeline course of, which taught everybody the values of adaptiveness and cooperation.”
– UTS Animal Logic
“The method of making Deflated Desires was a singular expertise for everybody within the crew, but it surely was additionally an thrilling alternative to develop our expertise in a cutting-edge program we had by no means tried earlier than. With the extremely technical nature of Tony’s fabric physics and his actions, we’d not have been in a position to full the movie to such a excessive customary with out Unreal Engine’s real-time rendering, as we may create scenes effectively in a fraction of the time. It was actually a rewarding expertise to sit down as a crew and watch the ultimate product, the fruits of our labour, come to life. It was an unforgettable expertise for us all.”
– VCA
“This was a useful expertise for our small college crew. There have been lots of firsts for us throughout this fast-paced manufacturing, from motion-capture to navigating the sequencer editor with cameras, all of the whereas studying new software program and pipelines on the fly and dealing exhausting to maintain up with the deadline! We beloved the real-time rendering capacity as we may simply make adjustments and had lots of flexibility. We felt supported by the Epic Video games crew and mentors at Floating Rock who guided us by way of this course of and have been all the time there to provide recommendation from their expertise.”
– Massey College
“The UE Problem was an unimaginable expertise. Along with studying the capabilities and pipelines of UE5 from Epic’s superb crew, we benefited significantly from the mentorship of Liam and David at Cheeky Little. Coming from the world of stay motion movie at AFTRS, we extremely worth and admire the hands-on expertise gained throughout this system. Surely, UE5, Quixel and Metahumans will likely be part of our toolkit for future tasks!”
– AFTRS
“To say we learnt loads can be an understatement, from the intensive 6-hour workshops day-after-day for 3 weeks that taught us elementary workflows and short-cuts to the non-public tutoring with an trade skilled from Final Pixel in regards to the ins and outs of organising motion-capture and retargeting rigs to meta-humans. We’re all extraordinarily happy with what we made throughout that point and are keenly trying ahead to, not just for further alternatives to work with Unreal themselves, however work on tasks just like this and seeing how the longer term trade will adapt to those newly rising, superb instruments!”
– Curtin College
“We have been fortunate to take part in a mission that allowed us to satisfy superior folks with a extensively numerous quantity of information, disciplines, and strengths. It was eye-opening to collaborate and utilise the highly effective capabilities of Unreal Engine and its functions in varied fields in a digital manufacturing to inform an vital story that connects with a worldwide situation. It was a rewarding expertise to make use of previous expertise on the brand new instruments given and see the thrilling prospects of a real-time manufacturing.”
– Griffith Movie Faculty
“The Quick Movie Problem pushed us technically and artistically as college students, the distinctive studying alternative developed our capability for collaboration, perseverance and creativity. The manufacturing of our movie utilizing Unreal Engine was an intense but rewarding expertise the place we quickly developed our technical and inventive capabilities as college students.”
– College of South Australia
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