Reading Time: 3 minutesSo I thought it was time for a quick update on the Unreal Engine 5 short film project. I’m still testing out city designs and building different scenes. I’ve created a more gritty look for the city, which I like. As I wrote in my last post, I found my initial design too pretty. I… Continue reading More City Designs & Traffic. Shortfilm Diary Part V
FilmDaft Short Films
Short films and other video content created by the FilmDaft staff writers, including production diaries from new projects.
Testing City Designs. Shortfilm Diary Part IV
Reading Time: 4 minutesAs I mentioned in part III of this diary, I’ve been working on different city designs to see what I like and don’t like. So I want to share one of my ideas and what I like (and don’t like) about it. Here’s a quick animated fly-over of the design. The idea behind the design… Continue reading Testing City Designs. Shortfilm Diary Part IV
Screenplay And Character Design In Unreal Engine 5. Shortfilm Diary Part III.
Reading Time: 4 minutesI think it’s time for a status update on the FilmDaft cyberpunk animated short film I’m working on in Unreal Engine 5. Read Part I here. I’ve been working on three things: finishing the screenplay, creating characters (and starting to animate them), and building the scenes (and testing city designs) for the movie. In this… Continue reading Screenplay And Character Design In Unreal Engine 5. Shortfilm Diary Part III.
Character Animation In Unreal Engine 5. Shortfilm Diary Part II.
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve begun to understand how to create a cyberpunk city in Unreal Engine 5. But even though the city itself is a very important element in neo-noir and cyberpunk films, without characters in it to bring it to life, it is just dead and empty streets. So I created a small test scene to take… Continue reading Character Animation In Unreal Engine 5. Shortfilm Diary Part II.
New FilmDaft Short Film Project: Animating A Cyberpunk Short Film In Unreal Engine 5
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe lines between the tools used in the gaming industry and the film industry are getting blurrier each year. Not at least thanks to Unreal Engine, which is now being used on hit shows like The Mandalorian and Obi-Wan Kenobi. For those unfamiliar, Unreal Engine (UE) is, in essence, a gaming engine created for making… Continue reading New FilmDaft Short Film Project: Animating A Cyberpunk Short Film In Unreal Engine 5
What I Learned From Making My First Short-Film
Reading Time: 7 minutesAbout a year ago, I finished my first short film called VECT0R. And I didn’t really know what to do with it. You can watch it here: As old readers might recall, I started this crazy short-film project because I wanted to try out some stuff in After Effects. I’ve covered the whole process here… Continue reading What I Learned From Making My First Short-Film
VECTOR Trailer (Teaser) Is Out! | My First Short Film The Journey Part 7
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy short film project is coming closer to an end. So close in fact that I was able to make a trailer (or teaser?) for the film. In the last minute, I decided to change the title to VECT0R. I still need to do the final tweaks to the music and sound before releasing the… Continue reading VECTOR Trailer (Teaser) Is Out! | My First Short Film The Journey Part 7
My First Short Film. The Journey. Part 6. Creating A Lab In My Living Room
Reading Time: 4 minutesFor one of the scenes of my first short film “The Journey”, I wanted to create a dreamlike science lab. And I decided to create the laboratory in our living room. The reason for this was, first of all, that we didn’t really have the time to find a real lab. Second, I wanted to… Continue reading My First Short Film. The Journey. Part 6. Creating A Lab In My Living Room
My First Short Film. The Journey. Part 5. That’s A Wrap
Reading Time: 5 minutesWow! The day finally arrived. Yesterday evening I finished shooting the last scene for my short film. I thought the day would never come. If you remember Part 2: The Nuked Drive-In of my amateurish endeavors into the film world, my protagonist is walking through the fallout of an old drive-in movie theatre where she… Continue reading My First Short Film. The Journey. Part 5. That’s A Wrap
My First Short Film. The Journey. Part 4. Creating A Backstory
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you’ve been following this blog for a while, you might know that I’m currently working on my first short film. And if you’ve been reading about this project from the beginning, you know I’ve no idea what I’m doing. I make a living by shooting corporate and animated explainer videos for companies, not post-apocalyptic… Continue reading My First Short Film. The Journey. Part 4. Creating A Backstory