Kiwi cam! Virtual puppet walking through a procedurally generated forest in #unrealengine #ue5

Longer, 4k60 version

Taniwha's Lair in Unreal Engine. Shape inspired by Māori wharenui (meeting house), with interwoven tree roots resembling kowhaiwhai patterns on wharenui rafters. Kauri gum seeping from the roots to form stalactites. Pounamu (greenstone) walls. More on ArtStation (link in bio).

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Tracked down credits for the real photos:.1, 8, 9) Hauturu Supporters Trust.Flickr.2, 5) Jake Osborne.4) christtine.3, 6) Keith McSporran.

I've recreated a chunk of Little Barrier Island (a small island in New Zealand) in Unreal for my animated series. Thought it would be fun to do a comparison with reference I used.

Just found a video of a fun little VR experiment I did back in 2017

ARTISTS, you can only use ONE art picture to convince people to follow you. Which art piece you using ?

Pretty happy with this greenstone material in #ue5. The trick was to use the Two Sided Foliage shader model rather than the regular Subsurface. SSS looks way better using Two Sided Foliage.

Using physics to place driftwood makes things so much easier (hopefully twitter doesn't smoosh the vid to bits).

Just realised it's been over a year since I made this. I had more vids planned but my niece was super embarrassed that I used her voice so I never made them.

Entrance to the taniwha's lair WIP #UE5 #screenshotsaturday

Check out this little guy. My new Wētā puppet in #UE5.

Oh hey, I animated this😄.

Simple but effective leaf squishing using WPO #UE5

Wētāpunga character sculpt. Made the eyes a little bigger than a real wētā to fit the style of the show. #nomadsculpt

Mossy forest made using Unreal's PCG tools. Inspired by NZ's "Goblin Forest". Surprised this worked tbh. Moss for days!.#UE5

Using Unreal's PCG tools to build forests. Pretty happy with how these wall sections are coming along.

Found a sneaky kite hiding in the Unreal Electric Dreams demo :)