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APRIL 2025 EARLY REGISTRATION

50% DISCOUNT $1000

$500 USD

UNREAL ENGINE 4-WEEK COURSE

Final Form Studios presents the Unreal Engine Filmmakers course. This 4-week crash course will give you the tools to confidently navigate yourself around Unreal Engine 5.

The goal for the end of this course is that students will be able to have an understanding of taking a storyboard and transforming it into a final rendered video.

This course will be taught online via zoom and the students will have preview materials before hand to study up on so that they are prepared for the lesson. If the student is not able to attend the class, not a problem. All classes will be recorded and available to watch anytime!

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Your instructor for this course is Stephen Wilcox who has been using Unreal Engine for 6 years and is based in Tokyo, Japan. Coming from a background touring with EDM DJs and shooting high-energy Music videos and fashion films, he shifted his focus to Unreal virtual concerts. His main focus has been working on LED virtual production sets as an ICVFX Director. Recently he has been doing more and more previs, character, and level design for recent brands such as ANA Japan and YAMAHA. Excited to share his knowledge of film and Unreal, he is looking forward to seeing you in this class.

FILM ASSET PACK INCLUDED

Photography studio with multiple lighting equipment, backdrop screens, and a table displaying various stage lights, with a green screen on the right side.
Professional cinema camera with large lens, matte box, and camera monitor on a dark background
Green screen studio with lighting equipment, tripods, and backdrop stands.

SCHEDULE

CLASSES START APRIL 7TH

Calendar for April 2025 highlighting the dates 7th, 10th, 14th, 17th, 21st, 24th, and 28th in green.

Monday from 6:00 - 7:00 PM PST - During this time we will teach some core skills outlined below. Students will be assigned homework related to their project.

Thursday from 6:00 - 7:00 PM PST - Students will have a chance to submit their work and get feedback / troubleshoot some problems that they have been having.

WEEK 1 (APRIL 7th/ 10th) - Students will be given a brief tour of the Unreal Engine marketplace and demonstrate the Unreal Engine editor interface basics. They will be shown how to take basic shapes to begin to shape their scenes and add a cinema camera to get a basic idea of the shots they would like.

WEEK 2 (APRIL 14th / 17th)- Students will add color to their scene and start level designing.

WEEK 3 (APRIL 21st / 24th) - students will learn about the various character creation software and be given a lesson about the Rokoko motion capture suit. Animations made from this lesson can be used for the student’s final projects.

WEEK 4 (APRIL 28th / MAY 1st) - We will be bringing it all together and rendering it out, and doing presentations.

WEEK 1

-UE INTERFACE

-UNREAL MARKETPLACE / ASSETS / PLUGINS

-CONCEPT DESIGN / 10-BLOCK STORYBOARD

-UE LEVEL BLOCKOUT

-CAMERA 

-FILE ORGANIZATION

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A professional video shoot setup in a studio with camera, lighting, crew member recording, and a woman appearing on the monitor.

WEEK 2

-LEVEL DESIGN

-LIGHTING

-MATERIALS

-MEGASCANS

-HDRI

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WEEK 3

-ANIMATION

-CONTROL RIG

-SEQUENCER

-METAHUMANS

-CHARACTER CREATOR 4 + ICLONE 8 PIPELINE

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WEEK 4

-RENDERING

-PREMIER PRO EDIT

-SOUND

-PRESENTATION

The screenshot shows a video editing software interface, specifically Adobe Premiere Pro, with a dark interior scene being edited. The scene depicts a large, cathedral-like space with arched ceilings, warm lighting from hanging fixtures, and a person kneeling or sitting in the center. The timeline at the bottom displays various clips and audio tracks, and the right panel shows color correction and adjustment settings.
A behind-the-scenes view of a film set depicting a person standing on a rocky pathway near a lake with mountains and a traditional Japanese torii gate in the background. Studio lights and a camera are set up for filming.