Mission To Minerva - #KB3Dchallenge

Welcome to the Minerva Galaxy.

Since a few weeks, Kitbash 3D launched a brand new challenge along with an awesome new kit. Mission To Minerva.

At first I only wanted to make a keyframe, but as usual things excalated quickly, and teh result is a near 3 minutes animation.

The timing was perfect as I wanted to learn Unreal Engine 5 more deeply.

So for my second real scene in it, I pushed as far as I can, mostly as my computer can for now;-)

Seting a scene with World Creator exported map, and kitbash assets from the needed kit.

Custom materials, Niagara VFXs, thanks to UNF Game, crowd driven with MASS AI tools and the City Crowd asset form the Unreal Engine marketplace.

Also several animation from Mixamo, but next time I will retarget for sure.

Cut and editing with DaVinci Resolve as usual, but a new dive in the Boris FX suite to flesh my first handmase lens flares and light effetcs.

Well, it was quite a journey to explore this galaxy.

Still Frames :

World Creator Base Terrain :

UE5 Set Dressing :

UE5 Animated Ground Fog :

UE5 Niagara Thrusters :

UE5 MASS AI :

Blender Elements :

Keyed AI Video Character (Reals AI) :

DAVinci Resolve Fusion Graph :

Boris FX Handcrafted Lens Flares :

Credits :

Musics :

Scott Buckley : Adrift Among Infinite Stars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXvh7jno8Hc
Dilate : Original Song Action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lH48tJBgcM

AI Video Character Generation :

Reals AI : https://hourone.ai/

Video Footages :

Motion Array : https://motionarray.com/

Kitbash Assets :

Kitbash 3D : https://kitbash3d.com/