Unreal Bootcamp

The Epic Bootcamp Animation 2023 was a intensive four week course initiated by Epic Games. It was hosted by UT-Hub, instructors form INCAS Training and other Epic training partners. Hundreds of people participated worldwide. The focus was on animated films using Unreal Engine 5. It was very inspiring to meat a lot of interesting people (via a discord server) from a lot of different industries starting to use a Game Engine for a lot of different new purposes.

I supported my girlfriend who was working in Fortaleza at the time, so I had to move to Brazil for three month just before the course started. Because of this situation I had to get up at 3 am to attend the live sessions (because of the time zone difference). So for me it was a little bit intense but I was very happy to be still able to participate. I also got a chance to learn some kiteboarding on the beautiful beaches and in the perfect wind conditions of Cumbuco which was welcome contrast to all the screen time.



I used assets for the main character and the environment from fab.com. Special Thanks to Tom Baumann who was so kind to host a little motion capturing session in his studio in switzerland. It was amazing to be able to direct a short motion capturing recording (via video call) with the great acting of Ophir Raray.





I wrote a concept with a plot and a moodboard. You can also see some photos of the storryboard from my scetchbook.