How I Remade Dune in 24 Hours using VFX

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2 ай бұрын

Join our FREE Dune Masterclass 👉 www.unrealforvfx.com/dune
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I gave myself ONE DAY to create Dune from scratch. These are the results!
I wanted to share my entire approach to filmmaking and in Unreal Engine 5 all in one video!
Ever wanted to learn how to create sci-fi films (like Dune Part Two) from scratch?
You'll learn...
- A beginner's guide to world-building in Unreal 5
- How I create high-speed action sequences FAST
- The shortcut to modeling entire cities without leaving Unreal
- The workflow to create your own sci-fi epics starting from a cube!
Using the Modeling Tools and Material Graph to create the city, Blender to Rig the ornithopters, and UE5's Sequencer to animate and keyframe the cameras and shots, you'll get a complete grasp of YOU can become an Unreal Filmmaker in one day!
Much love to the entire team at DNEG for creating the amazing VFX in Part 1, can't wait to see the amazing work in Part 2 this weekend :D
As an added bonus, I'm sharing EVERYTHING I learned this Saturday, March 2nd at 1pm EST. Sign up to reserve your spot! 3
Sign up now 👉 www.unrealforvfx.com/dune (we're only sending out the recordings to those who register)
If you joined last week, we're covering a BRAND NEW SEQUENCE - The War on Arrakis complete with Explosions and FX. It's going to be action packed, so you won't want to miss it!
Want me to cover something specific? Leave a comment and I'll do my best to include it!
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Chapters
0:00 - Is this challenge possible?
1:04 - Modeling the City of Arrakis
1:55 - The VFX Technique I stole from Star Wars
3:06 - Create ONE MATERIAL to texture entire cities
5:06 - Why Maya and Blender are holding you back
5:57 - Creating a Landscape in UE5 with Gaea
6:40 - Building and Rigging Ornithopters
8:20 - Assembling the City with our Asset Zoo
9:35 - Creating the Cameras and Animation in Sequencer
10:48 - Rendering in Less Than ONE HOUR
11:22 - The Last Step for Hollywood-level VFX (Don't Skip This)
#dune #UnrealEngine5 #IndieFilmmaking #unrealengine #unreal #film #cgi #VFX #CGArt #animations #ue5 #vfx #vfxbreakdown #blender3d #animation #maya #cinematic #dunereview #dunetrailer
How I Recreated Dune in 24 Hours using VFX
How I Made Dune in 24 Hours using VFX
#unrealengine #vfx #cinematic

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@JoshToonen 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and sharing ya'll :D If you're a filmmaker looking to take your work to the next level... Join me this weekend in the LIVE Dune Masterclass 👉www.unrealforvfx.com/dune Don't miss it!

@MaceWindoo77 2 ай бұрын

I love what you did and really seriously think grab your Dune Masterclass but do I need a war machine ? (my actual setup : i7700HQ, 1070GTX, 32Go...)

@vladan.Poison 2 ай бұрын

the link is missing a W in www 😂

@JoshToonen 2 ай бұрын

That's definitely good enough to get started! :D

@ryked333 2 ай бұрын

@Josh Toonen Nothing happens when i press the 'Watch the Free Dune Masterclass' Button :( Is it broken or am i ineligeble to watch it, if i wasn't at the Live Stream?

@CrystalDEsprit Ай бұрын

If you need a film composer, hit me up. x

@CorridorCrew 2 ай бұрын

Gotta watch this at half speed to catch all the genius tips. So GOOD! - Sam

@evxnkndy 2 ай бұрын

damn even corridor is here. love everything you guys do! Going into video production myself and you guys give inspiration with every new video!

@JoshToonen 2 ай бұрын

Thanks Sam! Ya'll + Freddie and Brandon are why I started learning VFX :D Appreciate it!

@sana-cm7oc 2 ай бұрын

@@JoshToonen Corridor appreciating your work. Very cool. Love those guys. Great job, Josh. Subscribed.

@user-nt4wi3mm8o 2 ай бұрын

watch at half a speed because he a methhead with no brain

@Fatalution Ай бұрын

Holy shit, Corridor? Wowee, I guess you guys also learn from someone 😅

@vidboss 2 ай бұрын

I like what your dune here

@JoshToonen 2 ай бұрын

😏

@DDAYZ8 2 ай бұрын

Smooth💦

@marcus_ohreallyus 2 ай бұрын

I approve of this pun

@lessemo 2 ай бұрын

Yes officer, this is the comment, please arrest him

@SLAYINGVR 2 ай бұрын

Nailed it

@memphuk 2 ай бұрын

I was the Lidar scanning tech on the ground scanning all the surrounding landscape in Jordan for Dune part 1. This was fun to watch utilizing UE5, UE5 is crazy.

@myamdane6895 2 ай бұрын

Yo that's sick!!! I'd kill to work on a movie like Dune

@JamesButcher Ай бұрын

that's so cool!

@matyasfazakas6642 2 ай бұрын

Dude you are on a totally different level when it comes to utilizing all the cool ue features, starting from modelling to using sequencer to perfection. Absolutely killer content. Respect.

@JoshToonen 2 ай бұрын

Thanks Matyas :D

@CreativePunk5555 2 ай бұрын

Worked for 9 years as a 2nd AD in the film industry and got to work on some crazy cool stuff. I did some pick up shots for IRobot and the tech feels so ancient now thinking about the process back then, especially seeing the capabilities of UE5. You're very talented - Nice work, love it.

@JoshToonen 2 ай бұрын

That's awesome, iRobot still has a special place, but crazy how those early CG characters were so hit and miss. Instant feedback makes it a lot easier now, that's for sure!

@tombenford227 2 ай бұрын

What shots did you work on for iRobot?

@CreativePunk5555 2 ай бұрын

We did pick up shots on the beach when the robot walked up to the map in the sand and then did some environment lighting shots and other random B roll at the same time. With the whole mirror sphere and green suits. Nothing crazy.@@tombenford227

@KaceyBakerFilms 2 ай бұрын

I remember back in the day wondering how iRobot vfx were done? It was a stand out for its time.

@CreativePunk5555 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, seeing the final edit was super impressive in that day with CG. Same for when Terminator 2 came out. And now with how AI is rapidly progressing we will see insanity being made in the next year or two. Hard to imagine what the next 'big' thing will be after this tech revolution.

@AJGameDev 2 ай бұрын

Hey guy, just wanted to say thanks for giving this information while not discrediting the time and effort it took to make that phenomenal film. 18 years of VFX experience here and moved to virtual production around ~2014, though we used unity at the time, blech). So please take it with a grain of salt that while I may be a teensy bit salty that these tools weren't around until the last 5-10 years, I'm very much appreciating you giving all the information to quickly develop this sequence, however still informing that corners were cut using the displacement technique and procedural texturing. I feel this is giving credit to the hard work, time and pain of all those involved on the development of the source material. Generally speaking, all of these would be hand modeled, curated, and pushed through something like substance painter/designer to achieve the directors final vision for the environment, and the animation, camera movement and even down to how much atmo you have in there would be meticulously iterated on over several weeks of development (in this particular sequence I imagine the camera movement would be the most picked apart and iterated since thats driving the scene). Very cool stuff man.

@warzonekills6437 2 ай бұрын

1 minute silence for people who think it was made in 24h

@BeastGamingHD 2 ай бұрын

This is quite possibly the most fascinating resume I have ever seen.

@gusmaiawork Ай бұрын

extremely misleading/clickbait title, you remade a singe shot of Dune, not Dune itself ☠☠

@helpumuch6887 Ай бұрын

I mean it’s def misleading but it’s not thaaaat bad and he did a good job so idrc

@OnlyTwoShoes Ай бұрын

"I made Arrakis" Barely makes a single settlement

@helpumuch6887 Ай бұрын

@@OnlyTwoShoes to be fair 90% of it is just the sand part repeated anyway, it was still a good video

@gusmaiawork Ай бұрын

@@helpumuch6887 why are trying to ride a clickbaiter's donger so hard? lmao

@darkreaper4990 Ай бұрын

Hate the game not the player

@jzwadlo 2 ай бұрын

Amazing work apart from the camera shake which looked way too composited!

@aubreybeelen4818 2 ай бұрын

Indeed the camera shake is completely unnecesary

@christopherlh4271 5 күн бұрын

If only he had 25 hours to recreate this shot...

@chadiwack 2 ай бұрын

Guy can create Dune video in 24 hours but can't master audio sync in his KZfaq vids. :(

@GavinScrimgeour Ай бұрын

🙈

@simonmackness403 2 ай бұрын

What an incredible achievement in 24 hours. I think Dune has the best VFX I've seen - most CGI looks like a high-end video game. Villeneuve managed to create something that looks real.

@JamesFleming1 11 күн бұрын

Holy SHIT!!! I am a screenwriter with a script that I very much wanted to make a short/trailer for, but thought it would be impossible b/c the opening & closing scenes required VFX and assumed it was WAY out of my budget. If I cannot find a VFX wizard interested in working with me, I may have to become one myself.

@twistedjourney 2 ай бұрын

Nicely done Josh! Cant wait!

@JoshToonen 2 ай бұрын

Thanks buddy!

@gizConAsh Ай бұрын

Wait for what? Are we missing something?

@iamFSRL 2 ай бұрын

‘Action scene’ unless something funky is happening when they’re flying, they’re just vibing, smoking that good spice

@maymager 2 ай бұрын

Very impressive, really good showcase of how effective and creative results you can get with unreal engine for film.

@JoshToonen 2 ай бұрын

Thanks May, hope it helped spark some ideas!

@csdstudio78 2 ай бұрын

This looks incredible! Here we have 1 guy and 24 hours.

@Planetdune Ай бұрын

Who says this was 24 hours? Because he says it is?

@InfinitismYT 2 ай бұрын

Amazing. Dune is one of my favorite stories and your craft makes it come to life. I thank you. You need your own VFX studio!

@jtdabreeze2945 2 ай бұрын

this is WAY too complicated for me but i can honestly say you are a BEAST with in engine modeling.

@a77mighty666 2 ай бұрын

Easy sub! Great video man, cant wait to go check out your other content!

@JoeKawano 2 ай бұрын

I love these clips, entered in-especially Paul screaming from the Office about the pain of working on CG graphics.😂

@EdwinSchaap Ай бұрын

That looks amazing. Very inspiring!

@FibrousPlanetsWorld Ай бұрын

Honestly just amazing work, you make it look easy. It is 100x times harder to understand unreal engine 5. Thanks for making a video. Great inspiration.

@JoshuaMKerr 2 ай бұрын

I felt that when you said 'UVs'. Great video man, you're killing it.

@DaEagle7 2 ай бұрын

That’s just incredible GET THIS GUY TO 1 MILLION SUBS RIGHT NOW

@josephcandraos Ай бұрын

this video was fantastic, thanks for making this video!

@MrTwoFox 2 ай бұрын

I took your course and went from being unable to even place actors to filming the trailer for my upcoming web series! If you're looking to learn UE for film, Josh's training is the way to do it!!!

@__seytan__2.479 2 ай бұрын

Bro please tell me that they are saved classes we can watch them at any time

@MrTwoFox 2 ай бұрын

Yes, you can even search for keywords and rewatch videos later. It is 1000% worth it. I spent months flipping through random youtube videos and barely making any progress before finally pulling the trigger on Josh's training.@@__seytan__2.479

@user-nt4wi3mm8o 2 ай бұрын

bollocks

@JuJu-he8ck 2 ай бұрын

This is amazing. For indie filmmakers this cuts the gap tremendously.

@focusmaya251 2 ай бұрын

Great work , thanks for sharing ❤

@archieabong 10 күн бұрын

This is so cool!!! I've been doing my modeling in blender and then export them as fbx and then import them to unreal but the remapping of all the textures is quite cumbersome to do. Do you have any detailed tutorial in modeling in unreal?

@mtlaunder 2 ай бұрын

Really splendid! I was pretty floored by how quickly you can get large amounts of detail that helps with scale! I’d watch the specular values in the city sections. They’re a bit too localized which is hurting your scale a bit, but I honestly cannot wait to try some of this out!!

@jlmf6274 Ай бұрын

One of the coolest videos I have seen !!! Great work

@Himball 2 ай бұрын

This is what I’m talking about, this is amazing…. I love sci-fi films a bit too much so much I’ve been thinking about creating some myself and this right here is all the motivation I’ll ever need. Thank you!!!!

@HBasch 2 ай бұрын

Hi there how do you deal with doing different shots of the same thing in the same level ? like if i want to modify the environnement but just for that shot ? should i duplicate the level? thanks!

@yllbardh 20 күн бұрын

Why so many CGI creators overuse lens-flares to make it look "real" when IRL they are almost invisible?

@ako3180 2 ай бұрын

That's super-impressive! And inspiring!

@AllanGildea 2 ай бұрын

Outstanding, thank you.

@13aker0 2 ай бұрын

This is really good! thanks!

@theteddychannel8529 2 ай бұрын

the bitrate in the video looks weird. Has youtube compression gotten worse or did you export incorrectly?

@lucassalomon3144 Ай бұрын

if you're in a hurry, you can skip UVing with the auto unwrap option in Substance Painter.

@XeonX__ASMR__METAL-experiments 2 ай бұрын

I love Unreal Engine ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ And I making video games as I want. Thank You Swinney T.

@alvarosilva5555 13 күн бұрын

Parabens pelo trabalho, muito bem produzido.

@xenibyte5898 20 күн бұрын

When I watched Dune I had chills when I saw the ornithopter wing effects because it was so perfect, and you have managed to get a realtime effect to like 99% there purely in Unreal. Amazing work and although I've always been into building games, this has me interested in the idea of filmaking without the need for rendering hours or distributed rendering. Also for those watching, I'm not sure if someone commented it but when Josh was talking about greebles and 'bashing' stuff together, the term for the latter is commonly known as 'kitbashing' where you would take parts from different model kits (even entirely different styles and genres) to build something new, and greebles/greebling is the practise of creating detailed assets with re-usable objects.

@crystalblade874 2 ай бұрын

Awesome dude always happy to see your work 😊

@JoshToonen 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

@Garvinweasel 2 ай бұрын

Amazing work, inspired and signed up 🔥

@MrDmonahan96 2 ай бұрын

Hey Josh. Where can I get the jsplacement plugin?

@user-oy4em2ji6n 2 ай бұрын

I'm so inspired by your video, i just finished watching it fully and i honestly wanna start doing some type of work such as you! I honestly don't know where to even start from 0, i'll check the links you mentioned but if theres more than that i be so down to learn literally anything. Great god level skill dawg.

@JoshToonen 2 ай бұрын

Thanks dude, if you're serious I put all of my best training + secrets inside unrealforvfx.com/fundamentals. It's designed for complete beginners in Unreal and will teach you how to make films in just 30 minutes a day. You can get started for just $99

@user-oy4em2ji6n 2 ай бұрын

Dawg i have some financial struggles with my mom at the moment, since im in school and i got some tests i need to study. I would buy it if i had the money, is there possible reduction or something, i could cancel my gym membership that be like 45$ if something is possible@@JoshToonen

@meetmistry9653 2 ай бұрын

I become a fan of your artwork and technique to create massive environments so effortlessly at first sight.💯

@MahmoudSeoudiCEO 2 ай бұрын

great job , I'm building a designing pc do you have recommendation on processor like ryzen5 or i5

@pedroibanez8013 2 ай бұрын

Amazing job... thanks

@nickcage3683 2 ай бұрын

Wauuw. thanks for sharing. very inspiring

@nashonightmare 2 ай бұрын

Amazing work. 🤩

2 ай бұрын

man soo good 🔥 I needed you for my short film 🙈 Hahaha

@__seytan__2.479 2 ай бұрын

I want to actually take up your course but how do u teach those classes? Saved classes or live online classes can you please tell me

@Daniele_1210 2 ай бұрын

I want to know too

@digitaljustin92 Ай бұрын

Great job Josh! Always shocks me how shallow most of the public at large has become in appreciating the talent, work ethic, creativity, skill set and sheer determination it takes to bring these virtual worlds to life. Alas, it will all be reduced to a couple of sentences in a monochromatic prompt box soon enough and what made us special will disappear like tears in rain.

@MegaControltv Ай бұрын

impresionante !! felicitaciones Josh !

@boris_indrikov 2 ай бұрын

WoW🤩It's great! Keep up the good work!👍

@leethememerwolf 2 ай бұрын

yesterday i saw the dune 2 and damn!

@patino851 2 ай бұрын

Incredible quality, well dune!😊

@metafuel 2 ай бұрын

Great work. What are you using for the final post process from effects you were talking about? Lens flares, etc. That looks like something I'd use regularly. Is it a plugin for unreal or something in your editing software? Cheers and thanks for the brilliant overview of your process.

@JoshToonen 2 ай бұрын

Hey! It's a plug-in for After Effects and Nuke that I include with all of the training at unrealforvfx.com/fundamentals

@officialhardnox 2 ай бұрын

Wow! Talented is an understatement! Great job!!!

@Aratxe 2 ай бұрын

Looks fantastic!!

@to8zljghvru 2 ай бұрын

Wow - very nice - good job!

@ajgif3980 4 күн бұрын

I’m guessing no one recorded the master class, because I really want to watch it

@jimmyletter4444 2 ай бұрын

I thought you were remaking the whole movie

@Yora21 20 күн бұрын

I just started with Blender this month, and this all looks like magic. But I feel that I could learn this magic if I stick with it long enough.

@ashishbenmoncy2147 2 ай бұрын

This is sickk!! My question is did you add the lens flare in compositing or used the Unreal post process thingy

@jason.martin 2 ай бұрын

Brilliant brilliant work ! wow, I would love to see what you would do with this if you had a week or a month !

@harshbarondiya 29 күн бұрын

By far the best tutorials , Where can I get that J Displacement Map Plugin

@Wooxy117 2 ай бұрын

Great work

@supremeomegacompany 2 ай бұрын

Please just one question, what is the type and configuration of computer system are you u sin?

@ohheyvoid 2 ай бұрын

Great video, Josh! :)

@laanrohs 2 ай бұрын

awesome 24H man. question, are you rendering the video in lumen or did you switch to path tracing for it (and if so did you keep the nanite or switched everything in non nanite.)? because the final result is amazing but in my mind lumen still has some limitation compared to a ultra cinematic render in PT

@kunal-ko 22 күн бұрын

Wow, honestly i thought you wouldn't be able to but the final result just blew me away.

@brettreyenger7932 2 ай бұрын

Respect, nice work Josh!

@strawberryfrogforever Ай бұрын

Downright inspiring bro

@merion297 2 ай бұрын

Incredible. Do filmmakers use this method for previz?

@EduardKaresli 2 ай бұрын

Very nice work. UE5 is a cutting edge technology. 🔥🔥🔥 I'm currently learning Blender though, then I'll get back to UE5 once I'm capable a bit.

@Theaddekalk 2 ай бұрын

looks really good, good job

@fvckingtest 2 ай бұрын

Stop giving the art directors ammunition! Now they are gonna say, "This guy built this in his cave! from a box of !"

@peterhong2359 2 ай бұрын

But I am not Tony Stark

@jehonelporte2770 2 ай бұрын

Amazing you are the best!!!!💪🏽

@Felizap 2 ай бұрын

Amazing video, I just didn't get the part about composing, what was that? Which program did you use and what is this one-click template? Thanks for the content btw, really nice to see some quality knowledge being shared for free!

@user-nt4wi3mm8o 2 ай бұрын

lol. no knowledge was shared. It's just a commercial for his stupid course

@emailformosa 2 ай бұрын

This was pretty cool. Thanks

@jaybijker4741 2 ай бұрын

I know it wouldn't add to the story and might even take away from the story. But 1:26 with the 4:3 looks so cool to me would be dope if there's a version like that for the movie. Imagine the scene in the first movie where we get a good look at the sand worm for the first time, that would look amazing and would make the sand worm feel even more large and terrifying

@Daniele_1210 2 ай бұрын

Its the IMAX Version of the Movie. It was only shown in IMAX theatres

@owenjenkinsofficial 2 ай бұрын

Cool video! I love seeing UE5 artists making this knowledge available to us beginners. You've truely got some next level stuff to share and I'm all for it!

@JoshToonen 2 ай бұрын

Appreciate it Owen, hope it helps :D

@johnnikhil.g66 2 ай бұрын

This is a different level of talent

@GreatCanadianSaver 2 ай бұрын

Awesome content, hope your channels blows up

@adriandmontero5780 Ай бұрын

man you are a monster for real, very very impressive.!!

@dagobb Ай бұрын

You did a good job there, I’d like to hear the sounds of the blades on the ornithopter.

@Battle_One 2 ай бұрын

Very inspiring!

@roadstudiosproductions 2 ай бұрын

I love this dude would love to collab

@Xavier-sp5ec 2 ай бұрын

I certainly wouldn't consider it "Hollywood level VFX", it's more akin to a video-game cut-scene, but still looks pretty damn great given that you only had 24 hours to complete it!

@tomasm1233 2 ай бұрын

"Hollywood level". That is a witty sense of humor.

@adamdalbini7721 2 ай бұрын

You are right! This guy is far more superior than hollywood's usual vfx at common movies. Have you seen Aquaman 2 for example? That movie's visuals are actually non-sense and watching it was visually hurting my eyes.