QUALMS

QUALMS || A short film by Peter Tuthill

"Qualms" is the result of a personal Short Cinematic assignment during our Game Engine course at Futuregames. We only had 3 weeks from start to finish.

I modeled and rigged the robot character in Blender. I then textured the model using Adobe Substance 3D Painter. After that the model was imported into Unreal Engine 5.3, where I keyframed all it's animations. I built a scene inside Unreal Engine using landscaping-/foliage tools and adding assets from Quixel Bridge. I manually animated the wrench being picked up by the robot's telekinetic ability and slammed to the floor.

Using Metahuman Creator I was able to create and import the human girl character you see in the video's latter part into Unreal Engine. I then proceeded to animate her movements and also keyframed a switch of the face textures for it to look burnt after the robot's beam attack. I then animated cameras inside the scene and created VFX and lights where needed.

After that I rendered out a picture sequence and imported it into Adobe Premiere for some small finishing touches.

The music in this short film was composed by me using Cubase.

All animations in the video are keyframed manually by me.
The whole short film can be run in realtime inside Unreal Engine 5.3.

Images from the production: