An Italian designer has created a computer-generated image of a train station in Japan, and the rendering is simply exceptional. For this, he used Unreal Engine 5, the graphics rendering engine of Epic Games, the publisher of Fortnite.
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You really have to pinch yourself to believe it! The video below is totally contrived. This is not a video taken with a smartphone or any small digital camera, but rather a sequence entirely created on computer. It is the work of the 3D designer Lorenzo Drago and it depicts Etchū-Daimon Station, Tokyo, Japan.
Created with UnrealEngine 5, Epic Games’ famous rendering engine (Fortnite), this sequence was designed from A to Z by this Italian artist. With the exception of foliage, this Milanese reproduced “manually” the steps, the lightsthe textures, lighting and animation. Of course, there are no characters in his sequence, and it’s still a setting, but it’s amazing to realismin particular by the quality of the rendering of lights and exposures.
Everything is computer generated in this sequence, and yet it feels like it’s reality. © Lorenzo Drago
A month of work for three minutes
” For this project, I wanted to get as close as possible to photorealism, he explained. I used camera matching to achieve precise proportions and made careful use of source. I adjusted the measurements afterwards to favor modularity. In addition to detail textures and alphas (note: component that indicates the degree of transparency of each pixel in the image) created from the photos, I designed all the textures from scratch in Painter and created custom materials in Unreal to use with the painting of Vertex or masks to break up repetition. »
This three-minute sequence took him a month of work, and it’s obviously not tomorrow that we’ll see such work, almost artistic, in a game. But it’s very promising, and to give this real feeling of real, there is of course the sound and this impression that it is filmed with a telephone. ” To shoot the video, I used tracking VR in real time to give the illusion of a portable camera and flashlight. All created with a computer which is not a monster of power, since the author explains that his machine is equipped with a processor AMD Ryzen 7 3700X and a Graphic card nVidia GeForce RTX 2080.
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