I've always wanted to make my own films...

I grew up obsessed with movies. I studied all about directors, Mise-en-scène, visual effects and storytelling  from high school through to university. Chasing this dream of creating my own films. I made live action short films, music videos, and even attempted a feature film. But it was expensive, exhausting and ultimately limiting.

I wanted to be able to create what was in my head at that moment, not after months of pre-production, compromises and huge budgets + favours. I wanted to make movies anywhere at anytime. Late night in creepy museums, sunrise looking across epic landscapes or the far future in space! 

For a while I thought Animation and CG was the answer so I became fully immersed in that. However the bigger the movies I worked on, the smaller my role became and the more I realised that without dozens of artists it was almost impossible to make your own animated films.

I gave up...

Unreal Engine, the future of filmmaking or another let down?

All of a sudden people started talking about this game engine that you could make real-time movies in.

The quality can't be very good, it must look 'gamey' I thought. "Check out this Kite demo film" 

Oh it must be super exclusive, I won't be able to afford that... "But it's free!"

I still can't afford to spend the time creating all the environments and props from scratch. I'd need an army of artists... "There's a marketplace packed with ready-to-go assets!"

I was out of excuses. This program, Unreal Engine, was offering everything I'd ever wanted. I just needed to learn it...

Learning to Film in a 'Game' Engine

I spent every second of my free time figuring out how to use this software and getting nowhere, I started to resent it...

There was very little in the  way of online film course materials. On top of that the new filmmaking module of Unreal Engine was considered "Experimental" which I came to understand as "Migraine inducing".

Nothing made sense and I had no one to turn to, all my efforts had been wasted.

I'd spent months trying to learn the film tools and somehow I knew about almost everything else. I could make landscapes, do some visual coding, change the colour of materials and make a character jump around but I wasn't any closer to making the films in my head.

I gave up again...

I’d been learning Unreal as a “Game-Engine” but I needed to treat it as a “Film-Engine”

All of the ‘Beginner’ material I'd been studying was focused on teaching game developers how to use the engine but I didn’t need 90% of that and learning it was doing me more harm than good.

After realising this I decided to give it one more try. I was going to create a specific (very silly) project using only free assets and do as little non-film work as possible.

Most importantly of all I was going to take a 'film school' approach. Switching focus from the 1000's of different technical modules down to just 4 key film departments.

Silly I know! But I learnt more making this than I had during the previous 6 months of trying to learn Unreal. Changing my approach just made everything click. Most importantly it was actually a lot of fun.

Virtual Filmmaking Fundamentals Course

Start Creating Today

There's 100 different ways to do things in Unreal, learn the right way. Jump straight past the thousands of hours it took me to learn, implement and refine these proven workflows. 

The Proven "Film-School" Experience

Hands-on, practical learning on a pre-assembled Virtual Film Set right from lesson 1. We break down and learn each core "Department" starting with the camera, just like you would at a regular film school.

Learn the Essentials and Skip the Technicals

Imagine going to film school and day 1 you have to build a table, or paint a wall, not even touching a camera for months. Sounds silly but that is what every other course has beginners doing.

Set construction, complex programming and tedious material creation can wait, we learn what we need when we need it.

Guaranteed Results

By the end of this course you will be able to create your first Unreal Engine 5 animated scene guaranteed. If you aren't satisfied with the content you are welcome to take advantage of our 30 day, no questions asked, money back guarantee.