Epic Re-Creation of Minas Tirith With Unreal Engine 5
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 มิ.ย. 2024
- I made Minas Tirith from Lord of the Rings in Unreal Engine! This is the craziest project I have ever done for TH-cam! I had to learn a ton of new things, and work through a lot of issues, but I love the final result and can't wait to share it with you (and the process too). If you want to grab the model for yourself, and create your own version, grab it here:
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00:00 Intro
01:35 I Made a Critical Mistake
02:00 Modeling
03:08 First Glimpse
04:06 Inspiration
05:54 3d Artist or Technician?
06:29 Time to Get (Un)Real
08:54 3ds Max Sucks!
10:29 A Welcomed Surprise!
11:53 Showing Some Promise
12:36 Building Gondor
14:44 Pushing Forward
15:57 Crappy Previews
17:45 Please and Thank You!
18:15 Lighting?
20:11 Materials
22:56 I GIVE UP!
25:36 Final Push
25:57 Greatest Comment on One of My Videos Ever!
30:57 Final Cinematics
33:00 What a Relief!
33:27 A Few Stats
33:58 Learn the Software & Get The Model
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Doing this project, and making this video, was a real grind, but I'm really happy I did it. I learned a ton of new stuff, and the results are seriously pretty epic. It was a huge scene for Unreal Engine, and that posed a lot of problems, but I got it all figured out. I think there is much to learn from watching the process, and I'm sure you'll enjoy seeing Gondor and Minas Tirith really come to life with real time rendering. Enjoy, and let me know what you think in the comments!
I still cannot believe that Denethor ran all of that way burning like a torch! It was literally over the top! 🔥
😄
Well ... if youd been once on Fire and survived it
you knew what Panic and Adrenalin could do ... ;)
And when i am remembering that Scene correct
wasnt it mostly his Clothing which burnt ...
@@petrusiusmaximus It is a very long way. Too long, for effect.
dude was just a living L
He went to light the beacons again 😂
Thanks for showing us the human side of these projects. No one ever talks about how hard it is and how self doubt is a real thing to deal with. Glad you kept going and thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thank you! Yeah, I think some people don't have the experience to know how much goes into some of these things. To me, it makes it so much more impressive when I see really good 3d rendering and effects.
"My friend, you bow to no one"
As a lifelong 3ds max user myself, I am glad you addressed the hate in your video. It all comes from people who are uneducated due to the fact blender has become a buzzword/trend in the indie scene. Everyone has their tools for the job and the end product is what matters. Great job on this.
It's true. There is nothing wrong with Max. It is used very widely across many professional 3d disciplines. And yes, it is 100% capable of producing great results in similar time to other leading 3d software. It is just personal preference and which tool you know best.
well said. keep at it man. subscribed.@@Learn-archViz
I always thought the software vs. software arguments were silly, particularly with 3d software. I know Maya and Blender extensively, and it might shock some folks to know they both do the same thing and everything else is preference
@@brianmyers692 Ha ha. Yes!
Thanks for this.. I'm tired of all the Blender Fanboys toxicity.. i use Houdini majorly myself
Amazing work, Adam. For 40-50 hours of work you did an amazing job. I love doing big job like this, so I know they can really break you down before it all over.
And of course, I could still spend way more time on it. 🤪
It's fun, though
26:40 hooooooo boy do I know that feeling! Not gonna lie, I teared up a little bit. That release of pressure and stress at the very end turns into something happy so instantly that it kind of overwhelms you.
Incredible work! thanks for bring this to life. I know there was a project over a decade ago trying to get a lot of people to help to re-create Minas Tirith, got about 60% there then the project disappeared.
Oh, really? Yeah, a team of 3d helpers would be very helpful here. SOOOO much more detail could be added.
Absolutely beautiful, not just the look (which is flawless) but the vibe as well. Felt like I was transported into Middle-earth. Congrats
Huge compliment. Thank you!
The finished piece looks awesome, you did a really great job. For your next creation making Barad-Dûr (the Eye of Sauron) would be something I'd love to see as I don't think anyone else has done it yet in UE5
Mindblowingly gorgeous, even if we as artists, designers, architects, and visual people know, oh this thing can be improved or better and it drives you into never completing a job. You made it look "good enough" for the challenge at hand, and it's still amazing.
Yes, I think this is the professional mindset, because you never have unlimited time and budget. Always room for improvement, though
Incredible, congratulations 👏
I cannot say it's beautiful, because it's just AWESOME, bro you got talent, excellent job!
Congratulations on pushing yourself to learn areas of 3d art that are uncomfortable, as a seasoned 3D artist myself just getting things to look amazing can take years of study and discovery. It's a personal journey so never get discouraged, there's always a path forward. Great work man.
Awesome job! Really enjoyed the closeups and featured personal challenges.
Glad to hear it!
Amazing job.
Would've added some Gondor banners at the end to enhance the viewer experience.
Nice to see one of these videos which actually involves 3-d modelling and not an asset flip. Bravo
I haven't heard the term "asset flip" before but I totally understand what you mean. Rendering someone else work is way less impressive and interesting, IMO. Thanks for watching.
WoW, amazing result!!! Congratulations!!!!!
THIS LOOKS AMAZING, this is my first impression of your work and channel and you did some amazing work here. Just wanna say keep up the good work!
Incredible work. I remember years ago (probably closer to decades) on the cgsociety forums, it took an entire group of people to collaborate and create the same thing you’ve just done on your own.
Yeah, things have changed! Although, a team would be nice 😄
This quality deserve to be introduce in the new MMO Of Lord Of The Rings Amazon need your work guys
Looks awesome man, so glad you've made the model available as well, that's awesome :]
This definitely earned a like and follow, it's incredible!
Thank you!
Sauron cannot be less at ease now. The First city of the West has got a nut case as Stewart, still alive and yet burned his torch. Beautiful scene at end.
Hi, Adam, great job! Kudos for not giving up 💪
Hi Adam, your work looks amazing! I think this masterpiece would take probably a team with a lot of time and effort to make, but you did it all on your own that is incredible!
Awesome work! I love this location and your model is fantastic!!!!
The Jedi Temple would be a cool thing to see, both interiors and exterior!
Unbelievable end result! If only had a fracture of your talent I would spend my whole day doing this stuff!
Thanks! It's a lot of fun when you're in the groove 🙂.
Talent is 10% of your ability. Drive is 90%.
That awesome. Lots of work. Great job. Thanks for sharing.
You have all my respect man.. congratulations 🎉
There needs to be community project with Middle Earth in e.g. Unreal Engine, where people can work on things concurrently, then others can port it for maps, games, etc.
This would produce some serious awesomeness.
Incredible cinematic showcase. Awesome work !
Absolutely epic. Subbed
So Happy you showing how much better 3ds max is for Arch....👏👏👏👏
Brilliant Work Adam
🎉🎉🎉you are my new hero!!!
Amazing work man
You deserve a job in hollywood if you don’t have one already
Impresive! Great job!
I really appreciate your dedication to learning and striving for the excellent results that you have achieved. I have done some work in 3dMax, but only have about 1/1000ths of your skill at it. Thank you for making the video, it was something that I really could enjoy and identify with.
Good job Adam. These types of projects are the type of thing that I liked best when I was learning in college. Ultimately, I gave up because back then it was taking hours and hours to render stuff out and you had no idea what it was going to look like. Like you, I felt like I was wasting so much time. At least the technology has caught up we can get a much better idea of what's going on. Maybe I'll start again!
Yes! UE5 makes it so much more accessible and reasonable to do for everyone/anyone. In a lot of ways, it has revitalized my love of 3d.
Wow that's huge and amazing, not to mention the imennsive hard work behind it :) By the way, this pray for another bigger project Tolkien project - Gondolin and the other Elven stronholds from the First Age :)
Looks amazing dude! Its very interesting to see you work on something beyond archviz.
Great! It's fun to learn new stuff
WOW....and there it is! What an amazing job!!! I know I cannot fully appreciate just how tedious and challenging this must have been for you, but I can definitely imagine just how bad it must have been. Stunning work!! Thank you for your willingness to take on this incredibly painful work of art 🙏
Ha ha! It was very worthwhile. I learned a ton and was quite satisfied with the result.
Astounding work…just fantastic. I stumbled across this video after watching a bunch of LOTR videos, and from one man in the industry to another, I really enjoyed watching your process. Would definitely love to see more videos like this, you’ve got yourself a new subscriber here. Well done.
Thanks! I appreciate that.
This popped up in my YT recommended and I'm so here for all LotR content.. So, I guess those comments were right! You've hit it up with the nerdy group.. 😂
Oh, and the results were outstanding, by the way. You should definitely do Barad-dur, Rivendell and the Grey Havens. 😂
Amazing work!
BEAUTIFUL
I believe that tall tower at the top is called Ecthelion tower ....named after the eponimous legendary elf 'Ecthelion' - of the fountain, who slayed the most Balrogs (during the Battle /fall of Gondolin) in the whole of Tolkien's Works. Elves would shout "Ecthelion" as a motivational battle cry before engaging in battle.
I think the proportions are off by a bit, enough that its noticable like with the proportions of the empire state building or the proportions of the leaning tower of pisa or say the proportions of a star destroyer, it has to line up. That's the only flaw I could ever find. Amazing job.
I wish humanity would actually build structures like this... yes it is impractical... yes it would be ridiculously expensive but it would be epic as hell.
That is incredible!
Unreal engine is a different beast! I came from blender and I'm very comfortable with it but when I started playing around on unreal engine 5 I realized I know nothing 😂
If it feels overwhelming at first, that is because it super powerful and has a ton of capabilities. It is probably similar to Blender in that once you get a handle on it and are comfortable, you find workflows that make sense, but still can continue learning new functionality basically forever.
Awesome job!
This should get a million views
🤞
Woah. That's a lot of work. Definitely paid off! Well done. Very well done indeed!
Thanks!
Super cool to see this!
Awesome work🎉
great work dude, great video of a boss artist grinding for love,, absolutely love your work
Much appreciated!
That is so amazing!!!!
This is awesome! great job! Can someone please use this to create a murder mystery game with this city as the location. How cool would it be to be a normal citizen and walk around the city streets collecting clues to find out who murdered your father???? All while hearing rumors of an army of orcs coming soon. Climax of the game takes place during the siege when the lower levels are burning. In the end you find out your father was killed because he learned someone was a spy for Mordor and was going to open one of the gates during the siege. Then you have to stop the saboteur and avenge your father.
This sounds awesome! I'm not planning on a full game, but I'm definitely planning on adding some first person navigation.
GEORGEOUS!!
Amazing work! I love how you take your viewers on the whole journey with the ups and downs. Let the haters be haters - in my experience most of them just try to bring great people down because they cannot really lift themselves up to that level...
Agree about the haters. Strange behavior, honestly. Thanks for watching and I'm really glad you enjoyed it.
I have one of those little Weta Minas Tirith jewelry boxes that came with the Deluxe dvd's and your model looks great - would love to be able see a 1st person walk-through the city. super cool project man.
wow, amazing job!, plz do the halls of khazad dum!
Really nice work.
Stunning
I think the most impressive architecture for me is Barad-Dûr, I really love how they visualized the scale of it in the Battle for Middle Earth game intro / start screen
i remember looking at this city on lego lord of the rings on the xbox 360 - crazy how far we have come
nice work. i would have loved to see Osgiliath and Minas Morgul in the back
Yeah. Maybe in the future.
beautiful and stunning
If i was a big fish executive of an important gaming studio, i would hire you in a heartbeat!! This is raw dedication and talent, and oh man, you can't beat that!! Pure fire to see the White City like this!! ❤
Thanks! Huge compliment. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
well done 🔥🔥
Incredible
amazing work!
I am not knowledgeable about the work that goes into creating these projects, or the software. But. It looks amazing. The final result, these shots look absolutely stunning, immersive, real and magical. Considering you are a one-man team to have worked on this, I think your work really did justice to the magic that's shown I the movies. Another thing is, just to share how picky I can be about these things, I feel like the reason in lotr these scenes look so real is because for the most part - they are! In the hobbit, IMHO some of the scenery is not as powerful, and I wonder if it's because as much as beautiful work can be created in software, nothing beats the real thing. However, your work here is so beautiful. Of course you can forever keep zooming I and out and making every brick look real no two bricks the same, but I think where you took it is great. Great ammount is done to perfection, and some room for the viewer to build up on it. The final shot is incredible. And the one on 32.27 also incredible. I went bakc to rewatch them because they're that impressive. And the nature landscape looks great, especailly int hat last shot. Wow. Thank you for sharing , and also seeing the process was fun. 8:48 8:51 8:52 8:55
Wow! Thank you!
lots of hard work, well done. those last camera movement were so real
Thanks!
I used my Space Mouse to record those
Really amazing and exciting work! Working on a lotr bot that user is a ranger captain and trying to save captured rangers from Osgiliath after the defeat. I usually use Anduin river to reach Minas Tirith as there are orcs everywhere. Normally Anduin isn't nowhere near the city but i think there must be tributaries. Because both Minas Tirith sits at a mountain range and without a significant water source such a large city wouldn't be possible at first place. If you enlarge mountain range and add tributaries with bridges etc i'm sure it would look more natural. The city itself looks very beautiful but it is seperated from background i think.
I wish there was a way to use such models with text generation, as we row to Minas Tirith you never know in what state we will find it. Usually it is under siege and burning while other rangers are crying lol. AI acts like it is just hopeless and might kill us in any point which is quite different perspective than lotr games etc. I guess in 5 years or so it will be possible..
Amazing!
Well done. Awesome! I remember visiting the LOTR exhibition at Te Papa Museum in Wellington New Zealand and they had the 7 metre (22ft) miniature of Minas Tirith. I distinctly remember gasping for air as I came across it. It was incredible. The detail was stunning. That's why it held up so well on screen. I kept going back to it because it was so awe inspiring.
That is so awesome. It would have been nice to have some really good pictures of that model for this project, but instead I was using pictures of the very small version.
@@Learn-archViz from memory cameras were prohibited at that exhibition (it was an awesome exhibition), but it was also early 2000 so my Nokia phone wouldn't have cut the mustard .😄
@@maorifulla 😂
Looks good man
I think you’re being too tough on yourself! This insanely impressive!
Thanks!
ya should check out the nanite settings in the engine it will help add details and help with a bit less taxing on the rendering part
Hey, just found your channel. I love what you are doing and why you are doing it. Keep up the amazing work. Haters gonna hate, potatoes gonna potate.
Thanks!
as a long time blender user i can totally respect the segment on 3d max vs other software. modelling is a long process no matter what it all comes down to which software you work best with.
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This was possibly more epic than the LOTR director’s cut trilogy! But seriously I know it’s a massive long haul, good to see another max user battle it out, you shared some great tips which I think will inspire and help a lot of us, I’ll track down that AO console command, thanks for going on the epic journey!
Thanks! I posted the link for the AO commands here in the chat somewhere
Wow, glad TH-cam finally pushed this to my feed. Good to see you take on another mega project after Hogwarts. There's a level of passion going into these that keeps me glued to the screen for half an hour. It's like watching old school Bungie ViDocs back when Halo was Halo. You even put birds, color grading, and went through the arduous process of landscaping for this one 😂That, combined with the new sky and the material work just brought your cinematics to a whole new level. It looks beautiful and a lot more believable. Can't wait to see what you do next. Definitely enabling the bell notifications so I don't miss another drop.
Wow! Thanks a ton. Very nice to have this appreciated.
LORRDDDD the amount of money id pay for an open world LOTR!
Oh man, that would be so cool
looks so good
Thank you!
Helms Deep next? Make a LOTR series!
Not a bad idea! This one has been very well received.
quite enjoyable. thanks
Glad you liked it!
Good job!
A voice over by Boromir talking to Aragorn about Minas Tirith and returning there one day as heroes hits hard with your video and Unreal artistry of the city.
Oh dang! That would be awesome
Amazing
The model is looking awesome! You only need to add some hero statues around the city and make lore friendly Ephel Duath and Osgiliath on Anduin. Keep up the good work, man of Gondor!
Good comments! So much more that could be done. Thanks for watching.
Wonderful scene!
Thank you!
oh wow that space mouse looks so cool. Ive been using my xbox one controller lol
Ha ha! That sounds cool too, but one handed 3d control is awesome
you are a excellent artist!
Thank you!
Really appreciate this video. Not sure if you use layers much in Max but might be helpful when updating. Also I think you could’ve used more deformation in the foreground grass area shadows, and lights like at one percent.
I may never get the opportunity to meet you in person, but just congratulations. The amount of work put into this project really shows in the end. Hats of to you! 🎊 Oh, that one comment really threw me for a loop. Botox? Huh? Really?🤔Anyway, keep up the good work. I believe this work will go on to inspire some future generations of 3d artists. It sure has inspired me to get back into it. Thank you!
Thank you! I mostly enjoy doing things like this (this is the fun stuff), and the end result is very rewarding.
Was half expecting to see the steward of gondor falling from the terrasse
I should definitely figure out how to animate that :)
@@Learn-archViz Next video "I spent a month animating this"
@@Mr.McWatson😅
@@Learn-archViz 😂