Real-Time Cinematics
Real-Time Cinematics
Pagani Cinematic
Pagani Cinematic
Pagani Cinematic
A cinematic automotive showcase inspired by luxury hypercar advertisements, focusing on photorealistic lighting, reflections, and dynamic camera movement inside Unreal Engine.
A cinematic automotive showcase inspired by luxury hypercar advertisements, focusing on photorealistic lighting, reflections, and dynamic camera movement inside Unreal Engine.
A cinematic automotive showcase inspired by luxury hypercar advertisements, focusing on photorealistic lighting, reflections, and dynamic camera movement inside Unreal Engine.
Overview
Inspired by a fully CGI Bugatti commercial, I challenged myself to create my own luxury automotive reveal centered around lighting, reflections, and cinematic storytelling. Rather than revealing the vehicle immediately, I carefully built each shot around silhouettes, reflections, and controlled lighting to gradually unveil the Pagani while following the visual language of premium automotive advertisements. Alongside the cinematic itself, I modeled much of the garage environment, completed portions of the vehicle, and developed a rendering workflow focused on maximizing realism while maintaining real-time performance.
My Role
• Director • Environment Artist • 3D Modeler • Lighting Artist • Cinematographer • Animator • Rendering • Color Grading
Tools Used
Maya • Unreal Engine 5.7 • Sequencer • Movie Render Queue • Adobe Premiere Pro
Process / Workflow
Process / Workflow
Process / Workflow
The project began inside Maya where I modeled the garage, workbenches, lighting fixtures, and completed missing portions of the downloaded Pagani model. I also refined my Maya-to-Unreal workflow to keep every object modular and editable after import. Once the environment was assembled, I selected a soundtrack and built the cinematic around its pacing. Inspired by luxury automotive advertisements, I designed camera movements that followed the curves of the vehicle, allowing reflections and lighting to reveal the car gradually. A large portion of production focused on balancing Lumen reflections, emissive lighting, ray-traced illumination, and post-processing to achieve realistic reflections while maintaining performance. The final cinematic was rendered through Movie Render Queue as EXR image sequences before color grading and audio editing in Premiere Pro.
The project began inside Maya where I modeled the garage, workbenches, lighting fixtures, and completed missing portions of the downloaded Pagani model. I also refined my Maya-to-Unreal workflow to keep every object modular and editable after import. Once the environment was assembled, I selected a soundtrack and built the cinematic around its pacing. Inspired by luxury automotive advertisements, I designed camera movements that followed the curves of the vehicle, allowing reflections and lighting to reveal the car gradually. A large portion of production focused on balancing Lumen reflections, emissive lighting, ray-traced illumination, and post-processing to achieve realistic reflections while maintaining performance. The final cinematic was rendered through Movie Render Queue as EXR image sequences before color grading and audio editing in Premiere Pro.