The video you’re about to see just isn’t digital camera footage of the Etchū-Daimon practice station in Japan. It’s a video made by 3D artist Lorenzo Drago.

Created in Unreal Engine 5, with lighting from Lumen, Drago says he did “all modeling, texturing, lighting and animation” within the clip, apart from the foliage you see briefly, which got here from Quixel Megascans. Which means he constructed virtually every thing himself. The steps, the partitions, the lights, the cables, the works, with some textures made by hand and others from pictures.

“For this challenge, I wished to get as near photorealism as potential”, he says. “I used digital camera matching to get correct proportions and made cautious use of reference. I adjusted the measurements afterwards to assist with modularity.”

“Other than element textures and alphas created from images, I created all textures from scratch in Painter and made customized supplies in Unreal to be used with vertex portray or masks to interrupt up repetition.”

Whereas the standard of the house itself is unbelievable—and took round a month to finish—what helps make the entire thing feel and look actual is the best way the digital camera is used. “To shoot the video”, Drago says, “I used real-time VR monitoring to emulate a handheld digital camera and flashlight.”

See? Simply…wow. That is the half the place I need to remind you that this video was crafted meticulously only for this footage, and so we are able to’t and shouldn’t expect this degree of constancy in our precise video games any time quickly. However nonetheless. 

Let’s finish with some trivia. Firstly, this video wasn’t captured in real-time. Drago says it may be completed, however that “picture high quality is worse”, so that is as an alternative a high-res render captured at 7fps. And when you had been questioning, he did it on an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X with an RTX 2080.