I created a website to showcase the full movie and tell the project's story. Visitors can also donate to Alaskan communities. The website was submitted to the Epic Megagrant fund. It is available at: https://jadeledoux35.wixsite.com/newtok-on-the-road

After finding a solution to inflate the models, 2 months of production were enough to deliver the movie. I extracted accurate lidar data from OpenTopography and modeled mountains with Gaea. I used Dash by Polygonflow to accelerate the scattering process of Megascans. 

I designed inflated and foldable models with Blender. The main challenge was to make them manageable within UE. First, I created two different shape keys in Blender; "fold" and "inflate." Then, I created a blueprint in UE5 to animate them in Sequencer.

Storyboarding was a crucial part of the process. I planned every scene of the movie using a graphic tablet. Then I set every camera in Unreal Engine 5 as soon as possible to save time for the production step. After conceiving the storyboard, I spent 2 months learning Blender from scratch and searching for a way to animate the inflatable models in UE.