Collaborative Unit

We’ve decided to use a halftone style for this piece, so I started testing post-processing materials in Unreal. However, I ran into an issue with the shadows rendering incorrectly, which still needs to be resolved.

After discussing and confirming the style direction with the team, we decided to add circular halftones and outlines on top of the original diagonal halftones.

While waiting for the materials, I also worked with Qianrong Li to research exporting 360 footage from Unreal and stitching it into Premiere. We made sure that the working files handed off to the VFX team could be correctly exported.

After receiving the scene model, we imported it into Unreal and began reapplying materials to prepare for the stylization process.

Since we found that standard materials couldn’t achieve the style we wanted, I ended up creating a custom gradient material. Additionally, I reactivated the previous post-processing setup to integrate it with the new changes.

I separated the outline into foreground and background layers, allowing independent control over the thickness and threshold of each part.

For the narrative, we added a panoramic projection material. Since the material needs to be set as semi-transparent to create the penetrating radio wave effect, it ended up disabling the depth used for outline rendering. We spent some time discussing this with the teacher, pinpointing the issue, and managed to reopen the depth functionality.