UE 5.4 Cinematic Render Graph Test
One day project made in UE 5.4 testing the new Render graph.
My goal was to create a cinematic shot using ACES and VFX Pipeline with light groups and Volume groups for fine tweaks in compositing.
In my opinion UE 5.4 Render graph Is not perfect yet but from a compositor point of view this is a HUGE gamechanger and I'm looking forward to the next versions!
Thanks to the layer separation I was able to rebuild and control individual lights, Volumes intensity's and color without the need to retender the scene, so I had the complete freedom in comp :)
Enjoy!
Final Result
Comp Breakdown
Full Making Of
Still Frame
Still Frame
Still Frame
Mixamo Page, used for character animation the character
Layout of the object used for the scene creation
UE 5.4 Editor view 01
UE 5.4 Editor view 02
UE 5.4 Editor view 03
UE 5.4 Render Graph view for light and volumes rendering
UE 5.4 Render Graph view for light and volumes rendering
Render Layers created for comp
Beauty render in Nuke
Final Comp in Nuke
Additional video showing the Object layer separations of Character, Env, And Volumes.
You can see the potential of having control of each one of them separately