New Moon: Creating a Cinematic Short Film With Blender & UE5

The American writer George Saunders has a great analogy for the writing process. Imagine if you bought a house, and prior to moving in, you went on an online shopping spree and bought everything you wanted. If we were invited over the day you moved in, we’d understand something about you from the things you’ve ordered - what they are, their colour, arrangement. Compare that to what the house would look like after ten years of you living there though - now what we see is a much more refined representation of your taste through your innumerable combined choices, conscious and unconscious, made over time. On day one this place could belong to lots of people, ten years in though – it is absolutely unique. Saunders compares this to a first draft, and the many re-writes it takes to get to something truly your own. ‘Writing is re-writing’. This is the iterative process. 

The old saying goes that you make a film three times - on the page, on set, and in post. To me those phases still exist in 3D, but the lines are blurrier and vastly more malleable for the kinds of iteration - re-writing – that Saunders describes. As always, there are things I’d do differently, those are the lessons to take to the next project. What I love about working in this 3D world is that whatever that next thing will be, the process towards it can start as soon as I finish this sentence.

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