Kings & Generals - Korean War Series
As part of my freelance work, I collaborated with the "Kings & Generals" YouTube Channel for the creation of a short documentary focusing on the Falklands War (1982). I was responsible for doing the landscape, cinematics, material blueprints (e.g. terrain, territorial zones of control) and implementing outsourced assets (e.g. particles, models, ocean etc). I worked closely with researchers + the team to achieve an accurate summarisation of the troop movements / strategy employed by both sides during the conflict. A lot more effort went into this project than the others, so the content was spread over multiple videos.
Korean War - PART 1 - Invasion (Timecode: 9:38)
To start everything off, I had to create a high-resolution heightmap for the 3D terrain landscape for Unreal Engine 4. To do this, I used a real-life heightmap of South East Asia and then ran it through World Creator 2 to give it some more detail.
The most detailed portion of the map was Korea, and so it had to be given some manual sculpting to more accurately represent areas of interest (e.g. Pusan, Seoul, rivers).
In-engine shot (Korea)
In-engine shot (Korea)
In-engine shot (Pusan Perimeter)
In-engine shot (Battle of Inchon)
In-engine shot (Late-Strategic Position)
In-engine shot (Chinese Counterattack)
In-engine shot (Chinese Counterattack 2)
In-engine shot (Chinese Counterattack 3)
In-engine shot (Chinese Counterattack 4)
In-engine shot (Operation Thunderbolt)
In-engine shot (US Bombing)