Japan - Unreal Engine 5 Cinematic Scene 

I am Japanese. This CG is exactly the Japanese scenery I see when I commute to work.

Just imagine that around 2012 it would take 2 weeks for a million dollar computer to render such a video. Fantastic job. Never underestimate the power of well written software. It can take you far.

That’s pretty incredible. Meaning most of it looks unreal but some parts still need work. Like the furniture and the soda machine, things generally when they’re zoomed in. Not dissing your effort, just the limits of this technology

I would love to see this in 4K 60fps natively. This is kind of like listening to a live classical music concert through a telephone. Scene is beautiful though!

日本への理解度がすごすぎる　わかりやすい都会とか田舎じゃなくて、廃れた駅前の町みたいになのがまた素晴らしい

Just imagine a Shemnue remake with these grafics. WOW!

暖簾に「おはようございます」「おはようございます」と二つ書かれているのが 日本人としてはなんだか奇妙で恐ろしい。 看板の日本語が変だし間違っているが、 逆にそれがCGのクオリティもあいまり 現実っぽいのにそうではない異世界観を出していて面白く感じる。

absolutely incredible. the amount of detail is astounding. everything seems smooth and natural that it feels so real.

Amazing! Love the lightning, the mood, the little details moving, super realistic!

Great work! If only there were no micro-stuttering (or is it just me?), it would be near perfect.

凄すぎる。日本人としても嬉しい🇯🇵👍

すごいね本物のようなCGではなくてCGっぽくした本物の映像のような感じがする

This is amazing! Keep up the good work!

mid and long range shots are incredible and believable (I live in Japan and, if you'd not told me it was UE5, I'd have sworn some of these shots were real!). Only the close range shots and the camera movements, and as someone else said, repeated patterns, give it away. Frankly, this is incredible work!

Extremely impressive, 👍 Blows my mind how far we have come, I still remember playing the original Pong. This new engine though is on another level compared to other graphics engines, We are going to be amazed at the upcoming game worlds in the next few years. I can't wait to see this in VR especially, Will seem like you are the star in a movie.

I do love the atmosphere of rainy Japan in this video!

The overall impression is very good. I would say that the Ao is a bit strong but you nailed the almost shadowless lighting of a rainy day. Great work.

Extremely incredible! Amazing and great work!

This is incredible! If it wasn’t for some details of the white led lights at the beginning , the vending machine and some camera movements i would totally buy it. Good job!

Looks incredible, Amazing.

These details and atmosphere! Absolutely stunning. Feeling like home.

Great Work! 日本の風景っぽさがすごいですね！

Its when the patterns repeat that we spot the real and digital. This is getting close.

this is amazing! I Love it !

Overall impressive scene! As a fellow UE5 artist, here is my constructive criticism: While the wetness helps a lot, the rain itself is terrible. Drops are too big and mostly in front of the camera, like they were composited after. No ripples from the impact. They were also very vertical, while the wind would have them fly diagonally. The wind was too strong, it was distracting. If you are using the Quixel wind system that comes with the Black Alder tree pack, you should increase the noise, otherwise all the elements move at the same time. I'd just cut it to a minimum, especially if you get rid of the rain (but keep the puddles). Last but not least, some camera movements were too artificial and clean. One of the selling points of the UE5 train station by Drago was the handheld movement of the camera. You don't have to do handheld, but you could still create dolly and crane movements you'd be able to do in real life. Or at least with a drone. The shot at 1:18 is VERY fake. You should also keep it nice and sweet, just a few shots (your best ones) and you are good to go! Anyway, cograts again, everything else I didn't mention was amazing!

Really good! The physics of the swinging lamps is the only things to throw me off. They seem to be made of extra lightweight materials

Incredible work. 😊👍💯

Wow, congratulations! VERY realistic! I subscribe to your channel to wait for your next releases. Just wow.

felt some raindrops on my head after watching this ) good job

Really great sense of atmosphere in the scene, makes me just want to be there.

The imperfections are what makes the whole composition look more realistic. People complain about the stuttering while I love it because it reminds me of uploaded media in which the video compressor wasn't able to do its job right and causes hitches in framerate. I love it.

Bro, it`s more realistic than real life! Looks insane!

Oh the stutter is beautiful, but the rest is unbelievably EPIC!

I like the rain and ground texturing is so real.

Awesome, I wish it were rendered at 60fps but i guess this alone took more than a week of rendering.

すげえ、、暖簾の言葉が変なことくらいしかツッコミどころがない。。

You may received constructive feedbacks but I really admire this type of rendering lighting texturing it is just pheonmenal I thought it was real all the time thank you for your works.

OMG OMG OMG thats just aweseeeeomeeeee! would be great to see the procces of making this scene!!

woah,, speechless. Great work, man

A cloudy day that handles this kind of realism is REALLY HARD to do.. congratulations.

That's scary realistic. If it wasn't for the stuttering people would think it was real. The still images look so convincing

You almost got my wife. I didn't tell her that this was UE5, at 1:31 the wind in the tree was too artificial. At 1:41 the lights don't react correctly when the wind moved the entrance. But it was very hard for her to see, that this is not real. It's stunning.

i hope youll make a walking game with this scene for us grown up people, just walking around and exploring

Outstanding work ❤

これは凄い。 変な日本語が無かったら現実そのもの。

When i was like 8-9 years old and saw Mortal Kombat 1 at Arcade, asked myself how much a game graphic can be developed more? This is incredible...

That looks incredible! Just imagining it populated with AI Metahumans. Great work

Amazing. This is some nxt level stuff. 👌

Wow! Just amazing.

Beautiful work

I want to see this in VR! Beautiful work!!

We’re coming closer to realistic virtual reality in gaming. Well done

Looks really good, i like the atmosphere and can see the potential from this. I really hope you can get improved hardware for rendering this, some youtubers who complain are looking for 4K 60fps. This is a really nice demo, keep doing what your doing.

This is next stage.

I want to travel there. Stunning work ✌️

Some terrific stuff going on in there, huge number of different camera angles etc, nicely done. Two comments, you likely already know: Firstly you might try increasing the camera frame rate a little to bring down the stuttering on pans, even if you've got it set appropriately subjectively more frames might remove some of the juddering (and I've shot stuff at 24/25p myself and afterward thought: crikey, that's got some judder), and likewise a longer exposure time might make the rain blobs a little more smooth tho generally your motion blur looks fine. You can actually bring a bunch of post tools to bear as well if you'd rather not re-render, like Twixtor which will generate intermediate frames to smooth, and there's a few AI tools now on that list. Overall, a lot of effort and nicely done!

Playing a game with this graphics would be very immersive

omg..... great work!

Amazing. Effort is clear. Epic is certainly pushing it to limits

Great attention to detail :)

VR chill room, nextgen rekall tours

The textures and scene detail is impressive. There was some micro-stutter. Wind physics and lighting aren't quite there yet. The tree at 1:30 was shaking briskly back and forth despite being heavily sheltered from wind. The lanterns were constantly swaying, many in sync like a pendulum - not independently, and they weren't affected sequentially by wind (as in real physics). There was weird shimmering off the pavement as the camera pulled back at 1:50.

Amazing work! WOW!

That look like it took days to render, how long did it took you to render it?

If this were posted on, say, a Japan themed RU-vid channel, like 'Abroad in Japan', as a real video of somewhere in Japan, you really wouldn't know it wasn't real.

looks really good, amazing. The only issue for me was the rain. Rain is good, but it was all just in front of the camera. hitting puddles would have been really good. Anyway you cut it, visually it still looked amazing. can I ask what video card were you running this on? when the camera pans the scene does not appear very smooth (e.g. @0:33), but the curtain in the doorway was very smooth.

That's awesome

Keep going!❤️💪

Plot twist, this was actual footage from camera posted as unreal engine 5

This is awesome

holy! from Japan.You did real great job.Maybe I passed through this city a few weeks ago ;)

建物は村上市にある『千年鮭きっかわ』ですよね。ウオロクもあって新潟県民としては何だか嬉しい。

Wow! Looks amazing. Sometimes looks real. The only thing that didn’t feel right, was the rain. It’s nice and adds mood, it would be cool to see it cascading off the roof and interacting with objects more. Maybe add some movement with it being windy. Then again I have no idea if this is possible with Unreal 5. I’m not an artist, but can appreciate the amount of work this must have taken.

Absolutely stunning ! Great job, love it . One question: I'm struggling to get this kind of lighting except when using HDRI backdrops, is that one, or are you using custom light set ? Keep on 🙌

Amazing how far we've come. IMHO though, the asphalt and sidewalk are too reflective. I believe the tarmac and stones are porous and uneven materials, and as such would reflect light much more diffusely than portrayed here (except for the puddles). Everything else is extremely well-done and I would love to explore the environment. Lastly, I'm not sure if it's on my end but the video was very shaky. I had a hard time focusing my eyes on a single object because of this and it's a bit uncomfortable to watch.

素晴らしい作り込み

Great work.

のれんの日本語で？？？ってなるけど他がめっちゃ綺麗ですごい…！！！ 京都の観光地からちょっと外れたところっぽさがすごい好きです

Looks amazing! I could be back on Osaka. But the stuttering impacts the immersion. Do you have a 4k version?

This is a great project. Keep up the good work. About the stuttering: Sadly, it's hard to get it completely stutter free if there are too many high fidelity visuals, even while rendering on a strong graphics card. In the future, it may be better to render in a lower resolution or tune some of the individual rendering quality to allow for a smoother visual.

Cool! A downloadable demo would be nice though 😊👍🏻

howwwww so amazing

imagine VR in such quality... We're getting there

Amazing

UE5 is insane!!!

Awesome.

pretty good!

Insane uncanny valley. Some ideas: in real life, 2 things are never constant: lens effect (flare, abberation, bokeh, geometric distortion) and white balance. So perhaps adding some of those randomized elements can add to the realism.

Are you telling me this is NOT real ? That's incredible !

Looks excellent.

日本そのまますぎて実写なんじゃないかと疑ってしまった、すみません。最高です

怖っわ CGだったのか… 「おはようございます」ってw

Without your title, I would have thought it is real. Only after 01:00 I could see that it is made by you. But I watched it on the phone. Still impressiv.

Despite the people in the comments here sitting comfortably on their high horses despite still working on their toon shader in blender. This is literally some of the best work i have seen ever when it comes to straight up realism, in both offline and realtime rendering. Fuckin hell man. you gotta track some Camera movement and put it out on tik tok, make it go viral.

Good works! Can you tell me what is your PC's hardware setup? 2x3090 or A6000? I want to build one when GPU price back to normal.

I love it! What are the specs of your rig that you used to create and render this with?

it’s really incredible, did you use lumen or ray tracing or path tracing?

Great work , I thought that was real for 1 sec !

あ、これすげーや。 昭和に取り残された現代日本として全く違和感がない。 これインド人が作ったらしいのが驚き。 この人の他のモデリングもちょっと見てみたいね。

damn, this is sick