Chapter 1: Quick Win (Your First Automotive Cinematic)

Intro and Unreal Project Setup + Enabling Plugins, Downloading Assets
Migrate included Car Model and Apply Substrate Materials
Make a Simple Landscape with a Road
Animating the Car
Animating the Camera
Adding Camera Shake
Adding Trees with Foliage Tool
Lighting, Volume Fog, Post Process
Tail Light Trails VFX

Chapter 2: Car Setup Guide (For Any Car Model)

Getting Free Car Models
Paid Car Models I Tested and Can Recommend
Preparing Car Models in 3D App
Import into Unreal and Apply Materials
Prepare Car for Animation

Chapter 3: Speeding Sparks Project (Intro to Niagara)

Emitting Sparks from Car Body Part 1
Emitting Sparks from Car Body Part 2
Wheel Circular Sparks
Ground Contact Sparks
Tire Marks Particles and Body Ribbon Trails
Bringing the VFX into our Road Environment

Chapter 4: Essential Automotive VFX

City Environment I Can Recommend + Tips
Burnout Donuts Part 1
Burnout Donuts Part 2
Burnout Donuts Part 3
Rendering Smoke with Lumen (Deferred Renderer)
Rendering with Path Tracer
Tire Drift Marks
Falling Cherry Leaves
Slow Motion Workflow
Burnout Smoke Along Path Part 1
Burnout Smoke Along Path Part 2

Chapter 5: Cinematic Car Rig

Cinematic Car Rig Free Full Setup Guide
Cinematic Car Rig Paid – Walkthrough, Drift, Add VFX
CCR + Dust VFX Part 1
CCR + Dust VFX Part 2
CCR + Dust VFX Part 3

Offroad Example

Chapter 6: Winter Drift Project

Car and Camera Animation
Environment
Faking Suspension
HDRI Lighting
VFX Part 1
VFX Part 2
VFX Part 3
VFX Part 4
VFX Part 5
VFX Part 6
Falling Snow, Camera Shake, Post Process, Final Tweaks

Chapter 7: Born from Sand & Fire

Scene Prep
Dust sim
Sand Particles
Debris
Fire
Finalize

Chapter 8: Beyond the Basics

Intro to Advection and Initial Setup
Leaves Advected by Burnout Smoke
Sand Around Wheel Part 1
Sand Around Wheel Part 2
Formula Aquaplaning Part 1
Formula Aquaplaning Part 2
Rain FX
Airflow Visualization with Smoke Only
Airflow Visualization with Particles Colored by Speed
Drag Visualization with Color by Change in Direction
Airflow Trails
Energy Drift

Chapter 9: Motion Design Tools

Intro and Body Particles
Floor Assembles Under Car
Car Reveals Environment Around It
Exploded Views
X-Ray Vision

Chapter 10: Bonus Lessons

Lidar Scanner
Desert Drift
Mud Splash
Electricity Bolts

Yes. This course is made with absolute beginners in mind. The first chapter of the course will get you up to speed even if you’ve never made any VFX before.

There are no Blueprints and no coding in this course.

Absolutely. The courses gradually introduce more advanced concepts and there’s a lot to learn for all skill levels. The bonus “Beyond the Basics” chapters include advanced setups.

1. Beach Waves
2. Water Force Field
3. Temple Flood
4. Water Attack
5. Wheel Mud
6. Hydroman
7. Blue Origin Explosion
8. Rocket Launch Plumes
9. Meteor Impact
10. Nuke Explosion
11. Starship Launch
12. Helicopter Rotor Wash
13. Car on Fire
14. Airplane Engine Fire
15. Zero-G Water Sphere with Foam
16. Burnout
17. Wheel Dust
18. Tire Marks
19. Tail Light Trails
20. Snow & Ice Debris from Under Wheels
21. Dirt & Sand Debris from Under Wheels
22. Airflow Visualization Trails
23. Advection
24. X-Ray Reveal & Exploded View
25. Falling Leaves, Snow, & Rain
26. Wall Destruction
27. Wood Destruction
28. Force Field
29. Portal
30. Harry Potter Duel (From Niagara magic)
31. Object Voxelization (from Unreal Motion)
32. Magnetic Orb (from Unreal Motion)
33. Character Ghost Particles (From Niagara Motion)
34. Particle Physics Attraction (From Niagara Motion)
35. Bombing with Shockwave Impacts
36. Sandstorm
37. FLIP High Quality Water with Foam #1
38. FLIP Muddy Water with Foam #2
39. FLIP Sticky Lava Liquid Sim
40. Liquid Particles Color by Speed
41. Liquid Reactive Particles Multi-Color
42. Car Crash Explosion and Rolling Fire
43. Car Crash Debris, Sparks, Smoke
44. Bending Metal
45. Bullet Hits System
46. Laser Gun System
47. Laser Beam
48. Stylized Rendering
49. Audio Visualizer Histogram
50. Audio Visualizer Fire Line
51. Crowd Sim with Collisions

Inside Niagara Automotive, for shots involving suspension, I’m using the ‘Cinematic Car Rig‘ Plugin (available on Fab).

I have found this plugin to be the easiest, most beginner-friendly way to get suspension for cinematics, without a complex blueprint setup.

This plugin is optional and not required to complete the course. 

If you want to recreate the exact suspension behavior shown in some of the shots, you will need the plugin.

I cover the entire car setup process & Niagara interaction inside the course.

You can follow all of the Niagara courses in version 5.7 without issues. 

• Niagara has changed minimally between versions and additional lessons were added to cover the minor UI updates
• 35+ brand-new lessons were added last year, with each course getting new content

For Unreal Motion, the way motion design effectors behave is different in 5.7 vs 5.6, so I recommend you follow in 5.6 until I re-record those lessons in 5.8.

• Unreal Motion was entirely re-recorded to address 5.5 & 5.6 new features

Yes. This skillset is not limited to Automotive cinematics. Whichever industry you’re in, you can enhance your Unreal Engine projects with VFX.

You’ll immediately receive access to your course dashboard, where all your courses are organized in one place. You can start watching the lessons right away, at your own pace, on any device.

This is exactly what it looks like for Megabundle Pro students:

Yes. You get lifetime access, meaning one single purchase gives you ongoing access to all course content, updates, and future improvements.

Yes. This is a simple one-time payment.

Payment plans are not available, and here’s why:
I want this to be as straightforward and stress-free as possible for you. No recurring charges, no future payments. You pay once and you get instant & lifetime access to everything.

I recommend a 2070 RTX as a minimum to run the sims in real-time. I will show you how to cache the sims, reduce resolution, and use other tricks to make them run faster even on a lower-end PC.

A collection of 40 project files to my most popular effects from each of the 7 courses is included only inside Megabundle Pro.

Yes. Subtitles are now available for all courses in English, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, and French.

It’s very possible that your place of employment will cover our courses as an educational expense. It sure doesn’t hurt to ask.

Yes. Please email jesse@redefinefx.com with number of seats you need.

No. We will not be optimizing the VFX in any way to improve their performance in real games. Our goal is simply to make the effects look as good as possible.

Yes! Upon completion of all lessons you will automatically receive a unique Certificate of Completion for each course inside the Megabundle.

This is a completely self-paced & pre-recorded online course and there are no live sessions or zoom calls. I’ve made the lessons bite-sized so you can make progress every day without feeling overwhelmed.

Yes. There is a dedicated TAX / VAT field on the checkout page. After checking out, you will automatically receive a standard business invoice to your email. Please note the invoice cannot be modified after the transaction has completed, so please double check all information is correct.