I’ve made a few of these teasers, and each one focuses on a different style of VFX. Teaser 1 was realism, 2 was nature elements, 3 leans into stylized effects like electricity & dynamic trails.

​I’m seeing effects like this in so many commercials, such as the Lamborghini Revuelto hybrid, which has very cool lightning VFX.

​Check out teaser 3 “Energy & Power” for Niagara Automotive:

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​Most of the automotive shots I see online are perfectly clean, and yet when you watch commercials from the actual car brands, they always show the cars in real-world action.

​They always call them something like “Polar Excursion” or “Canyon Exploration” to ground the cars in reality and show you they can handle various real-life scenarios.

​Most artists don’t go the extra mile to add VFX because they think it would take forever, when in fact you can use Unreal’s built-in Niagara VFX system to make realistic effects fast & entirely in real-time, without ever leaving the engine.

​So today I want to show you some new dirt, sand, snow, and mud VFX I’ve been working on. If you’ve ever struggled to make your scenes feel grounded and believable then this is the missing piece.

​See how you can elevate your automotive work by adding cinematic VFX. Watch the “Dirt & Mud” Teaser 2 for Niagara Automotive:

With Epic Games doubling down on the Automotive sector (just check their official YouTube channel), there’s an opportunity right now for you to get on top of this niche.

​There’s much more to come, but if this already sounds interesting, you can join the waitlist below.

​Waitlist members will get early access before general public launch.

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Things are moving fast with companies like McLaren, Volvo, BMW, and many more, using Unreal Engine for automotive visualization.

In a market that’s being flooded with similar-looking car renders (and almost all of them using the same Porsche GT3 model), there’s an opportunity to stand out by combining automotive CGI with Niagara VFX, and iterate quickly in real-time.

Watch the Niagara Automotive announcement teaser with sound design made in collab with Pole Position 🔊

For the last few months I’ve been testing all different ways of setting up & animating cars, adding VFX to them, and figuring out the most time-efficient workflow to help you get cinematic results fast.

Inside the course, you will learn all the essential VFX you would expect (dust, sand, dirt, snow, sparks, electricity…) but because this is a RedefineFX course, we will then go a lot further.

You can look forward to airflow & drag simulations, dynamic trails driven by a smoke sim, intricate car reveals, exploded views, environment scanning effects & more FX yet to be revealed.

​Using Niagara Fluids with animated cars poses new challenges, such as:

• Having a separate emitter under each wheel, within one simulation
• Having the car & sim move across long distances
• Combining Niagara Fluids with the Cinematic Car Rig (so the car has suspension and the FX follow)
• Smoke getting proper speed from the wheels and so on…
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All of which will be covered inside with ready-to-use examples

​Niagara Automotive launches next month, in April 2026, only at RedefineFX.

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​Longer 30s trailer is coming soon.