Renders & Animations made in UE4 and UE5

What is the difference between renders and animations made in UE4 and UE5? Today, we are releasing an “almost-free” UE4 English College Project on Unreal Engine Marketplace (€5.73). However, you can now download the Unreal Engine 5 version here completely free!  It is a great opportunity to compare the renders and animations created in both versions of this popular game engine.

As part of a series of free 3D city models tutorials sponsored by AccuCities, we are also releasing an instruction video on how to make these renders and animations. The tutorial was once again made by Francisco Leal from Portugal, an excellent UE5 developer/tutor who will shower you with loads of tips and tricks and direct comparisons of specific parts of renders and animations.

This inexpensive (£4.99) UE4 project can be downloaded directly from Unreal Engine Marketplace here. The project contains several high-detail models from the AccuCities LOD4 collection that depict a realistic English College. The project comes bundled with realistic textures, meshes, materials and other elements that allow users to both immerse themselves in this realistic environment as well as use it in their own productions.

Realistic models and textures depict a typical old-fashion English College. Includes dozens of ready-to-use buildings and props, 212 materials, 20 material instances and 347 textures. 3D context models are meant to be used with Dynamic Lighting and content from the Starter Content, the “A Boy and his Kite” demo. The Sun Position Calculator plugin has been enabled in the two levels that we provide with the asset pack.

The very same English College project has now been released completely free as part of this video tutorial (download UE5 project here).

In this video tutorial, we are comparing the differences between a high-quality 3D context model project in Unreal Engine 4 and Unreal Engine 5. The video will teach any user, even beginners, some basic rendering and movie-making skills of both versions of this popular, free-to-use game engine. Users can follow the tutorial to create renders and animations in UE5, which are then directly compared with similar CGIs created in UE4.

Compare English College Project Tutorial Renders in UE4 and UE5.

Renders created in Unreal Engine 4.

Renders created in Unreal Engine 5.

Download English College UE5 project files

We will be releasing a new 30 minutes tutorial of this 5-part series on YouTube over the next 2 months.  Future episodes will show you some of the differences between AccuCities 3D city model and similar 3D city models, teach you how to make most of the usability of textured 3D city models, import a US city and create an animation, how to improve focus areas and how to utilize the new game engine capabilities.

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