Terra - Unreal Engine Short Film

A lonely service drone scans the planet surface for signs or sounds of life.


Terra is a short film that I used to demonstrate and begin learning the filmmaking possibilities of Unreal Engine. My goal was to tell a fun and minimal story using these vast new tools.

I wanted to start simple, using all Quixel Megascans and Epic Marketplace content.

This was created on a 2016 iMac without the breadth of visual enhancements that come from a Ray-Traced render GPU, but I wanted to see how much I could push the look working with the basics.

All of the sound and original score was created by Andrew Morgan Smith, accompanied by a music track by Mas Donkey. Drone model/rig by Dspazio.