Secret Santa : UE5 Interiror Lighting
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 Credit
Directing / Leveling / Lighting by Chaeone Kim​​​​​​​
Music by HOWARD HARPER BARNES - The Gift of Giving
Memories of Secret Santa
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This is a shot created while practicing indoor lighting in Unreal Engine 5.
A few years ago, I participated in a volunteer activity called “Operation Secret Santa of Love,”
where I dressed up as Santa and visited underprivileged children at Christmas and gave them gifts.
The experience was so warm and precious that I shared it with my friends and participated in this volunteer activity on Christmas Day when I had no special plans. 
In December, when I was learning interior lighting based on Unreal Engine 5 in graduate school,
this memory came to mind and I tried decorating the indoor environment and configuring lighting.

The Santa who entered this house was probably a new Santa who was anxious.
They left all the windows open and left behind lots of snow-covered footprints.
I captured the camera with the low gaze of a child who had just visited Santa and found gifts and cards.

While producing the scene, I listened to carols, recalled the innocent looks in the eyes of the children I met through volunteer work,
and focused with joy and excitement, as if preparing a gift.
It was a project that was completed before Christmas and helped people around me
have a happy year-end by giving them a video instead of a Christmas card.

WIP
Add wind blowing animation to curtains with Marvelous Designer
Adding a parameter to change curtain color with Unreal Engine 5 material node
Expressing the sway of a candle fluttering in the wind

Adding blinking with the Light function of Unreal Engine 5 light material

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