Hi, most of the time the quality of the render depends on the lighting and materials; they compose the most important visual part. The light Is supposed to serve as an extension of storytelling and be used with purpose. The materials are supposed to be set to work well within a lighting scenario; just improving these 2 factors immediately brings the animation to the next level. Another piece of feedback specifically for your animations: the overall quality of the characters is quite different from the examples provided. You can improve the quality by using actual 3D scan data of human skin for the characters; however, in most cases, it's enough to work on the lighting and materials

Hi, one thing you'll need to understand that you won't be able to find a ZackDFIlms style video tutorial. Because as such there's no "Style" there are brand colors that they use, and camera tricks, everything else is default animation. Not one single tutorial would be able to encapsulate what they're doing as a whole. I would suggest learning animation and tricks from the people who have worked for ZDF, like me. You can find free/paid tutorials in the classroom section

Check if you have enough space on your SSD/HDD, and don't let PC go to sleep, there might be a time out error. You can also try to change the installation path for the Unreal

Hi, I'm great how are you?

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@H H there was no water physics, it was a pure shader setup in unreal engine. The only simulation was with the sand using MPM solver in Houdini