Junkyard - Technical Art Showcase [UE5]

Junkyard is a technical art project I created to push my skills in Blueprints, Niagara, and custom shaders. I developed two Blueprint tools to efficiently generate car and tire stacks, which significantly reduced the time spent manually placing props. I used Niagara to create a custom fire VFX complete with flames, flickering light, embers, heat distortion, and smoke. I also utilized WPO to animate a Niagara bird flock and drive the swinging crane in the background.

Assets:
Crane - https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/rdk-250-crawler-crane-0b122b81960143d8abd9cf9f8a906976
All other assets were sourced from free Fab assets and packs