Davy Jones Locker is a real-time cinematic sequence built entirely in Unreal Engine 5.6.1 for ARVR305. The project follows a prisoner trapped in the hull of a ghost ship as a catastrophic rogue wave bears down — structured across 14 shots and 4 acts moving from the dark chaos of the lower deck through the full impact and aftermath of the wave.

The focus was engineering a production-grade cinematic pipeline inside a game engine — combining procedural ocean simulation, MetaHuman character performance driven by mocap retargeting, multi-system Sequencer orchestration, and dynamic environmental simulation across weather, water, lighting, and physics. Every shot was pre-planned with full camera specs, animation dependencies, mocap capture requirements, and Sequencer implementation notes before a single asset was placed in engine.

The result is a sequence where the ocean, ship, weather, and character all behave as interconnected physical systems rather than isolated visual effects — built to demonstrate that real-time engines are a legitimate medium for authored cinematic storytelling.