I wanted to see if I could, for my final assignment, make a game that had characters that were 2D sprites in a 3D environment. This type of game is know as HD-2D, there are many popular examples such as Octopath Traveler and the recent Dragon Quest HD-2D remakes. I first need to establish if this is possible in the Unreal Engine. I did some minor research looking to see if it had been done before, I found few YouTube videos on the subject that told me I needed two plugins for Unreal that would make my idea a reality. another offered a Udemy course that teaches how to make a HD-2D game however I want to avoid paying for something like that if possible.

I have spent some time designing a character using Pixil an online pixel art tool. I have create a simple character that I will use for testing in Unreal using Paper 2D and Paper ZD following the tutorials I have found.