Watch Epic Games’ new Unreal Engine MegaLights experimental feature
It's part of the Unreal Engine 5.5 Preview 1 just released at Unreal Fest Seattle.
Epic Games’ Fab Publishing Portal is now open
Plus, all about the upcoming content marketplace.
Go behind the scenes of this virtual production ‘Ghostbusters’ proof of concept
It was presented at SIGGRAPH this year.
Issue #12 of the print mag is out, and covers virtual production short films
Go behind the scenes of Framestore's latest short, FLITE, plus other shorts made with real-time tools.
How this short film was a test bed for rigging and stylization tools, and new real-time compositing in Unreal Engine
Watch and learn from 'Little Bird'.
VFX supe and director Adam Valdez on the new tech in his UE5 short ‘Brave Creatures’
The short utilized the new Path Tracer feature in Unreal Engine.
Tech Weeklies is back! Unreal’s Mesh to MetaHuman, DNEG’s review tool, new Blender out
Catching up on a week of tech news in VFX, animation and CG.
Epic Games posts making of ‘The Matrix Awakens’
A really fun behind the scenes video with previously unseen footage from how 'The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience' was
All about the ‘Ninety Days’ Unreal Engine 5 and Quixel Megascans project
Over 40 environments were created in just a few days each.
These ‘Matrix Awakens’ behind the scenes videos are fantastic
Plus, you can download the sample city for free.
RD-Textures scans have moved to the Quixel Megascans Library
The texture sets from RD-Textures can be accessed immediately with your Epic Games account.
Here’s how to get access to Megascans Trees
They are now in early access in the Unreal Engine Marketplace.
Unreal Engine has made a ‘Matrix’-themed immersive experience with a photoreal Keanu
The experience has pre-rendered cinematics, real-time rendered scenes, and a car shoot-em-up you can PLAY.
Here’s how Moab canyons and rock formations were scanned for Megascans
This behind the scenes Quixel video takes you on location for the scans.
Go deeper into this Megascans-made medieval village
These extended Quixel video tutorials take a deep dive into performance optimization.
How Aaron Sims Creative made ‘The Eye: Calanthek’ in UE5 in six weeks
And, how you can download the alien creature animated with Control Rig from the short right now.
Megascans infests ‘Resident Evil Village’
How Capcom utilized the Quixel Megascans Library for the first-person survival-horror game.
You’ve seen this Unreal Engine character before, and now YOU can animate her
A new animation sample project is also being released for UE 4.27 and UE5.
You can already download the in-camera VFX sample for the now-out Unreal Engine 4.27
4.27 has just been released, and a big part of its offerings relate to in-camera VFX workflows.
Tech Weeklies: New news from Nvidia, Autodesk, Epic, Chaos and Adobe
The latest in VFX and animation tech.
Here’s where you can download ‘production-ready’ CG assets from VFX, anim and game engine studios
Thanks to Animal Logic, WDAS, Pixar, Oats, Unity and Epic.
VFX Notes: Ep 4 – Space Jam 2, Tomorrow War, Loki, and a look at LED volume filmmaking
Hugo and Ian review some films and shows, and discuss LED walls.
Tech Weeklies: Epic buys Sketchfab, Unity buys SpeedTree, FreeMoCap, ASWF Open Source Days
The latest in VFX tech.
Epic made a new in-camera VFX short: go behind the scenes here
Epic Games and Bullitt used the in-camera VFX toolset in upcoming Unreal Engine 4.27.
You can get early access to Unreal Engine 5…now
And you can already try out Lumen, Nanite and more in the sample 'Valley of the Ancient' project.
You can get early access to MetaHuman Creator, right now
The Early Access program is officially open.
Interview: ‘Mandalorian’ virtual production supervisor Clint Spillers
An interview from Epic Games' Virtual Production Field Guide.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
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Predator: Badlands
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