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Tag: Unreal Engine

Articles

Go behind the scenes of this virtual production ‘Ghostbusters’ proof of concept

It was presented at SIGGRAPH this year.

Magazine

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.

Podcasts

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’.

Podcasts

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.

VFX Breakdowns

World building in ‘Black Adam’

A look at the Unreal Engine builds.

VFX Insight

The Reallusion tools that helped make this mysterious Unreal Fellowship short

Behind the scenes of Dissós, with director Steven Elford.

Articles

Near real-time: inside the making of ‘Comandante’, before it is even made

The World War II submarine film is relying on some bespoke real-time, virtual production, live compositing, A.I. and metadata tech, all worked out in early pre-planning.

Tech Weeklies

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.

VFX Breakdowns

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 crafted.

VFX Insight

All about the ‘Ninety Days’ Unreal Engine 5 and Quixel Megascans project

Over 40 environments were created in just a few days each.

Articles

These ‘Matrix Awakens’ behind the scenes videos are fantastic

Plus, you can download the sample city for free.

Magazine

How to sim birds

An excerpt from the special CG bird flocks feature in issue #4 of befores & afters magazine.

VFX Insight

Here’s how to get access to Megascans Trees

They are now in early access in the Unreal Engine Marketplace.

Articles

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.

Articles

Soon you’ll be able to get stock effects elements…for game engines

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s what ActionVFX and Undertone FX are about to release.

VFX Insight

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.

VFX Insight

Go deeper into this Megascans-made medieval village

These extended Quixel video tutorials take a deep dive into performance optimization.

Articles

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.

Articles

Sneak peek of Houdini 19, Rust Working Group, UE5 modeling mode

The latest in VFX tech.

Articles

How this runaway train film used LED walls for virtual backgrounds

Watch this behind the scenes video from ‘Extraordinary Event.’

VFX Insight

Megascans infests ‘Resident Evil Village’

How Capcom utilized the Quixel Megascans Library for the first-person survival-horror game.

Articles

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.

Podcasts

VFX Futures: Facial capture, CG and cut scenes on Codemasters’ ‘F1 2021’

How REALTIME and DI4D combined for the new story-mode on this racing game.

Articles

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.

Articles

Tech Weeklies: New news from Nvidia, Autodesk, Epic, Chaos and Adobe

The latest in VFX and animation tech.

Podcasts

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.

Articles

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.

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