Podcasts How this short film was a test bed for rigging and stylization tools, and new real-time compositing in Unreal Engine ·May 16, 2023 Watch and learn from 'Little Bird'.
Podcasts VFX supe and director Adam Valdez on the new tech in his UE5 short ‘Brave Creatures’ ·April 3, 2023 The short utilized the new Path Tracer feature in Unreal Engine.
VFX Insight The Reallusion tools that helped make this mysterious Unreal Fellowship short ·October 27, 2022 Behind the scenes of Dissós, with director Steven Elford.
Articles Near real-time: inside the making of ‘Comandante’, before it is even made ·August 6, 2022 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 ·June 11, 2022 Catching up on a week of tech news in VFX, animation and CG.
VFX Breakdowns Epic Games posts making of ‘The Matrix Awakens’ ·June 7, 2022 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 ·May 30, 2022 Over 40 environments were created in just a few days each.
Articles These ‘Matrix Awakens’ behind the scenes videos are fantastic ·April 6, 2022 Plus, you can download the sample city for free.
Magazine How to sim birds ·April 4, 2022 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 ·December 22, 2021 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 ·December 10, 2021 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 ·December 10, 2021 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 ·December 3, 2021 This behind the scenes Quixel video takes you on location for the scans.
VFX Insight Go deeper into this Megascans-made medieval village ·November 4, 2021 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 ·November 1, 2021 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 ·October 18, 2021 The latest in VFX tech.
Articles How this runaway train film used LED walls for virtual backgrounds ·October 1, 2021 Watch this behind the scenes video from 'Extraordinary Event.'
VFX Insight Megascans infests ‘Resident Evil Village’ ·September 23, 2021 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 ·September 8, 2021 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’ ·August 24, 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 ·August 20, 2021 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 ·August 15, 2021 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 ·July 27, 2021 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 ·July 22, 2021 Epic Games and Bullitt used the in-camera VFX toolset in upcoming Unreal Engine 4.27.
Podcasts VFX Notes: Ep 1 – Actor replacement, UE5 and what exactly is gamma? ·June 12, 2021 A new podcast from Hugo's Desk and befores & afters is here!
Articles You can get early access to Unreal Engine 5…now ·May 27, 2021 And you can already try out Lumen, Nanite and more in the sample 'Valley of the Ancient' project.