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'.
Unreal Engine
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.
World building in ‘Black Adam’
A look at the Unreal Engine builds.
The Reallusion tools that helped make this mysterious Unreal Fellowship short
Behind the scenes of Dissós, with director Steven Elford.
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 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 crafted.
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.
How to sim birds
An excerpt from the special CG bird flocks feature in issue #4 of befores & afters magazine.
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.
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.
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.
Sneak peek of Houdini 19, Rust Working Group, UE5 modeling mode
The latest in VFX tech.
How this runaway train film used LED walls for virtual backgrounds
Watch this behind the scenes video from 'Extraordinary Event.'
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
VFX Notes: Ep 1 – Actor replacement, UE5 and what exactly is gamma?
A new podcast from Hugo's Desk and befores & afters is here!
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.