The 3D animated film, produced at Mexico’s Escena Animation Studio, tells the story of shipwrecked family whose father’s efforts to secure their rescue blinds him to his neglect and the mistrust he fostered in his eldest daughter, who forces him to choose between his dreams and his children.
The Oscar-winning director’s long-rumored sequence, ‘The Lost Chapter: Yuki’s Revenge,’ comes alive as Epic Games and The Third Floor use UE’s virtual production and MetaHuman tools to merge live-action, animation, and interactivity in real-time for a ground-breaking cinematic experience.
Partnership between gaming giants means Unity developers will be able to bring their games to Fortnite, while Unity’s enhanced commerce platform will come to Unreal Engine.
Developed with production teams in mind, the new system is re-engineered to deliver a more efficient workflow with accurate and consistent motion data.
The veteran filmmakers’ new tech-driven production company, located on the Fox lot, is leveraging its proprietary Unreal Engine-based real-time cross-platform pipeline to concurrently develop transmedia properties across animated series, features, and immersive games.
Latest update includes the new Nanite Foliage geometry rendering system, production-ready Procedural Content Generation and Substrate frameworks, extended MetaHuman integration, and an enhanced in-editor animation toolset.
Dimitri Vallein, a real-time 3D director and technologist, shares with AWN a comprehensive breakdown of his short film project and how it was created, animated, simulated, and rendered using UE5.
One of the largest crowdfunded 3DCG series in history returns with a new season, titled ‘The Ice Prairies,’ that follows the Igiby family as they get pushed further than ever in their journey to reunite; coming November 12.
With added support for Unreal Engine’s Nanite virtualized geometry system, the major update offers significant workflow benefits across numerous industries including Media & Entertainment.
Users can now batch add-to-cart, batch download, and batch export assets directly to the digital content creation (DCC) tool with one click.
For designers, graphics teams, and creators, the sample was developed in collaboration with Capacity Studios, and provides a fully designed, animated, and rigged project that explores a range of broadcast artist workflows.
The companies demonstrated high-fidelity character performances using state-of-the-art automated lip-sync within a non-linear animation workflow at last week’s Unreal Fest Seoul.
From faster keyframe editing to in-editor sculpting and dynamic rig physics, the latest UE 5.6 update brings a robust set of features that streamline animation workflows.
Epic Games’ UE 5.6 update delivers major animation upgrades, including a cleaner Curve Editor, improved Sequencer navigation, experimental morph sculpting, and dynamic rig physics that empower artists at studios of all sizes to animate faster with fewer roundtrips to DCC tools.
Visual Effects Supervisor Jelmer Boskma and his team delivered 448 shots across 10 episodes, creating previs, techvis, alien environments, the titular security android, and a giant 2-headed centipede, on the hit Apple TV+ sci-fi comedy, now streaming, that just scored a Season 2 renewal.
The high-performance workstation provider will also be demonstrating a ‘Virtual Rage Room’ immersive, interactive experience that leverages markerless mocap tech and a 10-foot LED volume.
The first-of-its-kind technology enables artists to leverage Captury real-time markerless motion-capture technology alongside markered props for powerful versatility; demonstrations from August 11-14.
VFX Supervisor Jordi Cardus Civit details how the studio balanced real-time workflows in Unreal Engine and complex simulations to help tackle snowstorms, CG creatures, and virtual environments in Netflix’s ambitious live-action adaptation of the iconic Latin American sci-fi graphic novel.
The company aims to expand integrations via SDKs and APIs; grow its data infrastructure and motion library; launch strategic partnerships; and hire across multiple departments.
The platform is the first to provide GPU-powered MultiCloud rendering for UE across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and CoreWeave.
BBC Studios’ Science Unit’s six-part series was created in collaboration with the VFX studio, who crafted 791 VFX/animation shots including complex environments and 21 unique dinosaur species.
Disguise Creative Services spent 52 weeks on Jared Hess’ hit action comedy, working as a virtual art department to create 20 digital environments in Unreal Engine that were used in pre-production, production and post.
VFX Supervisor Sheldon Stopsack and Animation Supervisor Kevin Estey discuss the studio’s extensive world building and character design / animation work on Jared Hess’ hit comedy adventure, delivering 450 visual effects shots that wove together the game’s block-based aesthetic with live-action photography; work included villain Malgosha, The Overworld, The Nether, 12 different Piglin variants, zombies, skeletons, and loveable wolf Dennis.
Pilot episode, which centers on a doomed excursion to the desert planet Veltegar, premieres May 21 on the Steamroller Stories YouTube channel.
The 3DCG, stop-motion, and 2D animation hybrid film, which follows a daughter who attempts to finish her late father’s novel from the inside, debuted May 6 across the U.S. and Canada.
