Reported in the top trends at NAB this year, Unreal Engine made huge inroads into the production workflows of all the usual suspects in broadcast virtual studio and graphic production. On looking at the exhibition halls, this trend looked more like a full on invasion of the engines, with every other booth demonstrating how they are…
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Epic Games came home with a gift for everyone working in the field of realtime virtual production, with an Emmy win for Technology and Engineering. The win is well deserved recognition for all of the hard work Epic Games has put in to making their engine not just for games, with its latest release 4.22 having…
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With the launch of Unreal Engine 4.22 Epic gifted us with a range of new tools and features to help the engine in every way from VR experiences to virtual production pipelines. Unreal even dedicated virtual production its own section in its covering article. Although it was nice to give virtual production the recognition, it…
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Opinion Asa Bailey Founder On-Set Facilities http://onsetfacilities.com Very soon Stadia and others who follow will become the goto entertainment platforms for the masses, delivering not just games but also a new wave of mixed reality entertainment. Here’s the how and why of it all. First let’s take a look at this video. It was made…
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WAKE UP 2 Director Asa Bailey Production MR Factory Agency Growthland Client NTT Data Realtime Compositing in UE4 with Realtime Pipeline™ Take a look at the future of realtime content production. Live composited on-set, the production made a saving in post-production costs while at the same time giving the Director, actors and crew the ability…
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With the release of ‘Rebirth’ at the GDC, Quixel and Unreal Engine really raised the bar for photorealism within the game engine. The short cinematic shows a futuristic alien land with a mix of vast landscapes and alien Architecture buildings all in a hyper real environment. But we had another take on this, it looked…
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With the release of ‘Troll’ the cinematic tech demo from Goodbye Kansas and Deep Forest Films. It left the film and animation industries amazed with what exactly the Unreal engine can do. The short, directed and written by Deep Forest Films’ Björne Larson, shows a princess playing with fiery sprites before they’re scared away by…
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The new HoloLens 2 On the 24th of February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Microsoft announced the new HoloLens 2. Microsoft massively updated HoloLens 2. The field of view has been upgraded from a 30° to 52°, this wider field of view helps create a more immersive mixed Reality experience. The headset is…
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First posted on Unreal Engines blog on February 15, 2019. V-Ray is one of the worlds biggest physically-based renderers which is used in a variety of markets from architectural firms to visual effects. The Chaos Group (which owns and develops the V-ray software) noticed Unreal Engines rapid growth within similar markets, but with the agenda of…
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With the growth of game engines and their ever growing abilities, they’re bringing forth a totally new way of shooting content. The film industry is dominated by visual FX and more and more is being done in the engine, the environments, the effects, even the actors, it’s possible to do it all within the engine…
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