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Discover how a talented team of animators at Disney took the Greens into another dimension for Big City Greens holiday special ‘Virtually Christmas’, borrowing 2D art techniques for 3D animation in Unreal Engine.
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Building an alternate reality in augmented reality: UCLA redefines theater with Unreal Engine
Discover how UCLA staff and students created an immersive AR theater experience set in the world of The Man in the High Castle with Unreal Engine.
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Virtual production conjures up excitement for Diablo Immortal
To bring an epic battle to life in miniature on the commercial for the new mobile Diablo game, Impossible Objects combined hybrid virtual production, live action, and full in-engine visualization. Find out how real-time workflows in Unreal Engine slashed the project timeline by half.
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Netflix smash hit Space Sweepers harnesses Unreal Engine for real-time previs
Meet the Creative Director for Space Sweepers, from Korea’s WYSIWYG STUDIOS. The team’s innovative approach to previs meant the director could iterate and communicate complicated space scenes, yielding both enhanced quality and lower costs.
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Zoic Studios optimizes its pipeline for Superman & Lois with real-time visualization
When tasked with creating the action-packed visual effects sequences for Warner Bros’ new TV series Superman & Lois at film quality but on an episodic TV timeline, Emmy award-winning VFX company Zoic Studios knew they would need to find new ways of working. Enter Unreal Engine.
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How to set up automotive studio lighting in Unreal Engine
This guide will show users how to improve their lighting, ray tracing, and environments to elegantly show off cars.
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Volume 2 of The Virtual Production Field Guide now available!
The second volume of this vital resource for filmmakers takes a deep dive into a variety of virtual production workflows—including remote collaboration, visualization, in-camera VFX, and animation—and shares insights from creators of completed virtual production projects. Download it for free today.
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Moment Factory collaborates with Epic on live event previs DMX sample project—available now!
Designing live events has become more and more complex, with lighting, video content, scenography, automation, and special effects combining to form endless possibilities. Now you can accurately previs DMX-controlled lighting and effects in Unreal Engine. Get the free sample project today!
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Virtual production expands what’s possible for TV commercials
LED screens and in-camera VFX are spreading beyond Hollywood and into the hands of smaller production companies. For agencies like Quite Brilliant creating short-form content, this cutting-edge filmmaking technology offers more creative options and improved cost efficiencies.
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Virtual environments pack a punch for Karate Combat
When the full-contact karate league needed to find a more efficient way of featuring its fights in jaw-dropping global environments, it turned to Unreal Engine and veteran 3D animation studio Reel FX. In the process, the brand discovered a way to strongly differentiate its offering.
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From idea to pitchvis in record time: filmmaking with Unreal Engine
Filmmaker HaZ Dulull has no shortage of ideas. And now, using virtual production techniques in Unreal Engine, he can bring these concepts to the screen faster than ever. Watch the spotlight video to learn how HaZ condenses the production process while maximizing creativity.
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The DAVE School prepares VFX artists for real-world virtual production
To prepare students for real-world jobs, The DAVE school operates like a real studio environment. Using Unreal Engine, students of both visual effects and game development follow industry-based pipelines for virtual production.
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Unreal Engine delivers new methods for collaborative filmmaking—even from home
Epic Games is working with studio partners like Netflix to develop new collaborative filmmaking methods during this extended work-from-home period. The resulting process is a groundbreaking form of remote virtual production not previously possible with traditional digital creative tools.
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Designing sets and action sequences on “His Dark Materials” with virtual production
Award-winning digital design company Painting Practice used Unreal Engine to help directors and producers plan vast sets and key action sequences on hit TV series “His Dark Materials”—squeezing the maximum potential out of their budget.
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Virtual production on the battlegrounds of “Game of Thrones”
Real-time technology powered virtual sets, virtual scouting, and shot exploration as The Third Floor helped showmakers innovate increasingly complex scenes on Game of Thrones.
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Halon Entertainment puts real-time tools at the heart of its business
Since adopting a real-time pipeline based on Unreal Engine for everything from game cinematics to previs, Halon Entertainment has found it can take on projects it would never have previously considered.
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Cine Tracer delivers easy-to-use realistic cinematography simulation
When you can perfectly plan your shots ahead of shooting, you’re free to focus on performances and narrative on set. In this podcast, Matt Workman explains how, with Cine Tracer, cinematographers and directors can easily experiment with lighting and camera angles in a realistic simulation.
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July 26
Watch Quixel and SideFX explain how they developed the photorealistic real-time cinematic Rebirth
Quixel and SideFX explain how they leveraged photogrammetry, Houdini, and UE4 to develop photorealistic real-time cinematic Rebirth.
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Watch Quixel and SideFX explain how they developed the photorealistic real-time cinematic Rebirth
Quixel and SideFX explain how they leveraged photogrammetry, Houdini, and UE4 to develop photorealistic real-time cinematic Rebirth.
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July 25
The Virtual Production Field Guide: a new resource for filmmakers
Virtual production is impacting the way film and episodic television content is made. Find out what it’s all about, who’s using it, and how it blurs the lines between pre- and post-production while giving filmmakers more creative freedom than ever.
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The Virtual Production Field Guide: a new resource for filmmakers
Virtual production is impacting the way film and episodic television content is made. Find out what it’s all about, who’s using it, and how it blurs the lines between pre- and post-production while giving filmmakers more creative freedom than ever.
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January 9
Virtual production: lights, cameras, action!
Stunt legend Guy Norris and his son, Harrison, are transforming more than just action sequences through virtual production. Join them in our latest podcast as they discuss their groundbreaking work on Mad Max: Fury Road, and on two upcoming movies—X-Men: Dark Phoenix and Netflix's Triple Frontier.
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Virtual production: lights, cameras, action!
Stunt legend Guy Norris and his son, Harrison, are transforming more than just action sequences through virtual production. Join them in our latest podcast as they discuss their groundbreaking work on Mad Max: Fury Road, and on two upcoming movies—X-Men: Dark Phoenix and Netflix's Triple Frontier.
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Virtual production: motion control and real-time preview at Stiller Studios
Old-school directors meet new-school virtual production technology and giant motion control robots at Stiller Studios—and Unreal Engine provides the full picture, in real time, on set.
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Virtual Production: how game engines are taking previs to a new level
Previsualization has been helping production teams make better movies for well over a decade, but using game engines brings a whole new angle to the art. Find out how teams at Framestore, Fox Feature Films, Halon Entertainment, and The Third Floor are making it pay off in spades.
